Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Last night, I bought a train ticket from Lunel to Montpellier. I am planning on meeting Laura there. I bought the ticket for 12:53, because I thought that I still had school.

So, this morning I woke up, got ready, went down to the bus stop, waited. ... ... The bus rolled the stop sign, right by me and left me. ... ... I became furious, and so I marched up the road. Gillian would have to drive me to school. Gillian was just as pleased over this whole situation as I was. She called the bus company and got angry with them, then went to get dressed to take me to school. I felt so bad for doing this to her because it is her day off, and her week away from the boys, and now she has to take her personal 'me time' to drive me to Lunel. So, the bus driver showed up at our house as we were leaving, being all appologetic and such. I guess his boss called him and got mad and made him turn around. Hey, I got a free bus ride out of the whole ordeal. I felt even worse about making Gillian get out of her jammies.

Anywho, I get to Lunel, power walked-er to school, because I was EXTREMELY late. I get to school to find it dark and locked up. I texted Sandrine wondering if she'd forgotten, as I am her only Wednesday morning student. Nope, school for me is on holidays too! URRGGG. I went through a lot of trouble this morning for absolutely nothing.

Now, I am sitting in the Cafe D'Amelie drinking a Cafe-Frappe-Latte, which is SO GOOD! It is iced and sweet and there is froth on the top, and it is basically the best thing that I've ever tasted coffe-wise. I see many more of these being consumed in my future.

Now, I have to wait for two hours for the train. I could catch an earlier train to Montpellier, but I don't want to. Now, I will give myself lots of time to find the train station. There are always travellers that I might be able to aquaint myself with.
This place has WiFi, which is like my dream. I will be back tomorrow afternoon, computer in hand.
I have run out of things to write about....pooop..
(I drew this while drinking my coffee. It is my house, so that I may never forget what it looks like..)

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I am happy for vacations and cute French cafes that serve coffee. There are also crepes here. When I get to Montpellier, I am going with Laura for lunch somewhere...


I'd like to go to the Polygone and shop and look for a bit. I need to find something, but can't say it on here, because then it will ruin the suprise.
After I finish my coffee I am going to go for a walk through the park and then wander around and try to find the train station. This should be fun.. ha..ha..
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I got lost in Lunel (or so I thought...) My being lost led me to the train station. I ordered, or retrieved my ticket and then walked atound some more, now that I knew where I was. Lunel really is the sketchiest place I've ever been. A bunch of boys in a cubevan made horrible faces at me. ( Oh, the maturity!) Now, I am sitting on the steps to the train station basking in the sun, and writing some more. I still have 20 minutes until my train arrives. I saw some backpackers. The girl had dreads and they looked all rebellious and independant and ..like they hadn't showered in days...
It is really warm sitting here. I bought a chupa chump...and now am eating it...
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So, Montpellier train station = much more hectic than Lunel.
I walked around for a bit while waiting for Laura. When we did meet up, we went to a salad bar for lunch. I got chicken and she had tuna...it was yummy. Then we walked back to La Comedie and got McFlurrys (Gillian said, "Bend my rubber arm!" when I told her that.) After, there was a million people gathered in the center to watch some impersonation of Michael Jackson. We couldn't get close enough to see what was going on. We went to the massive Virgin Mobile store. It was massive. 3 floors! I found what I was looking for in there for my suprise!

Laura and I are sharing a lot of the same issues I think. Which is strange and ironic. We both don't speak enough French, we both don't have friends that speak French (well, I don't have friends at all, except her)....yah...
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So, I took the orange(flower) tram from the Corum(Montpellier) to Castineau le Lez and waited there for 40 minutes for my bus to arrive. While there, I witnessed a drug deal, some immature teenage girls who exploded a 2L bottle of Coke, and lots of strange stares (in my direction)....I don't think that I look THAT different.

So, todayI have travelled many different kinds of transportation. I walked, took a shuttle bus, a train, a tram way, and a big bus. Heck, I even time traveled because I didn't realize that I hadn't set my clock on my iPod back an hour. If you can call it that....

Now, I am going to eat supper (Stir fry and rice) Ta ta!

1 comment:

  1. I think you should become a columnist....I love reading these...I can just see you sitting on the bench with your chupa chump people watching!

    Love you
    xoxoxoxo

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