My first week and the Week-end neige.

Salut !

So, last time I posted, I hadn't started school and now, I've been going for 6 days.. I started last wednesday, at 8am, and boy was that the toughest wednesday morning I've ever lived - I had to set 6 alarms, and snoozed every single one of them.  I only had three hours of class though, so that made things a bit brighter. When I arrived at school, the year level co-ordinator took me to my class, introduced me to them, then left. I went and sat by myself, but got talking to two girls in front of me who were nice enough to let me spend the free period with them. That day when I got home, my host mum had a hot lunch (curry and rice) ready for her, her mum, my host brothers and I. Definitely can't say no to that!
On wednesday afternoon, I went and profited from the Soldes (winter sales) and got completely kitted out with my snow gear. Jacket, pants, boots etc. Then I went off to Zara and profited further from these amazing sales. They're even better than the boxing day sales! They mark the price down even more as the Soldes go on, and they last for over a month. WIN.

THEN. On Saturday I went to the snooooooow! It was about two and a half hours away, but I went with Lucia, Lorena and Jorge, some other exchangers from Annecy, and they made the drive feel like about half an hour. They're heaps of fun. When we were going up the mountain, the temperature started at 3 degrees, then slowly dwindled down to -2 degrees, and they still didn't think it was cold! Then I explained what the weather had been like before I left and they understood.. Once we got there, I eventually got around to meeting all of the other (roughly 50) exchangers too! I was really nervous, but I have no idea why, they're the best bunch of people to spend your exchange year with! (Or half, because of the northern hemisphere school year) After a while we got into groups for our rooms for the night, I shared with 2 Brazilians and an American. Crazy to say the least. But crazy fun. At dinner we were officially welcomed by the YEP committee, but then got to chat amongst ourselves for the rest. I'd only met the people I sat with that day, but it felt like I'd known them forever! After dinner, we had a talent show, with about 10 acts, so it didn't last very long, so instead we just danced to mostly south american music, and had snowball fights when we got too hot. Very good night.

Sunday was death. We woke up early, had breakfast, got our snow gear on and then set off on a 20km/5 hour trek through the snow up the mountains and back down. We had lunch half way up, with the most amazing view ever, then kept going for a little bit, and started our descent, which involved a looooot of sitting and sliding down! I lost count of how many times I fell over... Clearly someone who doesn't come from a country with much snow... Anyway, when we got back to the lodge, we drank hot chocolates, talked some more, then had to pack up and leave. The drive home was sooo good, I slept most of the way, I was wrecked. But it was one of the best weekends of my life. No kidding.

I'll write again soon hopefully,

Bisous à vous.