More Hand-Print Turkeys and BOOTS!

This morning I went to school, while Amy stayed in bed, the lazy bum (hehe). I met with my preschoolers for a bit and then did the same lesson, for once, 4 times in row (by the end I was getting pretty good at explaining Thanksgiving). I explained Thanksgiving in French with pictures, then had the kids make gestures for a couple key words (so that when I said them during my story, they could at least listen for those words and make the gestures instead of getting lost in the English). After reading the story, I had the kids make hand-print turkeys on thank you cards for their parents. After they made their turkeys (which they thought was SO cool to do using their own hand-print), I asked why they made turkeys in their Thanksgiving Thank You cards. A common answer I received was, "Because it's a turkey." I said, "Yes, but why do we talk about turkeys during Thanksgiving...." "Oh, because you kill turkeys...?" hmmm.... close enough I guess.

Laurence was observing the teacher in the last class, which was fun, because she got to see me explain Thanksgiving. I'm glad she was in there because this is the teacher who has 4 different classes and she has a hard time with these kids. And after class, she (Laurence) gave me the rest of my laundry, woohoo!

After school, I came home for lunch. Amy and I decided we should probably hit up the mall because there was a strike going on (allegedly... we were unaffected except for we did see that the post office was closing an hour early). The mall is closer than going all the way into Lyon... and I needed to look for another casserole dish for Thanksgiving feast preparations anyway. So, we went to Porte des Alpes, in search for boots (my priorities changed a little). It's going to snow this weekend in Strasbourg, and I have no appropriate shoes to wear in the snow without having very cold/wet feet or ruined suede boots... so it wasn't frivolous. We went to a few shoe stores... and decided to go have a look in Auchan, the Wal-marty store at the mall. Miraculously, we both found very cute, reasonably priced boots. We also left with juice, disposable aluminum baking dishes, a small xmas tree, cookies, and winter window decorations. The store was seriously decked out... and I realized after Thanksgiving, I'd need at least a few decorations to put up....

We stopped by a few other stores, Amy having lots of luck, me not so much (which is a good thing). On our way home, we stopped by the post office because I had gotten a notice in my box that I had a package! I got a few more mini-toiletry items and LOTS of hot chocolate, courtesy of Valerie, Vic's sister (thanks by the way if you're reading this Valerie!).

We just finished making pumpkin bread and chocolate pie for Thursday (figured we should get a few things out of the way since we'll be dead tired after we get back tomorrow night). We're going to try to be in bed by 9pm.... because we're getting up at 4:30am (bleh). We thought our tour started at 9am, so we got train tickets that leave at 6:35am... turns out, the tour group switched the time to 1pm... which means we could have gotten a later train, but oh well. More Avignon for us!!!

Reste cool:) Wish you were all coming with us tomorrow!