After that Paul went downstairs and Madame insisted that I
eat lunch with her. We had bread and ham and pepperoni like sausage but thicker
and drier and then 5 different kinds of cheese. I tried them all and really
only liked 2 of them. I forget what they all were but the Brie was my favorite.
After lunch I started trying to work on my papers again but I felt like I wasn’t
in a good head space. I wrote two pages for a one page paper but it was all
crap. So then I wrote an outline and wrote another page and it was just crap
too so I finally just gave up.
I started trying to read some Game of Thrones but Madame
would talk to me about what was on the TV. Madame was cutting vegetable to make
Ratatouille for dinner. We talked about the different vegetables and if I had
tried them before. After a while she ran downstairs and came up with some
curtains that needed to be sewn for some reason. Pretty soon Laurence came up
and talked to Madame and then asked if I wanted to go for a walk in the country
to see something. I didn’t understand so she started singing Hakuna Matata from
Lion King. I got the picture then. I said sure and then went and changed my
clothes to something more presentable than sweats. I threw on my tennis shoes and
went downstairs to get in the car. We drove for like twenty minutes and then
arrived in the country side. Paul told me about all the sites that we passed
while we were driving.
We got there and it was finally a nice day and a bit hot.
Paul rode/ had Jean-Claude push his bike once he got bored on the route. It was
interesting because it was like a random path next to a house and I gues it was
public but it really didn’t look it. We started walking and the route wasn’t too
bad. Pretty soon we came upon the beginning of the fence where the Warthogs
live. The area is like a preservation place so they just like live there in
this probably a mile long fence area that I couldn’t see the back of. Laurence
brought some stiff baguettes and we started hitting the fence trying to get the
warthogs to come out and say hi. We saw one big one on the way down but he was
too shy to come forward any. It was pretty cool. On our way back we were
complaining about how there weren’t any more nd how usually there are a bunch
who come when you feed them. We tried again on the way back and this time four
came out! It was pretty sweet and they got really close! Laurence said usually
they will come right up to the fence which they didn’t do but it was still
really cool. Paul liked to scare them away… -.-‘
I took some video and a bunch of pictures. I had never seen
live warthogs before so I was pretty pumped. After that we drove back home and
tried to clean out shoes from the mud before getting into the car. When we got
back Laurence asked if I wanted a crepe which I should have taken her up on
because it sounded really good. But I knew that Madame was making Ratatouille
and that it takes a long time to make so I should be ready to eat a lot of it. Ratatouille
is like a vegetable stew with zuccinni, Eggplant, Red peppers, green peppers,
tomatoes, garlic, and onion, and spinach. It was pretty good. We ate it with
Chicken. I had two helpings of Ratatouille. I did some homework for my class
tomorrow that I had forgotten about and then Skyped my parents. Paul came in
and they showed him our cat and two dogs since Kirby was outside. He liked
that. Then he started playing on my iPod until Madame realized where he was and
made him leave. The talk was pretty spoiled at the end when we had to try and
figure out what is going on with my financial aid and where money is and is
going to. I can’t get a hold of anyone there at home and they won’t talk to my
parents so it is really a big freakin’ pain in the butt to figure anything out.
We think that we maybe figured out why I am missing a ton of money so Dad is
going to try again to figure it out. I would love to help but really I don’t
think I can from here because my phone doesn’t make international calls…
I Skyped thad a bit and then remembered that my friend Matt
from OC had asked me to record a blurb for his radio show which apparently is
at 5 Pacific time today so I quickly did that in one shot without really
knowing what I should say.
I had a good day and did fun things but I am getting
frustrated with myself for not getting homework done well. I try and it is just
a lot harder to do here because I am not in a good head space so whenever I try
to work it just isn’t good. I also feel like I don’t really ever have space
here because I am constantly around someone. I feel like I need a bit of me
time…
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