(will someone in america please verify that this video works in america?)

My students are loving the Mariah Carey-based Chrismas lesson so far.  I'm giving them the lyrics with blank spaces instead of all the "Christmas vocabulary" and they have to fill it in as they listen.  I don't know how this is possible, but most of them have never heard of this song before!!!  Anyway, we're getting along pretty well this week as I've finally given them something fun that they actually find fun (I've thought everything we've done so far was fun, but they have impressively bad attitudes).  I feel like I'm finally figuring out what kinds of things are appropriate for their level; I've done stuff that was way too hard and other stuff that was too easy.  The prepositions worksheet I gave them this week was just right, AND it meant that I can now ask them to find all the prepositions in "All I Want for Christmas is You".

Last night, I went to the university gym to play badminton with some of my new friends.  It was awesome! I played kind of crappily but whatever! I had to play badminton and speak French at the same time!  Oh yeah, so through all our international friends we've finally found some French students who are in the international club, so we can finally speak real french with real french people.  and they have cars and can drive us around!  SO many good things!