COOL WEEKEND

On friday i stayed the night at my friend LC's house my first sleepover [she is irish] we watched two irish movies both really cool about the IRA [irsh republican army] i cried in one it was sad, In The Hands of the Father and The Wind Shakes the Harly or something. Then we watched Mean Girls and after that it was 2.35 in the morning LC was sleeping on the couch so i tried to wake her up and tell her to go bed but she was dead to the world. I woke up at seven and there she was walking into the bedroom but ran into the door it was sooo funny so I went back to sleep and woke up again at 8.35. We made pancakes and thick layers of nutella on top yum!!!!!! After that we got dressed and came back down the hill on our bikes [the live up on a really high hill above the village] it was lots of fun!

Then we went shopping i got some new jeans and leggings and a wetsuit for canoe and kayak.

A good start to weekend if you ask me.

School lunch

• school lunch here is so different back home we have to take our lunch to school or order it, but here we just go to the canteen and its ready for us. Most of the time its nice but sometimes its nice my fav so far would have to be mussels and French fries. Today i started extra French which i have been waiting for for a while the lady seems very nice.

nothing

• nothing really happend this week i got a little upset on friday because two friends were having a fight and i was stuck in the middle and a boy kept on calling me roast beef i was just fed up and i burst into tears and i'm at the stage of missing my best mates back home.
• anyway if you like the rugby world cup check out the france and irish game if you look at the water the french are drinking thats from the village.

canoe & kayak

On Saturday LC my friend from the village we went to the open day for canoe & kayak we really enjoyed it, we got to go in the canoe, the two man kayak and on the paddle boats, got each other soaked and eventually i jumped in the water was could but it was lovely.then we went again today 2nd time it was great i capsized but it was all in good fun i think i'm going to join it will be great.

MAD DAY

today i woke got redy for school i was soo tired. i got to school felt soo bad i felt like i had no friends no1 liked me and every one was fed up with trying to help me [yes it was monday]i got on the bus nearly crying just very sad and lonely. i got home and cryed my eyes out C.G asked me wot was wrong i explaned to her what had happend.
the next day was much better i have now sorted out who i want to spend the next year with [for friends] i think thesee girls are the ones that wont goo off and have little primry school girl fights i dont have the time for that .

1st month

I have now been living in france for one month now. i can speek a little and understand a bit it will come more in a few more months. i have started at french school and have friends but at the moment i dont know who to be friends with yet {at school}. im fitting in well with the kids in the village. when my brother was here doing the same thing as i am, all the kids looked up to him and now im here they all look out for me and that is very good, one of the fathers said to me [he was my brothers french dad and is the same for me] he said he was very happy because i've made myself part of he band.

SCHOOL

Well I started school on a Tuesday i was sooo scared ahh! I had a sore tummy because of nerves I had to take the bus i went to early to the bus stop and thought it had left of course you would think that u would be nervous. and then LR came and was all better. When we arrived I sat with goosebumps waiting for the bell to ring. and before i knew it i was sitting listening trying to understand the French at lunch i sat with LR and then back in class i was soo scared i would get told off because i couldn't do any thing but it was fine! i had Wednesday off and school was fine on Thursday and Friday i felt like i fit in which was good.

St Raphael

After a long 4 hr drive me and CG were looking down one of the main streets of St Raphael for CGs cousins house we slowly stumbled across the number her cousin claimed to be her house. It was like a castle it was sooo big. And since CG didn't believe it because it was sooo beautiful she called her cousin ,and her cousin opened the gates WOW!!!! It was soo big and beautiful.
So we said hello and she showed us around we both thought we had died and gone to heaven.

She introduced us to her husband and step daughter who of course were French but she was half Brazilian, and she spoke Spanish, French , Portugese and English.

So we went into our rooms i had a pool side room and CG had a 600 euros a night suite it was beautiful anyway i went for a quick dip in one of the two pools before our 3 course dinner.
SATURDAY
That morning CG and I had I lovely basket of pastrys and milo for breakfast made by their gormet chef who cooked our every meal. after that i went for another quick dip and then we had lunch by the seafront after that MG (our host) her husband took me her step daughter and her friend , out on the donut it was soo fun. Then we had dinner yum!!
SUNDAY
We quickly had breakfast, dip in the pool lunch,and then it was time to say goodbye to MG and her family for they had to catch a plane!

Soo me and CG stayed till 4 in the pool .while we were there we meet 2 kiwis like me on a trip of France they were lovely!!

Link to CG's cousins house in St Raphael
www.villa-mauresque.com

ALB

Arriving in ALB scared but excited.

After a few days C,G said i was going to meet someone who was most likely going to be my my new best friend and now she is. Anyway i was scared and nervous because i couldn't speak to her. What if she didn't like me??? I thought. Well she grew up with no one her own age and now I'm here and apparently she was excited. it didn't quite turn out as i thought it would it was much much better we went swimming and we have been swimming nearly every day of the summer apart from the cold days. Soon i'm going to St Raphael

Spain

After arriving in Barcelona we went to Alberts house i quickly changed after two days in the same clothes. For a dip in the sea, we went to Saint Pol del Mar. The water was very nice perfect temp but after my first two hours in Barcelona i was in first aid with two cuts in my feet from the rocks in the sea. this photo is of Sandra and Albert sun bathing>>














this one is of me Albert and Pol .



After hours of flying, playing at the beach i was back in the car to go to my new home ALB.