I had visitors! I don’t get to see my one and only cousin very often as he lives about 2,000 miles away in Denver. Naturally, the middle of nowhere France seemed like the perfect place to meet up! After a lot of vague “we should meet up” messages on facebook, I finally got a message that said they’d be showing up in St. Dié, and then the next day, they did. Here they are!
Cousins in the Vosges!
St. Dié must have heard the rumor that tourists were coming to town because when I left the house that morning, I discovered that they’d hung up world flags all over town. I wondered if there was some event about to take place that I didn’t know about, but no, the self-proclaimed “world capital of geography” just wanted to make that point a little clearer I guess. As we walked home to the internat, Alex impressed me with his knowledge of flags.
The Alex I’m not related to had some time off work so decided to come on back to Saint Dié to meet some non east coast Americans. We took them for a beer at the Darou, pointed out the post modern statue of liberty on our walk home and explained that by now all possible things to see and do in St. Dié had been exhausted. But they assured me that they were tired from all the traveling they’d been doing and were happy to have an excuse to do nothing. I hope they weren’t lying since that is exactly what we did.
Yet another catholic holiday meant a long weekend this past week. It was Pentecost this time around. I’m not very familiar with catholic holidays so based solely on what I’ve witnessed around town, my best guess is that Pentecost is the holy day of garage sales. They were everywhere! Throughtout the long weekend scattered around town people were in fornt of their houses or garages (which can be pretty far apart from one another in this town) selling stuff they didn’t want anymore. And on Sunday, after going for a coffee, Alex (not the cousin, he’d gone by then) and I stumbled upon a whole street lined with different stalls of people selling their useless crap. There was definitely a fair share of cool stuff too, and I was soooo tempted a couple of times, but the last thing I need is more junk to lug home.
I found out yesterday that Romaine, the girl I was giving conversation classes to, was accepted into the program she was trying to get into. This is a good thing since due to the weird school system in France which I still don’t really understand, if she hadn’t gotten in, she would have to become a plumber. It will also make the dinner I’m having with her family this weekend a lot less awkward.
I have been assigned an important mission by one of my students. Once I’m back in the US, when I see Shakira I have to tell her that Benjamin said she’s poop.
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