effiel tower

macaroons

OH! i have eaten the most delicious stuff lately! macaroons from laduree. oh my gosh. these are the best things in the entire world. they are so freaking yummy! the very best one i had was a rose flavored one. it really tasted like flowers. roses! sugar sweet. i was so happy eating it. my second fav flavor out of the ones we got was lemon. i liked the rose so much that i went back to the patisserie today and got a religieusse a la rose. it had rassberries stuffed inside the middle of it too. rose and rassberry. mmmmmmmmmmmmmm sweet dreams. it was an amazing sensation,

american night and football match

this has been a busy week!
tuesday night was American Night with the family. basically the american girls made dinner and sang patriotic songs. we had mexican food. i made guacamole and everyone loved it! we had lots of fun and dinner lasted 2 hours. we also made a two-layer chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting and sprinkles. it was heavenly. it was funny because philipinne didnt like it! french kids are strange.
last night we went to a football match. france VS england! we made shirts and spelled out FRANCE. i was the A. it was great-really american and ridiculous and cheesy- but great none-the-less. we also put on war paint. lots and lots of people kept stopping us to take pictures with us. that was esspecially funny because all those times we were only the F the R and the A. hahaha but anyways, france won, of course. but beckham was tere and he is soooooooo hot that i almost wanted him to win, but i didnt.

choir

i left out some more of easter day. we also had to go to the Young Single Adult thing which was for all of france which was going on all weekend long. we skipped a lot of it everyday. but after celebrating easter with the fam we went and sang in the choir for the easter presentation. it sounded pretty and was fun. i had to sit on the floor on the stand behind the podium because there werent enough chairs. and so every time we sang i had to jump up really high from crouching on the ground and hiding. it was funny. we took a few photos on the RER on the way over before my camera died. i had been wanting to take photos of the seats at Nation and never had my camera until today so i got some of them finally. coooool huh.

Easter Day

i have the best mom in the entire world. some of our friends from home were in paris for easter and so my mom sent my easter basket to me through them. at church they gave me the bag from mom. I WAS SO HAPPY. she sent an easter basket for rochelle too! it was perfect. and wrapped in colored saran-wrap just like at home. and it had all the right candies in it too, as well as chap stick annnnd bubbles!!! glorious.
and then we got home and went upstairs and found more stuff on our beds! because marie-claire made us little french easter 'baskets' except they were cardboard paper things of tom and jerry [weird] and in france the candy doesnt come from a bunny-- it comes from the bells. but they had chocolate in them too and we were so excited and felt so loved and like we belonged. and then whole extended family was there and all the hot boy grandsons and we hung out with them and talked with them and got to eat lunch with the family. And THHHHEN we had to hide in the house while they hide our eggs in the backyard! fuuuun we had a real easter egg hunt! i found 6 eggs by myself. rochelle was really bad at finding them. she only found 2. we wore our easter dresses and looked really nice all day long. it was a really good easter. and all the chocolate was so delicious. and everyone was so nice and happy.

[photo explanations:
1- theo hiding behind a flowering bush while searching for easter eggs
2- me searching for easter eggs
3- me after finding 2 easter eggs really quickly.
4- all of the adults eating and me and rochelle standing against the wall. only some of the french people here are actually important. the two women at the head of the table are. nannick is the older one. she owns the house and is our 'host mother.' she is nice but a bit insane. the woman next to her is marie-claire. she is nannick's daughter-in-law. she is married to jea.-francois [nannick's son] right now they are in the process of moving and so they and their two kids [phillipine and geoffry] are living with us. jean-francois is te man on the right side of the table in the black shirt with his elbow in the air. he is hilarious. everyone else is related to the family but isnt really important.
5- the american girls and our easter candy in rochelle's room on the floor. rochelle-emma-katie

Easter

this morning we dyed eggs!!!!!!
they dont do this in france. the family was confused. we had to explain it a lot the other night and they didnt understand for a while. it was funny.
it was quite the adventure trying to find some white eggs. apparently everyone likes their eggs brown. ugh. we would not settle for brown though b/c they would look ugly when dyed.
anyways the little girl in our family, phillipine, was SO excited about it.
katie is the best dye-er. i am very jealous of her skills.
i was pretty upset b/c we didnt have any blue dye. and thats my favorite color. but its all good. while we dyed them, it hailed outside, and then got sunny again. this place is whack.
also, while we were dye-ing, phillipine was humming and she was totally humming a song from shrek and i started to humm with her and we were happy together.
rochelle is a pretty good dye-er too. i guess. im excited to wear my new easter dress tomorrow.
Bonne Fete De Paques!

ERUOdisney

thursday i went to a french movie. it was called Modern Love and it was funny. and i understood a whole lot of it. much more than i expected to.
annnnnd yesterday i went to DISNEYLAND PARIS. hahahah thats right. it was tons of fun. i ate a mickey-head pizza and a mickey-head pastery and a waffle with rassberry ice cream on it. yummmm
my favorite rides are: Tower of Terror and Its a Small World. i do not like Space Mountain at all, but i went on it like 8 times. it hurts my head and makes me sick even though i ate my motion-sickness-medicine. it was odd b/c it rained and snowed and hailed and was freezing cold and then sunny and then warm and then windy and cold again. very very strange. but i liked it. it was sort of in celebration of jackie's birthday [feb 1st] it was cool b/c all the ride seemed differnt than the ones in the states. for example the indiana jones ride was actually a freaking roller coaster. cool. i love the tummy flip feeling when you drop. <3 <3 <3 it. best ever.

hair

also, as a side-note: i think one of the reasons i have been able to fit in here is because i never brush my hair