Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Pre-Christmas Happenings

Here's Place Massillon, in the center of town. Hyeres is all lit up at night with Christmas lights!

With Maca climbing the "mountain" in Hyeres to see the nice views of the town/Mediteranean.

Evan climbed the wall on our walk.

This is from a separate hike in another part of Hyeres down near the sea. One of the teachers from my school took me and we walked around for the afternoon.

Bene! One of the really awesome teachers I work with at the high school. (She's eating a sucker from the restaurant from the night before -- all the teachers took me and Sarah(other assistant) out for a really nice holiday meal.

Caroline (my roomie), Maca, and Michelle when we got Christmas tea at a really cute shop in the center of town.

Assistant Christmas party! We did a potluck meal and had a really fun time opening Secret Santa gifts (we drew names at Thanksgiving) AND opening/stealing White Elephant gag gifts. I got a head massager and some loose leaf xmas tea with an infuser. 

Homemade meatball sub on a French baguette! The perfect lunch after wandering around outside all Saturday morning. Thaaaanks, Caroline! :)

S'mores a la francaise...! We attempted s'mores at a dinner party at Jenny and Pia's place...
Since graham crackers (sadly) do not exist (yet) in France, we used Petit Ecolier cookies that come with chocolate already in place, plus French marshmallows, plus a gas stovetop.
It is my duty, as I am returning home to the US for xmas, to bring back REAL graham crackers, real American marshmallows, and perhaps Hershey's (even tho the chocolate in France is waaaay better)

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