Surprise Free Time!

Once again, I must apologize for my lazy blogging recently. I honestly have just been keeping pretty busy and having the best time relaxing and hanging out with my friends. St. Patrick's Day weekend was absolutely crazy and as always, we had a great time at our favorite Irish pub, the Melting Pot. They were having some deals and some fun giveaways throughout the weekend, so we spent a majority of our nights there. (I'll post some pictures when I get home, but I'm still at school right now).

Here are some of my favorites:

I was supposed to have a class right now, but the teacher had to leave suddenly for an emergency and no one told me, so I'm just enjoying a coffee and updating you for the next 20 minutes or so before my own private class thingy.

I can't believe I only have 4 1/2 more weeks of teaching. My Mommy is arriving a month from tomorrow and our trip planning is coming along very nicely! I am really looking forward to seeing everyone at home, but like I said in the last post, I just know how sad I'm going to be at the same time when all of this is over. I can honestly say that I've made friends I'm going to keep in touch with for the rest of my life. I just wish I didn't happen to live an ocean away from all of them. I just can't help it, I love those sarcastic, dry-humored, English babes. At least it gives me more excuses to come to Europe, right? As if I needed any more.

I can honestly say that this experience has made amazing changes in me that are going to be present the rest of my life. I am more confident, self-assured, and happy than I have ever been. I don't think those things will go away when I return home, at least I hope not. I'm ready to be back with my family and friends and everyone I love. I just hope it's not too difficult adjusting to life back in Connecticut. I'm sure I'll make it through. I'm a pretty tough cookie.

And who knows, maybe some day I'll have the chance to spend more time in Europe while sharing the experience with people I love. I don't really know how that would work, but a girl can dream, right?

I need to get going for the next class, but I'll try and remember to add some pictures when I get home. After this little piggy gets her dinner though. It's only 4:30 and my stomach is already growling.

Okay, I'm actually leaving now.

A toute!


PS- I just got back home from teaching my private class. We talked about St. Patrick's Day in the US and we did "mad-libs" about leprechauns and the Blarney Stone, which were a huge success. It got the students laughing, practicing different parts of speech, reading out loud, and comprehending English readings!