Video 1!!!

Finally we have our first video to you Edith, it took FOREVER to load but here it is. This week my guest speaker is Katie. Hope you enjoy and I expect a video from you next...

Semaine 3

All the Australians finally together in Hong Kong. The flight to Paris was probably one of the worst times of my life, I think I went about 60+ hours without a bed, and the food on the planes made most of us feel sick for quite a while. But I was with 5 of these guys from Sydney - Hong Kong - Paris and made very good friends, it was such a cool experience - in hindsight...

And there were no adults, it was all up to us to get where we needed to go, that is probably why me and the 5 spent 2 hours at the wrong gate in Hong Kong.

My beautiful Australians at Le Tour Eiffel.

 

Even the Parisienne homeless do it in style.

I'm pretty sure everyone who hadn't been to the Eiffel Tower was amazed that there is this like huge Olympic swimming pool-type fountain out the front of the Eiffel Tower and everyone just goes and swims in it. And it was VERY hot!

This is half of all the kids who have come to France for exchange this year, and we were all in one hotel together! It was amazingly hectic and amazingly awesome sitting with someone from a different country each meal and learning so many new things. Meeting so many hot Europeans...

After riding on a fast train for 4 hours with the 7 other kids who are in Midi-Pyrénées for exchange, I had my first chance to 'faire la baise'. Whenever you meet someone new or you see an acquaintance for the first time that day you kiss them 3 times on the cheek. I'm still trying to get used it and there is actually quite a lot of different situations where people do different amounts of kisses or don't kiss at all or hug or hug and kiss and I have had quite a few awkward kiss moments but everyone expects it from me so its not too bad.

My first 'je ne comprends pas' moment

With Jeanne, my host sister and the very cool Lilian (my host dad) or Wally (his stage name) in Toulouse. 

Feeding Papie and Mamie's horses before the most awesomest meal in my life at their house.

Swimming at a big heated pool in Rodez with Jeanne and her friend.

PANINI NUTELLA - Bloody amazing, so so so just awesomely good. Baguette, nutella, sandwich toaster, amazement.

Haha your fish looks quite impressive Kate... and its nice to hear that you made sure your camp experience was fun filled and full of life lessons.

These last few weeks have been amazing, I can actually understand about 50% of what is being said. I do have to start cleaning the bathroom now but that's not too bad. The food so good and I'm never hungry and oh my, just so good! Went for a run through the French countryside the other day - bloody awesome, every morning I try to take a picture of the sun rise when I am walking to the bus but it's always too cold to take my hands out of my pockets.

Oh my god, why did you remind me of the awesomosity of  nutella and tiny teddies? I tentatively asked Alice to buy nutella yesterday hoping that I will be able to not eat the whole thing with some bread one day, she's going to buy it tomorrow, we shall see...

I'm gaining a bit of popularity at school these days , most people don't know that I'm Australia until I start talking because I blend in so well (YES) but as soon as people find out I'm from Australia they want to be friend which is awesome.

It's starting to get very cold and I have started to stand out a bit because I've been wearing sweaters and big jackets and scarves while everyone else is walking around in T-shirts and 3/4 pants...

I'll try take more photos this week of the school and stuff for next week C:

This post is injected with all the beautiful chocolatey gooeyness of a good Panini Nutella

Argyle

Sunset on the first night, this was the best campsite, it was a little island and had the best swimming.

 Me and my Catfish, told you it was a decent size...

Katie and me when we were doing the Gorge explore, we got to go on a natural rock slide and a rock jump near the waterfall. This was also the day Callan and I decided to eat a Berocca tablet without adding it to water... it was quite disgusting, would not recommend it.

Lake Argyle!!!

Bonjour Miss Edith,
We have successfully survived Lake Argyle! Yay! Wish you were there, we were thinking about you whilst our muscles were burning from the endless paddling. I hope your first week at school went well and that you aren't too tired. I just finished scrubbing the layer of dirt that had attached itself to my skin over the week and stretching out the new found guns in my arms. Some of the highlights of our trip were:

-Rock jump (I did the highest one)
- Fishing (caught a little catfish!)
- Swimming
- Rock Slide
-Abseil
-Night paddle
-Nutella
-Nutella with Cruskits
-Nutella on people's faces and teeth
-Nutella and Tiny Teddies
-Condensed Milk

My video will be up soon once iMovie decides it wants to work...
This post is injected with Darwin warmth

Semaine 1

A quick insight into the the oddities of my first week in France. (There will be more soon)

• People say déjà vu and don't hum the theme to the exorcist after
• There are unisex toilets at all the senior schools
• Noddy is called oui-oui (yes-yes) and EVERYONE knows who he is
• You're only allowed to use the lockers for the day, you have to take everything home at the end of the day
• They still use those old projectors we had in primary school for everything
• And my English teacher likes to correct me on my English!