Bliss.

Enfin! Spring/summer is upon us! The last 2 weeks in Nancy have been beautiful, I really really really don't want to leave la belle France. I'm so so so happy right now- returning to England just does not excite me in the slightest...

Blog on trip to Champagne region and trip to the Vosges mountains to come soon!

My week

• Work, work, work. I'll miss it when I finish in 2 weeks. Highlights of my working week- filming my 4eme (year 9) students in the sun for the English project I'm doing with them (everyone is getting so involved and it's just so much FUN). Singing Celine Dion's My Heart Will Go On with one of the teaching assistants (my new gay best friend) was another highlight.
• Went to the opera on Tuesday evening- found cheap seats (12 euros) so put our glad rags on and saw The Portrait, a Russian opera (luckily with French subtitles, my Russian is not really up to scratch). It was an experience to enter the building alone- right in Place Stan, it is beautiful. The opera was ok- quite strange and a bit morbid at the end. In a nutshell it's about a painter who finds success but eventually goes a bit mental. Enough said. Moved onto new favourite bar Le Berthom afterwards for some Belgian beer :)
Nancy, Opéra.

Lovely.

Been chilling in parks a fair bit this week- temperature has been 25 degrees the last few days. Luckily the gorgeous Parc st. Marie is a 3 minute walk from chez moi- was there with the Irish for 3 hours on Wednesday afternoon chatting and people watching and went for a drink in the park with someone from school this afternoon. Life is chilled. I love the fact that whenever the weather is good the French are out making the most of it. At home a hot weather spell makes everyone turn to the beer....

Last night a few of us traveled from Nancy to Luxembourg to see Stornoway in concert. They're one of my favourite bands, their album Beachcomber's Windowsill is pure perfection and has been the soundtrack to my Year Abroad. A perfect way to round off my time in France I guess! There were only 60 or so people at the gig which meant the band were able to perform some songs unplugged. Amazing! So stripped down, the lead singer has a great voice, felt like everything he was singing came straight from the heart.

Perfection.

2 weeks to go and counting.

Vive la France!