Joyful Tidings of the Season

My last few days here in France before heading home for Christmas are turning out to be pretty busy (we hosted a holiday party last night with 11 different countries represented and with way too many bodies and voices for our tiny apartment), but I wanted to at least leave you with a couple of photos of our trip to Bruges, both so that you can sample the chocolately, waffley joy that is a weekend in Belgium, and so that you can join me in enjoying a bit of festive cheer. (Here in France, my students finally illuminated for me why it's harder to get in the holiday spirit: when I asked them after a lesson on A Christmas Carol if they have any traditional Christmas stories, songs, or movies in France, they described a movie about people who call a suicide hotline because they're alone on Christmas. They assure me it's a barrel of laughs.)

Happy Holidays!