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Rebecca's had a busy few days celebrating Passover and, to a lesser extent, Easter. On Thursday night, I dyed a few eggs with Adam. It's one of those little-kid activities that geeky, grown-up Rebecca still finds fun. These are the eggs I made (ew, look at how gross and veiny my hand is!):

Clockwise from top: the Israeli flag (I drew the Star of David with a marker; it was even more smudged in person!), the French flag, purple with white stripes, purple and gold (LSU colors, as any fellow Louisiana reader will know), and the Italian flag. I'm not sure why I made one of the Italian flag, since that country doesn't have any special meaning to me like France and Israel, but who cares?

Friday night was our congregational Passover seder. It was fun, but so exhausting! I'm not sure why, but Jewish Grandmother #2 made the seating arrangements and put me with the C. family. They're such nice people, but I admit I wasn't too thrilled about sitting next to the 6-year-old. The food was delicious, and there was so much of it! I ate everything on my seder plate, all three courses of the dinner, and an extra bowl of matzah-ball soup. The practicing I did on Who Knows One paid off, and I got all the way up to thirteen this year! Rabbi W looked so impressed.

It was fun, but I was absolutely sedered out by the end of the night. It started at 6:30, and I didn't get home until after 10! Holy Moses! And then I woke up early on Saturday morning to go to Torah study with Rabbi W. We read a little of the parsha, but mostly we discussed the mistaken belief by some Christians that Jesus's Last Supper was a Passover seder (it wasn't), which was interesting.

I was still so tired that I spent the rest of the weekend napping, writing fanfiction, watching The 10 Commandments, and eating slice after slice of matzah-bread pizza. (Sassy Jewish Grandparents #1 gave me a box imported from Israel, and I put Little Caesar's Crazy Sauce and mozzarella cheese on it. Yummy.) I did venture out today to have a lovely, delicious Easter lunch with JC & Company. All in all, it was a great weekend.

Current Mood: still tired!
Current Music: Dayenu, Philadelphia Institute of Jewish Learning Choir

Sable and I went over to Mom's house yesterday and dyed eggs and watched The Princess and the Frog with Adam. The movie was cute and enjoyable, and while I was there, Ben gave me some DVDs he got for free from a movie rental place that's going out of business. He gave me Casablanca, A Very Long Engagement, Chocolat (which we already have on VHS, but a VHS sure doesn't have a French language track! I wonder if the French actresses did their own dubbing), and La Vie en Rose, which I've never seen but totally want to because I have the biggest girl-crush on Marion Cotillard. Every time I see her, I'm amazed at how beautiful she is. If she and Cote de Pablo were in the same place at once, the world would probably explode from too much hotness. My world would, at least. Anyway, now I feel bad for just getting Ben some pens for Christmas (even though they were nice pens).

This afternoon, Sara and I watched that disaster-porn movie 2012, and during the scene where the Vatican City is destroyed and the dome of St. Peter's collapses and crushes the faithful, I literally jumped up and screamed, "Yeah, that's what you get for covering up sex abuse by your priests! Take that!" When I went by Mom's house afterwards to drop it off, she literally started yelling at me as soon as I walked in the door (for stuff that I hadn't even done!). Sometimes I almost feel sorry for my brothers for living with her, but not really.

Then I biked over to Grandma's house and helped her cook for Easter tomorrow. I rode my bike to the grocery for some ingredients she needed, because we both agreed that I bike faster than Grandma drives. But to her credit, Grandma is so bad-ass that I don't think she even requires the use of pot-holders: those are for lesser mortals. We frosted a cake and cupcakes and made Green Glop while watching The Ten Commandments on TV. Which reminds me, the coolest thing ever was when Charlton Heston died and they broadcast that movie dubbed in French on French TV and I watched it from a hotel room in Paris. It was awesome!

I'm determined to get up early enough to help Grandma set things up before everyone arrives at her house for Easter tomorrow, so I should probably ~~stay up late watching NCIS clips on YouTube~~ log off the computer and go to bed now.

Current Mood: feel kinda funny
Current Music: I Think I Love You, The Partridge Family

I spent a very nice Easter Sunday at my aunt's house. She cooked a ton of food, including a ham, potato casserole, a fruit pizza, and two batches of Green Glop, one with pineapple, and one with no pineapple just for me! I only cooked one batch of Marlene's stuffing. I had wanted to make two at least, but I wasn't able to cook any on Saturday night because I had a really bad asthma attack. It was the worst I've had in a long time. I don't know why, but over the past few days, my asthma has suddenly gotten worse. So I'm now trying to take it easy, and I haven't had any more problems since that night.

It rained all day on Sunday, so Eva and I had to have our Easter egg hunt in the living room. She found more than I did. That girl is a hoot. At one point during lunch, everybody was talking about family resemblances and who looked like who, and Eva said to me: "Well, I don't which one of your parents you look like because I can't remember either of them." I laughed so hard.

I also finally remembered to ask to borrow their copy of Pan's Labyrinth and watched it last night. Damn. Some scenes had me sitting rigid and wide-eyed in my chair, while others made me cover my eyes and wince. I was actually happy when the DVD started skipping and I was forced to take a break from it all for a minute.

I just bought six heavenly hash eggs, my favorite Easter candy, for $1.50!

Current Mood: I hate making decisions
Current Music: Something Beautiful, Tracey Bonham

Funny Chinese Sarah Moment. This afternoon, during our Easter brunch: Marina: "Sarah, how do you celebrate Easter in China?" Sarah: "No."

On Friday night Marlene and Heather invited me to go to the famous Château de Versailles with them the next day. I said yes, so yesterday was a very fun, very exhausting, almost twelve-hour day. We left the lycée at 9:45 am and got back around 9:30 pm. About six hours of it was traveling; we took the train to Paris, and from there took the metro and another train to Versailles. It was a very long and confusing journey, but I did get to jump over a metro turnstile, something I've always wanted to do (Marlene and Heather opted to crawl underneath it).

About an hour and a half of it was waiting in line outside the château. I don't think I've ever waited in such a long line in my life, and the weather was absolutely crazy. First it was sunny and semi-warm, ten minutes later it was cloudy and windy, ten minutes later it was hailing, ten minutes later the sun was out again. (I am not kidding.) Heather was the only one who thought to bring an umbrella, and it wasn't easy for all three of us to huddle under it. About two hours was touring the château, which was fabulous. The Royal Chapel was my favorite room. The painting on the ceiling was amazing, and I'm surprised I don't have a terrible crick in my neck now from staring up at it for so long.

About an hour was wandering around Paris before we caught the last train back to Villers-Cotterêts. We ate at the McDonald's across the street from the Gare du Nord in Paris, and since none of us had eaten since breakfast -- about ten hours before, and all I'd had was a green apple and the last four of my Oreos -- that bacon cheeseburger was probably the best part of the day, even better than Marie Antoinette's bedchamber. By the time we finally got back to the lycée, I'd been walking for so long that it felt like if I never stood up again for the rest of my life, my legs and feet would still be sore.

This morning we all slept in, got up around noon, and had a nice Easter brunch of pancakes, apple sauce, and candy. Joyeuses Pâques à tout le monde!

Current Mood: happy
Current Music: Keepin' the Faith, Billy Joel

Funny Chinese Sarah Moment. When Nathalie took us shopping last Wednesday, Sarah bought one thing, a bottle of vinegar, which she drinks by itself out of a glass. She opened the bottle the minute we got back to the lycée and took a swing right there in the parking lot, while Nathalie watched in horror, literally screaming, "Sarah, don't drink that! Sarah, that's vinegar! Stop! Oh, no! No! She's drinking it out of the bottle! Oh, I can't watch! It gives me a stomach ache just to watch!" (She then asked me if we drank vinegar out of the bottle in America, too.)

I've been meaning to post since Wednesday, but I've been busy lately. And I mean busy with unimportant crap, so I really don't have much to say, anyway. The lycée is giving us a three-day weekend for Easter, which is nice, and this morning, Madame Camus, one of the English teachers I work with, totally surprised me by giving me a little chocolate bunny as an Easter present. It is so cute that I'm not sure if I'll be able to eat it! And American Sara and I are finally starting to make plans for her trip here (hooray!).

The sun came out today, and I immediately dropped what I was doing and went for a walk. I initially headed for the train station to go to Crépy-en-Valois, the next town over, but then I realized I had forgotten my debit card and my carte 12-25, so I instead headed for the Villers-Cotterêts cemetery. I enjoyed about 45 minutes of sunlight and blue skies before the clouds rolled in again.

I think I have found a solution to the goat cheese and baguette problem. Today when I walked to Leclerc Express for my baguette, I also picked up a few kiwis, figuring that eating something cool and juicy with the goat cheese would take the edge off. It seemed to work, although my tongue is a bit sore from all the citric acid and Marlene said she was surprised to see me eating something healthy. Haha.

The other night I had a dream that a Piano-era Anna Paquin and a Chocolat-era Victoire Thivisol were making a movie together. I woke up disappointed that I couldn't see it.

Current Mood: three-day weekend!
Current Music: Don't Stand So Close to Me, The Police

I hope that at least some of you don’t already know the answer to this question. (If you do, then please don't give it away!) If you don’t know, then please make a guess before you click on the answer and tell me what you guessed afterwards, because I curious to see how many people will actually guess right. And no cheating!

In France, it is not a rabbit that brings Easter candy. What animal/person/thing traditionally brings Easter candy in France?
A) A lamb
B) A church bell
C) An egg
D) A religious figure (such as an angel, an apostle, or even Jesus himself)

( Click here for the answer! )

(FYI: Marlene says that in Germany, it is a rabbit that brings the Easter candy.)

Current Mood: happy
Current Music: Take me dancing tonight! I wanna hit that high...

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Entries tagged with easter

Rebecca is a Jew, but she still eats Easter candy!

One word can solve all your housing problems: Killevippen!

But Rebecca still doesn't have any albuterol!

Rebecca jumped over a turnstile!

The bells in France have gone to Rome!

Pop quiz ahead!