This past week at Conversation Club we were talking about American TV shows. The French only watch American shows and hate their French ones. They LOVE Greys Anatomy and How I Met Your Mother. One girl in the Conversation Club met Patrick Dempsy once! It was so crazy and we told her that practically every girl in America would be jealous of her. Her parents live in Lyon and there is a big car race there. Patrick Dempsy was there for the race and she said she saw him and ran up to him and started telling him how much she loved him and the show. She said he was really nice and talked to her for a minute, then gave her the pen he had in his pocket (kind of random, and she asked us if this was a normal gift to give in American haha) and then HE KISSED HER ON THE CHEEK! She said she walked away and then fainted hahaha
Wednesday night France played Brazil in soccer so we went to a bar to watch the game with some of our friends. It was so much fun being watching the French people watch the game. And then France won 1-0!! It was a huge upset!
This weekend we visited St. Malo, a town on the northern coast of France, and Mont St. Michel. St. Malo was a really neat town. It has a wall that surrounds it to block the city from the wind coming off the ocean. You can walk around the top of the wall and look out over the English Channel or over the town. We of course had to go out on the beach and touch the English Channel. It looks a lot like the Atlantic but the water is a little greener. The beach didn’t have as many shells as the South Carolina beaches do but it was still really pretty. We heard it was going to rain that day, but the weather was absolutely gorgeous!! It was pretty warm and the sun was out. But we had our rainboots so we decided to walk into the water since it was the English Channel. It was so much fun! Afterwards we ate lunch at this really cute crêperie. Everything was pink and white, and we were able to sit outside in the sunshine.
After lunch we went to Mont St. Michel. It was absolutely incredible! It is an abbey that was built in 700 on the top of this island in the English Channel. It has an absolutely breath taking view and then the abbey itself is so amazing! It is so hard to imagine that it was built in 700 when they didn’t have any of the technology or anything that we have today. The abbey was also used as a prison during the French Revolution so it was interesting to see how they converted parts of it into prison cells. We even saw one of the 30 people who live in the abbey. While we were in the main church part of the abbey, a nun walked out one random side door. One of our friends was joking about ringing the bell because the string was just sitting right there and she came over and told him not to or everyone would be confused because they only ring the bell at sunset. She was actually really nice and joked with us about it. The tide was low so we were even able to walk down onto the beach and look up at the abbey. It was absolutely incredible!!
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