Emma comes to visit!
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Sep 27, 2007
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Bergerac,
France
Saturday, December 8, 2007
Apart from trips to Perigueux to the Prefecture to start my carte de sejour application, and a trip to BDX for a medical appt (did i bring my most recent chest xray with me to the appt? ...hell no, if i'd had room to pack a chest xray when i moved to France, i might have packed other important shit!) ive been hanging out in little old Berge. Been doing the whole teaching routine.....apart from when france went on strike (im talking like the whole of france...trains, post, police officer, hospital workers, teachers, students, ...even the damned library) and i got the day off work, but nothing was open, so i stayed home and did not a thing. While we're talking routine, im still going to my italian lessons, and to jogging club and am now running an english conversation class for old women. i am a great citizen of bergerac
Christmas lights at the church
. Celebrated the big 24th bday in the berge too: taught in the morning, then had three cheese pizza for lunch, followed by italian class, jogging club (they gave me a big boquet of flowers...i love jogging club...they are super friendly and nice!) and then had fake champagne with flavoured syrups and chocolate fondue for dinner!....i thought the old bday could have been lame, but it was great. and i now have a jar of vegemite in the cupboard...i love presents.
I have cousin Emma (je te presente ma cousine australienne Emma) with me at the present... a super surprise, since she called me wed nite and came down from london on thursday. ...i had a whole staffroom full of teachers freaking out as i told them i had a text from emma saying she was lost in montparnasse station in paris. so with the aid of text messages with useful words such as 'TGV' and 'SNCF' she miraculously managed to get a train to BDX where i met her. as she caused me to have no prep for my friday teaching, she became my show-and-tell item, as she stood in front of four consecutive classes of children as they asked her questions such as 'do you have chameleons in australia?' and 'do you have those little toy sized motor bikes in australia that are actually meant for adults?' ....good times. Afternoon tour of berge followed, and another evening of choc fondue at mariana's house (my new actual french friend who runs a scarf fashion business and gave us each our own very first french scarf!!!). today we pasted by the market in berge, picked up and caught a train to St Emilion, where we drank Montbazillac wine, and ate baguette with camembert (and emma ate saussicson...im forcing culture on the girl). explored the village in the rain and taste-tested canelles and macaroons. home again now to watch miss france on tv tonight...its pretty popular and a very big event here. will let u know how it goes!
