I awoke at the youthful hour of 6:30 to see a warm shaft of sunlight peeking through the crack in my shutters, and to hear the birds, awake as anything, singing a lovely little morning tune right outside my window. Seeing that for the past two months I have been greeted with a scene completely opposite to this (darkness, silence, snow) I'm regarding this as the official start of Spring!
Considering I only got about 3 hours of sleep last night (no, I wasn't being a naughty little night owl, for some reason my brain just wouldn't allow my body to drift off...) I wasn't too lethargic for the necessary early start, which I'll admit I usually consider god-awful, and started my day off nicely with a bowl of coffee (don't worry, not real coffee, something that I'm told is better for you, with breakfast cereals mixed in and stuff...) a pain au chocolat, and half a beautiful, ruby coloured grapefruit. Delicious.
School wasn't much of a drag as my second class was cancelled today and I only had to endure 2 hours of volley ball (when I say endure, I don't mean it in a bad way as, in actual fact, it wasn't all that bad, unlike my hand-eye coordination skills...) and then I had the rest of the day to myself. Nothing pleases me more than free time and sun shine in France!
Here's a list of what I busied myself doing, because I have a habit of writing things with too much description, and quite frankly my dears, I like lists.
1. WENT shopping. The only thing to do when the sun comes out is to buy clothes to suit the new, and, do I even have to say it, much welcomed, warmer temperature... Wouldn't you agree? Yeah, that's what I thought. No one can help a touch of shopping every now and then, can they?
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| Jersey - H&M, jeans - Naf Nad, scarf - GDM, nail-polish - Sephora |
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| Finally succumbed to the neon trend... |
2. MET up with my host mum's, best friend's, son (phew, what a mouthful) where I took on the role of an English tutor for an hour. When I say this, all I really did was talk and listen to a perfectly friendly French boy speak, in English, on a pier au bord du lac d'Annecy while simultaneously basking in beautiful sunlight. No complaints there, it was nice to have a break from French and see someone else in my position for once!
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| Are we actually in Wellington? |
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| A feathery friend! |
3. ATE a delicious ham and raclette (a special melted cheese specific to the Haute-Savoie department of France) panini for lunch, on a park bench in the sun.
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4. TRIED to buy the white converses I've been coveting for bloody weeks now from a shoe shop that was closing down, therefore having a massive sale, but they had run out... Upon hearing this, Michel, my host dad, proceeded to drive me to every shoe shop he knew, but didn't quite understand that I wasn't desperate for just any shoes, I was desperate for these shoes, but we had a nice time anyway. At one point, we returned to the car where he handed me the keys and said "Ouvrir!" (open), so I put the key in the keyhole and attempted to obey his command, however, it wasn't quite working as expected and it was only when I looked up to see him in complete hysterics that I realised that it wasn't our car at all, but in fact a complete stranger's... Oh how he loves to make a fool of me! I swear, that man never puts an end to his antics! In the end, however, I found the right car, returned home, and bought my beloved all stars online.
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| Don't blame me, these cars are all over France! |
All in all, not bad for a day's work, if you ask me... not bad at all.
But for now, I'm off. I may not have been very tired this morning after such lack of sleep, but I sure started feeling it around 5 o'clock! 5 hours later, here I am... I never learn, do I?
Bonne nuit, or rather if you're in New Zealand, bon matin...
Yours truly,
me, Eloise x
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