France

At the park 

At the bastille (with Daniella)

As you have already heard I have been in France for the past week, more specifically, Grenoble. I won't give you a blow by blow account, well... not a REALLY blow by blow account. On Thursday (the first morning there) I spent two hours in school and then the rest of the afternoon touring Grenoble, notably the fortress (accessed by a gondola type thing) and eating lunch in a beautiful park, and by the way despite the Italians' fears, the food was delicious (a ham and cheese sandwich- made with a wonderful french cheese with onions and chives in it, at least I think that is what it was...). Friday, I

They just wanted to prove that I have worn jeans 

After lunch in a park 

At the bastille (with Louise)

spent an hour in philosophy class (in French no less), then we all met up to visit some museum: the museum on the French revolution, the Natural History museum (my favourite) and the museum of the Resistance (during WWII). Over the weekend Elena, Deborah and I (Elena and I were staying together) were at a scout (pronounced scoot) reunion- very proper kind of scouting trip, as in they set up tents (a mat, poles, and a sheet, more or less) and then played games. One of the games was telephone- the first time round pure French, but the second time round the sentence ("the rabbits have big eyes, a big mouth and two big teeth") started in Italian (translated by Elena) then, when it got to me changed over into English and was then immediately translated into French. In the end our sentence only lost the "two"! On Monday, we visited a cave. Absolutely stunning. Stalactites that were as thin as bucatini (and I'm not exaggerating), you could almost see the BBC April fool's joke being true in that cave. Not only were the stalactites tiny, they were also hollow! We also got to see some Protée, and I don't know how to say that in English. They look like ittty bitty sun-intolerant baby dragons. Incredible. On Tuesday, we went to a little town, but it wasn't very interesting, and in the afternoon we (Elena, our host family, some of their friends and I) played laser tag (I got 10th place out of 14- not bad for a first game). The next morning, we left- 11 hours back...
So I'm back!
Ciao,
Florence
PS Here are some pictures of Brieuc and Luca (Luca is the dark-haired one)

This is Luca 

A picture of Brieuc