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Okay, so picking up from where I left off...: :

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Before dinner (two days ago)my host mum, me, Aurore and Marine went searching for baguettes. What we originally thought would be a 10, maybe 15 minute trip to the Boulangerie, turned out to be an epic search for an OPEN boulangerie...something I thought I would never do, you know, living in a country where baguettes are eaten with every meal of the day...and for snacks with Nutella - something that Aurore loves to do.

I was a bit confused when we left the usual boulangerie empty handed - I thought there were plently of baguette varieties to choose from...but apparently not...When we got in the car and started down the road, we waited for two boys (about 16) to cross the road. My host mum started waving at the manically as if we knew them, and then Marine followed suit...and afterwards, I waved at them with a clownish smile from the back window. Haha, the face on the poor guy's face was priceless as he was spinning around in circles in the middle of the road looking confusedly at us, half waving, half not. Funny funny.

It took a lot of driving around Soissons before we found an open boulangerie....and it was only 6.00pm (the shops close at 7pm here). But we found one in the end. We got three baguettes - original, maize and multi-grain, plus our desserts. I got this raspberry thing that was a bit like yoghurt...haha, hard to explain.

After we got our baguettes, we stopped by a chemist to ask about part-time work for Marine during the summer holidays...no such luck. Here they only take you if you're 18 years old. And with only 16 years - you have a very slim chance.

Making our way back to the car, my host mum spotted a Merry-Go-Round that was closed but was still lit up - so she went and asked the man who was there if we could all have a ride because I was Australian and was curious, haha.

When we got in the car my host mum and Marine decided that tomorrow (yesterday) Marine and I would go to the movies while Aurore went to a friend's house. Marine asked me what genre I liked, and I said comedy. She said, "oh, moi aussi". After a few seconds had passed, we said, in unison, "Comedie romantique", hehe, we seem to be thinking very much alike lately.

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Yesterday : :

After lunch, the whole family hopped in the car while it was a not-so-pleasant -3*C outside. We had a little trouble finding, "le Rue Chateau" (or something) and had to stop to ask for directions...but we made it in the end : ). Afterwards, my host parents dropped Marine and I off in the centre of Soissons where we spent about 1.5hours asking shop-assistants whether they would allow a 16 year old to work in their shop...We weren't all that successful, getting only three maybes in the end.

We were originally going to see Up In the Air at the cinema; however when we arrived and viewed the screen...it was apparently not on, haha, just our luck. So instead we saw "La Princesse et la Grenouille" (The Princess and the Frog). Hehe, it was quite good, and I managed to understand quite a bit of it in French :D. Hehe. When we first entered the cinema I was blown away : ). The cinema had it's own toilet, a stage, and a lot of comfy, massive, red chairs : ). When Marine and I sat down in the middle of the middle row, we took of our coats, and shoes and sprawled ourselves across the seats with our jackets as blankets, hehe. Fun times : ).

When the movie had finished we had 15 minutes to spare before we were picked up. Lucky Marine had told the cinema staff earlier that I was Australian...haha, because they laughed at us as we took pictures with the cutout characters and posters, haha. We also went outside (very very very cold! So that only lasted about all of two minutes...) jumping off the stairs. Marine was a bit catastrophic, haha. When she jumped, she fell onto me and pushed me into the line of an approaching car :S. Haha, but I'm alive aren't I? Haha, nah, got a really good picture where she kind of looks like a flying crazed gorilla coming to get me, hehehehehehe.

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After dinner that night, we took to filming our comic singing and posting three videos on youtube...although we got a bit annoyed when we found out that the best parts had been, for some strange reason, cut out. [[ I'll see if I can get the links on here ; ) ]]

Because of You

Angles

We Will Rock You

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This morning when I woke up my head was pounding :S thanks to me being sick and all : |. When I went to blow my nose, I found that one nostrel was completely full of blood...lovely stuff that was : |. But after a full morning of nose blowing, I was good to go.

At lunch, yet again I thought my host dad was kidding...nup, not the case...yet again. When my plate was piled with left over spaghetti from our previous lunch, and then told it was the entree, I was somewhat disbelieving. But sure enough, the main dish was brought out - sauteed potatoes, layed with charcuterie meat, parsly and cheese.

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After lunch we left to go to "Le Musee de Voitures" (car museum), where we had a very boring, stict guide. Haha, my host mum joked that she was a witch and that the news headlines would be, "People Trapped in le Musee de Voitures!" or something along those lines : ). What's more, there was a boy that wouldn't stop following Marine and I around the museum :S haha. But yes...it was rather interesting, and helpful that my host mum translated some of what was being said into English for me. I joked to Marine and her that it must be confusing for the other people there because she was telling me what was being said in English and I was responding in French, haha, go figure.

Afterwards we proceeded (through the snow), the the Chateau : ). Marine was naughty and took photos with her flash when she thought no one was watching, and when they were, she would say, "oh, whoops!", hehe, was rather funny...until she was told off by the man in charge, with her mum pretending that it was an accident and the camera was just playing up.

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After the chateau, we went to Cora to buy stuff for dinner (Marine and I falling asleep in the car). Marine, Aurore and I were a bit hungry so we went and bought a pack of 12 macaroons to share between to the three. Vanilla, lemon, berry, coffee, chocolate and pistachio nut. I really like the pistachio ones normally but left them for Marine and Aurore as they hadn't yet tasted it. I had coffee, vanilla (because they were the two flavours I hadn't yet tried), berry, 1/3 of chocolate and 1/3 of lemon.

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For dinner, we ate a traditional French (Cora prepared, haha) meal - Cassoulet : ). It's canaloni (I think...) beans, cooked in a casarole dish with lamb, beef and sausages - plus the usual onions etc. What quite nice : ). Marine and I ate it with herb and garlic cheese spread on multi-grain bread - and for dessert I ate this rice pudding thing...although it wasn't rice, it was this other fine grain. Yummy :D.

After dinner we sat down, as usual and watched the French soap opera - Plus Belle la Ville. My host dad and Marine really really really enjoy it. Haha - I tend to zone out and just watch the pretty colours flicker across the screen, haha. Nah, just kidding. I just get the gist of what's going on through the movement of the characters : ).

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Bonne Nuit :D

P.S --- think I might go get some throat medicine...:S