MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

We have been sooo lucky. we had a fair bit of snow last night, about 3cm. I got some pictures, but they didnt turn out really well because it was night time. I hope it ends up snowing on christmas day!!! how exciting!!!

This was the snow 

 this was me in the snow

 This was me and sarah with sntoine dressed up as santa

 This was the snow from some time last week. And on the pool you can see that half of it was covered in Ice

The other day we ate this.

It was called Duck gizzard: which is: Quote,

"The gizzard, also referred to as the ventriculus, gastric mill, and gigerium, is an organ found in the digestive tract of some animals, including birds, earthworms, reptiles and some fish. This specialized stomach constructed of thick, muscular walls is used for grinding up food; often rocks are also instrumental in this process. In certain insects and molluscs the gizzard features chitinous, plates or teeth."
But surprisingly it was sooooo yum!!!!
Tomorrow we are going to see relatives of my host family, and we will be having heaps of nice meals with them; both on christmas eve lunch, christmas eve dinner, christmas day lunch, christmas day dinner, and the day after christmas lunch, and dinner also because it is the birthday of my host sister and host brother. And apparantly each meal is huge. we have had so many people telephoning us asking, do you like lobster, what cheese do you want, etc all week. It will be so nice though to see the differences in how france celebrates christmas. i am really looking forward to it.

So, i will be away until the 31st of december. And when i get back, i am sure ill have many wonderful photos to share!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYONE AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

Another blog

this is another blog of the same day i had with honey. i just couldnt fit all the videos on the one blog. tho this blog and the one below are the same thing pretty much!!!

So, that was such a great afternoon with honey. it will be the last time we will see each other this year (how scary is that), but then next year hopefully we will have some weekends together before we will have to go!!

tosya was the first day of holidays, and i went ice skating with another australian girl, and then we went shopping. and then i came hope and we went strait to a friends place to have dinner and play some poker. and i only just got home now (at 11:00 at night) so it looks like i will have another sleep in in the morning!!

What a fabulous surprise it was this morning...... THERE WAS SNOW!!!! how lucky is that for on the first day of the holidays to have had a big snowfal. it was much bigger than last time.

Well, i better get to bed... and i cant wait until christmas, im counting down the days. i also only have about 5 weeks left here in france... so sad... but i am also soo excited to come back to Australia to see everyone, the beach, the sun, the heat!!!! And most of all....... fresh food!!!!!!!

HOLIDAYS!!!!!!

YAY!!!!!!!! HOLIDAYS!!!!!! FINALLY!!!!! ABOUT TIME!!!!!!!!!! 

 this is my school

  this is the view from the Chateau

this is me videoing us trying to cross the roads and a bit of nantes

 

whilst at the chateau me and honey spent over 1 and a half hours there. we had some fun making videos. This one was helarios to make, because when i was getting towards the top of the starcase, there was a man just standing behind honey, looking at me thinking how wierd we must have been. it waas helarious!!!!!!!!

Junk food, and not long left!

Well... today was a pretty good day at school. We had a great lunch which they call 'le repas de Noel' (christmas meal). So that was very special. It consisted of a quiche for an entree; roast beef with special hot fried potato crisp things for the main meal; and then cheese with a nice bread roll; then a nice chocolate and vanilla ice cream and biscuit desert with custard; and then a very nice mandarine and a ferrero rocher. mmmmm. After that i was so full, i could barely stand up to leave the room!
I was taking to renee on video chat the other day, and she was eating the 'shapes' biscuits. I am dying for something savory like that. That is what i miss most over here, is just healthy-ish food. something without chocolate. Pretty much the only savoury food they have here is a baguette. What I found out a while ago was that their christmas is both christmas and easter at the same time (kind of!). They have the normal easter at the normal time in the year, but at christmas, they eat heaps of chocolate. i've been in the shops and there are just aisles of chocolates: chocolate reindeers, santas, present shape things, etc. They eat so much junk. The first thing i am going to buy when i get back to Australia is get a massive fruit salad... and then go to the beach.
I cant believe how close it is getting until i come back into Australia. It only seamed real when i got my ticket for the train to the airport today. I have only 6 weeks left i think.. or mabey less. I have less than 3 weeks left of school in france. My last day of school i think will be on my birthday. I am fairly unlucky though because the half yearly exams here are on the week before i leave, same as what happened in australia!
YAY!!!! Only one more day of school until the holidays!!! I'm so excited!!!

Lunch and an afternoon with honey!!

Honey and i had a great lunch together, and a great afternoon after school together. Some of these videos are a bit wierd!!! We had a great time despite the freezing cold!!

i also achieved a 19.5/20 for my english listning test!!!!!

this is honey enjoying her pizza

 this is me enjoying my pizza!

this is my delicious gelato



Another Video of Mont St Michelle

This is another video of Mont St Michelle. THis is a long(ish) video of Mont St Michelle. It is pretty much a tour Of the Whole Mountain. I hope you enjoy!!!!!

The Best Weekend ever!!!!

Sorry I haven't writtes a blog in a while. i have been quite busy with school work, getting together with honey etc. But i have lots to talk about!!
Firstly, i am so happy with all my marks and work in class. i have been getting 12 as an average for all  the tests. and the highest marks are about 14, so im really happy with that. I am also understandeing pretty much every word i hear now, which is fantastic, no-one needs to speek slowly to me now, they can just talk to me normally. The hardest thing i find, it to write, but speaking is easy and hard at the same time. I think what makes it hardest for everyone to understand me, is my accent. The australian accent is so "Slangish", that we blend in all our words together, so i guess i kind of do that a bit with my french, so they dont understand it. But other than that, all is good!
I have also had some great times with honey, walking around the streets, experiencing the french culture, and a little bit of the french cuisine. As a matter of fact, one of my favorite foods here so far are the mandarines. they are soo good!!!
I also had the final match of basketball, and we won that, which is fantastic. So we have won all the games so far, we havnt lost any. YAY!!!
This weekend Noel, Sarah, Antoine and me all got in the car headed for Mont St Michelle (MSM-it takes ages to write it each time!) So we left the house at about 11 on saturday morning, and after about a 2hr drive, we stopped for lunch at macdonalds.

 this is Sarah, Antoine and me just before we were about to eat lunch.

 We decided to have a little game of soccer on the table with coins!! that occupied us for a while

 This is me in the car driving towards MSM

After lunch, we had a litttle drive of about 45 minutes - 1 hr to MSM. It was such a nice drive and along the way, i took some pics

we finally arrived at the MSM and it was amazing. i have some videos and some pics.

This is the view from the top of the MSM

 This is sarah sitting on what used to be a toilet

 This was a beautiful little court yard we saw

 The wall that you can see going down the steep hill sort of thing, is what used to be used to lift food up to the people that lived up there. I have a video later of the wheel at the top, that was used to pull up the food.

 this was just another nice place..

 This is an model of the actual Saint Michelle

 This is us sitting down to some nice crepes for afternoon tea at the MSM. I think i cought Antoine at a bad time, haha

 This was a sign infront of the MSM telling you how dangerous it is to walk on the sand because it is all sinking sand.

 This is me on the sand with alot of sand in the background

 This is the MSM

 This is us in the cathedral part of MSM. In this video there is also the wheel to lift up the food that i was telling you about before. the men would get inside and run in the wheel. It is like a mouse running on its wheel!!!

 This is a very embarrasing video, but some of it is ok, so thats why i decided to put it on!!!