Coucou tout le monde! What a full weekend! Thursday was realitively uneventful, just driving to Vannes, playing those horrible ice breakers that always have to happen, and getting to the hotel. We had dinner at the hotel and then just explored Vannes for a bit...and then my roomie and I talked till almost 2 in the morning...I guess we hadn't quite adjusted to the new time zone yet. Friday...Friday was pretty much the PERFECT day. We went to an old castle called Suscinio and had a guided tour (of which I was pleased with myself for understanding) and then went to L'Ile aux Moins, a gorgeous island. We had a picnic and biked around for about 3 hours (yes, mum, I actually biked. Gasp!) The bikes even had the fun baskets on the front...si si si française!! At one point we found a boat launch spot where we could take off our shoes and go wading...thus I have officially been in both sides of the Atlantic Ocean!!! The best part was when a random car drove up to the boat launch and we all freaked out that we'd get in trouble so we started to grab our shoes and bikes...and then realized it was just a tourist vans and that we made ourselves look SI coupable (so guilty!). But then we biked around some more and ad,ired all of the amazing cottages...it really did look like so,ething out of a storybook. and I had so,e of the ,ost (ps, the , key is where the m key usually is, but I'm getting sick of fixing it; replace the necessary ,'s with m's) a,azing ice crea, ever on L'Ile aux Moins!
Yesterday was pretty good...toured a country manor rather than a castle in the ,orning and then had lunch at a crèperie, puis we toured one of the megalithes of the Bretagne region. It was a cavern built and carved around 2500 bc, I think. heh and it was small enough that even I had to duck! We wandered around the town for a while ,ore after that (of course I totally forget the na,e) and headed back to the hotel. My roomie and I decided to turn in early, since this morning we had to take our french placement test. It didn't go too terribly, I was just happier than anything to have it done. And i found a café très français and sat on the trottoir (sidewalk) drinking a small cup of espresso: thus begins, I think, my coffee addiction! We spent about an hour after lunch at Rochefort en Terre, ho,e, I believe, to either the oldest or one of the oldest towns in France. It was so ,uch like so,ething out of a fairy tale it's not even funny!! I was so sad that my camera batteries had died by then =/
All in all, it was a pretty good way to start ,y sejour in France. I got to know a lot of ,y classmates and we could reposé (rest) and s'amuse (have fun).
à tout à l'heure!
3 comments:
wow Linds it sounds like you're having an amazing time!
That sounds so cool! I wish we had gone somewhere for orientation. We haven't played any of the stupid games, though I secretly wish we had so I could at least recognize a lot of the people. 8 of us ended up just standing at a street corner saying, what should we do? So we spent the whole day together! It's a little hard to belive though, n'est-ce pas? It's SO weird living with someone else...I feel so awkward! I hope I get to talk to you soon!
o i am so glad you are loving it! . . i told you that the ice cream was good in france ;0)
and i must say i have understood all of the french you type so by reading your blog i will brush up on all mme. zadins taught me.
i love you.
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