Je suis encore vivante!

I know my last post was a review of feburary and it is now mid march, but really the lack of frequent posts should be taken as a good sign because it means I am busy doing things and not wasting away in front of the computer, right? Ok, I will work on posting more. In the meantime here are photos from the past month or so.

This is on the beach at St. Malo on our Mont St Michel trip Feb. 10th. I practically had to drag everyone to the beach for some rock climbing... But look how much fun they're having!
left to right : Lian, Shereen, Sam, me, Meghan.

This is us in front of Mont St Michele, unfortunately I can't keep my eyes open in many of the pictures from this trip. In my defense, it was really windy.

Here we have Meghan and I on the walk up to the abbey part of Mont St Michel. The walk was, of course, lined with tourist traps, they certainly are cute though.

We have now jumped ahead in time to Saturday March 17 (aka St. Patrick's Day). My host family went skiing and said I could have some friends over, so here we are eating a classy dinner. Notice our meager attempts to wear green. Also notice that Sam looks huge because he is closer to the camera. Left : Sam, Celeste, me, Meghan, Katie, Shereen, Lian.

After that we went to a less classy but equally fun street party in front of the Irish Pub.

Moving backwards in time We now arrive at my birthday. Here Jeanne-Marie, my host mom, is bringing out the fruit tarte while my fiends are singing.

Since my camera broke I bought a new one. This is me taking a picture of it in the mirror.

Time travel to Friday March 16. It was georgeous weather so Katie and I took the ferry boat across the Loire to the cute little town there.

Moving back in time a couple of weeks, Katie and I went to a soccer game. Nantes vs Nancy. Nantes won 2-1. It is really funny because everyone wears these scarves (so of course we had to get our own). Ok everyone except that guy in the background.

This is the stadium. Nantes is yellow. The stadium is close enough to my house that we can hear the crowd celebrate.

Monday the 11th I walked along the river to go to my class at the university. For some reason I am having a boat fixation lately. Maybe the Puget Sound is calling me.

More boats! and scenic downton Nantes.

Well I hope all that time travel wasn't too difficult for you. Also if all goes well there will be more pictures this week. Coming attractions: Normandy, Paris, Nantes.

Feb in review

I realize that my birthday post stoped just before my birthday with nothing to follow. Sorry! This is going to be a quick summary because I don't have much time.

FEB 11th - Birthday. I went and walked around the Chateau in Nantes. It had been closed for renovations for the past 12 years so there was a grand opening. After that I met a few friends in town and brought them back to my host family's house where we had champagne and the most beautiful fruit tart I have ever seen. We went out to dinner in town and I ate kangaroo! haha but seriously I did.

FEB 16th - 21st I head to Paris for a few days because we have winter vacation and my friend Chelsea is studying there. Paris was a lot of fun. It involved alot of walking, art, crepes, crypts, museums, and even a hot air balloon ride! Unfortunately, my camera got a little to into the Paris history and had its own personal revolution or strike or something. Point being, it wount take anymore pictures. I had my parents call sony (which didn't help). I sent a email to sony (which didn't help). I even took it to the camera repair store ( The monseiur said he dosen't actually repair cameras there he would send it somewhere which would take a month and another month to fix it). So I still don't know what to do about that. Let me know if you all have suggestions.

FEB 23rd - FEB 25th Chelsea came down to Nantes for a couple days. It was great to play tour guide! There was quite a full house that weekend because the grand kids and Emily the past IES student stayed there too.

FEB 26th - MAR 1st This week has been pretty uneventful. I have gotten a few really bad nights sleep, I keep waking up at night and then not waking up to my alarm. It, plus the camera fiasco, has made me rather cranky all week. This weekend we have an overnight trip to Normandy, which should be really interesting.