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HEY LOVERS AND FRIENDS! Jo's back from France! whoa that rhymed, how cool? so its 3.40am here but im used to waking up now bc its 9am in france. and im craving croissants et chocolat chaud (hot chocolate) maitenent. obviously, im ina french mood haveing been there for 11 days, durr! wow that trip = AMAZING. but i did miss you all tons! so im debating whether to post the trip now or tomorrow. im thinking now. but its not 100% accurate bc we did so much it felt like we were there for a month and i cant totally remember so i have to check with others.
bc LJ's being gay n wont let me do that break thing, heres my France trip and a lil more if u care to read. its long FYI.
fri, 17th day 1- flew to paris. airplane food= pretty good. oh and at school, i spilled bosco sauce all over my crotch on accident. so i ended up walking around 4th n 5th hour with my shirt pulled way down past my crotch area. haha how graceful i am!
BA-OUI-A? ;)
sat, 18th day 2-arrived in paris. jo being the stupid and forgetful person she is, left her passport on the plane which made her wait at the airport for 5 hours trying to get it back and almost got sent back to the States after some one said they found it. so i missed le Louvre but i was so happy i was in france tho! dinner wasnt too great, fish and potatoes. creme brulee= oh lala good! shopping on the Champs D'Elysees i believe, hot guys everywhere. two of them go up to me, melissa, and kelsey and go "up against the wall!" so we basically ran into the souvenir shop (:
sun, 19th day 3-bus tour in the am, the tour guide kept on saying "you know" at least every 40 seconds that he talked. saw the Cathedral de Notre Dame. C'est joli! we were there on sunday mass too so we saw the priests, heard some of the sermon, and heard the choir. it totally added to the effect. my fave part was this kind of story sculpture of jesus or something. one thing that stuck in my mind was when the soldiers killed the boy babies and a mother was holding onto her son and the baby was crying and the man was about to kill him. the pain was so evident on the mothers face as well as the indifference. big words but i mean, it was amazing. wish i brought my camera. then for free time me, melissa, darcel, adele, joumina(sp?), cottie, liz, mackenzie, steve book, and maybe christiana+ben went to MOULIN ROUGE! yeah, sex shops EVERYWHERE. and more public toilets there too. used to pee? i think not! oh and there was a "Musee Erotic". yup, an "ercotic" museum...hmm. then we walked to the highest point in paris which was beautiful. the view was sweet. there was a cathedral at the top too. then at night with the group, we went on a boat cruise where me n melissa pretty much fell asleep bc it was the same as the bus tour but on water and not land. then we went to the EIFFEL TOWER! so there are local people selling keychains n whatnot and this one comes up to me and is saying he'll sell it to me for half price and i say no i dont want it. n then he goes on to say how comfortable n "beautiful" i look (i was freezing mostly bc my feet and shoes were soaked). so by now im trying to walk away and hes like "i love you, whats your name?" and yeah, it was awkward. we took the elevator to the top. wow, it was totally worth it.
monday, 20th day 4-took the TGV to Nice(south of France). mostly played Euchre with the adults (Julie, Tito!, and Barb). not to brag but its kinda funny how i never lost a game, just noticed that. yeah i tried to do my english speech but that didnt work out very well... then we were in Nice, got introduced to our bus driver Richard who Kara was obssessed with for the rest of the trip. just an FYI, he was 27, looked a bit older, but still cute. then we ate dinner there, wow that food was SO GOOD! and then we shopped at No Caro bc that was the only store open besides the street vendors.
tuesday, 21st day 5-drove to Toulon making stops in places like Antibes, which was very worth it. then the overnight ferry. that ferry sucked ass. the waters were choppy so we were lurching and bc we roomed in groups of four, there were bunk beds and i was on the bottom and everytime it creaked and i thought that camille(not that shes heavy) and the bunk would fall on me when i slept. and the ferry crew was CREEPY. one of them followed me and said my last name twice(soccer hoodie says "cheng" on it), once out loud, and one time whispering so that was WEIRD. couldnt wait to get off the damn boat.
wednesday, 22nd day 6-got to Corsica, went to Ajaccio and visited Napolean's original family house. also went to Bonifacio, cant remember a lot about this day bc i was so tired. dinner was amazing tho! (:
thursday, 23rd day 7-we went on a boat cruise, the water was so clear u could see the rocks at the bottom and all, and we went in a cave, so beautiful! there was the cutest baby in front of me and i sorta looked after her while she leaned back on the bench. her parents were nice too. lasagna for lunch, the place we (me, austen, AJ, marla, camille, lauren, kara, emily, adele, joumana, melissa, darcel, and im forgetting 2 peopele) ate at a restaurant that had an english tv channel! listened to music videos, creepy guys were looking at us from the bar. then me, emily, adele, melissa, and i think austen went to the medieval town on the hill. it was soo quiet bc it was lunchtime and everybody goes home for a 2hr lunch break...lucky! there were two guys that followed us from the medieval town to the bus which was about a half hour. then as a group we went to 2 beaches, white sand, blue waters. too cold to swim in tho. there were a bunch of mini-boulders in one that steve wanted to climb so we ran there and there was a bunch of stuff from what the waves brought up from the sea and steve sunk into all that and pretty much ruined his shoes and pants, they smelled like seweage. bad but hilariously funny at the same time. dinner wasnt as good as yesterday. me n melissa dyed my hair red. its temporary dye, dw, and its only a tint. i think that im going to buy some permanent dye tho and put it in, i love it, it looks really cool and its subtle, u can pretty much only see it in the light. in adele, joumana, and darcel's room they had the sign of the hotel below them and there was concrete behind the sign so i stepped out onto it was me n joumana people watched, and i think i saw the 3 hottest guys of the trip there. one had the shaggy hair and skateboard. it was sweet. sorry for the shallow-ness but its true! and they waved so that was pretty cool. oh and darcel's purse was lost or stolen this day too
friday, 24th day 8- free morning in Corsica, too bad all but 4 shops were closed. and those stores were expensive too! so we ended up walking around the city a few times. me, melissa, darcel, joumana, and adele that is. u kno that theres something wrong with the town if: 1) the police station closes at lunch 2) we walked through the city on one side of the street and walked through the city on the other side of the street in a bout 45 min. and we had 4 fricken hours of free time. roar. wasnt fun. then we drove to a few more places and ended up in the overnight ferry back to the Continent. ferry was MUCH better-we didnt lurch as much, the crew was nice(me n melissa bought smoked salmon and i asked this crew member to cut it for me and even though at first he thought i was hitting on him and was like avec moi? he cut it and put it on a plate with lemons and a piece of letuce for us! it was so nice). and there werent as many creepy perverted guys. there was this old guy who was prolly 60 who kept staring over in the general direction of me darcel joumana adele and melissa tho. gross! oh and so we got to our room and this guy wouldnt open the door for us bc there was something wrong with it apparently so he changed our room and we(me, melissa, lauren, and camille) got to the smallest and most isolated from the rest of the group corner of the ship there. and we couldnt get it normally opened by the crew members like the others, we had to get a special key. so we talked to madame and alexandra(tour guide person) and they got our room changed. and it was nice. me n melissa pretty much bummed out and talked a lot about relationships and stuff.
saturday, 25th day 9- got off the ferry and drove to Nice. Richard was replaced by another bus driver which kara was sadened by. free afternoon in Nice. since this week was Carnival(aka Mardi Gras!) me, melissa, steve, ben, kenzie, and cottie went to the flower parade. which sounds weird but there were a bunch of beautiful floats and others like people playing bagpipes(hahah isnt that sweet?) and they would throw mimosas at the crowd, which are these flowers that bloom only in february and they smell so nice. it was just so much fun bc everyone would attack each other with silly string, and i mean strangers and all that. it was one of the highlights of the trip for me! then all of us bought silly string and at the group check in we sprayed everyone and all 31 of us got silly string on them. it was so much fun bc it was like a huge spider-web. dinner=FABULOUS. chicken + rice. yeah ive determined that im more asian than i thought bc me n melissa went crazy over the rice. then we were locked in the hotel bc of the "shmarmy" and perverted people outside and in our hotel. about 7 of us did improv forfun and watched a movie after. oh and before, me n melissa were pretending to be ice skaters so we were doing jumps and "gliding", it was funny. then we heard footsteps and we thought it was the others coming down so we hid and pretended to be spies like army crawling and all that and i yelled out I WANT ME SOME ITALIAN ASS TONIGHT! (bc there were horny italion guys that were soccer players in our hotel that were there to "get fucked" as they said) but it ended up being the hotel manager. but he was cool and laugh and gave us high fives.
sunday, 26th day 10-drove to Monaco where we saw the guard change. the bandos in our group (me, steve, cottie, liz, christiana, melissa, and i think some one else) imitated them and did low-step stuff and a random photgrapher took a picutre of us doing that which wa pretty cool. i bought my last scoops of strawberry ice cream today. i usually HATE strawberry ice cream but in france its like sherbert but more tastier and better and it has chunks of strawberry in it and it was delicious, i wish they had it here. then a group of us shopped around. then we went to Fragonard, the perfume factory that makes perfume for brands like Chanel, Dior, etc. and so that was interesting. then we drove to a confectionary place and i got candied tangerines which is amazing, rose jam(which = love), candied orange peels, and chocolate. the waiter at dinner was crazy (like the crazy i am). food was pasta, the appetizer was AMAZING! its like a flaky pastry with a type of cheese inside, SO GOOD. then we packed and all that
monday, 27th day 11- woke up at 3.30am to eat and went to airport in Nice. hour flight to Paris, then flew home. the food was disgusting. and my mom got pissed that i bought clothes there. home sweet home...right. today-its now 5.38am, i have yet to do my hw and my mom saw my downstairs so i have to go to school at the regular time now. and i still have to check my mail and all that jazz so i must start soon!
*note: in France u couldnt smile at guys bc thats considered flirting. so that was weird for me bc im used to it. heres a list of shmarmy men that jo wanted to be cheap and kick them in the cough cough: ......actually, will do later if at all. shud do hw, bye!
pictures will be on a website
i had a weird dream where i slapped some one who will be unnamed and then i skipped school which byrd was okay with and then i went to a souvenir shop after arguing with ryan coghlan and i ended up and the beach playing vball in the sea.
tis now 6am. im screwed.