et bonne santé à vous et votre famille pour le nouvel an! j'espére vous avez passé les très bonnes vacances!
i had a lovely christmas with fraser and his family... we played lots of boggle (me, reluctantly. not good at games!), spent time wandering around the beautiful christmas market, drank lots of champagne and ate well, and made several day trips to different places. we went to colmar, where we visited the beautiful petite venise, and also stopped by the museum which houses the isenheim altarpiece, along with a whole collection of other amazing works. we also visited baden-baden, where we took the venicular up a mountain and also spent some time in the thermal baths. fraser's family stayed in a beautiful appartment overlooking place kleber, actually the best location and view in the city, we think, and it accommodated the eight of us easily for meals and rest time.
we discovered that, for new years, families buy their own fireworks and fire them, crazy-like, all over town. fraser, kyle and i went to a bar (but it was hard to find one that was open... weird), but the rest of the family had the best view of the night, from the apartment overlooking place kleber, where a crowd descended before midnight and proceeded to set off hundreds of fireworks in a random and chaotic festive display. none of this be-there-at-ten-to-midnight-find-your-place-with-a-blanket-the-official-fireworks-display-will-now-commence-stuff. just four-year-olds running around with matches and firing things willy-nilly into the night. amazing.
anyway i'm back to work now, the family is back from italy. fraser is in the UK for two weeks (yes, he has ANOTHER two weeks of vacation.) to visit his friends all over the place (london, cambridge, oxford...) from his time at the united world college of the atlantic in wales. so i'm missing him, but am generally fine as i get back into the swing of things, speaking french, etc.
all for now.
anne
ps. all my graduate school applications have been sent off (thanks to mom and dad and their help). cross your fingers for me.
1 comment:
I am WAY late in reading this.
But grad school?!
Exciting. Where did you apply? I want to know!!!
p.s. the word verification is lamaho, which reminds me of the sheep that live in the field directly beside my campus. That makes me smile.
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