Anna Claire

Le progrès

2010-08-22T20:17:00.000-06:00

So it's been about five weeks since I started tutoring French, and it's going great. At the end of this week, I will have taught twenty lessons. Some of my students are already starting to read paragraphs and speak short sentences. My latest student already has a vocabulary of over one hundred words. My first student is learning both past tenses, having already conquered the present tense.

2010-08-10T13:22:00.000-06:00

So I now have four clients, with two potential clients. Three of them are complete beginners and one of them has had high school French. It's been really fun. I make the lesson plans and give the lesson at Panera to my student. I meet with them once a week, but there's one student who wants to meet more than once a week, which will be great. There's also a mom who wants me to teach French

French lesson

2010-07-24T11:30:00.000-06:00

So I had my first French lesson this week and it went well. The client is nice and willing to learn. I had a lesson plan and it took almost the whole hour until I improvised. I also got a hit on craigslist about my SAT tutoring. Check out my website!

French lessons and tutoring

2010-07-12T14:03:00.000-06:00

I'm going to be in Pensacola for a few months, so I've decided to put my talents to use. My boyfriend created a fantastic website for me to advertise my French lessons. I currently have four clients, and I only started advertising a week ago. I've created lesson plans and I have a lot of materials. I'm excited to get started. The website is: French lessons/ Anna Claire the au pair I am

2010-06-11T10:54:00.001-06:00

Here are some more flowers (I know, boring) from my last walk in Normandy. Flying over Canada -

Photo shoot

2010-06-09T12:35:00.000-06:00

I did a photo shoot with Arielle Langhorne last month, and the pictures are up on her blog here - Photos Please comment on that page. If there are 25 comments, I get a free photo.

Une promenade

2010-06-05T09:25:00.001-06:00

I went for another walk yesterday after dropping off all three kids at the school. I'm really getting to like driving a manual transmission car. It gives you something else to do, and I like multitasking. Anyway, here are some attempts to take a couple of pictures of myself. Then I went to the lake near their house and there were some guys hanging out. As I left, one guy stopped me and

Les lapins

2010-06-03T12:39:00.002-06:00

Will you all still love me when I'm fat? The food here is wonderful. The Carluers are wonderful cooks. There are these bread roll things that I eat all the time. It's just bad. I'm not dancing as much either. Uh oh. Today was my day off, and I went to the city by myself for some shopping. It was quite fun. I found yet another massive Catholic church. Then I found a little café

Les filles au pair

2010-05-31T13:31:00.001-06:00

It was Mother's Day in France - Fête des mamans. We had a big dinner and then some really good dinner. Lauren's twin Bec and her friend Jess came and are leaving tomorrow morning for Paris. Some cute guys that I sneak pictures of... Also a cute dog - More flowers - ....

Les femmes qui dansent, elles sont terribles

2010-05-29T15:12:00.000-06:00

I went to a little milonga in Caen. It was about 3 minutes, walking, from my house. That was really convenient. But every woman there, except for the teacher, was horrible! How can you be that old and be so horrible. Well, there are a couple like that in Gainesville. Also, there was this crazy lady, just like the crazy lady in Gainesville. Most of the men were bad too, except for the

très fatiguée

2010-05-29T04:03:00.000-06:00

I'm home alone with the kids for I don't know how long and I'm so tired. I have some kind of cold or allergies or something, so I didn't sleep too well. I'll make it. I'll make it until tango tonight - if Fred lets me go. It's like 3 minutes from their house, walking. Parfait! If Richard were reading this blog (which he's not) and if he were in France, he wouldn't dance with me. He's

Le nouveau tableau

2010-05-28T06:44:00.002-06:00

My mom's newest painting of my tango shoes.

Tu es "super cooker"

2010-05-28T06:25:00.001-06:00

Heureusement, I cook better than I drive. Soon though, I will drive as well as I cook, which is really good. I told Fred about my family and how my nana cooks so much and how I learned from her. He asked if my family was "gros." I thought that meant big, like I have a lot of people in my family. However, the word for that would be grande. So he started telling me about how dangerous it was

Beaucoup des photos

2010-05-27T13:08:00.005-06:00

I finally have the adaptor for my computer, so this is my first post in France from my computer. Today was my day off, so I met Lauren downtown in the city of Caen. We went shopping, ate, and saw a movie. Parfait! I think that French flight attendents are prettier than American ones. Well maybe not, but their outfits are better. Matching scarves! Here are some pictures of my host

On brosse les dents

2010-05-26T13:22:00.000-06:00

So Jade was crying for some reason. I don't know why because I can't understand her when she cries like that. Anyway, I decided to try and sing to her some songs in English and it worked. The only song that came to mind was an anthem from church that we sing in Advent - Adam Lay Ye Bounden. She liked it so much that I had to sing it 4 times. Then when she was brushing her teeth, I sang the

les leçons d'anglais

2010-05-26T05:15:00.000-06:00

I taught Jade a little English today and learned some myself. We learned about the kitchen. Toast is grille-pain and honey is le miel. Je pense. I drove so much today. Maude went to school and Mathis had music theory and then came back home then Maude came back home. Jade stays home on Wednesdays. It's been a weird day for the weather. It should rain, but it is not raining. Yesterday

Je peux conduire ici - j'ai reussi

2010-05-26T01:01:00.000-06:00

Alors - not a big post because of the computer problem. Just wanted to let you know that I did not embarrass myself today when driving. In fact, I did rather well. And I am getting used to this keyboard, which means it may be difficult to return to the American one. I drove last night with Fred and drove Maude to school with Lawrie. C'est pas trop difficile. I stalled 3 times in rather

les arbres sont plus beaux ici

2010-05-25T13:00:00.000-06:00

I am not going to post much tonight because I will not be able to use my computer for a couple of days, so I cannot upload pictures. Also, the keyboard is very different so it is a bit difficult to type as fast as I would like. Just know that everything is wonderful; except the driving. I have found that there is a big difference with the clutch in France. I will get it eventually: More

Surreservé

2010-05-23T11:43:00.000-06:00

Delta overbooked my flight and so they are offering $600 for volunteers to give up their seat. Thankfully, people are lining up to receive their free money. It would have to be a LOT of money to get me to give up this trip. Maybe a million dollars. Maybe. It's the right time in my life for this trip. This is the summer when everything starts. I get to see some wonderful people this summer

Le tableau

2010-05-22T11:48:00.001-06:00

My portrait - 4 years old My mother has been doing still life paintings for the past couple of years, but she just finished her first portait - me!

Yea, Sewanee's Right!

2010-05-15T18:09:00.001-06:00

La vie, c'est quelquefois une grande blague

2010-05-13T18:43:00.001-06:00

Let's just say I've had a rough week, and leave it at that. But there are always some places that take me home instantly. Last week, I got to go to the beach. I've spent a lot of my childhood summers at the beach. Then, I went to my Nana's farm for what I call 'W-day'. They did quite a lot of Work and my family loves having a get-together. So there was a great day at the farm. No matter

Le dernier jour avant l'huile

2010-05-06T22:12:00.000-06:00

So I'm a bit too tired to do the commentary. The first few pictures are from Wednesday at Casino Beach, and then pictures from today at the Gulf National Seashore. And now for the pictures from today. The dark shadow in the picture below is really a grassbed - the home of many little fish and small animals. Here is a video of two ducks

Le deuxième jour à la plage

2010-05-05T11:35:00.002-06:00

So I said I'd keep the posts to a minimum - not so. I took some more pictures of the beach the next day. It was so sunny and blissful. So here are some photos. Before I got on the long bridge to Gulf Breeze, I saw some news trucks and had to pull over. The guy in the green/grey shirt invited me to check out the inside of the truck. I got some shots of the anchors from the

La plage encore, avec photos

2010-05-03T15:50:00.001-06:00

Still not in France, but I'm communicating frequently with the au pair over there, Lauren. She's great. So I won't inundate the blog with posts before I get to France, but I did want to share a few pictures from my trip to the beach. The water was rough, speaking of inundation, and people weren't supposed to be in the waters. Of course it was great for the surfers. Made me wish I still