halloween is not a french thing. it has become more popular, so one can see costumed people on the metro on the evening of halloween, but still not too many are people into it. i was sick so didn’t go into the studio for work. was wondering what kind of things would happen there. animation studios in america are fun places to be on halloween. went in today and asked. nothing happened. nobody got dressed up. oh well. no fun.
i was still a little sick, so when people came to greet me with a bisou i stuck my hand up and would say “malade...”(“sick”). i’m sure that i make them all feel awkward, because they don’t know if they should bisou or not. funny. all the extra effort it takes to figure out how to greet christine.
halloween is jj’s 2nd favorite holiday. christmas is first and her birthday doesn’t count as a holiday. she went to her friend’s house for a sleepover party. they went to the american library with her friend’s little sister who said there was a halloween party there. i had heard that there would be a “haunted library tour” and one should make reservations to make sure to have a spot, but i figured it would be too young for 15 year old jj. they all got dressed up, jj wearing red dress, high heels and devil horns. i wasn’t too happy to imagine jj walking around paris like that, but then she informed me that they got driven over by the mom. ok. they walked in and there were only a few people there, mostly very small kids and she and her friends were “way over dressed”. they were so embarrassed. they had a reservation was for 7:50 but it was only 6:00, so they just turned around with devil tails between their legs... and went home. but next on the agenda was the horror films. jj is extremely sensitive to any intense films and has never watched a horror film. she saw the opening titles to “lost” which graphically shows a plane crash (so i hear) and was afraid to fly for a year. her friend dared her to watch the film “tormented” and jj wants to get over her fears so agreed. p and i read the synopsis of the film and thought, “hoo boy, she’s probably going to have problems with this. in the end, not only did she watch “tormented” but she also watched 2 other horror films. she was totally freaked out. she did not sleep very much. then she came home exhausted, took a brief a nap.
she had had the idea of getting the friends to go to “parc asterix”, a theme park out of town, that afternooon. she has gotten much more independent, but not yet there in really being on top of things. she assumed they could take the metro. we told her the metro doesn’t go that far. so she asked the friends to ask their parents if someone could take them. a mom volunteered. but jj still had not done any research. she figured she could just show up and it would cost a few euros. it is actually a theme park like disneyland and costs 40 euros. it takes an hour to get there by car. i could imagine her showing up without enough money. plus it was the last day of a long weekend and the traffic returning would be crazy. i was glad that the idea fizzled. i’m a bit uncomfortable with her having so much freedom and independence lately. it wasn’t a “can we go?” it was a “we are going”.
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