WEEK 2 / WEEK 3

16/12

Coucou tout le monde !!

Weeks 2 and 3 have been pretty uneventful, so I thought I'd combine them.

A lot of school atm, poor Eva is swamped with exams. :S

So I sit there writing postcards, reading...and sleeping. *giggles*

WEEK 2

Well by week 2 I was pretty well adjusted to Rouen,

and the French ways of life.

School 6 days a week, (YES I GO SATURDAY MORNING TOO), late dinners, coffee + TV time with Eva, kebabs with Juliette, and rendez-vous at the ice kating rink in front of the hôtel de ville (the hown hall. Also note that I have now accomplished adding accents on letters with the french keyboard! It's more difficult than it looks! -- ô,â,î,ë :D)

When the french go out on Saturday nights they go to: A concert, a gathering, a movie or a bar. YES, a bar; it's surprising that they don't ask for ID when you enter. It's ok though, we just sit and chat, it's quite relaxing. :) On the Saturday night of the 2nd week, I went to O'Kallaghans with Eva and Gauthier, before going to a concert which began 1 hour late; Me and Eva ended up coming home and watching TV till 1 in the morning. ^^

My Sunrise; With orange juice and grenadine <-- A fruit with the BEST FLAVOUR EVER. :)

Sunday was my first REAL french speaking session! We went to a family friend's house, and the most english I got out of them was thankyou, and good D: So I spoke a little french, and listening a lot. Surprisingly I understood quite a bit of what was said !!

THE PRETTY HOUSE <3

A friendly game of French Scrabble, with help from Cathie! :D

I'd also like to add that we made a cake for dessert on that day.
...A CHOCOLATE cake !!
Cooking with Cathie was very productive, at times! ;D

Cathie doing the 'difficult' work :P

Raja enjoying the leftovers! :D

...And some fatty. ^^

The finished product - I got a MASSIVE piece of that!

________________________________________________

WEEK 3

This week was SO Christmasy! It makes me so excited! There's lights in the streets, the christmas markets + ice skating rinks are open, but still WE HAVE NO CHRISTMAS TREE! Lawl, no pressure though, they are being sold on every second street. :)

On Monday night I went to the theatre, to see a show called "Les Douze Pianos d'Hercule" - It's quite simple to figure out what that means, douze = 12, and I wonder what pianos means... ;)

The whole show was this crazy guy playing piano, and telling the crowd how the piano piece told a story about a little boy called Frederick at Christmas time. He was very funny, and the parts where I understood what he was saying made me giggle. ^^

AND, I have another cake story! So in France, every day of the year corresponds to a certain Saint of the Catholic church, you know; Saint Peter, Saint Nicholas, etc. ANYWAY, so this week o friday it was St Daniel, which also means... ST DANIELLE! :D :D :D

Yep, the fatty got more cake! :D It was cool though, because Nadim and Hagere were there too. It felt just like my birthday all over again. ^^

(from left, in case you forgot) - Raja, Hagere, Nadim, Cathie, Eva :)

This weekend I went and saw 'Paranormal Activity', in French of course! I was SO scared, even though I didn't understand much- just the swear words. *giggles* Afterwards, we had McDonalds for tea- now let me explain things about french McDonalds! -

1. The colour of the outside of the store is GREEN. It was really confusing because we were 'walking to McDonalds', and I didn't even realise we were there!

2. On the drinks menu, there's BEER. Interesting no? But not surprising, these french people love their alcohol. I would also like to mention that there is icetea on the menu, something that the Australian maccas should take on. :)

3. So these french people are smart. There is a normal line, but instead of waiting in line, you can just walk up to a machine, and order your food there! It is really exciting to do actually, but then again its quite lazy haha. ^^

On Sunday, we did some mega shopping at 'Les Docks' - A shopping centre a bit like Whitties or the Galleria. And I tell you what, Christmas spirit was all around! And in France, the decorations MOVE! It's so amazing, take a look:

Yep, the bear is stirring porridge or something, but I don't know what they're doing on that horse :/

A MOVING hockey game! ^^

Me, Eva and the peadophile beaver :/ He kept talking to us in English...

_________________________________________________

Hmmm...Now that I think about it, heaps of stuff has happened in the past 2 weeks, I just haven't noticed it. Many things are still new to me :) Christmas isn't too far away now! I hope it's gonna be a white one here in Rouen.

à bientôt!

Dani. xoxo