Argh, TOO bright!!

Hey guys!

The ice-rink closed last week, and the weather has been terrible since, so I haven’t much new news. I’m hoping to get out fishing sometime soon, today would have been perfect, but alas, it is Monday :-P.
Sorry guys, I wrote that section on Monday, and then changed over to doing some French :-P… Let me start over :-P.

Yesterday morning my mom came into my room, walked to the windows and threw open the French shutters. The sun streamed through, I moaned and mumbled “Argh, TOO bright!!”…. Then I realised that the weather was finally back to normal! So I flopped out onto the section of bed that had a sun-patch on it, and said “Ooh! Sun! Sun!!!”… Yes, you appreciate it much more once you’re completely awake :-P.

Today my mom and I have been working on flattening out the sand for the pool to be placed on. Oooh yes! Don’t think that I’ve told you, never mind the first problems we had with the pool, a few weeks ago we found out that we had to move the pool off the patio! “Soooommmmebody” (I put this “soooommmebody” into inverted commas because… I honestly don’t know who built it :-P) hadn’t built it correctly… and therefore it wasn’t strong enough :-(…

Anyhow, a few weeks later, three tonnes of sand, a few concrete bricks, a lot of muscle pain from moving the sand, and a lot more water later, we were done! Joy! We just finished it today, and it looks brilliant! So looking forward to going for a dip soon.

I’m truly looking forward to the summer, all of the fruit in the garden will be in bloom, the sun will be on duty 16/7 :-P and of course, the outdoor pool will be open! I think it’s absolutely brilliant, well it looks like it anyway on the website! I’ve wanted to go just to the indoor one recently, but haven’t found myself going :-S. So guess I’ll just wait :-P.

The downside to summer here… and any hot country I guess, is the mozzies! The other night one of the mosquito’s had an all you can eat buffet on my back… and my wrist! Absolutely horrible and itchy! And another problem here are the “aliens”. I have told you about these awful insects that I named “aliens” before (Blog Name -There's an ALIEN in my tea-cup!), we got them in Sicily, and they just can’t seem to leave us alone… well leave my sister alone more like, she’s been “attacked” uncountable times in the past week, one crawling across her arm, another, scurrying up her leg!... Blurgh!

Oh! My grandmother’s come over to stay with us from England, woo! ^_^ She’s not like a normal grandmother… She’s really cool… not that normal grandmother’s aren’t cool, but Karen’s different ^_^. Anyway, I call her “Karen”… I never really got the “Granny” thing. It just sounds strange and makes Karen feel old (which she’s not) :-P. Also with my uncles and aunts, sometimes I guess I’ll say “Uncle Rino”… no, maybe not :-S, :-P.

We have a baguette lady! Can’t get anymore French than that! Yes, so she comes everyday… except Monday /:-S, and delivers our daily “flute”. Like a baguette but larger. It’s pretty darn awesome! And always super fresh and soft! Mmmm!

Ooh! Has anyone watched “Buffy, The Vampire Slayer”? I know it’s a random question, but since we have a shortage of English speaking films in France and there is only so many times that I can watch “Arthur and the Minimoys”, a friend of my dad’s has leant us the complete series of “Buffy” and they’re surprisingly good :-P!

Okay, since I’m telling you about the weather, my grandmother, the baguette lady and… what I’ve been watching on T.V. lately, I think it’s time to stop boring you :-P.

So I shall talk soon, or at least once I have more news :-P.

- Bianca

My first pool… sort of… in France ^_^!

Hey everyone!

I haven’t got a lot of news… again… except for… that... we got a swimming pool! Yay :-P!! But the bad news is that it’s been terrible weather ever since the day we got the first one… yes, the first one >.<.

You see, the first one was far too big for the patio but we didn’t realise this until it was filling with water and falling over the edge… we had quite a few mud slides… blurgh!! Something I NEVER want to do again… so we got another one, which fits perfectly and is still quite big. Even though the weather’s not been up to par, on the first day of putting up the second pool, I went for an extremely cold dip… I don’t think the point of swimming pools are supposed to be to make you turn pale and numb… it was a lot of fun though! My first pool… sort of… in France ^_^!

A couple of days ago, we went fishing! It was brilliant, even though I didn’t catch anything, it was still a lot of fun :-)! I got to see a few fish… and even saw a tidler swimming away with my bait… well a giant blob of orange moving around under the water for a bit before… vanishing into thin… water :-P. It was quite an excursion, since we don’t live by the lake anymore, we drove out to the small one by the main office area of Le Sidobre. On a day where we have more time, I am determined to get out to the ENORMOUS lake that we found, but that’s an hour and a half drive away /:(.

When we went fishing, Gizmo came along, and only got frustrated towards the end of fishing, beginning to moan and growl at the float… he even tried to get closer to the water, by sliding down a steep rock and luckily being saved by a bed of reeds, which just managed to hold him up from getting wet until I shimmied my way down and pushing him back onto the grass.

Another thing that happened with Gizmo when we went fishing, that was absolutely the funniest thing, I’ve yet to see, was that when we went into Le Sidobre’s tourist office, Gizmo came with quite happily, and ran around, sniffing everything he could, whilst we tried finding directions to the closest place that would sell a fishing license.

The lady there, drew out a whole map, then asked where we’d be fishing, we said right there by the lake for an hour or two, and she folded up the map and told us that it would be fine to fish without the license. So we were content about not having to go driving again. Anyway, I walked out of the open glass door and Gizmo followed beside me to run straight, head first into the closed glass door, it was so funny! I thought that only I did that :-P. After a minute of comforting, Gizmo was running around and tail-wagging again :-).

I haven’t got a lot of news, before being in France for a year I want to be speaking French almost fluently, and that includes understanding it as well! So that gives me… 24 days :-P. I’m getting there, yesterday I watched six episodes of “Buffy The Vampire Slayer” in French with French subtitles, to get my ears tuned in, I’ve already watched the French Sopranos, and now my dad’s friend has lent us all of the Buffy series so… Yes, I just don’t feel like watching them again today, so going to go learn more French words once I finish writing this :-).

In a week it’s my sister’s birthday, she’ll be turning 19!! I can’t believe it :-P. So if you want to send me a picture of you kissing a fish for her birthday, that’d be GRRRRREAT! I’m sure she’d appreciate it ;-)… well I would appreciate it :-P.

Sorry this post wasn’t that long, I shall try writing up soon… once I get some news! See you all soon!

- Bianca