Bonsoir à tous J
After a fantastic Toussaint week
at home, I am back in France where the temperature continues to drop and all of
the mountains are capped by snow – this can only be a good sign! Firstly, I
have to say I had the BEST time at home – I ate so many foods I had missed,
visited places and people, had some great nights out and generally enjoyed
being with friends both old and new! The evening before I flew back my friends
had even bought some sparklers for us to use as they knew I was sad to not be
around for Guy Fawkes Night!
Myself & Kelly
Surprise Party!!!
Myself, Ashleigh & Danielle
Jo, Myself, Jiusi
Enjoying The Beach!
Alex & I - Halloween (I went to find her in Cardiff!)
Myself & Kelly - Halloween
Beth, Lauren, Kelly & Myself - Halloween
Myself & Holly with Sparklers :)
Sunday morning began with a
2.30am wake-up call to leave Swansea at 3am for Bristol for my flight back. I
met with Alex and Jaime at the airport, cold and exhausted yet the day was just
beginning! While waiting for the screens to display where our flight was taking
off from we came across Hannah! She had been due to fly back 3 days earlier but
had changed her flight date so she could spend some more time at home – it was
good to have another one on board with us! While waiting to get on the flight,
a girl asked us if we knew a girl called Naomi... this happened to be Naomi’s
friend Sonia, who was flying out to visit her and so we took her ‘’under our
wing’’ (excuse the pun) and she spent the rest of the journey with us,
particularly helpful as she didn’t have a bus ticket from the airport and she
doesn’t speak French, it’s a good job she recognised us from photos J
While it was great to see
everyone, it was very surreal to be back in France after having only just
adjusted life back in the UK and speaking English and not coming out with
random French phrases – Some of the others had gone to Paris and others had
visited Amsterdam. Sunday evening we all seemed depressed being back in little
old Chambéry after such wonderful times away knowing that we had to go back to
University and had exams and assignments due shortly. I don’t think it helped
that we were all exhausted from travelling either but by Monday we were all
feeling a lot better.
Following ‘perfectionnement’ on
Tuesday Evening, everyone from Cardiff met up with Cathy, our year abroad
co-ordinator and French lecturer from Cardiff, who was visiting students around
France for a few days. It was so lovely so see a familiar face and to all chat
together about our experiences so far, what we liked and disliked and she said
how proud of us she was to see how far we had already come in such a short
space of time. Following this brief meeting we all went for dinner at a restaurant
called ‘La Taverne de
Maitre Kanter, recommended by Alex. The food was DELICIOUS and the company and
conversation was equally lovely! To start I had saucisson with charlotte potatoes
followed by ‘confit de canard’ (a leg of duck
served with vegetables) and to finish was a delicious ‘Moelleux tiède au chocolat’ (a chocolate cake) served with cream and
caramel ice-cream. D-E-L-I-C-I-O-U-S. Naomi has an ENORMOUS pot of mussels and ate
them all – good effort! It was great to be able to spend time with the Cardiff
gang and is definitely something I hope will continue in 4th year
when we’re all back in Wales. 4 hours later we said goodbye to Cathy.
Naomi and her enormous portion of mussels!
Worth the Price! (and not bad for 10 people)
This week has ended early as our 8am ‘histoire de la langue’
lecture tomorrow morning is cancelled which means... FOUR DAY WEEKEND!
Unfortunately this weekend I really have to sit down and do some work – my histoire
de la langue assignment is due next week and I have to give my perfectionnement
presentation on Tuesday, plus exams are only a few weeks away! It’s scary to
think that I am going home in 6 weeks for Christmas, and we have exams both
before and after!
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