Le week-end

Friday night, we went out to Tours to see some big-town nightlife. We met up with some surveillants--sort of the school police: responsible for attendance, hall monitoring, etc.--from Mehdi's school, and they showed us the sights. Tours is really a beautiful town, cobbled streets and half-timbered buildings, the river...

Saturday was spent taking it easy...we got ambitious in the evening and made fajitas. Watched Office Space. Ate peanuts.

Today--Sunday--I attacked lesson plans with a decent amount of vigor. Alan and I went to a concert at the chateau; they sure know how to have a Baroque concert around here--hold it in a 17th century royal palace. We heard two Brandenburg concertos, a Bach sonata, some Bach junior, as well as two French composers I hadn't heard of: Jean-Marie Leclair and Jean Barrière. We hit up La Scala for pasta afterwards, yum! Now it's off to read a bit before toddling off to sleep.