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| Paris, Provence, Barcelona pt III |
[13 Nov 2005|02:21am] |
Day 7
Drove to Spain. It was supposed to be 6-8 hours drive. We stopped off at Carcassone, south of France, at a medieval castle. Très cool. Had fun in that, Finally got to Barcelona, oh my I was so lost. Spanish made me cry. We had a nice four star hotel cuz it got switched omg yes. Our two others were two star. We went off to Puxget through Metro, it was almost Puget, but not! Went along La Rambla, which is supposed to be the centre of barcelona, yeah. Went home, as it was already late.
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Day 8
Went on a bus tour of Barcelona. That was pretty boring, had some stuff about Antoni Gaudi, and the random big ass church that they're all obsessed about down there. Went into the olympic stadium. Went around place de Catalunya, had lunch. Went to an internet café, so yay to the people who bothered to send me emails, I love you more than those who did not.They gave us 5 hours of freetime, from 2 to 7pm. So Tab and I shopped, I think Natalie actually stuck around with us too that night. And I actually bought things too. Flamenco dancing was that night..Oh man..Tab and I were so tired, and so we totally passed out on the bed, and we had an alarm set for 1030 as we were leaving for Flamenco at 11. or 10 to 11 something like that. Uh.......we were still asleep and Ms Jeffery came to wake uus up, oh my we were embarassed as fuck, and gross loooking when everyoen else was all dressed nicely. But no one cared, Tab and I were just like hahahah omfoshfioahfoshfhsfohsf. And yes. Flamenco was interesting. Got back at 1:30.
( OHlaohla )
Day 9
Can't remember what we did cuz we didn't write it down. I believe it was another 5 hours of free time, went to see that church, went inside..Went to the shopping mall as it started to rain, so that's where we were. I wanted these amazing shoes, but htey were 60E and thats about 90 canadian, so I had to call my mom to ask permission haha cuz I'm a nerd, and by the time we got back to the store and after all tha ttrouble, they were sold out. SUCKY. That's ok they're cheaper here anyway....What else did we dooooo??Went down La Rambla again, were at the internet café. Were supposed to have an early night as we had to wake up at 5 am for our flight at 7 something. Tab and I watched MTV Europe awards...pretty much like everyone else did haha. Oh man German MTV I do not comprehend...Robbie Williams is EVERYWHERE.
( Eww home )
Day 10
Ew. Woke up at 5. Got down at 5:30. Went to airport. Were tired. I was so sad:( We all got to hug Mark as we left, I bet Natalie would've died happy from that haha, she loved him so..he was married though. And then plane it was. Plane it was. Took flight to Munich then the flight to Toronto. Yay second time in German airport..Um, read, ate, slept, watched Longest Yard, Fantastic Four, and a couple minutes of Gosford Park. That is one movie in which I need captions desperately and I will not attempt to watch it without it. So on the trip I went through withdrawal of feta and of captions. ANyways, arrived home, saw mom dad jenna, went home, suckied. I actually think I got yelled at that evening ..suckage. And now I want to go back, for I am "homesick" for it. I think I only missed one thing. Maybe small other ones but not really. Fun that was. I spent very little money so yay me, I rock. :( Now send me back to Europe..
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I commend you if you actually sat through all of this...
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| Paris, Provence, Barcelona Pt II |
[13 Nov 2005|02:17am] |
Day 4
Crap breakie again. We went to the Musée du Louvre. Saw the Mona Lisa, basically it was a 'look, mental picture, and go' dealie. It's overrated I think..I didn't like it much. I liked Psyche and Cupid a lot and we saw Hammurabi's code and the Venus de Milo.Went off shopping on les Champs-Élysées. Then we had to catch the TGV to Provence. Ooooh maaaaan. (TGV=Train à Grande Vitesse aka Fasssssssssst Train). Went into full hate mode haha, everything wa sjust killing me. And the smoking in that country! SO disgusting urgh. Then Tab and I were all paranoid we weren't gonna get off, and no one was doing anything, it took us more than 10 minutes to get ONTO it and we had 2 minutes to get off, cuz it has to stay on schedule and be fast like it's supposed to be. Eesh. We made it in 1.59 seconds apparently. Took Bus to....Arles, I think we were in Nîmes already. Four ppl to a room and that was Natalie, Kristina, Tab and I.
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Day 5
Had an actual breakfast, with ChocoPrince! Yay for European cookieness.Went to an ancient Roman acqueduct, which was nifty, then to the Palais des Papes [Palace of the Popes]. Ugh that one was boring. Finally bought stuff, bracelet for my mom and one for myself. Melanie, Tab and I were craving spaghetti so off we went to have it. We had waaay too much chicken on this trip. Anyways, that was in Avignon so I got to see the Pont d'Avignon! IT made me so sad I could not go on it and sing the song but eh.. We went back to Arles and went to a Roman amphitheatre. Took the most amazing picture of Mr. Hilmer hahaha, and we showed him and he stole my camera and ran away from us and we were chasing him for a good 5-10 minutes. So funny. We saw a couple kids trick or treating and we were like wha? Confusion. We saw the hospital Van Gogh wnet to when he cut off his ear. Saw Le Café de Nuit, which he painted, that yellow café in his famous café painting.. Oh man, then the teachers gave us an amazing Halloween competition, we had to do skits/dances or whatever that were Halloween themed, with both Markville and Keswick kids in the teams and with both genders. so we just stuck Richie with us and woo. We did the Time Warp hahaha. Awesome. We had awesome random impromptu costumes. Tab stuck her fur from coat onto her tanktop haha and won best armpit hair award hahah. And I won best costume cuz I looked scarily weird. We=hot. Très fun.
( hooman.. )
Day 6
We went off to Cassis [still in Provence]. Took a boat ride It was a reaaaaaaally hot day. We experienced hair in our foods at a little restaurant. Went off to the atelier de Paul Cézanne where the lady spoke only in French and it was fun and I loved it. That was in Aix en Provence. This lady's cash register got stolen, it was very sucky.. Hahah That night we had a leak from the second floor girls room into our bathroom oh man. We had good times.. Spain the next day!
( Ahwee )
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| Paris & Provence & Barcelona pt 1 |
[12 Nov 2005|11:59pm] |
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Finally, the long awaited story of my trip to Europe, which was fabulous by the way. Can you believe I killed my photobucket because of all the pictures? man. Anyways, it was supersupersupersuper. The weather was also amazzzzing there.
Day 1
The trip could not start too soon, agh, what a long day. School FINALLY ended. I went home early in 5th period to get organized..which didn't happen. I cleaned my room as best I could in the last 5 minutes of my home staying, then went off to school. We took a school bus down to the airportttt and it was swell. Took forever for us to check in, so we wandered, ate food, meh. Finally checked in, and finally got on the flight, where I proceeded to sleep it away, thogugh they were playing Mr & Mrs. Smith which I had already seen twice so meh. Somewhere in between all of that, Natalie threw in the word analog and we're like wtf Natalie. It was interesting.
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Day 2
We arrived in Paris, took a bus of coachness to our hotel and got settled. And met Mark our tourguide with the blonde ponytail. It was two to a room so it was Tabitha and I. We slightly freshened up and went off to explore Paris! C'était magnifique. Some random evil lady gave me SUCH a dirty look for no reason. It was so evil I wnated to cry, but I didn't, because I was finally in friggin Paris haha. What did we even do? We went around the Latin Quarter, took the metro, saw random art in the middle of nowhere. Oh we were at that student place, had a 3 euro lunch woo, and saw tons of Elvis stuff. It was pretty saddening, as my goal was to get an Elvis thingy but I never got one. They had a 6 euro compact mirror with Elvis on it..but I was so paranoid with my money oohman. That's like 9 CD dollars man for a mirror. I pretty much carried my calculator with me everywhere...because it's really difficult to multiply something by 1.5....ANYWAY.We were all soo pooped, had a crappy dinner and then went off to bed. I remember falling asleep to this random lady Anaïsse singing some random, l'amour! mon coeur! mon coeur! l'amour! Kinda catchy but eh.
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Day 3
Tab and I had a yucky morning. Water in the shower was SO cold, the wake up calls were late, but lucky she and I set the alarm on the TV cuz we're awesome. Mr. Hilmer left us in charge of waking people up and yep. CRAPPY breakfast. Both days, just bread and butter and hot chocolate. Egh. And the dinner that day was freaking odd. Like thin layer of weird cheese and they had bacon and I had amushroom one. Ugh. We went on a bus tour and saw l'Arc de Triomphe, LA TOUR EIFFEL. We visited Nôtre-Dame aswell, and then had a choice to go to either Mon-Mâtre or les Catacombes [bones..underground], would've gone to that if I was not too cheap to pay 8 euros for that, and because Tab wanted to see the Moulin Rouge [Moul-ein! not Moul-an!]. First we went to Sacré Coeur, and around that apparently there was a scene shot from Amélie, wooo. Near the carousel, SO MANY CAROUSELS in europe, it's amazing. I wanted to keep one. Anyways, they had a bunch of people who would offer to make you a ring out of the thread, like friendship bracelets, and then would take your finger and start making them and you'd have to pay them cuz they had your finger and they could just pickpocket you. Oh it was creepy. so we [Mark, Ms Hamilton, Tab, Arina, Jordan and I] shoved our hands in our pockets and walked fast. So many stairs up, holy. Then went to see the Moulin Rouge in the reddd light district haha, hot. Then went back to the opera district and went into crazy expensive LaFayette department store type thing. Met up with everyone, and apparantly the rest of the group had not been able to go to the Catacombes and some of them went to the cemetery WHERE JIM FUCKING MORRISON WAS BURRIED AND I DID NOT GO. Oh my GOsh it killed me inside.We went to see the Eiffel tower at night, and it was so gorgeous. Like, yay.! OH AND IN BETWEEN Nôtre Dame and Mon-mâtre, we ate at a café, AND a guy was playing the accordion while we ate. Made me SO happy, for it was another goal of mine. ANyways, we didnt go on the boat ride acros the Seine as we had to pay for that aswell as Eiffel tower. We went up to the top, were in awe, walked fro the second floor to the first floor which was REALLY long haha. Then the random souvenir selling guys hit on Tab, calling her a sexy girl hahaha. Then some random indian guy is all talking to me and asking my name cuz he was all talking to me in indian and ima like huh? And he's like oh beautiful girl, and Tab shooed him away and he made kissy gestures towards us and it was really creepy. Those french guys..egh. We went on the carousel when we were done with the tower hehehe fun. Hahaha we were showing Mr Hilmer our pictures and he saw one of Tab and I and said that if there were to be a second edition of the Hunchback of Nôtre-Dame, that would be the cover of it. :O CRUEL haha but SO funny. Then Tab says, Oh my I just got pwned by Mr. Hilmer, and he's like boned? What? HAHAHAH MAN SO FUNNY. He said a whole bunch of incidentally sexual things, like how are you in bed? and you can play with your friends on the couch, haha..had to be there. Phoned parents.
( tired yet? )
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[18 Oct 2005|01:08am] |
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R.I.P. Curtis McLaren
You were one heck of a guy.
Don't you ever forget that.
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[06 Nov 2004|11:21pm] |
Does anyone have the code to change the colour of the scrollbars?
will love you forever.
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Come see my journy! I changed the layout [finally]. Just need an icon.
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