Hotel Les Medes Hyères

... need/want me to be there. rar. and i couldnt get home because no buses were running due to the crazy floods...the fact that there even was school on a day when half the teacher and students couldn't get there...is another story and also belongs on my list of illogical frenchisms...


anyways thanks to miguel, i made it both home and to saint raphael in time. thanks again miguel!!!!!

so while at the train station i witnessed ...

... if she tries to sort all this out now we'll figure it out at noon when she has off. so i called her back and said it wasn't acceptable, i still had a class at 9:30 and i didn't know with whom or where, and made her look it up for me. I wasn't about to skip my first real day of work because someone didn't do her job! fyi she's also the lady who tried to force us into that dark smelly apartment that didn't have internet, and was in sketch town.

So i make ...

... blue/green shutter doors. i feel all french like whenever we open and close them.

so tomorrow is my first day of school for real. eek. little nervous, its a class of terminal and then the professional school. definite potential for them to be older than me. oh *****, i already look like im 12 haha.

yet another part of this lovely adventure!






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Just paid a fleeting visit to St Tropez on the way to Avignon (so we thought)... had to be done really.. a quick wander around and a very quick coffee. It was much smaller than I thought. Lots of nice boats but loads of tourists too.... that was about it!

... believe our luck. It was so nice. Still, warm and crystal clear water on sandy beaches. We had a quick swim but knew we had to leave to get to Avignon on time. We then decided that if we found a campsite that was open we would stay. The first 2 we came to were closed and we were sad...but around at st clair beach one was open! Woo hoo!!!! 2 very happy girls. That night we played in the sand like kids ...

We also took the short drive to Port Grimaud, to visit this small but new harbour town built in what was once marshland, but is now row after row of condos and homes built in a web of jetties to allow the homes to anchor their boats at their doorsteps. Of course, we would have rather spend our time on the beach, but with bad weather, Grimaud was a nice alternative.

... over the Place des Lices, a public square in the town, but because of the weather there wasn’t a lot going on there either.

On Wednesday we drove over to Grimaud and then back to St. Tropez to take the yacht to Cannes. The yacht left St. Tropez on Wednesday afternoon around 4 PM to go to Cannes, just across the bay and down the coast a ways.

... urca in spatele casei. Acuma nu stiu eu cat de pe inteles sunt, ca-i greu de zis. Reusim cumva intoarcerea in cinshpe miscari cu masina. Imi si imaginam cum trebuie sa venim tot drumul ala cu spatele, daca nu reseam sa intoarcem. Oraselul arata fantastic de acolo de sus. Casele de pe stanci, cu intrare pe o strada si iesire in strada cealalta la etaj, rasfirate intre palmieri si mimoze, legate de stradutele inguste pe care incape doar o masina. Facem niste poze, ba chiar ...

Ok, so i came to Nice from Florence really not expecting anything. Two things caught me off guard. First off, this hostel is the best that i have ever stayed at...it may be the reason that i prolonged my stay. Second, the scenery is beautiful...breathtaking really. i love the ocean. i was supposed to leave on the 8th but i decided to stay longer and go to Barcelona directly from here. i don't think it was a bad decision actually from what i hear from those who came from ...

... After school, we were given our bicycles to ride home. It wasn't so much that I was scared on the bike ride home as that I was terrified and almost died twice!! I had no idea there would be cars zipping past at such an incredible speed and that I'd have to turn left through an intersection. I was pretty traumatized by the whole event and the family told me I should consider returning the bike, but I am stubborn and I think I can get better at this.