Quick up date.

This will be just a quick overview of my January.

Just after the vacation I returned to Alliance Français (professional french school) for 4 weeks... all I can afford. Now I'm finished and not very disappointed about being finished because I find that the course didn't move forward very fast.

This past month I've been noticing how many english people I'm hanging out with (with out language or culture barriers the english seem to stick together) , and I think my new goal will be to spend more time with my french buddies.

For christmas, I received fine french cuisine courses from the parents. So christine and I found and booked a 'How to make macarons' workshop which I thoroughly profited from... Macarons are the 'in' dessert at the moment, and for a good reason... they are full of colour, and the most delicious things that could ever touch your taste pallets. Christine and I have made them twice now... (it's a two person job) and exhausted our creative energies in trying to figure out why they look soo terrible! They haven't turned out yet... but at least they still taste like the real thing, so we will persevere.

I've hit the half way point here, and I can't say its really affecting me. I feel like I've really learn't the culture, and this next 5 months will be way to fast considering all the big events that are to come. In 10 days my best friend Claudia will be here to experience this wonderful city with me, a month after that I will be in Italy with my family, after that my friend Julie will be spending some time here in Paris and I'll take a trip to england to see her too, then before I know it, its July! The last month! Maybe this is beginning to hit me...

Pictures: -The inside of the café from the famous french film "Amélie Poulain"

- Honorine trying to grab the red spot from my camera on the wall, showing off her hair-doo

-The first snow fall! I didn't think it was coming this year... my friend and I ran out-side in our pyjamas to see the light snowfall.

-An english carrot cake I felt was necessary.

-What macarons are supposed to look like...