December?!

So apparently I woke up yesterday morning and it was December? Megan bought both of us Advent calendars from Monoprix a month ago and now we were finally able to open them! Yummy chocolates to count down the days of Advent.
There are Christmas decorations all around Paris--lights on the Champs-Elysees and several other streets, a huge Christmas tree in front of Notre Dame, Christmas trees in lights in front of most of the stores. Florence, my host mom, is preparing for a holiday pageant at her school, where each class makes a nativity and there's a contest for the best one, along with a craft fair where all the proceeds go to charity. I think we're going on Friday. I also saw pigeons kissing at my French university the other day...even pigeons have Christmas spirit?
Unfortunately the end of the semester always means lots of work! Several papers and presentations and stuff like that. Fun, fun, and more fun. We have another week and a half of class and then three days of exams, then they kick us out of Paris.
Megan and I are currently figuring out how we can smuggle our host parents out of France and into America in our luggage. We seriously want to take them home....we totally lucked out with our host parents. They're so funny and nice. Last night dinner turned into a quiz show on European capitals, thanks to Paul-Henri. He was impressed with our knowledge.
I don't really have much else to say other than that, so hope everything in the US is going well!