Le 2eme week-end

Saturday:
I was sick this morning. I woke up 3 times in the early morning/night and finally got back to sleep around 10. I woke up at noon with Sara and if I wasn't well, I felt much much better. Which was a huge relief.
Being sick away from home sucks and more than anything else it makes you homesick. You are never homesick when happy- only when you are frustrated, exhausted, scared... that's when you really start missing home.
After lunch today I went with Sara to the library... we walked there and just stayed for a while reading in the kids section. Well.. Sara brought books down from the political section and I read kids books. Artemis Fowl in french guys is slooww. It was fun though... they have a really big multi-story library that is very pretty. That and I was not feeling up to anything more active.
This evening I went to meet someone Sara used to work for- they found me a job teaching English to their son once a week... 18h15-19h15, 10 euros an hour. I love making money... it makes me happy.
We ate dinner this evening and I helped Sara with math and english hwk, I collapsed into bed pretty early.
Sunday:
First one up, which is fairly common. I answered a few emails before Malika got up, and then I watched her fix breakfast. Which is a much longer process than in the US... and very different and very yummy. She made bread... but she flattened it and the cooked it on the skillet. Then you cut it open in the middle, put olive oil in it and boiled eggs which you cut up just a little bit. Iless and Rayanne put olives in it as well but I skipped that. It sounds really bizarre but it was very very good. Then I ate another half of one with some sort of home-made jelly, which was also yummy.
I took a long walk today just to wander around Lyon. I set off looking for le parc de la tete d'or with some vague instructions from Sara, but turned around without having found it. We ate lunch "dans le salon" and it was American Hamburgers. Which, like most food here, maybe looks American if you are lucky and certainly doesn't taste it- its better. Some yummy tart thing that Malika had made for lunch.
This evening I went for a run, and we had pasta for dinner (thats really common). I helped Ilyess with his math homework and went to bed.


Les mots:
arnaquer- swindler. Talking about someone they had worked with before who will apparently really work to get the most possible out of you while paying as little as they can.