I'm Living in a Candy Cane

Oui, it smells like we are living in a candy cane. It's actually quite nice and soothing to contiously smell peppermint!

This is all due to Ratatoutille. After spotting him 3 times last night, and not sleeping at all because of my immense fear, I decided I needed to take action again! I could not wait for the peppermint oil to arrive, I went and bought a petit bottle today from this very nice French woman, who obviously thought I was nuts when I started acting like a mouse to communicate what I wanted the peppermint oil for. I came home, and basically poured it all over the kitchen, and around all the base-boards in the bedroom. According to Google, mice hate the smell of peppermint, so they will stay away from anywhere they smell it! The idea of keeping the mice away entirely is actually much more appealing to me than luring them in and poisoning them! I have also put the mort aux rats EVERYWHERE, so if one does brave the peppermint smell to enter, it will hopefully eat the poison. But, I think we are benefiiting from the oil because the smell is quite nice!

Today was my second day of school! I only had French today, which was even more funny than yesterday. We had class today with the teacher's assistant, Chloe, who will be teaching us every Tuesday. I guess Madame Picard exaplined this yesterday, but I failed to comprendre! So today we had Chloe, who ONLY speaks French! Very fast! It is quite funny to be sitting in class and honestly have no idea what is being said 50% of the time! I used to sit in Chemistry and think I had no idea what was going on, but at least I knew what the words meant. There is so much vocabulary that I do not know, and it is very confusing. It really makes me want to learn more and get better, so I have developed a plan.
In addition to daily class I must....
- listen to only french music on my i-pod
- watch French channels on TV a bit before bed
- watch french films with french subtitles so I can follow and understand
- read french books
I also plan to ask Josh to speak only French to me while he is visiting, because he sounds perfectly native. And it will be fun. And romantique!

So after french, I got a baguette sandwhich, and headed to the champs de mars to mange and then take a nap in the sun, watching la tour! I love the champs de mars. I want to buy a tent and camp out there with vin et baguettes. It really is a bonne idee!

I also pink-ed up my room today. It didn't seem like it without some pink! I needed extra sheets so I got pink ones (of course) and these adorable pink ruffle rugs! So I feel tres at home now, and love the apartement even more! Now all I need is a little French Bulldog puppy sitting on my bed to make mon apartement complete!