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April 4th started a grand adventure.I left the house with Daniel Henriet who is my rotary guy.The Henriets had been ever so nice as to invite me skiing in the south of France with them.After being told MANY times by MANY people stories of exchange students breaking bones or turing into vegetables on ski t
rips either in France or in Italy ,I was nervous.But, I am certainly not the girl to not go on an adventure just for a silly risk like bone breaking or vegitable becoming.
First off I met peter and Julie. Peter and his wife are from england and he is the authour of 'ali le zebre' which is a book privately published by him and written as a birthday present for his wife.The story is about peter, who loves football but hates the glory of it all.He doesnt follo big teams just ones who wear black and white and have good followers.He travels the world meeting new fans and making friends who include Pascale and Freddy fans of the charleroi sporting team here in Belgium whos mascot is a Zebra.On there way back from home,Peter and Julie are in the airport and a little zebra ends up catching thier heart and endsup going home with them to live in england.
So we headed out.The ski trip was with Daniels wife,dominiques, work. Here, you can plan a trip with friends family or an organization and take a 'car' just about anywhere.I,the daughter of Daniel (Gwen), and her girlfriend (Justine) , Took the bus and Daniel,Dominique and their daughter took the real car. In the 'car' there where about 40 people on the bus including young people who,littl
e did I know, would turn out to be really cool buddies for a week.
I am skill a horrible skier but I got better The pictures will speak a thousand more words than I could ever say but they also missed out on alot too.
Calvacade:Sadly,going skiing meant missing calvacade (carnival in my town) . It last a week and i missed all but the last day which was yesterday if was a super fun day.
First off I met peter and Julie. Peter and his wife are from england and he is the authour of 'ali le zebre' which is a book privately published by him and written as a birthday present for his wife.The story is about peter, who loves football but hates the glory of it all.He doesnt follo big teams just ones who wear black and white and have good followers.He travels the world meeting new fans and making friends who include Pascale and Freddy fans of the charleroi sporting team here in Belgium whos mascot is a Zebra.On there way back from home,Peter and Julie are in the airport and a little zebra ends up catching thier heart and endsup going home with them to live in england. The story is more about this too cute for words zebra coming into their home and adapting to a life outside of the airport gift shop.
Freddy is my host dad and so he had a copy of this book in which Peter has made a small dedication and even signed.I read it and really did fall in love with this little zebra fella. And was super hyped when I found out I'd get to meet Peter ,Julie and Ali the characters from the stry for real.
They tuned out to be great people in 'RL' and we hung out during calvacade which was awesome for....
Fireworks
Happy people
Cute kids
Nice music
and an UNEXPLAINABLE ambiance.
Calvalcade and the gilles in general are hard to explain.There is alot of folklore and culture and fun wrapped into it. If you want to know more you should buy me a cup of coffee at books a million sometime and talk about it.It needs that much of a setting to get the whole picture.
Fred alwys jokes around about how Obama is visiting europe at the moment but he is missing out on Calvacade.It really is a shame.
SO the pictures are flikrd so click here to see 'em
XOXO,
P.S. I GOT ALL MY PLANE TICKETS! ENGLAND-DENVER-ARKANSAS, HERE I COME!
P.P.S not looking foward to leaving just having the dates lets me plan and be destressed.
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