a fortnight ago o spent a week on a lake. i stayed with some french friends called Nicole + Florent.
Monday - woke up 6 o'clock, got ready jumped in car arrived by 9am. we got there and the activity we were doing in the morning turned out to be rowing (Aviron in french). i have dodgy knees and cant bend them as high as we needed to so i sat at the front of the boat and was the caller. op. op. op. op. every time they had to make a stroke. it wasnt the most entertaining thing ive ever done but in the end someone else did it and they all started speaking french but i adapted and listened and understood a lot of it. i had a good morning and then we stopped for lunch. we had steak hache and frites. it was nice and then we spent the afternoon sailing catamarans. these are two hulled and a pleasure to sail. i loved them. got back to F+N's and just chilled.
Tuesday - woke up at about 7:30 and the mornings activity was windsurfing ( Planche a Voile ) i could kind of do it, i enjoyed myself but getting back on the board was most tiring which happened quite a lot as balance is not my forte. again a bit of french was spoken and i was understanding more and more of it which is useful as apparently you have to understand it first then speak it.. i get that. the moniteur we had was called Anais and she was lovely and tried to speak english for me, which i appreciated immensely. in the afternoon (spent again on a cata) we capsized it which is great fun and i loved doing that as well.
Wednesday - fell off my bike in the morning. cut my leg badly and it killed. grazed my shoulder and elbow and have a tonne of bruises. however i was kindly rescued by Flo. he thought i was hurt more than i actually was.. which i think is really sweet. :) water skiing ( Ski Nauticque ) in the morning, i cannot do it properly again due to my dodgy knees and the major fact that i fell of my bike. i did leave a wheel skid on the road and everything. so proud of myself although i did travel across a metre of grass and then 2 metres of road. ouch. but anyways i couldnt water ski so just put the children in the water. lots of laughs around that. got home and chilled with my other cousin Ieuan.
Thursday - so on thursday i went scuba diving ( Plange Boutielle ) wow.. scuba diving.. where to begin.. it was so amazing there were tonnes of fishes of loads of sizes, most of them were about 2-3 inches long and then there were a couple of larger ones that were uber ugly and grim. i absolutely loved it and thought it was insanely fun. i went diving with Sylvie who out of all the moniteurs was my favourite. so that was really fun my favourite thing so far. afternoon in the catamaran and again this was brilliant. cant actually remember a lot else about that day.. i just remember my leg hurt.and then i fell over on the slipway.. which made it cut open and hurt even more.
Friday - today was Ieuans birthday. kayaking was the morning activity and i was pretty good at it if i may say so myself! my cousin Jacob was rubbish at it, he capsized 11 times he says he did some of them 'on purpose'... debatable. i capsized once and this was because Gautier made me capsize. spent the whole afternoon in the cata's doing nothing but capsizing because it was our last day, our moniteur was cool and there was no wind whatsoever. it was absolutely amazing fun and i loved it. in the evening we went out for dinner because it was Ieuans birthday. i had steak hache, frites et salade. and pudding was pineapple sorbet which Florent+Ieuan finished it for me because i was sooooo full. :)
overall i had an amazing week and hope i can go and stay again. i was very tired though. home about 2am.
not done a lot else really since then.. had a driving lesson.. hair cut.. painted the cellar.. got results.. did ok.
been having massive thunderstorms recently as well.
went to Aiton where Florent's grandma lives and spent the day there playing cricket and just having a lovely time. picked some figs and ate a couple.. got a headache though. been getting quite a lot recently its not good. then the next day Flo came over we chilled for the evening and then the next day we all did the cellar some more. got tickled by him a lot. i had a french lesson and Florent came and picked me up :) he called me his 'petit papillon' which means little butterfly. im getting on really well with him at the moment. :)
and now i have arrived at the end of this tale. and would also like to point out that its my birthday tomorrow. buzzing. <3
so happy blogging, happy birthday, and happy me. :)
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