24 Avril 2010

Je suis alle a my host family's maison. I ate lunch with my host father's parents. I also had some vin blanc. As a group we chante oyeux anniversaire a Fabien. Il est de huit ans. Afterward, I joue a futbol avec les juenes. They also gave me dinner and told me stories of old Pontlevoy. I discussed my amore back home whom I can't seem to get my head around and they gave me some conseils.

Vondradi, Avril 2, 2010

I went on a tour of the Scottish Highlands on this day. The majority of the tourists were from Canada, Allemagne, Suisse, or les Etats-Unis. We went to see Loch Ness and Uquart Castle as a part of a tour lasting dix heures au total. I befriended a guy de la Suisse nomme Viet. We had a bon time as did the rest of the group. La chauffer du bus etait drole. After that long day, I was ready to head back to l'auberge de jeunesse.

Samedi, 3 Avril 2010

I took a tour of the city of Edimbourg, Ecosse. It was une visite gratuite. I learned a lot about the city's history and about the alliance between the French and the Scots. This was brought up at the sight on the very old buildings of the fleur de lie all over. Before Scotland was really posessed by the Anglais, the Scots had formed a military and trade alliance with France. But when the Anglais tried to take them over (which they did), the French did not help them, so no more buildings were built in Ecosse with the Fleur de Lie on them after this time period. France in all fairness had enough trouble with wars elsewhere and did not want to involve themselves in another one.

Dimanche 11 Avril 2010

I flew into Tours out of Loudres Stansted. I tried walking from the airport and quickly realized that I had bit off more than I could chew. A nice older French woman drove up in her Volkswagen and asked if I needed a ride. There was a young student de Anglettere with her who was studying French and was riding back from the airport with his host mom. He asked where I needed to go and I said la gare central if it's not too far out of your way. He asked the woman who was driving and she said that that would be fine. Because of construction, she had to leave me off a few blocks away from the station, but I didn't mind. I was sure to say, "merci beaucoup madame." So many Americans think the French are rude, nasty people, but I can tell you that this was just another example of the kindness I've received from the French.

Dimanche 28 Mars 2010 First day of Spring Break

I flew out of Beauvais Airport to Glasgow Prestwick. On the way to Beauvais, I had to buy a bus ticket to get there. At first I said to the man working at the register, "Je voudrais un billet por Beauvais sil vous plait." He started talking to me in French and I had to say, "Desole, je no comprends, parlez vous anglais?" He did and he begrudgingly sold me the ticket. It seems like when I start speaking in French to people and then fall short on vocabulary and have to revert to English, people almost seem to be more offended than they would be if I just used English from the beginning, but I don't know.

Dimanche 21 Mars 2010

On this day I went and saw the opulent and mansion of Versailles. Versailles c'est belle et grand. Ensuite, I went avec Madame Faux et Mademoiselle Heather a la cirque. La cirque was ferme, nous sommes alles a la maison de les amis de la madame. Their son and I nous sommes joues at pool pendant que Heather was shown some musique francais. Les madames talked most of the time, catching up on the details of life since they last met. Eventually Heather et moi went back to l'hotel.

Jeudi, 25 Mars 2010

On this day I went with Dr. Dakhlia's group to two museums and around the city. Along the way we stopped for lunch. I ordered off the menu bifteck avec frites et un entre saumon avec fromage. Little did I know I had ordered goat cheese with my starting dish. It's not that I don't like goat cheese, but that and the saumon were very difficult for me to stomach. Le bifteck était vraiment bon. I just have to remember to when in doubt ask before just ordering something, but overall it was a bon meal.