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Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Angers day one

Well I arrived in my host town last night at 9.30pm after a 10 and a half hour flite to Frankfurt, Germany. Then a 1 hour flight to Lyon, France. Then from there I had a 2hr flight into Nantes, France. Then I had to drive 1 hour to get to Angers. I am satying with my councilor and his wife for one week before I go to my host family because they live closer to school and it will be easier for me to go to school for the first couple of days living closer. Its really cool here, the appartment is real old and this huge cathedral is just across the road!! If you look up Angers on google you will see it. The bells from the clock however woke me up at 7 o'clock am. It was weird coz it rung 7 times at 7 then at 7.30 it rung more than 100 times (I counted) The appartment Im in is really tall and skinny. I have to climb 57 steps to get to my bedroom and the whole house is like 12 steps wide. I slept for 14 hours and I woke up and no one was home. But when I got out of the whower Thérèse (councillors wife) was home for lunch and she had cooked me lunch which is practically like dinner and so I had to eat like meat and stuff for breakfast! But it was yum. I can speak lots of French and so far have probably only said about 5 sentences in English. I have a huge advantage having learnt French before, umlike others who are goin to countries where the language is really rare. Evern when my hosts speak to me in English I try answer in French. Its monday and I am starting school on Weds. School is Mon-Fri but only the morning on a thursday. I am looking forwrd to school more now I found out that my 3rd host bro named Nicholas will be coming to school with me. Dominique (my councilor) will drop me at his house and we will walk to school together. Dominique is also organising a dinner witha all 3 host families, I don't know when I didn't really understand what he was saying. But Nicholas is going to USA next year and will be at the rotary meeting that I'm going to tonite. We are going bowling for the rotary meeting. The flight from LA tro germany was crap. Tiny seats, no leg space, no TV's and crap food. I didn't sleep much I felt real sick as that morning I woke up and vomitted in the hotel toilet. I think I was just really exhausted. I had my first real french meal last night when I arrived which consisted of chicken, salad, this salmon cake thing, and baguette, and red wine. Then for desert we had cheese and fruit haha. Its not too cold here, but when we arrived in Germany it was snowing and the flight was delayed to land because the snow had made the runway too slippery. We were only in Frankfurt for like 1hr because our flight was the first to leave and we had to rush and catch a train and a bus to get to our terminal! It was so strange to be in such a huge airport, I was so happy I had someone with me. The boy who I came into Nantes with is called Andrew he is not in Angers but very close, his host dad is like the youth exchange officer I think and we are going to have lunch together soon. It was good that me and Andrew could meet our families together it made it was less awkward. into Nantes, France. Then I had to drive 1 hour to get to Angers. I am currently at home by myself watching TV even though I understand nothing haha and its really dark but I can't find the light switch, I am going to look up in my dictionary in a moment how to say "where is the light switch?" hahah =b I am allowed to go out aswell so I might go for a little walk soon but it's kind of scary I have never been for a walk by myself in a strange town before!

3 comments:

  1. Hey Laura, its Greg.
    Sounds like everythings going pretty well and it was SO good to hear that you havent spoken much English. Thats awesome and it will help SO much later on. Good luck for school and I look forward to reading all your posts during the year.

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  2. You know, i can't believe you're finally there babez!
    See, it's all happening! hehe.

    You look amazing, and sound as though you're having a really good time - just look after yourself alrightey?
    xx

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