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Monday, December 13, 2010

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!!!


1 comment:

  1. My favourite of your blogs so far. What an amazing weekend you had. MSM looks spectacular -what an extraordinary structure. The video's worked perfectly. You look so happy and your French speaking skills are most impressive. Love it. Well done. Miss you so much
    MP

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