Le canteen... et l'equitation!!

Yesterday was a long day! I went to all of Mireille's classes except for the last hour of Geographie (the class went for 3 hours) - i was almost falling asleep. I also saw all the other Aussies, which was good after being a complete loner on Wednesday.

For lunch - we ate at le canteen, which is what we would call a cafeteria (American style?). It was an interesting experience to say the least. After class we basically ran there, but there was already a ginourmous line... so we then were squashed for about 20 minutes waiting to get in. Once in, you grab a tray and get in another line for food. It took about 3 tries for the man with the meat to understand my 'pas de viande, s'il vous pait!' but eventually he got it and instead gave me 4 eggs in this sauce stuff. (who could eat 4 eggs with lunch???) Then the lady with the vegies who was talking to someone compltely ignored me. Alas. Some self serve salad ( only 2 without meat - ridiculous!) and bread (of course) plus yogurt or fruit. Once you get your food you cant go backwards which is kind of annoying and then you have to find a table. ( another almost impossible feat) But it was definately an expereince; unfortuneatly one i think i will have to repeat...

Anyway; after school (at 7) came the good part of the day - horseriding!! yay!! The horseriding place is about 30 min out of Montpellier and from what I could see (it was dark) they dont have any paddocks but 2 outdoor and 1 indoor arena, some yards for ponies, and lots of stqbles for the horses. I rode a horse called Dragon, a not-to-big very sweet old grey gelding - I think probably the horse they put all the newbies on. But he was nice to ride. The lesson itself was hard given that I couldn't understand much of what the instructor said so just tried to copy what the others were doing. (Plus trying not to crash - everyone just rides every where and there are no rules about passing) But although it was very different - horses are still the same and so it was great!!

Eek, school soon so must go... Hope everyone is well...