Hey!
Yes, as I'm writing this, it's snowing again! Really heavily, but nothing is sticking to the ground! Boooo.
At the moment, I'm on holidays, cause the Frenchies are lazy and have two weeks holidays after 6 weeks of school... But hey, I'm not complaining at all. I thought they'd be jam-packed of things to do, but I haven't really been doing much at all.
On Saturday I slept in till almost midday, then went shopping with my host mum to buy some boots because mine broke. When we got home, my host mum made cookies for us "pour gouter" then soon after Maggie (Swedish), Ana (Moldovan), Tristan (French) and Jörgen (Estonian) come to take me to get coffée with them, so it was nice to get out of the house for a bit, but it was also a bit of a headache with all of the different languages being spoken across the table..
On Sunday, we went for a "Balade" in Yvoire and then in Thonon-les-Bains. When my host mum initially told me "On va faire une balade demain, près de Lac Leman, qu'en penses-tu ?" I panicked because I thought she'd told me we'd be going hiking around Lake Geneva, in -4 to -6 degree weather, and that just wasn't going to happen, but then I double-checked my dictionary and it's just a stroll. Thankfully. My host mum convinced us all to go by telling us we'd find somewhere to get a coffee and crêpes, and that pretty much sealed the deal!
By the way, this lake is the biggest in France and Switzerland.
On Monday I only slept in till 10am (hard life, I know) because I had to go meet Ellie (American) and Amy (South African) at the station. We spent the morning shopping, had lunch and oreochinos (yes, Oreo cappuccinos) at a café in the Vielle Ville then went home to find something to bake. After spend 50 years in Monoprix trying to find all of the ingredients, we come back home and made raspberry and smartie cupcakes. They. Were. Amazing.
In my efforts to find good french music (basically non-existent) I have found this girl! Cœur de Pirate. She's from Québec, so her accent is a little strange ;) but she is great nonetheless! This song is my favourite from her newest album, it's called Place de la République.
As for the rest of my holidays, I've finally been invited to a Rotary meeting tomorrow evening, I'm going skiing on Monday somewhere nearby because we couldn't get to the Swiss Alps this weekend, and next Wednesday I'm going to Geneva with my friend Typh, an exchange student who was in Bordertown (I think) last year, then my host family are meeting me there and we're going to an Argentinean restaurant for dinner, then back home to Annecy!
I'll write again next week sometime. Next Wednesday marks my first month in France!
Bisous.
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