November 10, 2009
The rain in Spain falls mainly on France
If I could sum up Bordeaux in one word, that word would be: RAIN. Rain rain rain rain rain. Rain.
Bordeaux lured me in when I first arrived with 20 or so days of warmth and sunshine and not a drop from the sky.
“This isn’t bad at all!” I thought, as I walked around in tank tops and admired the bright blue skies.
And then….everything changed.
It has been raining nearly every day for over a week. Rain is forecasted for every day into the foreseeable future. Sometimes I’ll refresh the forecast and they’ll tease me and take the rain out for one day, but then I refresh again five minutes later and it’s back in. Rain. Every day. For the rest. of. my. life.
In school news, my students are already eager to talk about Christmas. I told them there’s another American holiday in between Halloween and Christmas that we’re going to start talking about beginning on Thursday.
I have sung “Where is Thumbkin” 16 times this week, and I’ll sing it 16 more before the end of the week. They love it.
Yesterday I asked one of my students, in English, “Have you glued it in your notebook already?” and he nodded and showed me, and I smiled and said to him in French “You understood a sentence in English!” and he looked so proud of himself.
Je cherche mon paradis 
Kinzie said,
November 10, 2009 at 5:56 pm
Good thing you don’t live in Normandy then, huh? There is an expression here that goes, “Il pleut comme une vache qui pisse.” I think they use that to describe everyday. 🙂
jesuislaprof said,
November 11, 2009 at 6:28 am
And Rouen was my second choice region! I think it’s been the same all over France, though; even my friend in Nancy said it’s been raining for days.