Le week-end

French for weekend - pathetic huh?

Anyway, thought I should do a quick post on this otherwise will get distracted by Paris and never remember. So Saturday... went to school in the morning for Geography, then went for a promenade with Emma and Monique. There are lots of cute shops with cartoon things - like le Petit Prince in Montpellier! Saturday arvo a whole group of us met up in the city to go shopping/walking. The main square in Montpellier, La place de la Comedie, was packed all weekend because the telethon was on - a huge fundraising event. I made my first purchase (if food doesn't count), a teal coloured woolen jumper! On Saturday night for dessert we had chocolat fondue - yummy!!

Sunday my host family took me to a small village called 'Saint Guilhem le Desert', about a 40 minute drive. Here, we did a little hike - the first bit was all uphill and everyone was faster than me, but oh well! We walked for about 3 hours, stopping for a picnic lunch in the middle. Then we explored the little village before returning home. On Sunday evening I went to look at the Santon exhibition at Saint-Anne's in Montpellier (see Moniques blog for explanation of Santons) and so made my second purchase! (Although i forgot to check with Monique what she bough, hope we haven't doubled up - ah well!)

Monday was pretty normal. I sent some postcards, ate a pastry, called home, went to class, did some wandering. Monday night Emma slept over because on Tuesday...