My placement!

Alright, so I finally got my placement! I am going to be teaching in a high school in a small town called Limoux (southwest of Montpellier, almost on the Spanish border). It's not quite as central of a location as I had hoped for, but on the bright side I am only three hours from Barcelona. I'm also about an hour from the shore, and very ironically only 20 minutes from Carcasonne (One of the two places in southern France I have been before).

For those of you who are wanting to come visit/come travel with me on my vacations, I have five weeks off as follows (This is from the 2006-07 calendar, but I'm sure the dates will be fairly similar):
the 25th of October - the 6th of November (Halloween)
the 23rd of December - 8th of January (Christmas)
the 10th of February - 26th of February (Winter Break)
the 31st of March - 16th of April (Spring Break)
I also will be done with school the last week of April and wouldn't mind doing some traveling after I'm done...

So far I think Susan is coming on the 7th of December and staying for a couple days, and my parents are coming at Christmas and staying for like a week. All other vacations and weekends are open to planning! I'm hoping to do a lot of traveling on the weekends around my area. I know I want to visit some of the prehistoric caves, Montpellier, Avignon, Nice, Marseilles, and Lyon. I also wouldn't mind going to Barcelona, Pampalona, or Sans Sebastien. I guess we'll see...I better start saving my money now....

Now that I know my placement I can finally begin the visa process, start looking for a place to live, and buy my plane ticket...I'll keep you update as I make progress...


Happy 4th of July!