: : Vacances? [[ bye bye : ( ]] : :

Okay, so yesterday I was a bit slack and didn't write about my last three days :D. Hehe, let's just say I was making the most of the end of my holidays...Which, may I add, went extremely quickly : (.

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: : Samedi : :

Soooooooo, Saturday morning I got Marine to wake me up as I didn't want to again miss the routine Saturday morning shopping trip to Cora.

Once we were all ready, my host-parents, me and Marine hopped in the car (Aurore was still sleeping, I think, haha) and drove into Soissons to drop Marine off at "Code" (only four mistakes this time :D) before taking a detour to Cora.

Once at Cora, my host-parents joked around with the trolley for a while (here they're plastic...and A LOT easier to steer, haha), trying to bed me to sit in the tiny baby-seat. Haha, with all the cakes and cheese I've been eating lately (*cough at Didier's cough* --- oh, and I forgot a course...hot chips :O) I think I may have killed the poor trolley : (. Haha.

Anyway, we did the shopping...My host mum and I taking an extra long time in the fruit section sorting through hundreds of rock-hard kiwi fruits...In the end we got the ten...I think we ended up imagining that they were at all ripe :S.

I also picked up a few recipes advertising certain fruit/veg products : )...Might come in handy ;).

When we were heading to the dairy/bread section, I ran into Ludmilla. Lots of hugs there as she had spent her holidays with her correspondant in London - hehe, she told me today that she now realises why I say, "oui" and nod, just to confirm that I have some comprehension of what's going on around me, haha.

Once we were all finished, we headed back home (me with my mouthwash, visual diary, chewing gum and deoderant...mmm, vanilla :D). I helped my host mum put away all the groceries - surprisingly something that I've found I love doing. It's kind of a bonding time : ) haha, we have fun with all the different products and our "attempts" (if you can call them that :S) at rearranging the fridge so that all the food fits :S. Haha.

She was also impressed at how I had arranged the bathroom cupboard when I carefully stacked away the various packets of new toothbrushes (haha, neatly behind the mirror :D).

I declined when my host-dad asked me if I would like to go with him to pick up Marine. My host mum assured me that it wasn't a problem and that she could finish up alone, but I stayed and helped : ).

Once Marine was with us once more, we sat down to a lunch of vegetable soup : ) yummy.

That afternoon Natacha called confirming that the singing concert was this Tuesday...SOmething that Marine, me and the family was not aware of. Alexis, Natacha, Marine and another woman were meant to be singing Billy Jean which was no where near ready :O.

Anyway, we spent quite a while trying to contact Alexis. Once we were finally on to him (by this time, I had taken up playing my trumpet), he informed us that he couldn't make it because he had school early the next morning (the concert starts at 9pm and goes till midnight - late, I know. That was when I did something really really really stupid. Something that I really regret doing now.

I voluntered to sing in the place of Alexis. Oops?

Anyway, that night Natacha came over to figure out what we were going to do, as we didn't know the lyrics and everything. Oh and we were meant to come up with a dance too. We ended up scrapping the dance, singing through Billy Jean once and then doing whatever. Haha, a tad catastropic...

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: : Dimanche : :

Marine and I woke up at 9am to get ready to go to her grandmother's house for lunch.

After eating breakfast and speaking to my mum and Henry on webcam in New Zealand, and then proceding to talk to dad and my sister on webcam in Australia, it was time to go.

After eating the apparatifs, and being served a rather large slice of salmon quiche, I thought that it was time for dessert as I was already rather stuffed. But I was informed that no. The quiche was the entree :O, haha. Oops? Again. For the main meal we ate duck with potatoes, and afterwards a large slice of apple tart. No wonder those kilos are coming on : ( haha.

For dinner that night we had chicken with potatoes and fried fennel, and for dessert, creme au chocolat and apple cake. I kind of reached my bursting point of food at that stage...rarely being hungry and having each meal build upon the last :S, haha. I onlt ate two spoonfuls of Marine's creme au chocolat that night.

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This morning Marine and I woke at five to seven in the morning to find Aurore in the bathroom, so we ended up having to wait and eating breakfast together. Cereal for me. Apple cake for Marine :).

When we first stepped outside and made our way to Natacha's mum's car ready for school, we were rather surprised that for once we weren't cold : ).

(When we were driving home with Natacha's mum, we learned that it was 14 degrees! hehe, and that's above freezing point :D!)

We started at 9am with two hours of Droit. Then geography (mark received - 13.5/20). Then lunch (which wasn't all that great :S) which we ate with Ludmilla : ). Then Management (got my resulat back for the test - 09/20). Then History (we were late because I went to the nurse for something for my stomachache). Then Spanish (where Marine snapped my pencil!!! haha, I think she's been doing Henry's training program in secret! haha). Then French. And then we were done! Whoo! Annnnd, we finished an hour earlier than we though :D.

And now Natacha is here with us and we're going through Billy Jean...CATASTROPHE!!!!!!!!!!! I think we might make people's ears bleed...seriously : (. And Marine's speaking to Alexis on Facebook about the concert. I wonder if she's going to go through with killing him...like she said before...: ) Muahahahaha.