Crazy French!! ha ha...jj

Bonjour Bonjour!


So here it is I surely hope you're happy...lol I tryed for quite some time to manage to get these damn pics on here. ha ha


Anyway so the first pic below here is Euro Disneyland - well the entrance, I haven't been through to the rides yet cuz Maude is going to come here and go with me!! Should be a blast! anyway so yeah, it is huge though. I came here my second day with Veronique to meet a friend of hers, who is very kind and rather hilarious... especially in her perculiar french way. Anyway it was good yet I was very tired at this point, still quite jet lagged lol.



Also the Entrance into Euro Disneyland, this HUGE palace looking place is actually a very nice hotel which you pass through/under to get into the big Park. It was quite awesome I must say. Throughout this day I heard alot of english as alot of UK people come to Euro Disney so I was like hey this isn't going to be that bad - however Euro Disney was a great exception to the rest of Vaires Sur Marne and Paris haha - my bad! lol

Below, as many of you may have wondered is the traditional foreigner 'Stereotype' however, gone slightly wrong as it IS an actual complete foreigner in the picture - I am complete with tam, baggette and wine (only missing my bike) - I look absolutely ridiculous, i'm sure at this point I was very embarrassed and the family; whose house I was at was laughing histerically ha ha.

Well this is my hair, I hope you like it. Well actually I guess it doesn't matter cuz this is the only way you'll see it but even so I hope you all approve lol. I must have been getting to comfortable with it though because today as I was biking around the lake, that is about 5 minutes away from my house, and I could have swore I saw a guy - yes a boy - with the same damn hair. All I could think was for god's sake I seriuosly hope that was another "different" looking european - seeing as it's not hard to spot them! ha ha sorry that was mean. Actually though I am quite sure that I am the weird looking one as I seem to be noticed; as if I stick out like a sore thumb or at least like I am walking around naked or something!! (which i am NOT!! - seriuosly!; it's ok mom!) lol anyway yeah I guess it would be the same in Canada though, you can spot a tourist or a foreigner (although I am NOT a tourist - I have been told to make sure I do not seem to be one of "those" - crazy ppl around here!! lol It seems as though tourists have a contagious disease... rightly so I can't wait to meet one - they may contain some normalcy or familiarity... ha ha - sorry that was another jab..lol.... However seriously and honestly, I DO like it here. I think that the differences and the changes are cool!!)

Kinda looks like there is somehing wrong with my neck here - I promise though I have not been taking any drugs - other than of course what the locals have given me; not sure what it is, but it tastes good and it makes me feel free!! ...........ha ha jk mom - breathe! luv you... he he

SCHOOL!

Well anyway the next thing I guess is the school, today (wednesday) was my first day, and seriuosly whoever made the school system WAS on some real drugs!! ha ha...just joking.. man though today I have to get up at 6:00 am and go to school for like an hour and a half and then it was over! I do not have school tomorrow but I do have it on friday. OH YEAH!! and I met this other Canadian Rotary Exchange student at school because I overheard her trying to speak to the teacher and I was like hmm, yes indeed. lol So I asked her if she spoke english and then she screamed and I was like what the H*LL lol and she asked me whether I was the other Canadian and I was like ah HECK yes!!! and proud of it haha. So then we were set and spoke in english so much and so fast that the entire class standing there at the door looked at us as if we were aliens, I felt like something out of a movie - an old horror one ha ha.

Oh yeah and seriuosly excuse my brutal sentence structure - lack of periods and good punctuation as well as my poor spelling - this french speaking thing seriuosly messes with you! - this is even edited!! lol, so don`t show Ms. Bartley - she would be appalled! ha ha... Anyway so yeah the first day was alright - had to just learn to deal with a whole lot of people staring at me, as well as not understanding the really fast speaking professeurs. But that is all part of the exchange I suppose.

Vaires Sur Marne!!

Ok so it is very hard to tell what I have told some of you and what I haven`t so I am basicly going to resay alot of it. I hope that`s cool with you- I know these can get long and boring.

So here there are at least two lakes that I know of. One is very very close to my home so I went for a bike ride around it on your average French person bike, quite proper not meant for anything other than their very nice paved roads. Which by the way are soo small that I am sure only one half-ton from back home would fit down them and then it would block off the entire road. So yeah this bike is made for paris streets - not a mountain bike, remember this lol. Anyway so there was a very nice paved walkway around the lake - or so I thought "around" - but at least on the one side.

It was hell trying to get to this nice little lake because you have to cross like two major roads and then bike down another one that takes you out of Vaires sur Marne, just to get to the lake. I am NOT an experienced bicycle rider, I know what you are thinking, oh come on it`s not that hard and yes your right, it isn`t when you are biking on open roads at home or in town (Minnedosa) where the roads are actual proper vehicle sized and sometimes double laned!!! ha ha...

So I guess the other thing that you need to know is that here people like their speed!!! and we aren`t talking about nice straight roads either, these are winding roads with cars flying around corners.... I am sure most of the guys from back home would love this, however people like my mother and grandmother shouldn`t experience it for the sake of their own health!! lol Sorry so anyway I am nearly killed on this god forsaken road, - and once again I seriously almost pissed my damn pants!

Anyway so I get to this lake and of course it is miniature in comparison to the lake in Minnedosa and most lakes back home... This is like EVERYTHING in france! From the people who are tiny, and of course I am big compared to them all and I am short or smaller compared to people in Canada, trying to explain this, is certianly funny - as they just don`t believe it!!! ha ha.. Right down to the houses are small and i suppose it is the same in big Canadian cities though, but they don`t have yards. I think that the added effect of being so close to Paris and being in another country makes this place so very different to me!

K Sorry I am rambling alot so I get to this lake and I have all afternoon so I decide to bike around the entire thing which seemed like a great relaxing way to end my day, right...Well I get across the bridge and the road splits into 2, which I pick the road right along the lake naturally - why bike in the bushes right. Well there may have been a reason, this was no road or even a path!, seriuosly it was comparable to trying to bike -on a bike with absolutely NO shocks lol - into the riding mountain national park or on a cattle trail, pretty much impossible, ha ha. Anyway I managed it eventually, but again not without some very bizzarre looks from all the locals walking on this dirt trail. By the end of it was I sweating and not really all that pleased with the directions I`d been given by Veronique. However I survived, and lived to tell the tale, lol I also swore to myself I would never again bike on such a horendous damn little cattle trail.

SOCCER!!

ok OH MY GOD!!! (as maude would love to say) ha ha k so I went to soccer practice last night and I figured that they may be like a pretty good team but it would be girls my age so I would fit in and everything. Well I was a bit mistaken, they were girls all ages - women. Like ranging from 17 - 30+ but serioulsy that did not matter and it definately did NOT slow them down. These girls where insanely good, unreal, I felt like the clueless dumb foriegn kid - wait i am that person!! shit!! lol I do not know anyone in Soccer in Canada that was that good - they were like Kiliwnik but better like really better. ( reference for meg and kiki and michelle) they did everything you have seen on t.v and the "Movie Bend it Like Beckam" except their french not from the UK, not to mention they can do rainbows and stall on their backs and everywhere. k I just can't explain, I felt so so out of place. ha ha and I thought I maybe shouldn't come back but they asked me too so who knows, we have another practice on friday and a game on saturday. Oh yeah and wow the practices are unrulely hard, we ran around on this walking path around their lake - this is in serris (another small town- very rich though lol) we ran around it 4 times then jogged it back and then did crunches, sit ups and all kinds of ab workouts then some more running and then juggling - this is where I saw that I did not belong lol - and then we did some drills which were just kicking and running , not to bad. well hopefully though I won't become too fat if I keep with this team and I may even improve!! - which would be nice for the sake of me and the team lol. anyway it was cool overall...It was also so much fun and all the girls were really nice too!!

well this is real long so talk to ya'll later, luv yah!!

Lauren