Cinquante-huit

Hello all. I don't have a lot of time today to write a blog post because I have some homework due tomorrow that I'm still working on, so I am going to skip writing about Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. They were average school days anyway and not much worth describing happened. 

Thursday we didn't have school. I didn't have any plans, so I ended up hanging around the house. I did some homework, cleaned my room well, and otherwise just relaxed. 

Friday afternoon I went with Andréanne and Nicolas to the cinema in Bulle to see "Anges et Démons" (Angels and Demons), the movie based on the Dan Brown book. I don't know how long ago it came out in the US but here it is new as of a couple weeks. I read the book a couple years ago but had more or less forgotten the plot. The movie was okay, not amazing, but worth watching. Sometimes it was hard to understand because half the people talking had Italian accents, and of course it was voiced over in French. But I got the jist of it and enjoyed the movie. Friday night I worked on my history presentation for three hours but didn't finish it.

Saturday was by far the busiest day of the week. I woke up around 09h30, showered, ate breakfast, and then wrote in my journal for the first time in a couple months. At noon we ate lunch (foie, but because Andréanne and I don't like liver, we ate leftover spaghetti instead.) At 13h00 Claudine and Alicia were coming to get me so we could spend the afternoon together. They couldn't find the house though so they stopped at the village bistro and I walked over to meet them. Then, we went in the car to Fribourg. We played minigolf which took maybe an hour and a half.. I got second place. Then we went a cafe called le café du Belvedere in the old part of Fribourg. We sat on the terrace which has an amazing view over la vielle ville (the old city) and the river that goes through the city. After this it was maybe 16h30 so Claudine and Alicia drove me home. Since I only have less than two months left here and the free time is already filling up fast as I make plans with people, we decided to plan two things together. June 10th I am going to go to Fribourg afterschool on the train to celebrate my birthday with them, and July 9th we are going to Ballenberg if the weather is nice. Ballenberg is an open-air museum in alps, in the middle of the country. There are a bunch of original buildings that have been deplaced from all over Switzerland to the park, and you can walk around and look at the original architecture. (Click here to read the wikipedia article about it.)

When I got home it was around 17h30.. My host parents told me that we were going to an impromtu barbecue at Tata and José's house, with Andréanne and Nicolas's cousins. When we got there we had to wait for some of the others to get there for like an hour, so we played volleyball in the yard. Around 19h30 or 20h00 when everyone had arrived, we roasted cervelas (a popular type of sausage eaten almost exclusively in Switzerland) over the fire, which we ate on a picnic table outside. There were also various salads, bread, and roasted lamb. After eating we played volleyball some more, just until it was too dark, at which point we ate dessert (ice cream and une tarte au vin cuit.. a sort of pie with a base of vin cuit, which is a syrup of concentrated pear and apple juice. It sounds weird but it's really good.) Around 23h00 we went home, and I washed my feet (we'd been running around barefoot) before going to bed.

Today I woke up at 09h30. I started working on my homework after getting ready for the day. For lunch we ate fondue chinoise outside, in the back of the house where there is a patio with a big awning over it. It was about 85°F out but in the shade it was nice. After lunch I kept doing homework. I've finally finished my powerpoint but now I have to study for geography because we have a test tomorrow.

Though we have a normal five days of school this week, next weekend we have another four day weekend (Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday.) I am looking forward to that!