Salut mes amis!
My last week has been relitively event-free. The other students here had a "Bac Blanc" (a practice for the Bac at the end of the school year) on Thursday and Friday so Chihiro and I had a four-day weekend. We took this opportunity to be independent and go to Bordeaux toute seul... and by that I mean we had to catch the bus. Bad move!!! The Blaye-Bordeaux trip, which usually only takes 30-40 mins, took us almost two hours as the bus had to wind its way through all the country towns on the way and then dropped us off on the outskirts of Bordeaux so we had to catch the tram to the "centre-ville". But it was so worth it!!! We traversed the Rue St Catherine (the longest shopping street in Europe) multiple times and proceeded to search the side streets for smaller boutiques of which there are many! We had lunch at a cute little cafe that sells foot-long baguettes with French cheese...Oh man it was good!!!
On Saturday school holidays start and I have been invited to go skiing in the south east of France at a place called "Vars". I'll be going with two families - Chihiro's host family and the family that owns the little lodge in the moutains where we'll be staying. There are 3 boys and 4 girls who are about my age that I will be staying with and they have all been skiing since the day that they could walk!!! I have only ever been skiing once and I was taught by an instructor who couldn't speak English and so communicated the art of skiing by hand movements. So basically I suck but I have a whole week of skiing to get better. And in France they continue the tradition of Aprés Ski for which you must have appropriate clothing. The boots that you wear to the very important aprés ski must be elegant yet fit fot the snow so they have insisted that I buy new ones. I think I'll pass on that one (cause boots are v. expensive) and just use the excuse of being a daggy exchange student with very little in the way of elegant clothing!!!
And after my skiing adventure... Paris and Spain WOOT!!! (I'll write about that later)Ciao... Pheebs xxx
