Finally

-- They have finally put up two Christmas trees in my apartment lobby. Yeah! I think they should have done it the first week of December, not the week before Christmas Day. Oh well. I'm happy to see them.

I nearly bought a Christmas tree at Carrefour, but I decided not to. I did buy a garland and I'm going to wear it with a Santa Claus hat on Christmas Day. I think it will make my students laugh. And it will help make it feel like a special day for me. My family has helped with that. I have two lovely packages on my bed. Of course, they say "do not open until Christmas". I won't, but I may think about it :)

-- I decided I really enjoy driving here. Now that I'm used to it, that is. It's fun to be on a scooter and weave around cars and pedestrians. It is so hard to convey that in words. I want to somehow attach my camera to my head so you can see what I see on a normal drive.

I've decided driving a scooter at home wouldn't be much fun. I would have to act like a car. That is just silly. I'd rather follow the "rules" they have here!

There are a few flaws with scooters that I have thought of during my time driving one. Here's the list I can remember right now: -no seatbelts -no wind protector -no music

That's all I can think of. There may have been one or two more.

-- COOKIES! Yep, I actually made some food. (Yvonne is surprised I've survived this long with the cooking skills I have. Or the lack thereof.)

I showed a handful of YW how to make my mom's delicious chocolate chip cookies. Alright, the recipe is from the Nestle Tollhouse chocolate chip bag. But I still think of them as my mom's. They turned out quite well. They tasted a little different and I think it was the brown sugar.

The girls enjoyed themselves. We ate some of the cookie dough. I just don't know how people can resist that! It's so delicious.