Barcelona Day Dos!

Last night we slept with the door open because it was so hot and as a result all got a lot of street noise. Some include screaming, bottle smashing, and more screaming all in different languages. It was a bit annoying but I slept pretty well regardless.

We got up around 8 and all kind of just woke up as a result of the noise. We decided to go get hostel breakfast of bread and muffins and juice/soda. Not juice or soda but it was like a strange combination of the two. It was odd but good. The bread was half stale but there was strawberry jelly which was really good. After that we came back up and got dressed. I chose to wear my black dress because it was supposed to be really hot. But the problem with that is humidity bumps on my inner thighs when I walk around because I forgot my longer shorts to put under it. That was kind of stupid of me. I wore my nike flip flops.

Once we were all ready we went and sat downstairs to wait until it was time to leave. I found out then that it was for an hour and that we were meeting in town at the bus place so I said well screw sitting around I can do that anywhere I'm going to walk around. So then everyone was like oh that's a good plan. So we just started walking and saw some cool buildings and stuff. We didn't really have a plan which was kind of the part of the day so far that I liked best. We took some group pictures in front of a cool arc thing and then looked at a flea market and looked at prices for a boat tour around the port. It was really pretty though.

After that we went to the buses to go on a city tour. The first place that we stopped was at a big church that looked over the city as well as near the Olympic park from the Summer games of 1992. Sally really wanted to see the arena so we ran up a bunch of stairs and rushed to get to see it in the twenty minutes that we had at this stop. We really kin of had to book it and only had a couple minutes at the site but it was still pretty cool. There were a bunch of gold columns and a big Olympic statue column thing. After that we ran to get back on the bus and I get scratched by a bush and it bled a bit but it was more annoying than anything else.

Then we stopped at a spot that looked over the port. It was really pretty and there were a bunch of fountains and this weird but cool ring around the rosy statue. It was cool but I guess it was supposed to look like a Spanish dance but it really just looked like ring around the rosy. We took pictures of the city which was really cool to see but I am sure won't be as cool in pictures. We were all getting hungry and a bit cranky at that point.

After that we drove two miles in about an hour down a really crowded road at lunch hour rush down a road right next to the port. There were some cool statues and sculptures. One was a brass lobster with a happy face that I want to get a picture with tomorrow. We finally arrived closeish to the Sagrada Familia church. It was really pretty. We walked to around the outside which was gorgeous but we didn't have time today to go in it. I took lots of pictures of the outside which isn't finished being built yet. It started being built in 1880 and isn't projected to be done until 202(6?) ish. It looks amazing though and I kind of like the idea of creating a modern cathedral like that because when you think about it there aren't very many modern ones there are just lots of old ones. So I think it's cool that now they are making a new one.

We were all really cranky so after we walked around the church we went to go find some food. We ended up going to a restaurant and I got a ham and cheese hot sandwich which was really good. I put mustard on it to just give it some flavor. It was good and we also had to buy bottled water because the water here is not good to drink. We had lunch and churros and then we headed out to find the buses again.

We got a little lost finding the buses but then retraced our steps to find the way to the buses but then we ran into some other kids on the trip so we followed them. On the way I saw a lot of like scissor signs with cross out signs to say what I assume was no cutting on them. When we got back on the bus we passed the hospital Saint Paul which was really gorgeous but apparently is unenterable to the public. So that is sad. It was really pretty red brick though which I really liked.

The. We went by a big public garden which once had an albino white gorilla named Snowflake once lived. Now the gorilla is dead though so that is sad. We passed by the arc du triumph of Barcelona which was really cool and made of the same red brick. After that, we passed by the houses of Gaudi which our your guide pronounced very strangely. The houses were pretty cool and one of them reminded me of the egg Easter houses with the lights in them that I used to use as a night light. They were really cool and colorful.

That has been one of my biggest surprises about Barcelona so far is that it is not as beachy and not as colorful as I thought it would be. It is still super nice but just not really meeting up to expectations in the color aspect. Some things are but as a general atmosphere I am surprised that it is not more colorful. It is still a pretty awesome and monumental city though.

After that we got off the bus and then the rest of my group told her that they were leaving on Tuesday morning early so not to look for them. We left and went past our hostel and to a supermarket to buy some alcohol and juice to have a little party tonight. We brought that and some souvenirs back to the hostel and then decided to go out for dinner.

We walked along the main road and found a place that offered tapas and paella for cheaps. It turned out to all be seafood so I decided to skip it and get a pizza. I tried some of Sally's paella and it was pretty good but very seafoody. We also got some sangria which I found surprisingly delicious. I could have drank a lot of it because it was so delicious but it was alcoholic so I wouldn't.  We had dinner which was fun. We talked about everyone's spirit animal because Gina is into Wicken stuff. It was fun to talk about because I already knew mine from talking to Megan. She uses the idea of spirit animals for her theater stuff.

After that we came home after looking at souvenir shops on the way. We came back and I changed clothes to wear pants because from walking around my legs got huge red like welt on them... Grr. Annoying... It's times like this I wish I was one of those girls with a thigh gap... :-/

We came home and then my friends decided to go get ice for my thighs which I thought was really sweet of them. Then they came back and we played kings cup with modified rules and with wine. We played with a deck of cards I had bought. It was pretty fun and the whole night was pretty fun. We had bought a bottle of vodka and then juice and then had a bottle of red wine left over from last night. I didn't drink too much and know not to go past a limit which I never even got close to. So that was good. Some of my companions though were not so lucky and got sick. I think I did an okay job taking care of them. I went and got more toilet paper from downstairs where the guy who runs the desk was so bored he started talking to me about movies. I talked with him for a while but then in my head was like dude I just want the toilet paper. And then ended our chat and left.

When I came back up things were not going as well as when I left. Some of my companions were not doing so well and one threw up over the trash can in our room and another I escorted to the bathroom where he stayed for a long while getting sick and then feeling better and then vice versa. It was not so good. But I think I did okay in helping remedy the situation. After that we sat around (those not sick) and talked a while. Luckily I was already in pajamas which was nice. Then I went to sleep.

Also we found bed bugs in our room which is really gross so I am going to be careful and inspect my clothes before I leave. Belch gross!

Welcome to Barcelona!

I woke up at 5:10 and was surprisingly awake. I think I had been so worried about over sleeping that I was on edge all night. I woke up at 430 too. But I woke up and put on clothes and went to the living room. Madame was up and Beebow was staring at me as he does in the mornings. Madame wished me a safe trip and hoped I would have a good time. She offered for me to take some food with me for the trip but I declined because I didn't really want to eat anything. I double checked I had all my stuff and then went out the door.

I got to the hotel whichever was a little scary walking alone when it was kind of dark still and all the drunk people were walking around. I put all my valuables on my person in case my bag got jacked. It was all good though. I got there and found Patrick and we got on the bus. Gina, Sally, LaSia and Jonny. They sat in front of us so we were all together.

We all passed out on the bus until about 8:50 when the bus stopped at a convenience store to take a bathroom/breakfast break. I bought a chocolate milk which didn't taste too bad so that was good. Also a baguette that I shared with the group. Gina, LaSia, and Jonny ate these little cheese things. They were really cute. I saw something finally that I could have bought for Thad but I didn't go for it... :-/ maybe I will find something better. They put on the first Sherlock Holmes movie on the

We watched a video of Barcelona which was cool. I guess some important guy wanted the government to build 60 cool houses but then they only built 2. After that they wanted to build a room with 100 columns and it is called the room with 100 columns but there are only 84! LOLs. After that the lady came in and asked who we wanted to room with. The six of us got a room together which the lady was hesitant about because we were mixing genders but it's not like we are going to be doing anything so it was fine I guess. We are adults.

We got to Barcelona and got off the bus to go get some lunch. We walked past the column with Christopher Columbus pointing to America and a bunch of lion statues. After that we walked along one of the major streets where there were a lot of tourist shop things. They had some cool looking stuff but we didn't really have enough time to look at them. We went to this little restaurant where the waiter wasn't the greatest. I had a plate of spaghetti and went against my better judgement to not get pizza which was a bit dumb. I should have gotten pizza.

After that we headed back to the bus to get our stuff. We got put back on the bus to get talked to and then after that got back off the bus to get our stuff and walk back the way we just were to go to to our hostel. It was kind of chaos getting everyone into rooms. But eventually we got it figured out. We got two room keys for our room and then we have our own bathroom between the six of us.  It's not too shabby. It's a dorm size room with four bunk beds and a set of lockers. Our bathroom is a shower with a single toilet so it's one room. It is our private bathroom though for the six of us so it is nice.

After we did that,  we left the hostel to go on a walking tour of the city. It was pretty cool but kind of chaotic and hard to stick together so by the end of it there were only like thirteen of us. We walked by the Barcelona Cathedral which took over 700 years to finish. That's a long time. Oh and I figured out the guy who wanted to make the 60 houses was Gaudi who is apparently a pretty big deal here... And his stuff is pretty cool. We walked around a lot and went by lots of cool shops. Lots of them were VERY expensive though.

After that my group went to the tourism office and I bought a map of Barcelona. I figure I can give it to mom when I'm done. After that we went to a big market. It reminded me a lot of the Spanish markets that I have been to. Oh wait... Duh that's probably why... I'm stupid sometimes. I bought some fruit cup and then a sliced mango and it was literally the best mango of my entire life. Yes. It was so good. After that we went to the grocery store to get some snacks. I tried to buy oranges but then after waiting twenty minutes in line I needed to have a barcode so I just said whatever. The group bought two bottles of wine to share later.

We dropped our stuff off at the hostel and then we went to a place for dinner. Tonight was a soccer game between Barcelona and Real Madrid so everyone was watching the game. The tv was on so we watched it too. Barcelona won so people have been celebrating tonight. I ordered a chicken and pineapple salad which had shrimp in it so but I just ate it anyways. We also got desserts and I got pastilleroz maybe that's how you spell it. It was cream puffs with chocolate on it. It was very good. I also tried Jonnys Cuddlefish and Ginas creme Catalan which was pretty good but not as good as creme brûlée according to the group. I was the only one who got not the creme Catalan. It was good though.

After that we came home and I learned we don't get towels so I decided to go buy an expensive but cute Barcelona towel. The group came too and I finally found something (lame but cute) for Thad. I also got something for Spencer and eyed something for mom so I can get it later.

We came home and popped open a bottle of wine and I took a shower. Literally the best shower I've had in 2 months. I was in heaven. I can't wait to take another one. We just chilled in the hostel for the rest of the time and talked. It was really nice and I liked it. :-)

We only get internet in the ground floor of the hostel so I will say bye for now! :-) Love you all!

Lazy Friday before Barcelona

Ce matin I woke up at 8 thanks to the constant and loud BANGING next door. It was so obnoxious. I yelled at them in my head and then knowing they weren’t going to stop I put in earplugs and shut all the doors. That helped a bit. After that I slept for another hour and then woke up and took a quick shower. Ha. They are all quick in my book. I got dressed and then had breakfast before heading out to the school to hang out for the day.

When I got there we sat for a while and LaSia seemed a bit annoyed because Patrick wasn’t checking his phone and they were trying to iron out their plans for the break and he was absent so that was frustrating I can imagine. We sat around and I went and printed my Paris Pass voucher for Paris which I had almost forgotten to do. Then after that I watched Spencers videos and then we decided to head out. We went to Claires and then over to the shopping centers and I bought some minutes for my phone so now I have it up and working again. I figured that was pretty important for my trip.

Cassandra and I went to Monprix where I bought apple juice, pizza goldfish, speculoos, and some cheap colored pencils. So no one sent me any! After that we went and got a pizza and then went and ate it in the cave and then killed time until 5. I colored and drew while Cassandra played on her iPad. Then we went to the bank and when we came back hit up the bathroom at the school just before they closed it. Then we went to Woohoo to celebrate finishing midterms and starting our break. Patrick met us there and we told him he was supposed to check his email and he seemed a little miffed a us that we told him that. But we were just doing what we were told. We got drinks and talked about stuff from Senior year of highschool and what everyones classes did and what trips their school took them on. I didn’t really talk much about that because their schools like sent them to Disneyworld or they put alarm clocks all over the school to go off at certain times. It was fun to listen to but I didn’t really have much to add. But that’s fine with me.

After that I went home and packed for Barcelona and then went downstairs. Apparently Paul is sick though so we sat on the other sie of the room as him. I hope I don’t get sick. That would really suck. But he played on my iPod and I talked with Madame about Barcelona and my plans and stuff like that. I told her I do not want to eat breakfast in the morning. She said she understood. After that Laurence came home and they talked about Paul. She told me some cool places in Barcelona I could check out and some foods I could try. After that Paul started another game but we were supposed to leave so I stayed til he finished though he started another immediately. But then I won anyways because the iPod died. He was not very happy but I said that’s what you get for not following directions. Then I went upstairs.

We had chicken nuggets and fries for dinner because we thought Paul was going to eat with us but then he was sick. So we ate it anyways and it was good. After that I tried to Skype Thad but the internet was not having it. After 20 minutes I stopped (sort of) trying to get it to work. I was really bummed though because now I might not be able to talk to him at all until next week… :-/ That’s a sucky concept… I hope that isn’t true.

Today is 5 months that we have been together and two of those have been with me gone. But I feel comfortable. We are pretty solid so that is helpful in all this.

Then Madame and I watched Masterchef and I went to bed early because I have to be at the hotel to leave for Barcelona tomorrow at 6am! Gross! But I am excited!

Mousse and Mice

 How I know I am learning french: Yesterday I learned a word for the first time and today I used it without thinking about it. WIN.

Today I woke up before my alarm again! But then I kept lounging in bed and napping for an extra hour. I decided to shower and shave and sort of figured out the best way to do it. I had turned on my iPod and forgot to turn it off of the single song repeat so that was a little annoying to keep hearing the same song. I got out and promptly changed it. Then I went and had breakfast and talked to Beebow. He played with the mice and I did my morning facebooking. After that I got all my things in order and decided not to bring my iPod with me this time. I also didn’t do the homework on the syllabus because I figured that we wouldn’t be getting to it today because we were already behind a lecture.

I was right. The other class was still in our room when I got there so I went down to the cave and found Cassandra. She was reading so I came in and interrupted her. Then Sally and Sarah came down from lunch. Then Gina came down with a new haircut and color. It looked nice but she said that she paid 75 Euros for it! That is crazy! I am just waiting until I get home. We talked down there about our break plans and then about other stuff. I started playing cookie clicker on my iPod which is a stupid game.

Then we went up to class and sat around on the stairs until the frenchies left our room. We went and had class. It was kind of interesting today we talked about the Ottoman, Austiran, and some other Empire. I just am blanking. We talked about the modern day countries that are there and it is interesting to think they have been there even less time that the US has. We think of the US as being really old but it really isn’t and some other countries are even younger than us! It was cool though we talked about all the countries and what language and religion they are.

After class I went and bought Vietnamese food and ate it in the library with Patrick before our class. We turned in our one page papers. And finally started talking about the Brother K. It was not very exciting but more of a little overview. There were a lot of people missing from class though, probably because break is so close. Well for me that was my last class. After it was over I was relieved! I am done thinking about school! I went downstairs and read until Cassandra got done with her class just to have something to do.

After she got done we went to a paper place close by to look for colored pencils. We found them but they were 7 Euros for 12 Crayola colored pencils. I pretty much decided I would forget it after that. I can buy those for less than a dollar at home. And I won’t be here very long so it’s no biggie. Then we went to Monoprix and Cassandra bought couscous and I had some very DELICIOUS chocolate mousse. It was so good. After that I came back home.

I started reading and then Madame came up to get her phone cord and we got to talking a bit and she told me I need to go out a lot when I’m n Barcelona and Paris. She thinks that I don’t go out and party enough and that I should even if I don’t like it to take advantage of my youth. After that I went downstairs and played with Paul. We played a game where you put up 4 cards and then have 4 cards in you r hand and the goal is to swap out your cards with the shown cards to get 4 of the same color. I asked Paul what color names he knew in English. He said he didn’t know any but then listed, green, blue, and red. I taught him the other ones. Oh and Orange but that is the came in French. Then Laurence and Jean-Claude came home and we got to talking. They asked if it was in the US that an Orca whale ate a woman and I said I didn’t know but I knew one killed her trainer by drowning her. (noyé= to drown) I just learned that word yesterday and then used it without even thinking about it. That means I really am learning French even if I don’t realize it! I felt really smart and I got my point across really well so that was cool.

After tat we came upstairs and Madame made sauerkraut and sausage and bacon and potatoes. It was very filling and pretty good actually. After that we had cake. I thanked her for dinner and then we started watching League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. It was good Madame slept. I IMed Thad and Cassidy and it was fun.

Tomorrow I am going to Happy Hour with Patrick and Cassandra and maybe others and will probably walk around a while with Cassandra when I wake up. No alarm tomorrow so we will see what happens. Should be fun. Now I’m watching Bridesmaids until I fall asleep. Goodnight!

Midterms Done!

 I am in a very good mood! :-)

Today I woke up and Madame had breakfast on the table. I had a pain au chocolat with jam which I though was a little weird to have chocolate and jam but it was good. I also had a kiwi and a banana. After that Madame and I talked about the weather as we do every Wednesday because they are laundry days! The French don’t use dryers so all the clothes are air dried or hung up outside. It is a lot easier to get your clothes dry when it isn’t raining out! It was supposed to rain today unfortunately so that wasn’t so good. I gave her my laundry anyways and before leaving she told me she might make a cake today!

I left and went up to my history classroom. Thad was online so I talked to him a little bit before class. That was nice. Then I had class and had trouble concentrating, in fact all day I had this problem. Class wasn’t very interesting today it was just describing a building that I had already read about so I wasn’t too interested in it. After class I uploaded a bunch more photos to Facebook of my trip last weekend. After that I watched the new videos Spencer put up of him playing games.  I went and got a baguette and some oranges for lunch and then ate them in the cave. I listened to music today and doodled. After that I decided I should write my one page paper. So I did that and then went and talked to Grace about our Paris plans. We figured out we wanted the 4 day Paris Pass and I also bought our tickets for the Eiffel Tower. I also bought Cassandra and I’s tickets for our 5 hour tour of the Dachau Concentration camp for Munich. We don’t have a lot of time in Munich but really I just wanted to go to Germany and I really wanted to go to a camp so I am accomplishing those two things which were secret goals that I had for this trip. I am excited. I am really into World War II/ Holocaust stuff so I think it will be an invaluable experience.

 After that I went and printed out all of this information to be sure that I have it ready to go this weekend because the school and therefore printer will be unusable during the break. I am not looking forward to Tuesday/Wednesday morning because I get back from Barcelona at 23h and have to be AT the train station at 6 to go to Paris so it will be more like a nap than anything else. Hopefully I tire myself out in Barcelona and get some sleep on the bus. But it will all be worth it no doubt. I am excited for both. After that I tried to look over some verb stuff for my Midterm but I don’t think it really helped.

I went in to the final and because I had nothing to study for it was nice but also frieghtening. She gave us a passage in English from the book of Peter Pan and we had to put it into French. It was not easy. I got really mixed up with the verb tense so I think there will be errors mostly with that. Then we had an excerpt from something else in French that we had to put in English. I am much better at going that way. So I think I did alright on that section. I didn’t come out of the test feeling good but didn’t come out crying so that means I must have done okay. I was the last one to finish about 20 minutes after everyone else and I went over time. I just kept getting blocked on words and because I was slower it was awkward to ask the meaning of words she had said before so I would write them down and then get caught off track. But I did finish.

I came home not feeling super great but then I got to read a bit before Paul came up. He played some minions and Temple run and then went back down. Madame made dinner. I was sitting playing with paul and was like dang it smells like Bacon… I miss bacon. Then when she put dinner on the table it was green beans and BACON and ham! All things that I like!!! It was great. I bet when I tell my friends tomorrow I had bacon they will all be jealous. It was soooo good though. Then we had bread and cheese and then Madames cake with Nutella. It is a srange cake because it isn’t exactly sweet but it is soft and spongy like cake. Its almost like an angels food cake but not sweet like angels food. It is good with Nutella though. It also has a strange smell that is familiar but I can’t place. It tastes good though!

 After that I got to talk to Thad which put me in a good mood. J Madame keeps getting game notifications on her phone that I am trying to figure out how to turn off. The owl movie Legend of the Guardians is on TV and we have been floating between other channels and that movie. It looks cute but also like why is this movie about owls except to show how many different owls there are. Madame gave me a pamphlet of the animals that are native here and it is cool. Tomorrow is my last day of classes and then I am on fall break!!! Woo hoo!!!

Also I figured out finally why there are sometimes random J's in my posts! They are smiley faces from Word that when I transfer them to here they turn into J's! Hahah! Mystery solved!

History is History

Today I woke up at 9 which is weird because I usually sleep in until ten. I think my body was scared about not being ready for the test… I got up and had a Pain au Chocolat and a banana, then took a shower and got dressed. I went and put up my blog and then sat down to study. Spencer created a livestream so I can watch him play games in my free time but today I didn’t have any because I had to study. .. Boo. I studied here and then around ten thirty decided to study at school. I packed up all my stuff including a bag of all my snacks which I learned I don’t eat unless they are at school. So I walked to school and when I got there put my food in my locker and then went and studied some more until noon when we started the class.

The professor didn’t really give us a specific thing to study so I had to look back at the last 6 weeks of notes to guess what it would be. When we got the subject it was really vague and also covered a really large time period. I wrote 4 ½ pages and put in a lot of info so I feel like I did well but I am not sure if I covered the material that he necessarily wanted? I guess I will see but I didn’t come out saying I failed but I would say it was probably a solid B or B- at least. It is hard to tell because each person that I talked to about it wrote something different and thinks that was explicitly what it was asking for. One girl I talked to said she thought she didn’t do well and that she had mixed up the leaders of each country. She asked me, “So Bismark and France made an alliance again Prussia right?” I felt bad but I was like “No, Bismark was the leader of Prussia…” I didn’t have the heart to tell her an alliance between Prussia or Austria and France was never a thing… I feel bad. Also I threw away the shirt I was wearing because I realized that every time I wear it, it makes me mad because it fits really bizarrely. So I decided it wasn’t worth putting up with anymore and chucked it.

Patrick wrote his on the revolution and about Napoleon and I didn’t really talk about that but focused more on post-Napoleon Era. Cassandra talked more about the later revolution and didn’t mention German and Italian unifications. And I did some on the second revolution/overview of France and then the German and Italian unification. So I guess one of us will get it. We’ll see. But I feel like I put enough information in mine (though I had some slip ups I think but not on big stuff just like years) to justify getting a decent grade. So I guess we will see. He probably won’t get it done by Thursday so I will have to wait until after break, so I will have completely forgot about it by then.

After all that I went to a boulangerie and bought a slice of pizza and a GIANT cookie for lunch to celebrate not doing terrible/ if I did I have good conscious that I ate my feelings ;-) After that I had to go to my Literature class where we talked about the film that was like City of Angels. It was a good class. We got off topic a lot though but I think it was still good. Tomorrow I need to write a whole page about the movie. Man that page is going to be sooo hard… Not. The topic is so vague I could write on anything about the movie. I have some good ideas of what I want to say so I can probably just throw it out tomorrow during my big break before my midterm that there isn’t a way to study for. It’s for my translation class and it’s a text from French to English and then another from English to French. It will either go well or it will go poorly… So hopefully it goes well. I am mostly concerned about my verb tenses and their English equivalents so I might be able to review that before the test. After class I went downstairs and got in another 40ish pages in this book. It is still boring to me but I am starting to get used to the style which is making it easier to get through. I have a hard time with the characters though. I find them all very obnoxious and unbelievable. They are all drama queens in my opinion and not the good ones. Hopefully the murder happens soon.

After that Patrick and Cassandra got done with their class so I went and caught up with them before they left. Cassandra agreed to go with me to get a crepe because I was hungry. We went and got that (banana and nutella, I have a thing for bananas right now) and then as we were sitting there I was saying how much I wish I had a little like sketch pad to doodle in since I have been feeling creatively stifled/ really wanting to be artsy because of how inspiring everything is here. After I ate my crepe we went up the street to a paper place that I had heard about. I learned I should have bought my notebooks there since they are cheap and have more options. But we eventually found a cheap and good little sketch pad. I like it, it’s Pink! I don’t imagine I will be making any masterpieces but sometimes I just want to doodle. Come to think of it I don’t even have a pencil that isn’t mechanical… That’s a problem… Oh well. Then I would have to buy a sharpener and that’s too much work. But if I get annoyed with my pens or mechanical pencil I’ll go get one.

After that we parted ways and I came back to the apartment. When I came in Madame was cursing up a storm about her phone because she couldn’t figure out why it kept making weird noises. I learned one of her apps had sent her a notification and she clicked it and it opened a ton of dumb things so that was why. I explained it to her and she said next time it did it she would show it to me. Also last night after I had gone to my room to sleep she knocked on my door to see if I was asleep because her phone kept making bubble noises (Did I say this already?) and she wanted my help to stop it. I helped her out and then she thanked me. Then she asked if I would rather have pasta or salad for dinner and I said salad. She ran to the store and I stayed and did my Provencal history homework. After that, we watched the Price is Right but French version and had a glass of rose and pretzel cracker breadstick things. I have had them before and they are good.

Then Paul came up and showed me his Skylanders that you can change the top and bottom of with magnets and then played some Minions. After a while Madame called me into the kitchen to see Beebow standing in the sink batting at the running water. It was pretty funny. Shari asked if she could use my pictures for a background for her books website and I said sure why not. I decided to share that info with Madame and she got really confused and somehow thought that I was giving them to Shari so she could say that she made the monuments? Or so that she could put them in a book about French monuments? It was very confusing and then we got to talking about like copyrights and stuff like that. But I mean I see no problem with that since they are my pictures and they are of public monuments, so I have a right to take them and give them to whoever I want. Madame just wasn’t understanding, but we got it all figured out. Then Paul went back downstairs and we had our salads. They were good. I had a mandarin orange for dessert and then three cookie wafer things. They are like KitKat bars but soft and bigger and with dark chocolate. I wrote my blog and finished my homework while Madame watched the news. She watches a lot of news. Tomorrow it is going to rain which she isn’t happy about because that is when she usually does laundry. She says she might make a cake tomorrow if she has time.  I talked to Chris and Melissa a bit tonight and Melissa told me some cool places to go in Barcelona since she went there last year for a weekend. I am pretty excited to go though!

After a while Madame and I got tired so we decided to head to bed. She was yawning which would make me yawn and then would make Beebow yawn. And now I just yawned thinking about yawning. It was all very funny.