Claire and Parties

On Saturday, I went to Claire's house. The girl that invited me to her birthday party. We are best friends now. She has a really cute cat that used to be homeless so they kept her. Her name is Scarlet but we call her Mimi. She's just had an operation. Apparently she had run away that morning so Claire and I went out to look for her. We looked in the woods and around their house but we couldn't find her. We went back to the house and her dad showed us some cardboard boxes and she was sitting in between all the boxes! Probably trying to get some peace and quiet. We cuddled her for ages because she deserved some cuddles and she purred and purred. We left Scarlet to purr and count sheep while we went upstairs and played on the computer. We exchanged emails and played girl games. After we trampled down stairs to have afternoon tea. I couldn't believe it when she showed me what I could have, she had packeted bread! Who would want to eat packaged bread when you can eat freshly baked bread and run down to the store and see all the goodies the Boulangerie is selling?! I ate Nutella on bread. They do have Nutella here but they don't have Milo. We went upstairs to play again. Time flew and before I knew it I was in the car travelling home.

I got changed into my 'cinderella gown' and grabbed my sparkly shoes and I was off to the ball. We arrived at our friends house Serge, Isabelle, Elisa and Raphael. Pascal, Kristine, Constance, Raphaelle and Charlotte were also there.We sat and talked, played on Elisa's laptop. Just hung out. We had chips and sausages and chicken for dinner. We had ice-creams and cake and for dessert. We stayed up till 12:30, but some children had already fallen asleep on the beds!

Ooops, time for dinner. Iv'e been so lost in our story I forgot about it.

Au Revoir

Carnival and Australian People!

Last weekend, Mormoiron had the village Carnival celebrations. All the children join in with dress-ups and we get to sit on tractors and ride around the village. I sat on the truck with my friends Tiffany and Malorie. All the small children dress up as fairies and princesses. The Mums and Dads follow the wagons through the village. When we had done the whole loop, we all stopped and went into the town hall for 'le goute'. This is afternoon tea for children. We ate waffels and sugar pastries.

Yesterday my school had their own little carnival! I went as a 'cool person'. I had a little bit of makeup and wore my glittery Converse trainers. One of my my friends went as a baby, she had pyjamas on and wore (ha ha) a nappy over the top and had bunny ears and a dummy hanging around her neck! Mettre (that's what you call teachers here Mettre for a man and Maitresse for a lady) used to be a fireman so he was dressed up in his big neon coat and the 'fireman' boots. Another friend, Claire, came dressed as Mario, the DS character. She wore a red sweater and had stuffed a pillow underneath it. She wore overalls over the top and had put red silk over the top of a cap and drawn a little Mario sign and stuck it on top. Marion, one of my closest friends, went as a hippy and wore pink pants that were drawn all over. A flower dress and a headband around her head. Plus giant glasses!

Yesterday we took Tristan, the big dog down the road for a walk through the mountain ridge near our village. Mum came too, and so did Catherine, the owner of Tristan. We also had Tahlia with us for the day. She is an Australian exchange student who lives nearby,this year. We picked almonds from last autumn and some thyme. When we arrived back to Catherine's house, we had cups of fresh thyme tea. I really liked it.

Today we went to Pernes les Fontaines, an old town with 40 fountains. We walked all around the town and found all the fountains. The first fountain we saw was dou Caire de Roubino. We walked past a big church. Since it is Sunday, there was a service going so we couldn't go inside. On the church wall there were these sun dials that the Romans used to tell the time with. We read a French plaque telling us how to read the clocks, so we read them and they were correct! We walked around all the squares and saw the beautiful old homes and had lunch at a Chinese restaurant. I had prawns and curry and ice-cream for dessert. YUM. It was a great day!

Now I've got to do my homework for school tomorrow.
Au Revoir!

Snow

We went to Vaison-la-Romaine with our friends Serge and Isobel and their children Elisa and Raphael. We got up to the Roman town and walked to lunch at a pirate restaurant! There were pirate statues everywhere in this restaurant and pirate menus and even pirate toilets!

We had meat and pasta and a Nutella crepe for desert. We went outside wanting to walk up to the town centre to look at the pretty houses and shops built from stone but it had started to snow! We thought this was awsome!

We kept walking but the snow was getting so heavy and it was so cold that we decided to go home and to come to this town again another time. We headed back down the mountain in the car. The snow was getting very heavy and I was surprised to see that it was even snowing in Carpentras and Mazan! We kept heading towards our village, Mormoiron and there was still more snow! When we arrived in Mormoiron, it was beautiful.

We went to school the next morning and by the time I got there the snow was mushy in the courtyard! Our courtyard is like in those fairytale books when the courtyards are made of concrete and you just play on the concrete and eat standing up. It's very casual.

Au revoir!