i have screwed up my sleep cycle yet again. i stayed up until 2am to watch hbo's "rome." i haven't been watching the show faithfully probably because i never know when it's playing, and i've never really taken the time to find out. but i'd usually see it playing sunday evenings as i'm taping desperate housewives and grey's anatomy (my favorite show this season by far!) so anyway, i decided for some godforsaken reason to watch this episode of rome tonight, and i find out it's the LAST episode of the season, and not only that...they killed off my favorite character! well actually, i like alot of the characters, but this girl (narobi)was so pretty. hahaha, i am SO materialistic like that!

now i'm debating if i want to pick up this tv show as a "must see" for me. it doesn't really matter because i read somewhere that it's on hiatus for the next two years, but just for kicks, huh?

god what a boring day today has been. i'm trying to get into "study-mood" but so far it's been a no go. i'm hoping tomorrow will be a better day.

i went to bed right after my post last night. but i had the weirdest dream last night. i dreamed that i was walking past this store with my mom, and we decided to go in...and then we were watching a tv show infront of a stack of cupcakes, and they all fell down. and a whole bunch of girls were wondering how they fell over, and some random guy was saying in french that it was me. so then i turned around and started yelling at him in french that it had nothing to do with me. and he was so shocked that i understood him that he kind of ran away.

the end.

i know, i said it was weird.

it's too bad that my work was temporary and the contract is now done. my only hope is that my supervisor will randomly call me when things get really busy so that i will come in to help...and then january i can get a part-time/full-time job. let's cross our fingers and hope. on the bright side, now that i've filled my november working quota (no, i don't have a quota, but making $400 is always a good thing) i can concentrate on studying for my exam december 9th, AND enjoy going out with friends again.

which brings me to this fun story...larissa and i met up on wednesday evening to look for a nice venue for her birthday party (dec 2.) she had three places in mind. so we met up at bay and avenue at 10pm and walked to avenue and davenport to look for this place called "bohemian nightclub" that i have actually been to (like 2 years ago) and is now...well there IS no more bohemian, nightclub or anything. i couldn't stop laughing there was nothing there anymore! so then we walked to museum station and took the spadina streetcar to college to check out 2 more places. the supermarket (which looked fantastic and has a great dance floor inside with a rotating discoball), and then we walked all the way down augusta to look for another place called "the boat." the boat is a funny little run down chinese place, with chinese music floating up the stairs, a disco ball and floor, and NO PEOPLE. ahahaha. i think we're going to meet at "the supermarket" dec 2 at 9:30pm. come one come all, to larissa's birthday party!

i know i don't update as often as i would like, but i get home so late that i am usually exhausted and don't even have the time to check my email. so now that i've wrote a little, i'm hoping i can muster enough strength for next time. hahaha.

lalala...randomness...

A+ numero deux tonight! our group rocks! i have to admit that i felt completely unprepared tonight (compared to the last presentation) but we hit all the key spots and the prof is simply amazed with us. i'm looking to sign up with him in the next semester so i hope that all works out!

i just signed up with rcm for history 5. the deadline was 4 mins ago. hahaha. this is go number 3 i think. i now have a month and a half to prepare for this exam. lets cross our fingers and hope everything goes well!

french classes at alliance francaise begins tomorrow (today) again. cathy and i have changed our classes to the downtown spadina and bloor area. this too i hope will now turn for the better. we were very much unimpressed with the north york centre. updates will follow.

i've now seen LES MIS twice in a month. boy am i spoiled. that is my favorite favorite musical. i can see it forever and not get sick and tired of it. jake now listens to the cd over and over again in his car. it's so great. i *heart* les mis.

d'accord. maintenant, c'est fini. bon nuit!

just for the record ames, even though there was a giant sticky on your monitor asking you to tape lost, you STILL managed to not get it right! you tape the lost episode on the LOST tape, not the DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES tape!!!! gah! n'est pas difficile!

anyway, the whole reason for her taping for me was because i was at the new opening of the vegas bar tonight. very nice atmosphere, there was brie, and i had some, and well...you can imagine the results. hahaha. and there was a performance by three drag queens, it's the first time i've seen THAT. VERY interesting!

which reminds me of alicia, i'm not sure why, but yesterday we met up after my pr class and we were supposed to go to alan's little birthday shindig at the bedford ballroom, but that didn't work out, so we ended up walking around yorkville before settling at brownstones with tiramisu and decafe lattes. ah, heaven!

and cha is going to teach me how to knit! or she's going to knit me something, either way there is wool involved.

these last couple of weeks have been interesting, and i thought i'd blog about it but then i got tired so i'm just going to leave it at that.

things to do before i leave this weekend:

- send beth my new presentation slides
- send erin my apa bibliographies
- send pauline my presentation script
- pack my bag
- don't forget textbook (test tuesday!!)
- bring french stuff to review
- CLEAN MY ROOM

this is just crazy. i never get home before 10:30pm anymore. i have no time for my friends of family. i have to TAPE tv shows to watch another day. plus i'm tired.

french isn't going the way i want it to. i feel like i'm being screwed over with the amount of time i am paying for. the teacher is always rushing...why are you rushing? we're paying to LEARN not to sort of not understand what's going on. all the vocab i know is because i already knew it, i'm not learning any new vocab because she doesn't like getting up off her ass to the whiteboard (which is right behind her) to right the spelling. for example, wednesday she said "souhait" and i heard "sweat." i'm a visual learner, and this doesn't seem to be working. cat and i are pretty upset and we're going to be looking into the one at spadina and bloor for january. as for now, we have to make do with what we have now.

as for pr, it's been great. my group is great, pauline is forever giving me new jewellery every time i see her (she owns a jewellery company called lolobubsisters.) and we go out for lunch and have martinis and sushi. it's great. at least, not everyday is all work! especially since i work for orthodox jews and so i get a whole bunch of days off this month! ;p

either way, i get to spend quality time this weekend with matt, shelley and carmi. yay!

happy thanksgiving everyone!

fall's here, the weather's getting cooler, i'm so excited, i get to bust out my really nice jacket i bought in france! tee's gone to tanzania to save orphans, so good luck to her and her mission, and we'll see her in 3 months, whew, that means i don't have to go to oshawa any time soon. liz and i went to visit her sunday evening before she left, but we got lost because we went to the address for grandview SOUTH and not grandview NORTH. we definitely got to see alot more of the shwa then we wanted to! the good thing out of that visitation was seeing deans, ray and ana. sometimes it's just good to see old friends. ;p

yay to staying in pr. i definitely hit the jackpot with that. a great teacher, a
great course, a great group...what more could i want? after class today, i met up with alicia and we went to the papaya hut for smoothies. it's been awhile since i've been in that area...i kind of want my usual at not just noodles. hm, i'll think of that next time. the unfortunate thing is now i cannot get downtown any earlier then 6pm. I GOT A JOB! yay. no celebrating yet, i'd like to see how long i want to stay, for 2 weeks or 4 months? it really depends on what my mission is. i'll keep you all posted on that.

driving thought of the moment:

do i really really want to take that PR course at ryerson? it's driving me crazy.

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sept 13 - first episode of season 6 gilmore girls! it's about time!!!

i don't even know how to start this rant post, so i'm just going to dive in...

i simply hate people who take advantage of nice people. when i see it happen to people who are close friends of mine, i will rip them apart because i can't stand my friends being taken advantage of. of course, when it comes to me, i just let it go. it totally sucks, but i hate being the nice person, and no matter how much i hate it as i see it happening to me, i don't say anything because that's just the way i am.

what am i referring to? i went to a friend's party last week and a girl there found out that i did piano accompanying and she asked me to accompany her for an hour for $20 for her audition tomorrow. i said of course. we met up yesterday and today, and spent over an hour with her, even taking her home when hart house kicked us out because we're supposedly not allowed to "sing" with the piano, it's just for listeners enjoyment. and did she give me any money? nope. nada. and as she was leaving, i couldn't even bring myself to say anything. i don't know HOW to ask for money.

she's not the first person who's done this to me. i've had a recent job where i did the job, i'm STILL waiting for the money, i don't even know HOW MUCH i'm being paid. i hate this so much. how do you discuss money when you're applying for jobs? it's my biggest pet peeve. the only thing i can do, is learn not to deal with that person again. i lose out.

grr, i'm so upset right now...

i COULD be weird...but has no one else noticed that there's almost no more guacamole doritos being sold in the supermarkets? !!! i was craving them all last week and everywhere i went there was NONE! luckily, as i was bitching to alex and jordan yesterday, alex told me that his store still sold them! (NOT ANYMORE!!! i bought the last bag) so now what? what will i do the next time i crave guacamole chips?

my france photos have been developed!! you can check them out here. i'm very happy with the turnout, i wish i had more photos of my school and the city (Tours) where i was staying. i have a sneaking suspicion that those photos were part of the package where most of the photos didn't turn out. =( oh well, next time...because there WILL BE a next time! ;p

such an interesting and fun filled summer, but it's all coming to an end, and suddenly i'm lost as to what i'm going to be doing if i'm not at u of t this year. mind you, i hate u of t (besides the point) but the lazy person in me doesn't want to leave the cocoon of just enrolling and going to class and thinking that i can get a good job AFTERWARDS. because afterwards is here now...too much thinking! yikes!

anyway, i'm currently stuck in my basement because my parents have friends over and i don't feel like talking to them (awful, but true, so deal with it.) the only problem is that they've been here since 3:30pm and it's now almost 8pm. i went upstairs earlier to take a nap in hopes that they would be gone by the time i woke up...but oh no, they were STILL here 3 hours later (hey, i LIKE my naps.)

therefore, this is the perfect opportunity to catch up on unanswered emails and everything else i've been procrastinating. hahaha (maybe not!)

i'm home...and totally bored out of my mind ALREADY. did everyone read about the airplane crash at pearson airport yesterday? that was literally MY flight number and time TWO days earlier. can you imagine if i had decided to stay another 2 days? how scary is that? everyone in our program was so worried about the other people who had stayed, but we're lucky, no one we knew was actually on that flight!

in other news, i finished reading harry potter, the half-blood prince, and i haven't really decided what i think of it...it's certainly not quite as exciting as her other books, and there's definitely more "snogging" which i actually find quite funny, and i feel bad for the poor actor who will play ron and lavender. as for the climax part of the book, i think i will sleep on it...

oh yes, before i forget...i got home sunday evening, and there sitting on my desk...maija's wedding invitation! i'm so excited, my first official wedding invite! and there's also been other exciting news but i'll leave that for her to tell, but congrats!

but now, i must fix up my resume, i need another job...

so this is it kids...the home stretch. the time here has flown by sooooo incredibly fast, it feels like a WHOLE day packed into one huge mumble jumble mess (a good mess at that.) i did some last minute shopping today, i bought the cutest black skirt, and some really cheap tank shirts at zara, succumbed to buying the cutest underwear package from etam, and i WILL be buying the new Thierry Mugler perfume: Le Lys Angel. mmmm yummy, it smells so nice!

we're going out for karaoke tonight, it's the last U of T self organized trip, and anyone who is still in Tours will be coming out...hahaha, i might sing if i'm drunk enough...hahaha. tomorrow i will be leaving early from class to go to Paris where i will crash with my sister and cousin belinda friday and saturday evening before we all go home on the group flight. so this is most likely my last post before i get back home...unless i feel like spending some money on internet in Paris, but that is quite unlikely. so watch out, here i come...home, something i haven't really started to miss yet, but nevertheless i'm sure i will be glad to be home when i do get back. just a little heads up to people who are planning on seeing me as soon as i get back...i've lost enough weight that even the people i live with has noticed. nono, i'm not aneorexic, i've been eating well enough, but it's been all healthy food (except for the little bag of chips i splurged on yesterday) and i've been walking an incredible amount. you know those stories where our parents start off with "when i was your age i had to walk 30 mins to school..."? yah, well i guess i can pull that one on my future kids too. hahahaha.

au revoir, see you all back in Toronto!

ok, before everyone freaks out...i went to london, and i came back unscathed. in fact, it's really no big deal, it's all over-hyped, everyone there doesn't really care. actually, it's the attitude of londoners that just doesn't strike a good chord with me...i really prefer France, Paris soooo much more. i think i'm more of a French girl, my personality seems to fit that atmosphere better, in fact, i've decided that when i come home, i'm going to look up french courses to further my studies, and i want to look in the direction of coming back to France in the near future....just seeds of thought right now.

london was nice, belinda took us to Windsor castle, and luckily for us...not only did it rain that day (before sunday, london was ALMOST in the state of calling a DROUGHT, so yay, i got the real london experience!) but the QUEEN was also in that day, we knew because her offical flag was flying from the tower (if she wasn't, the union jack would have been up instead.) i really like the display of queen mary's dollhouse, and we had a really late lunch at the crooked tea house (it's literally a house that is crooked, apparently it was demolished but then rebuilt, but the foundation was kind of sketchy so now it's crooked...hahaha)

but for me, the best parts just isn't really in london. alot of my london experiences with the guards just scare me. i think it's because i'm so gullible, and i just don't get londoners dry, sarcastic humour...it all goes over my head!!! belinda is forever making fun of me, and i don't even know it! i even didn't know it was a joke when i went to ask some english guards for a photo, and they were pretending to be mean and i thought it was for real! i got all red and embarrassed and my cousins and my sister were all in stiches! :0 yah, i think i love FRANCE. i went back to paris sunday evening at 8pm and arrived 11:45pm Paris time. i called up larissa (thank god she answered, i don't know what i would have done if her phone hadn't been working) and i stayed with her in a 4 star hotel, and the next morning we had brunch on the house before we went market shopping and then went to see notre dame before i came back home to Tours.

marks are going in today, so my professor has been giving all these tests and stuff...but yay for me, i've been doing well, last time i checked i had an A but after today's comprehension test, we'll see how i'll do...hahaha. i'm actually starting to feel sad that this the last couple of days here and i'll be home soon...i miss everyone at home, but i also really really love it here, and i wish i had more time to see everything that i want to see!

anyway, people are going out, and i must too, peace out.

hey kids, i'm in london!

ok, i lied. i'm actually staying with my cousin belinda about 1hr and a half outside of london. we're in maidenhead, berkshire, about 5 mins from windsor, where the queen lives...and Eaton, where prince william and prince henry went to school! we're actually going to get ready to go sightseeing around windsor today, and then before we leave tonight, head back to london to see westminister abbey.

i'm still reeling from taking in yesterday's sights. we went to buckingham palace to see the changing of the guard...unfortunately, there was so many people gathered around, amelia, grace and i went across to the park and i stood on the gate surrounding the park. afterwards we went to see the tower of london, where the crown jewels were being displayed. they are simply breathtaking, the amount of jewels on these crowns and sceptres and even the gold plates....incredible.

and then in the afternoon, we went back to london, to st. pauls cathedrale where princess diana was married, and then we walked around the picadilly, the strand, and regent st. in the evening after my sister and i came out of "the phantom of the opera." let me take this moment to say how glad i am that we caught a show in london. we've seen phantom of the opera before in toronto, and we've even seen the movie when it came out, but it just seems 10 times more fantastic in the london showing. the girl singing as christine was incredible, as was the guy who sang as raoul. i think amelia and i have decided that the role of the phantom is really hard, because the guy who sang for him wasn't and won't ever be as good as the original, michael crawford.

we even went to this crazy multiplex centre, the trocadero, where we were able to shop until almost 11:30pm, where afterwards when we were on our way out of london, we passed by harrods, which was lit up in bright white lights, and i was able to snap a photo literally 30 seconds before midnight when they turned off all the lights!

karina is also currently in london, and we've been trying to meet up. since i only have today left, i suppose it's now or never! hahaha. london is very nice, i like it...but i think i like france a lot more...i think i like their style and culture a lot more!

oh yes, incase you all haven't gathered, my whole plan to meet up with my sister in paris, gare du nord station was a complete success! i really did worry about her friday morning in class, and the amount of relief i felt (as well as her, because she thought we'd be there by 1:30pm but we showed up about an hour later) when i spotted her in the station was just unbelivable. she brought with her my hair dryer!! yay, now i can have straight hair again, hahaha. i brought my hair gel for the specific purpose of when i didn't have time to blow dry my hair...but seeing as i had forgotten it at home, i pretty much had crazy wavy hair for most of the trip. hahahaha.

belinda is the best hostess ever. i haven't had to look at a map since i've come here. we get up in the mornings, pile into her car, and she takes us into london and drops us off infront of a landmark and waits for us to finish (she entertains a lot of people in london so she does this often.) since she's lived here for 15 years, she knows all the streets to take, and she's very informed with the sightseeing in london. and she does this all with a british accent! when i have more time, i will list a bunch of cultural difference i see in london from north america. as for now, i need to get dressed to see the queen! ;p

i really wanted to see château langeais today, but i had class until 4:30 today and the last train back to Tours is at 6:37 so there was no point in going. oh well, everyone is already making fun of me already as i've gone to see sooo many château's as it is. i went with the institut yesterday for a nice FRENCH guided tour of château chenonceau (sooo cool, it was where henry II and his wife catherine de médici lived, and cat took the château from henry II's mistress Diane de Poitier and they both made their own gardens....just some background) which is the prettiest castle i've seen yet. the castle is built over water, and their kitchens are humongous. we also stopped off in the caves of vouvray where i had my first (and only...most likely anyway) wine tasting. we tried three types of white wine, the first two were much too strong and dry for my liking...but the last one...oh la la!!! i had to buy my own bottle! hahaha...but at the price of 8,15€ i think that was a good deal! ;) BESIDES...since i couldn't see the château, i went shopping instead, and scored myself a real sweet pair of shoes for under 20€ from mango. i swear, i don't know what i'll do when the sales are over and i want mango stuff!!! i will probably go again before i leave...hahahaha...

tonight is salsa night, and i'm debating if i should go or not. i have a very large verb conjugation test tomorrow, so we'll see how that studying goes. i have a feeling that i will go for a little bit, but since i am heading straight to Paris to meet ames afterschool tomorrow, i need to get my packing stuff done tonight...as well as change my bedsheets and throw out garbage (which if it ISN'T thrown out SMELLS soooo much) tomorrow morning!

Londres (london) this weekend! so i'll most likely post when i get back from le weekend!

a bientot!

i almost overslept the last two nights, especially the night after i got back from la rochelle. sara and i ran into jerry, jason, bryant, tanya and helen at the train station and our train left la rochelle at 1:50am and then we had a stopover in Poitier from 3:30-5:06am. so we really didn't get back to tonnelle until 6:00am.

after class monday, i was supposed to go to blois with reva, but the silly girl thought she could get away with not paying for a ticket, and the outcome was that we got kicked off at the night train station from tours, mont louis. hahaha, we went to look for the chateau there but it was so far away, and after 40 mins of walking, we decided to head back to the station, and i ended up going to the grocery store there and then buying chocolate cookies...yum!!

today was more successful, after learning from my mistake yesterday, i decided to go see chateau chinon by myself, and i caught the 4:33pm train right after class. chateau chinon is a medieaval ruin, and it was so gorgeous. walking around the ruins, i wished it was still intact because it would have been soooo beautiful, and so large and grand. i even saw the place where joan of arc went and stayed. so great!

i've just come back from my trip and i'm kind of tired, even though that is the story of my life here. so now i have to go eat (it's 9pm now) and study before bed, and maybe i can go to sleep early tonight...hahaha, yah riiiight.

i miss everyone!!!

i'm sooooo cold!!!! i'm currently sitting in an internet cafe in la rochelle with my friend sara. we both decided to sit in the internet place because it got so cold outside, and of course, we both didn't bring sweaters or anything. i have a big beach towel though, because i wanted to go to the beach today, so i think i'll wear it around my shoulders.

la rochelle is sooooo beautiful. it's close to the atlantic sea, so it's pretty much a port. sara and i were really lucky because we decided to go on the last day of the "francofollies" a french musicfest that was on from july 12 to today (july 17.) we went to see all the FREE shows, and we caught all of the bands doing sound check. they were: N & SK (nomades & skaetera), daniel fernandez, usmar (i love usmar, i bought his cd, AND i stole a poster from a gate...ahahaha), and BRG. these french people are soooooo good! and while these acts were playing, we sat in a cafe and i had moules (mussels) in cream sauce and frites (fries) with vanilla ice cream, yum! i'm becoming soooo french! ;p

yesterday, i went with the asian posse, elena and sara to mont st. michel. the castle is pretty from the outside, it's like on this massive mountain, but the inside is not as impressive. we got shushed...hahahahaha. we also went to st. malo, but it's like a huge massive tourist attraction, sort of like niagara falls...la rochelle is so much better!

anyway, my migraine is clearing up (oh, did i mention i had a migraine? i had a migraine) and i'm no longer freezing cold. BUT our train back to Tours leaves at 1:50am and we have a two hour stop over in Poitiers so we won't be back until....6:30am...no sleep!!!

so depending on how tired i am, i might be going to blois (pronounced blwah hahaha) tomorrow, or sleeping after school....we'll see! amelia, you need to blog.

Bastille Day fireworks are sooooo much better than toronto, niagara falls fireworks. like 100x better. they lasted almost 20mins, and the theme was the four seasons (except it seemed more like 7 seasons to me.) they have some crazy cool fireworks that i'd never seen before, like they bunch like flowers, so pretty. although, the only thing thing i didn't like was that people would randomly throw firecrackers on the streets, and they'd throw them so close to us, and it's so loud and scary. but i'm just glad nothing messed up my face, hahaha.

after class let out at 12:10pm today, elena and i went to la gare to buy tickets for Saumur. while we waited for out train to arrive for 2:30pm, we went shopping on rue de bordeaux, and ended up with a nice nice tank top from promod (my favorite french store), and a really pretty jacket from mango. i really need to stop shopping!!!

so we went to Saumur, and it was sooooo hot outside! we walked to the château which took forever because it was très chaud and we sort of overshot our destination so we had to walk back, and then walk UP a mountain. and when we reached the château, we find out that it was under renovations until 2008 and we could pay 2€ to walk the perimeter. hahaha, no thanks, i can take pictures from the outside! hahahaha.

so that's my productive day. tomorrow i will be going to mont st. michel and st. malo, and i reserved tickets for bordeaux on sunday. so more updates later. c'est toute!

hello! today is Bastille Day in France, it's equivalent to Canada on July 1st. because i accidently missed the last train back to Tours last night (i'll explain that in a min) i was able to catch the Bastille Day celebrations/parade along Champs Elysées. as i am short, i wasn't able to see much, but bryant held up his camcorder so i was able to see a little tiny bit of the guys all dressed up and marching on the street. there was also planes flying in the air in different formations, very cool.

right, so yesterday i left class a little bit earlier so that i could catch the train to paris at 12:09pm, otherwise i'd have to wait until 2:15pm for another train. i went with 4 other ASIAN guys, charles, bryant, jerry and ian (aka, romeo...hahaha, that's going into the explanations section along with dimples). we went to versailles to see where Louis XIV lived and it was just incredible. the palace was gorgeous, so much gold and paintings. my favorite was the garden area, it was sooooo large, so large that the palace rented out mini golf carts for people to travel around in!!! i saw the king's chamber, and the state apartments as well.

afterwards, the 5 of us went and met up with 3 other girls (patricia, cinzia, and lisa) for dinner, and i ordered a "hamburger avec frites". right. so hamburger in france is not the same as north america. here they just give the meat and fries. and on top of the meat, there was also an egg. hahaha. that's why french people stay thin, they don't eat the carbs from the bread bun!!!!

we finished dinner at almost 10pm, and then after saying goodbye to the girls, we went for the train station. we MISSED the last train by barely 30secs!!! hahahaha. you would think i'd freak out, but i thought it was funny. we were originally going to stay up all night, hit up a pub and go drinking till morning, but romeo needed his sleep so we got 2 double bed rooms for a very nice price of 30€ per person. bryant stayed in a room with me, but these guys are such gentlemen. he insisted on sleeping on the floor, who am i do change his mind? but that kid is a snorer! hahaha. it's ok, after so many years of putting up with my father's snoring while on vacation, this was pretty much a piece of cake.

so you might be wondering why i was with a bunch of ASIAN guys? i don't know, they're fun to hang around with, much better then the girls last weekend. not that i didn't have a good time in Nice, but there wasn't any crazy girl drama, it was just me and the guys.

so La Rochelle is probably not happening since today happened, but i'm most likely going to Blois tomorrow to see the Chateau Blois, and Chambord. yes! so exciting!

haha, elena, my next door neighbor, lent me her laundry detergent this morning and i did my "delicates". they have now been drying all day, and i'm hoping they'll be ready to wear by tomorrow (but it's all good, i'm not lacking too much in underwear.) ;)

so this is my plan for this loooong weekend (with a sporadic class on friday):
i plan to go straight to paris to visit versaille right after class tomorrow (wednesday; actually i'll be leaving 15mins earlier from class) have dinner with patricia, cinzia and lisa.

thursday i plan on spending the day in la rochelle, chill at the beach, take in site-seeing (it's 2 hrs from Tours)

friday i have class until 12:10pm so i have to go do that, do a dictation, and then i will be heading back towards Paris to see Monet's flower garden in Giverny.

saturday is the institut trip to Mont St. Michel and St. Malo which will take all day, and finally sunday i will probably head towards Bordeaux to St. émilion, a small mediaeval village for the day before going back to Tours.

hopefully it will go through, and if it does, i might not be in on the internet for awhile, so i'll update everyone when i get back! bonne chance!

adieu!