New Year, New Beginnings.

I haven’t updated the blog in a while for the sole reason that nothing has really happened. My Christmas break came and went and I spent those two weeks holed up in my apartment thinking about all the money I’ll be saving for future trips. Hmm. I’m still wondering whether it was even worth it. Apart from a Christmas dinner with other colleagues stuck in Lyon and a New Years that started out boring but got really bizarre after midnight (a sign of things to come?), I pretty much sat in my room and watched episodes of 24, 30 Rock and played - and finished - Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask. But I made it through alive and bought my ticket to Corsica for the third week of February to visit my friend Julie and now I have to decide whether I should spend my second week in Madrid with one of my best friends, Michael, or follow Julie to Andalusia.

Life is really hard.

But school is back in full swing and the kids are calmer and I’m enjoying them more and more with every passing week. For some reason the passing of the old year to the new has felt particularly acute this time. A few doors have closed, a few have opened and a few others could use a new coat of paint. I have a list of things in my head I would like to do this year (work on my Spanish again, learn and memorize more songs on the guitar, work out more, actually finish a screenplay for once, etc etc) and I would really love to actually stick to a regiment for once. I mean, I’m only working 15 hours a week (if that sometimes) - I think I can fit in time to be more creative and step away from the computer.

But that first step is always the trickiest.

That is all the updates I really have to offer now. I’ll leave you with a few photos of my Christmas Eve I spent with my roommate Aurélie, her boyfriend Andy and her daughter, Alicia.