So since Friday evening, the 26th of October I've been on vacation. Which is a much welcome break from the tedious cycle of wake up-school-home-sleep. I totally hate that. Anyway AFS shipped me off to another family for the vacation. Why? Apparently because my host parents work even more during the vacations than usual, but I have a suspicion its because they think I haven't made friends yet or something. And I was also told I was only going for four days, but I ended up staying a week and a half so I'm not sure how that changed either, especially because I had confirmed plans for after the four days were up. So, whatever I guess. Anyway in the end I guess it wasn't all that bad because I enjoyed my stay. Mainly because I didn't have a bedtime and I could pee in the night without waking up everyone.
Anyway, so Sunday the 28th was when I left for le Cap d'Agde which is a beach town in the south of France, it was nice but it was also October so it wasn't as nice as it could be. Like it was cold, windy and rainy for at least two of the four days that I was there, and 90% of everything was closed. But I'm pretty sure it would be pretty awesome to go there during the summer, or maybe not awesome. I don't know, because apparently this place is also the biggest nudist destination in all of Europe. And of course I'm the only person in the entire world who would be unwittingly brought to a popular nudist destination. Now, remember it was October so it was cold, and I wasn't in the part of the town that is nudist, but for reasons I did go there. So I was staying with another AFS family in the grand-parent's apartment and for whatever reason the neighbors decided to renovate their whole apartment at once, or something. But like from 9am to 6pm it was just bangs, and drilling and annoying noises. So because we're in France, the grand-parents just happened to own an apartment in the nudist part of the town (its kind of like its own village) to "earn more money" where I believe, its sort of technically mandatory to be nude. But don't quote me on that.
It was kind of hilarious because Sophie, the mother of the family took me and her son, who speaks English sort of (its probably on the same level of my french abilities) to explain to me where we were going. It was so hilarious because you just had to be there. So anyway she explained it to me, and basically said I might see something, but probably not since there's not a lot of people there at the moment. So we get there and for like the longest time watch Malcolm in the Middle, because its always on TV here and I'm starting to hate everything about it. Its so terrible, and meanwhile I was also thinking about how many gross nude butts have probably sat in the same chair as this before. So eventually everyone got tired of Malcolm in the Middle about three hours after I did and we all decided to go for a walk on the beach, which was pleasant enough since it was actually nice out this day. Well anyway to conclude this story I did eventually see about three naked people, and it was gross.
OH, but the most surprising thing about this is that its a "family" nudist place, which is kind of weird but I'm in Europe so that explains everything.
Besides that I'm pretty sure I ate raw shrimps, which was kind of gross but not really at the same time. They weren't all weird and gray looking like the ones you could find in the US, but they were pink. I'm assuming it was because they were very recently caught. Also while I'm taking about food, for this first time I had fish, that wasn't deepfried, that I actually really liked! And didn't taste like the Delaware River. And on a sad note, I only saw three kids trick or treating. In the rain. I don't understand why they don't really do Halloween stuff here, they need to get over themselves and stop caring whether its too "American" or "Pagan". You know what it is, French people? Fun, that's what it is.
So besides that I haven't done a whole lot during my vacation, but oh I made crêpes! Which I'm pretty sure everyone knows what those are, and if you don't: Google it. Anyway they were super delicious. I preferred mine with some kind of jam, but everyone else just sprinkled sugar on them, which is something french people do a lot. Like they add sugar to plain yogurt/greek yogurt and its surprisingly really good. Although I must say the greek yogurt is a lot better than just yogurt. I don't know if that's something people other places do, but its the first time I've seen it. Anyway, that's all I got for now and my host dad said something about kayaking/canoeing tomorrow so we'll see how that goes.
Anyway, so Sunday the 28th was when I left for le Cap d'Agde which is a beach town in the south of France, it was nice but it was also October so it wasn't as nice as it could be. Like it was cold, windy and rainy for at least two of the four days that I was there, and 90% of everything was closed. But I'm pretty sure it would be pretty awesome to go there during the summer, or maybe not awesome. I don't know, because apparently this place is also the biggest nudist destination in all of Europe. And of course I'm the only person in the entire world who would be unwittingly brought to a popular nudist destination. Now, remember it was October so it was cold, and I wasn't in the part of the town that is nudist, but for reasons I did go there. So I was staying with another AFS family in the grand-parent's apartment and for whatever reason the neighbors decided to renovate their whole apartment at once, or something. But like from 9am to 6pm it was just bangs, and drilling and annoying noises. So because we're in France, the grand-parents just happened to own an apartment in the nudist part of the town (its kind of like its own village) to "earn more money" where I believe, its sort of technically mandatory to be nude. But don't quote me on that.
It was kind of hilarious because Sophie, the mother of the family took me and her son, who speaks English sort of (its probably on the same level of my french abilities) to explain to me where we were going. It was so hilarious because you just had to be there. So anyway she explained it to me, and basically said I might see something, but probably not since there's not a lot of people there at the moment. So we get there and for like the longest time watch Malcolm in the Middle, because its always on TV here and I'm starting to hate everything about it. Its so terrible, and meanwhile I was also thinking about how many gross nude butts have probably sat in the same chair as this before. So eventually everyone got tired of Malcolm in the Middle about three hours after I did and we all decided to go for a walk on the beach, which was pleasant enough since it was actually nice out this day. Well anyway to conclude this story I did eventually see about three naked people, and it was gross.
OH, but the most surprising thing about this is that its a "family" nudist place, which is kind of weird but I'm in Europe so that explains everything.
Besides that I'm pretty sure I ate raw shrimps, which was kind of gross but not really at the same time. They weren't all weird and gray looking like the ones you could find in the US, but they were pink. I'm assuming it was because they were very recently caught. Also while I'm taking about food, for this first time I had fish, that wasn't deepfried, that I actually really liked! And didn't taste like the Delaware River. And on a sad note, I only saw three kids trick or treating. In the rain. I don't understand why they don't really do Halloween stuff here, they need to get over themselves and stop caring whether its too "American" or "Pagan". You know what it is, French people? Fun, that's what it is.
So besides that I haven't done a whole lot during my vacation, but oh I made crêpes! Which I'm pretty sure everyone knows what those are, and if you don't: Google it. Anyway they were super delicious. I preferred mine with some kind of jam, but everyone else just sprinkled sugar on them, which is something french people do a lot. Like they add sugar to plain yogurt/greek yogurt and its surprisingly really good. Although I must say the greek yogurt is a lot better than just yogurt. I don't know if that's something people other places do, but its the first time I've seen it. Anyway, that's all I got for now and my host dad said something about kayaking/canoeing tomorrow so we'll see how that goes.
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