White Horses and Grape Vines

Wednesday September 30th 2009:

What a lovely day I've had!

I took the morning bus to Lunel. The first thing that I did was walk up the sketchy street that I took a picture of yesterday. There were no creepy old men to harass me. Then I went sightseeing for an hour and a half through downtown Lunel. I noticed a shop that had stringed instruments in the window. I found out that they custom make and repair stringed instruments. There was a miniature cello in the window, and I thought it was so adorable, so I took a picture of it.

I went on an expedition to find yarn and was successful! A small shop named "Phildar" sells nice modern clothes way out of my price range, and in the back of the shop there was a colorful selection of yarn and magazines and books and knitting an crocheting supplies. The lady who runs the store was a sweetie and let me try out different kinds of yarn and different sized crochet hooks. I purchased 3 balls (for now), a hook and threading needles.

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I went to talk to my French instructor, Sandrine at school to see about changing my class schedule. I am not attending classes on Wednesday mornings instead of Tuesday afternoons and Friday afternoon stays the same. Now, I'll be able to do whatever I want with my Wednesday afternoons! At 11:30, I wasn't ready to go home yet, so I called Gillian and told her I was taking the 5:30 bus instead.

I ended up staying at school for an hour and earned myself some new French knowledge. After the lesson was over, Sandrine and I went to her house to pick up her daughter, Joanna. We went to the Creperie D'Emilie. I got an Italian Crepe without black olives for lunch, and for desert I had a Nutella crepe. It was SOO good!

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Next, Sandrine took me and her daughter to the new shopping complex, Odysseum. HOLY COW it was AMAZING! The architecture and the stores was incredible! I didn't want to spend a lot of money there, but I did buy a shirt from H&M for 5euros. *makes happy face*

Sandrine took me sightseeing around the complex because her daughter spent most of the time with her boyfriend. I found a Subway and almost started crying I was so excited! Sandrine took a picture of me with Subway, and then we went in. I bought 2 macadamia nut cookies and one triple chocolate chip cookie. It was the first familiar smell that I've smelled in 3 weeks. Subway = <3

(MAN! I'VE BEEN HERE 3 WEEKS!)

(nom nom noim....Subway cookies!!)

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We went back to Sandrine's house after our shopping expedition. She has two wall length fish tanks in her house. They house warm water African fish. I told her that my dad would LOVE them. There were so many colored shaped and sized fish. Unfortunately, I did not take pictures of them, because I found out on Finding Nemo that that was a mean thing to do.

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I had 45 minutes to kill before I had to catch the bus, so I went to Cafe D'Amelie and got some Earl Grey tea and wrote in my journal.

On my way home in the bus I saw two white horses in a field of grape vines. It was magical looking.

I also noticed a cemetery in the village next to this one, and there were tombs that look like stone baby barns. They are probably thousands of years old. ( :S )

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Today was a great day. Hopefully, there will be more 'today's'.

<3

p.s: We ate grilled ham and cheese sandwiches and Greek salad for supper. It was quite delicious.