Well another day here at Champfleuri. It's been an easy day as the camp that is here takes care of itself in essence. Last night we got to watch the most magnificent thunder and lightening storm. We sat on the front steps of our new home with our umbrellas so that we could see everything! I love storms and the ones here at Champfleuri put every storm I've seen in my life to shame. They are incredible! This morning we got up sooo early and set off to work thinking we'd beat the campers and get something done around here without running into them. Sadly this plan backfired and we ended up spending the morning doing basically nothing. In the midmorning we finally kicked them out of the game room just long enough to actually clean everything. After a morning of annoying waiting for them to change rooms we finally gave up and went grocery shopping in the nearby town. We got a little lost...okay a lot lost and ended up taking a really nice driving tour of the towns around here. It was soo pretty even despite the rain. When we finally got to town we went to two stores, a health food store for Lorraine and a huge store that resembles a walmart minus the great deals. Here we bought some stuff for the house (ie a shower holder and picture frames!) and then some much needed groceries so that we can continue cooking. The lessons continue and I can make eggs, hashbrowns, apple pie, pizza, rice stirfry and many other things. Kristin is a very good and patient teacher. She has also recently passed the camp driving test, which means that we can now go anywhere in the valley by ourselves! Ahhh such a nice perk to living here. Except we checked the price of gas and the conversion is about 8 bux a gallon...so driving isnt going to happen except to the store and church on Sundays. Speaking of church tonight Sam called and hes picking us up in about an hour to head to Grenoble for our first youth group! It's super exciting as it's a chance to not only meet some local kids, see sam's church, but also after a week and a half of no sam get some quality sam time! It continues to rain here so we've been stuck inside, thus the constant updates from both Kirstin and I. We've also discovered a bunch of games so we're going to be learning some great french childrens games! It's been so nice to have some time to relax and just talk. We've become coach bums during the evenings, either sitting watching a movie with the group or just taking. It's been nice to catch up after a rather rushed summer and just to express some thoughts and ideas about this year. It's been amazing and we're getting pretty close. It's going to be sooo strange to not share a room after eight months! We've also been recounting old stories with each other so I will leave off with a great one from Freshman year:
It was a normal wintery day and Catherine, Gio, Kristin and I where driving to LCA with my mom in the SUV. Just after we passed the northshore mall we hit a little snow, nothing too bad so we just kept going. Quickly though we found ourselves in bumper to bumper traffic sitting in about half a foot of snow...gosh u gotta love new england in the winter! So my mom decides to take some backroads to get us to school. It was a pretty important day for Catherine as Kristin and I recall it being the day of her health presentation...man its been a while huh? haha so either way here we are sitting in traffic now on the backroads and we decided to stop at this little dunks for a coffee and some breakfast as we where getting no where fast. Well after breakfast as w're all piling back into the car this snowball comes out of nowhere (actually it came from Gio's hand) and hits Catherine square in the back. What happened next was the best snowball fight Kristin and I can recall. It was sooo funny and then we spent the whole rest of the four and a half hour car ride to LCA completly soaked. Turns out when we got there that every class was basically a study hall and Catherine didnt have to even give her speach! So much for all the driving...at least it makes for a good memory!
off to youth group!!!! So syched!
God Bless,
Emily
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I was not driving or there would have been a rock and roll soundtrack
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