Paul’s here, Paul’s here, hip hip hooray!

It’s so good to have one of my best friends here!  I get to speak English as fast as I want, I get to exchange quips, I get to show him around my pretty city.  (Well, okay, that last will happen once the fog lifts, which it hasn’t yet, but I’m sure that it will clear up for the weekend, right?)

We’ve not been doing all that much, although we did go to dinner with two of the other English assistants last night at the house of one of the English profs.  We’ve mostly just been lounging around, watching “Firefly,” and occasionally heading off to that “work” thing and trying to teach kids English.  And that has even turned out to be less than usual, since the teacher with whom I was supposed to have both of my classes yesterday afternoon was on strike, and so I didn’t have any classes!  Woo hoo!

No big plans for the weekend and Monday.  Mostly more of the same, minus the classes part.  On Monday we’ll head into Paris, and spend the night there so that we don’t have to get up so early on Tuesday to get Paul on his plane.  I already don’t want him to go, but I just have to remember that I’m more than halfway finished with this job and will be back in the US before I know it!  And besides, I get to go travelling the week after next, so that will help distract me from my melodramatic loneliness and angst.  ::grin::