today is hot again!

im at an internet cafe right now; the school internets not zorking unfortunately. excuse the spelling mistakes. i actually wrote most of the following txt in french as practice, but i guess i can translate it in english... :p

On FRIDAY we found out that our excursion to Chammonix had been cancelled, due to horrible weather. So after our french lesson, Mel and I went to the train station and decided wed go to Annecy Saturday afternoon, thats a city about one hour from here, with a very pretty lake. We also stopped to buy a little book of conjugations of french verbes, very handy for correct speaking.
Im a bit sad because I know that if i zas to ask an average english person who has never studied a foreign language, 'conjugate an auxiliary verb', hed have no clue what im talking about.. there should be more grammar taught at schools. My friend Mel here studied English Literature in Brighton and even she knows very little!
Anyway, friday night I met a dozen people at the Cathedral bar, it was really nice because we were a random group with all nationalities, fro, english to spanish to hollandaise and dutch, canadians.. and random italo-australians! I spoke to Nadia, a spanish woman in italian, and she answered in her language.

SATURDAY began with rain and didnt stop. i caught up with some friends in the morning to look at the local markets, but wesnt much impressed as 90% of the stalls were only about food, any type you can imagine! Nonna torno volentieri a Conegliano per quello! we went for a coffe (surrounded by english, i was the only one not to have TEA) and then divided. in the afternoon Mel and I were supposed to catch the train for Annecy, but it was still pouring down and cold; so we thought going would be a waste of time in that grey weather. Instead, we decided to buy chocolate, cookies and red wine to have a much warmer and more pleasant time in her apartment. We relaxed, going back to the supermarket 3 times, watching horrible tv and talking about the failure of today's marriage institution.
Theo, Mels spanish roommate (also a student), joined us for dinner and told us about the strange animals he'd eaten.. virtually everything except half-alive monkeys.. mostly in China. Later we went dancing and the place was pleasantly busy. i slept at Mel's that night, as id told my host, it had been a good night.

On SUNDAY I almost fainted, probably due to the drop in te,perature and my low blood pressure. So before meeting Jess and Mel I made a nice omelette. We went to see the impressive museum of the Savoir in town, very interesting. We then moved on to watch a movie at Mel's on a laptop with chocolate, wine and pizza.

Today started school Browlyn, a girl here from Perth! shes just finished studying at the University of WA, which ill also be attending. It was nice to hear the aussie accent again!
The coming week seems exciting, on Wednesday ill be going to Annecy, and at 10pm attending salsa classes at a pub :) Saturday sees an excursion to Genevra to visit the United Nations centre, maybe something fun in the evening.

Must get going now, greetings to all!
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