As a teacher, September typically translates to the time to attend school and formally learn. We, including myself, have many, many things to learn this year! The trip into the city during “school hours” sent one child over the edge with the magnitude of people and their motion, while setting the other one up to need extra school time to get back on track. I HAD NO IDEA! School has been challenging in many ways for one in particular. My office has changed locations again. School has lasted until 8 pm some nights. (Next week we understand the idea of remote schooling and finish around 3pm with ALL assignments done.)
Learning how to live in a new country takes time. Learning how to learn online takes time. Learning anything usually takes time, even if it is just taking time away from something else to learn.
Mazie completed her first online science experiment on density using colored sugar water. It was pretty cool to do and a ton of fun.
Just yesterday I wanted to cry after finishing grocery shopping, even though I was successful. I navigated the aisles of yogurt, yes 2 aisles for a total of 3 sides lined with yogurt types, flavors and brands!!! I found familiar food for this week’s dinner. (salmon, steak tacos and eggs)
I even found printer ink and a sewing kit. Yet I still wanted to cry once I was back in the car. I have been in 5 different grocery stores in the past 3 weeks. Hopefully, I will learn which store I like and which store has what I want. I need to learn how to communicate in French in a grocery store. My life often feels like the panorama picture below. The sky is 1/2 bright, cheery, clear and doing well. The sky is also 1/2 stormy and unpredictable, waiting for the next thing to happen. I am thankful Randy can speak, listen and converse in French.
As I post this 9/8… I also found an Aldi and bought Trader Joe’s Cranberries, went to another groc store much like Wal-mart and found Kraft Mac and Cheese for less than $4 and refrigerated milk! Still took 3 hours to go to these 2 stores that were literally across the round-a-bout from each other. And I still wanted to cry for some reason.
Lees in France 
Funny that you’ve posted about the grocery store as I’ve been doing some research on my own about how we’re going to get by when it comes to the store. What I’ve found is that there are several stores that you can order your groceries online and pick up from the store. Navigating the website is so much easier than navigating the store. You can search in english and the results come back in english. You have to be strategic in what you search for in order to get the correct results but when you do it seems pretty easy. The nice thing about online ordering is that you can create an account and select your favorites so you don’t have to struggle finding what you ordered previously. The store that we’ll most likely go with is https://www.carrefour.fr/…I think it’s chain over there so you should have one close. Try to spend some time on their site and give it a go searching in english. If you find it’s easier, try to do online ordering. Save your produce and meats for in person visits but do all this other stuff online. NOW…while I’m not there to actually ensure this works, this is my plan 🙂 I could have this epic plan that will fail when I get there – maybe you can test it and let me know lol
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