Tour Diary
Day 4
So we arrive at the France airport. the time is who knows. all i know is that it is early, very early! having virtually not slept on the flight i was quite tired, but oh well, another day! Coming out of the plane we notice the large amounts of conveyor belts evyerwhere! srsly! everything is like moving sidewalk or moving stairs! it's pretty cool. then i felt a dripping feeling allongmy leg. i looked down and there was juice dripping out of my bag! oh s**t i think to myself! i quickly open my bag to find one of the airline orange juices had popped in my bag! eveyrthing was basically soaked! my music was rendered useless! and my Potato Factory got a good soaking too! if only i wasn't into the whole don't waste thing! damn! I wipe down my bag and write out my customs form and line up to getmy bag. It took a very long time! i can tell you that! stupid french customs! then we find that alot of our stuff is broken! i mean! What the! Stupid UA! can't do a job right can they! Soon the busses arrive and we weave through crowds and up and down lifts. when getting on a lift i left my violin behind! good thing sum1 picked it up! then Mandy almost lost her bags! it was scary! but it was actually a kind lady who was from the school we were going to!
we get onto the lion busses and set out for the school. driving through Paris we spot the Eiffel tower and soon followed by " i saw it before tyou" type comments and many photos!
We arrive at our host school Blanche de Castille. arrviing there we find that we drive in a big circle, randomly.
we slowly and lethargically put our bags and suitcases away. then slowly lumber towards the gym. they announce that we are to sleep..... on the gym floor! pretty crazy! so... being the really amazingly buggered me.... i lie down on a friendly and most importantly comfortable mat and find that it is very noisy and there is lots of light!
aaahhhh!!!!
then i remeber my blindfold and earplugs! and as i place my beautiful investment on my body i slip into my own bubble world. and soon im dozing away!
we wake up and we have lunch and then we have a few decisions! to either go to the shopping center or play rugby.... being the rugby player i am.....i went to the shopping centre. One thing i can't get over on the way there is the big green bins they have for recycling. and they don't nething written in english! then they can't blame the tourists for screwing up they're recycling system! and how hard is it to write another sentence in english?!?!?!? maybe they did but i didn't notice! oh well.
so in the shopping centre i meat up with Hae and Jono.....and david... He drags us into a perfume shop to look for his "face cream" so whil we're in there why not look around! on the way out Hae sprays us with Aqua di Gio. It's a ncie frgrance! wouldn't mind buying it. Then we walk some more and end up in a clothing store! then a shoe store! then Printemps. France's David Jones. and we lose david. then we deicded to go to the other side of shopping to find an ice cream store! not only that a Hagen Daas ice cream store! omg it tasted soooo gooood! and there we met up with amy and harmonia. they decided to go look for a transformer for electronic stuff. to almost get ripped off by the french guys..... if it wasn't for Mr V and I! well tiem was running out.. then i rembered to get something! yes! i need to get the drink of drinks!
Orangina!
getting two cans i slowly ripped off the top and tasted the fruity orangy drink. The sensual real fruit taste hit my tongue! yeah! It was time to go... and usually in those situations people.... go. we get outside to see most of the group out, however edwina and co were still not out! we ended wating for an extra 20 mins. So we slowly walked back, i talked with Haein on the way back about stuff.
arriving back at the School we had a practise! YAY! if not for the amazing amounts of heat! woah! well after a toiling practise session we were to pack away quickly as we were ready to be taken home by our hosts! YAY! so we waited. and waited. and i was last person to be picked off the list!
it was scary! Amy and Alice had to go with one oif the maths teachers of the school! Well the mother picked me up and drove me home. Arriving home i met the rest of the family. They have 3 children, one older girl, two boys younger than me and a very little boy. The girl was Paulline and my main billet was Hwommard? Well the girl left to goto the music festival which I at the time thought was traditional music. Boy was i wrong! neway, wwe played soccer outside on their tennis court with their inflatable ball. it was fun! we played for ages. then went in for dinner whcih consisted of cheese, mashed potato and meat! it was great! Then i got my clothes on and left for the Music Fest.
On the way there we met up with my billets friends. two girls and 3 other guys. the girls were hot! when i told them i was form Sydney they started screaming and jumping around! :D hehehe. well i was forced to go into a catholic church. OMG! it was all dark and down the fornt there was A jesus hanging there in a the figure ofthe cross on a circle thing. it was creepy. then the organ started playing@ it was srsly quite a scary experience, especially with my anti-christ train of thoguht at the moment. Well we thought we should get a go on and started walking again towards the Festival. As we waled past a man playing on the pianola we clapped and cheered and we were greeted by a bow and a smile! arriving at the real music fest it was a totally different scene! many many people wearing black! and all the metla and rock music! Eveyrbody was wearing black and leather and eveyrbody looked gothy! it was cool acutally! i was releived when in one of the corners there was TECHNO! OOOOH YEAH! and next to it on a projector was the soccer game between Switzleraland and France! walking through we checked out the rest of the area. Then we ended up at the game again. The score was 2-1 France winning. As the score ticked down to zero we coutne down. in French of course! and then we partied hard! The next few hours i had no control over. i let the beat of the music take over my body as the throb of the speakers shoook the air If you stood in front of the speakers you would fin it hard to breathe! if you would feel the wind against your body! well that was it until 12 o'clock. Then everybody left. as we sat on a ledge keeping a girl company before she was picked up we talked about our interests and the different countries. THen we walked home and dropped onto the beds.
