So yesterday I wrote about being at the airport waiting for Hallie to arrive so that we could meet up and take the train to Tours. I sat down in a waiting area for Terminal 2D where the lady told me her flight would land. I sat there until 11:40 ish and then I went and stood by the door where the people walked out of. Hallie was nowhere to be seen. After about an hour, I thought it was strange and went and asked a different lady and she told me to go to Terminal 1. There I went again on the airport tram/shuttle to Terminal 1 and ask information one last time where Hallie's flight was landing. She told me right where to go and ten minutes later Hallie arrived. Luckily, Hallie's flight had been delayed so we ended up meeting as planned.
Now in order to get to the train station we had to take the shuttle ONCE more. We finally made it to the train station and looked on the schedule of trains departing but of course, ours wasn't there. We stood in line and asked the Information Desk (ironic lol) what time and where our train was leaving from. He told us where to go and what time but it was for the wrong train. The train he told us to take was #5232 and the one we needed to take was #5222. You see, the French are very stubborn and won't admit that they are wrong. I had told him no, we don't want that train we want #5222 but he insisted that it was the same one. Hallie and I didn't feel right about it so we just sat in the waiting area and waited about an hour more until our train information finally come on the schedule. We finally found out where we wanted to go but at that point we just wanted to get out of there because it was FREEZING!! I couldn't feel my toes or my ears and we still had one more hour until our train came.
When we were about to get on the train I ran into another student from Concordia, Joel. We didn't know that he was arriving that day or that he was taking our same train but it was fun to find him. We all rode in separate cars on the train and I sat by very interesting people. Two French girls and a 13 year old American girl who was reading a book on Jenna Jameson, yes the porn star. Anyway, this American girl had packed a huge suitcase that didn't fit normally on the rack so one of the French girls said "why don't u put it on top of the others?", in French of course, and the American gave her the nastiest look and said "EXCUSE ME?!" not understanding one word that girl had just said to her. So of course, I tell her she said you could try putting your suitcase on top of the others. No thank you, or anything...just "oh". SO as this girl is reading her nasty book the train is making stops dropping people off and picking others up. A French girl got on the train at one of our stops and it turns out that the American girl had sat in the wrong seat. So the French girl says "this is my seat" and one of the other French girls says "Which number?" just to make sure she wasn't mistaking. (Again, ALL in French) The girl keeps reading her book while the other is standing in confusion about what to do next. The American girl soon realizes that they are trying to talk to her so she looks up with her nasty look again and says "WHAT? Excuse me?! What's your problem?!" I almost freaked out on her but I just said "She says that you are sitting in her seat." Without questions the girl gets up and let's the other sit down and then she just stood in the aisle not knowing what to do. She then went to the upper level of the train and came back down. I have no idea where she ended up. It was RIDICULOUS. lol
Finally, it was time for us to get off the train so I got my things and got off and met up with Hallie and Joel. We then had to take a different train to get to Tours. It was only a 5 minute long train. When we arrived we had to walk to our house. Dr. Rawson had given us a map before we left for Christmas vaca so that we would know where to go once we got here. Fortunately, Hallie can read a French map better than I can read a book in English, so we had no problems finding our house. Jacqueline, our host mom, let us in and showed us the house a little bit, our rooms and explained some of the rules. I share a room with Hallie and it is all the way at the top, on the 3rd floor, so my thighs will be super fit when I return to the states.
Anyway, we went back downstairs and we gave our gifts to Jacqueline, Xavier and Mathias. Jacqueline, is of course our host mom. Xavier is our host dad and Mathias is their 7 year old son. He is the most adorable kid ever and I am already in love with him. He is also super shy. lol... anyway we ate dinner, which was delicious, and then headed upstairs to unpack and go to bed.
That was my Monday! busy, busy, busy! I miss you all :) Hope it's not too cold in Moorhead for you!
i.l.y.a.
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