Enchiladas

When I went home, I brought back a suitcase-full of green chile and tortillas, so today I made enchiladas (red and green) with beans and spanish rice for my host family and for Wei-Ching, so we had a nice relaxing afternoon of yumminess (after kind of a crazy morning of shopping and cooking for me cuz I woke up very late and hadn't bought cheddar cheese yet...). The whole thing was a grand success. Mathias wasn't a big fan, but I kind of expected as much since he is 4 and at 4 I wouldn't have eaten it, and I've grown up around that kind of food. paul was a little overwhelmed by the spicy...which I think he was partially imagining just because I said it had chile...I used mild! Anyway, it was nice to be able to share that with them.

Also, unbeknownst to me, we were also apparently celebrating my birthday, so I got presents, which is always fun. Florence got me a really cute purse and Wei-Ching got me fun earrings and a headband.

Aside from the fact that I'm sore and have blisters from capoeira and I'm getting sick, it's been a very good day...and a good time back in France in general.

Last night, we had a potluck for the Oregon students and also the French students who are going to Oregon next year, so that we could meet them and so that they could meet us and find out about Oregon and all that good stuff. It was a lot of fun. The funny thing was that I don't think I heard any of them speaking english. They are all really shy about it. I guess they'll have to get over that pretty quickly when they get to the states, though. I mean, we did, and pretty much everyone here speaks at least of few words of english. Which is not so much the case in Oregon for french. It seems like a really cool group of people, even though I'm kinda sad that Flo wont be among them :-( They all seem really excited about coming and I think it will be nice to be in contact with them and to hang out with them and help them out if they need it while they are in the states. And it will be cool to have people to speak french with sometimes :-P

Anyhoo, there's a little update for ya...and now I should probably be productive or something...

Biz.