Madelyn's Blog

Today has been a quiet day, recuperating from last night’s festivities. My family’s friends won on Pekin Express! It was quite the party, 20 or so middle aged french people crowded around the TV in the living room drinking champagne and watching their friend race around South Africa. The team’s chances were looking bleak until right at the end when they had a stroke of luck and took the lead, just in time to win. The guests didn’t leave until 1am, so 7:15 came tres early this morning. Also, the WiFi was out last night for several hours last night and we had a heck of a time getting it to come back on…luckily I had the French crowd to entertain me while I was incommunicado to the rest of the world. Class was good today, but long. Tuesdays and Thursdays always are. Luckily my teachers understand and we take breaks halfway through each class to move around and have a snack. After class I stopped at La Poste to get stamps, then came home and read for a while and fell asleep for about an hour before dinner. Augusta just came in my room, shivering… she and her friend were outside splashing around in the pool. It’s 10:30pm and about 50 degrees outside, and it’s been raining all day. Like I said before, she’s a little crazy. I can’t believe tomorrow is Friday already, my second week in Pau has flown by. The USAC group is going to the Basque country and to the beach on Saturday, I hope it’s nicer then than it was today and yesterday. On the bright side (no pun intended), I am beginning to conquer my irrational fear of precipitation. I walked to and from the bus stop today in the rain sans umbrella and didn’t flail or run or squeal at all. Time to get ready for bed and read for my Haiti class.

MDCV!

(Merci a Dieu c’est (presque) vendredi)