My McChicken tastes exactly the same. The things I do for internet access. Dinner party in less than an hour and I spend S$12.30 on a meal here. Won’t have time to upload photos I think, not if I want to finish all my goals for the half hour I have left.
I’m staying outside of Lyon proper, with an old woman who’s extremely paranoid about getting into trouble should anything happen to me, but the fetters she puts on my doesn’t chafe too badly, yet.
Just to put things into perspective, it’s dangerous at night, when it’s dark, but there’s a total of maybe 6 or 7 hours from 10, when it starts to get dark, to 5, when it’s totally bright daylight. And she prefers I return at 7 for dinner, so that’s maybe two and a half hours for visiting the roman ruins, the Notre Dame of Lyon etc.
Today, there’s neighnourhood party, so I couldn’t go with the rest to old Lyon and the Saint Jean-Baptiste Cathedrale.
I packed for summer, and I got frickin’ 13 degrees Celsius. The locals also say that it’s not usual weather, that by this time it’s warm. I see trenchcoats and leather jackets everywhere and I feel even colder. Some of us have resorted to borrowing warmer clothing.
Yesterday it was raining, and we went on a boat trip on the Saône river. I think I froze there. The rain isn’t heavy compared to what we have, but the winds are strong.
This weekend, I’m hoping to go on a day trip to avignon, a couple hours train ride from here, but the details are sketchy and I’m not sure if it’s possible, especially if the weather stays this way.
So far, school is relearning everything we’ve learnt before, with lots and lots of listening and oral practice. The good thing is that it’s difficult not to use at least a little french outside of school. The bad thing is, it’s easy enough to get by with english really.
Breakfast is bread and butter (baguette of course, but they leave their bread out to harden and omg is it hard to eat), lunches at the school is ermm, a lot a lot, not amazing but not that horrible either. Dinners tend to be microwaved unless my host’s son or daughter is around, which is probably really rare.
The good thing is, I’m eating cheese everyday (and yogurt, but still think that Meiji strawberry yogurt is the best heh). No wine, apparently not all families have aperitifs for meals, but that’s fine with me.
That’s all the time I have, so until next time!
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