Blogs from Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France, Europe - page 17

After 9 days of foul weather our host David promised us a fine day today and he didn;t disappoint. We set off this morning for St Emilion, wine district extraorinaire and world heritage listed. fantastic; you approach it from the flat and it rises before you like a mediaeval adventure world. Then you find out there,s no free parking; We wandered the streets of cobblestones (old hat by now but still impressive here), sampled some of the local fruit of the vine and bought a bottle; Liz fell over twice (before the wine) and is now officially registered as accident prone; then we went to a lovely little town called Libourne for lunch and sat in a park and ate our baguette (barney) and boogie (Liz) then it was on to a lovely little nugget of ... read more

I travelled with Teresa, a girl from Canada. We met up with two other people 1 day in Lisbon - Vitor (Brazillian) and Ale (Mexican). The couchsurfing went great - they fed us, showed us around the city, and took us out! The first stay in Porto, the people weren't even there - they had their friend give us the keys to their apartment - it was crazy!! Teresa and I took a train Thursday from Bordeaux to Paris and stayed in Paris for the night - we did a little sight-seeing that night...took about 50 pictures of the Eiffel Tower - it proved difficult as it was dark!! We then took a bus early the next morning to a town near Paris to take our Ryanair flight to Madrid. We were in Madrid for the ... read more

Sorry I haven't written for a while - I was quite busy before leaving for vacation and I had a few group projects and a paper due this week (I finally have homework!!). So there should be a new blog updating you about my life in Bordeaux and one with all the detail from my Spain/Portugal trip soon (as in Friday or Saturday, hopefully!!). Until then, I have posted a picture from Cascais, Portugal!!... read more

My first class was International Business Marketing - we had it for 2 1/2 days straight - now we're done until the final...hopefully I took good notes! :) We had a group project - a 5 page paper and a presentation - it was interesting to get it done in one night - definitely not the best project I've ever done! My French class is really easy - some people in the class can't even read French and don't know some of the basics - but hopefully it'll get more difficult as the class goes on so I can learn more French and become better at speaking it. I had basketball practice last Tuesday and it was a lot of fun!! It was hard to understand everything, but towards the end I was able to figure ... read more

I probably should have started this when I got here; but since I didn't, the first one will just be super long! I will try to update weekly, if not more often, depends on how much is going on. The flight over went really well. The food was quite gross, but what else can a person expect from plane food? :) None of my baggage was lost, so that was also good. I was picked up from the airport by a girl from the school. We also picked up two girls from Greece, a girl from Mexico, and a girl from China. They were all very nice! The apartment is very nice and is in a very good location. The only downfall is that there isn't a living room area where people can come and hang ... read more