So I haven't blogged for about two weeks now, but there has been a lot going on. I am changing families for reasons that can be discussed on a one-one basis, ain't here to be acting like "dat DTOWN drama". For the last week and a half or so, I have been living with the Rolle's. They were life savers! Friday Oct. 22- Left school with Emmanuelle, a girl in my class and Martina, another exchange student, for the week.
This past week I've done a lot. I thought I posted a blog about what I did two weekends ago, but I guess it didn't go through-damn internet. The first weekend I was here I went to the birthday-day of the grandfather, 80. The grandfather has 7 children (Emmanuelle's mom being one of them), and all the grandchildren.
That day, 5 of the kids were there, with their children. We sat at a table for six hours. There was not one time when I didn't have a delicious plate of the mystery meal in front of me. Six hours of sitting and eating- vive le france! Everyone sat that long too, kids got up now and then, but were mostly at the table. It was appetizer after appetizer, then the entre, then cheese, fruit, then dessert, more dessert, and more, oh yeah, coffee. With every meat, or food really there is a different wine. I got to taste allllll of them! There was one man there who was like "A petit peu" which means a little bit, that turned into a little bit of everything- which ends up being a lot. When I would think we were done with eating, someone else would bring another plate of something. For dessert I had THREE. Not helpings, three different desserts served to EVERYONE on a plate (no bailey on a piece of wood)!!! It was creme brulee (sorry I don't have accents on my computer), chocolate mousee, and a slice of cake of your choice-pear or apple. Amazing. I ask myself EVERYDAY how people here stay so skinny. I have yet to find the answer.
Once we were FINALLY done and people started to leave, I thought we were too. I was wrong! The Rolle's stayed with the grandparents and ate ANOTHER meal!!! Although it was MUCH smaller than the others, I had just ate for 6 hours. I was amazed they could even fit another piece of food down their mouth..
As I was sitting there listening to the adults talk I figured out the grandfather lived through WW2 under Hitler's rule. COOLEST THING EVER. Well, not cool to have been under his rule, but to have survived and be able to talk about it is awesome. So Martina and I started asking questions. I found out that the Jewish didn't have ID cards so when they were asked to pull them out, that's how they were automatically sent away. ATTENTION: if you had a dark complexion, dark eyes, dark hair, didn't mean you were off to the camps right away. That is a false thought that floats around. The people in the North of France were obligated to give the Germans something every month, if not you were shot immediately or sent off to camp. Farmers stuff like milk, eggs products, etc. A lot of the people who were the guards at the camps were there to save them and their families lives. Talking to him was really cool. In the US there isn't someone I can talk to about WW2 and Hitler who actually lived under his thumb. I got to! To me, that is amazing.
Another thing I did this week was go to the Sea. The closest point I can get to home without getting on a boat!!! I really want to go to London before I leave. It is only an hour and a half Ferry ride!
The Friday before Halloween was cool. In the afternoon I went with Martina, the mom, the older brother and the younger brother to an actual WW1 battle ground. Trench warfare was what was used in WW1 and it was all trenches. It was cool to be somewhere where history actually took place. I know in the US I can go where the Civil War was fought, but here I can actually SEE where it took place. It was where the Newfoundlander's fought or something like that. I don't know much about Wars. When we got home, Emmanuelle had friends over and we dressed up and attempted to go trick or treating! I miss Halloween at home! It isn't big here at all. It's mainly for the little kids and people trick or treat during the day!
Halloween day I went to the Sea again (Their great aunt lives there). And we went to another family meeting/gathering, thing for another birthday. That time only 3 hours at the table. The food was mainly seafood. Not my favorite. So I tasted everything and what I didn't want I pushed all together hoping it would look like I ate a lot. I know I didn't trick them though.
Well, here I am today. Sitting at a desk listening to music because I'm homesick. I move today. BUT I don't know when I will get all my stuff-when I do it's going to be a pain in the ass because of how much I have...I don't know where I'm going, I don't know what I'm doing, but I guess that's the adventure in all this...
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