Blogs from Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France, Europe - page 16

Bonjour from Bordeaux!!!!!....Yesterday, Alliey and I journeyed from Tours to Bordeaux!!! We were able to find our hotel alright because it is near the station but it is not in the nicest of areas. Our hotel has an ocean theme and the bathroom in our room has a door like a submarine and has funny decor like an anchor rope hanging on the wall. In the evening we took the tram into the centre ville which is were all the interesting things are...Wow the city is almost completely covered in limestone (which according to the tourist office was cleaned by the government in 1985). We had dinner at a cheap cafe and then just walked around. Then we went and saw a movie called Les Citronniers which was a movie from Israel dubbed in French. Even ... read more

20.Juni Fredag Vi vokna 7 om morran, bare sovet et par timer... men bedre en ingen ting... Andreas hadde ikke såvet no serlig bra og var gansje lam i armen.. så vi pakket opp telt og poser i en fei og kom oss avgårde.. peila gps'en in på et sykehus i San Sebastioan og var der iløpet av 30 min.. Vente tiden var kort og Andrebo ble godt tatt hånd om, fikk tilogmed en saftig stivkrampe sprøyte i rompa... hehe.. Så dro vi avgårde ned mot sentrum... Det var første gang iløpet av turen hvor vi hadde vært oppe så tidlig om morran, så for en gangs skyld kunne vi tasse litt rundt uten å stresse med å komme oss avgårde no sted... det var en helt sinsykt fantastisk dag... vi satt oss ned på en ... read more

I officially finished classes on Friday....yay!!! Now we have about 2 weeks off before we have 2 weeks of finals...I have 7 finals, but somehow I have 3 on the first day and 2 on the last day. Oh well...I heard they're really easy :) I forgot to mention...before one of our basketball practices a month or so ago, I got to the gym a little early. There was a guy coaching some kid and he ended up talking to me for a little bit. It turns out this guy was a trainer for Tony Parker and Boris Diaw!! I guess those two guys come to Bordeaux every July for a basketball camp...it was really cool to meet this guy! I ended up playing with them for a little bit before the rest of the team ... read more

Today I booked some of my flights *Bucharest June 19-June 22 * Senegal June 23-July 3 *going back to California after 7 1/2 months on August 5th I have to make appointments to get my yellow fever vaccination and my malaria pills. I'm so excited about everything right now, yet I'm terribly upset that I have to leave Bordeaux in a month. May 29th I go to Venice, and then I can no longer call Bordeaux my home. I'll no longer have a mailing address here, a bed to sleep on, or a place to live in Bordeaux. And I may never have any of those here again. I'll be back July 22nd to get some luggage, and August 3rd to get the rest of my luggage to take to London. But after that, no more ... read more

Wow...it's been a long time since I've written...I've actually had some classes! :) School's still going well. Classes are kind of interesting and not a lot of work, so that's always good! We just had a professor from Colorado, so that was a lot of fun. I had a class Friday night and Saturday that was interesting. It was an elective, so there were a lot of French people in the class. The professor was from Ireland - she was interesting, but didn't have much tact! She said quite a few rude things about America and it got kind of annoying after a while. She said that French like the Canadians only because French don't like Americans... Which brings me to an interesting experience on the tram. I was going home from school with Kelsey, a ... read more