Day 7- Football Match

SATURDAY 17TH JANUARY 2009
ARRAS, +10!!

Very lazy morning, woke up at 10ish and chilled in my pj's until 2.30pm. I think the family were kinda like umm.. you should get dressed now haha, but I don't care.. For breakfast we had toast- vegemite for moi, and the other piece with nutella, but they steered clear of the vegemite LOL. Convinced Maxime to eat vegemite tomorrow on the condition that I say 'grenouillet' ahh, Will definately be practising tonight LOL. Breakfast was a little wierd, we didn't use plates?! I was like what the hell ok..

We had an insanely big lunch- 3 Courses!! Beef stew, then big chunks of cheese (you just cut of a massive chunk and picked it up with your hands to eat?!) then pineapple yum! I was like 'wow, you want me to eat all that.. for lunch?' but it was good :)

Then Cami, Didier, and Maxime took me to a football (soccer) match- my first ever and it was mega different to AFL! First of all, soccer is tres boring compared to the fast-pace, high scoring AFl. Secondly, the players are so wussy!- They fall over and "hurt themselves" then 10secs later are completely fine!! LOL @ them.. Thirdly, they have one entire side of the stadium for the cheer squad which was hugeeeeee! Seriously I've never seen anything like it- it was CRAZY! The whole match, hundreds/thousands of people were just jumping and chanting and just generally being mad supporters!! The guy leading them was up on some podium... topless?! Maxime said that one time when it was -8, he still wasn't wearing a shirt!! "Allez Lens Allez!" they all kept saying- Lens is the team, and then won, so I bought a jumper afterwards :)

Had some crazy apple and cheese thing for dinner & with the BEST ICE CREAM I HAVE EVER TASTED. Just vanilla, but sooo damn good!! However we eat dessert without delay, straight after dinner. No such thing as letting your food settle! HAHA. Slowly am overcoming the language barrier.. Lentement..

Ash xx

ps- There's a clock tower right across the road from Cami's house, I can hear it every hour, on the hour- tres french :)