friday 15th

today we all decided to go for a wonder around etc, me n mary knocked for grace and was approched by a lad called 'pap', i thought he sed 'puff' and thought he was trying to palm off drugs as he spoke to me in french!haha but me n mary then explained we were english and knew no french but he carried on talking, somthing about me and a fiesta, which i later found out was a party, i dunno but yea mary got his number, i think he was just being frendly and all. that day we went for a walk, trying to find the train station and went into a pharmarcie coz i had a hurty tooth, needed sum mouthwash and crap, and decided that night we shud actually go out. We all decided to give pap a text, invite him out for a drink, maybe bring a frend and he was up for that. we decided to go to the local bar 'emporiun gallorium'..ha, erm and met pap and his frend eddy. i ordered my first round of drinks without problem and was quite chuffed with meself! we all managed to maintain a half decent conversation with pap and his mate, except mary, think she had one too many ha sorry mary i no.. u were 'tired' or fatigue which became a regular joke of the night. Any who i learnt one thing, its easier to speak french after a few drinks. We moved on to a club called D7, which was 10 euros to get in each but pap knew the boss and bouncer etc so got in for free! yea it wasnt very good inside, dated music, hardly any people but apparently there all in paris on a friday. after a bit of a 'boogie' with pap n co, yea pap was an interestng character, but was being sleaze of the year so we decided to call it a night. doont think we.l meet with him again but at least we can say were making frends n being social!

rouen

• 11th, day 1. arrived in rouen after long journey going from car to plane to taxi train...though grace, mary n moi kept our spirits high playing the giutar and telling crap jokes! We were greeted at the train station by ceciles boyfriend and friend who were holding up a sign saying 'erasmus', that'll be us then! neither could speak much english, little did they no grace cud understand quite abit of french so was able to reveal not very nice things they were saying in our presense but oh well. We got our first glance at how beautiful the city was, we were all pretty stunned and excited. Mary's new gaff matches your expectations of a french, art students flat..brightly coloured throws, weird sculptures and artwork everywhere; things not working properly but, reminded me of my place in norwich. After trying to settle in abit and nose-ing at cecile's things, we thought the best thing to do was to get sum tea! so, ventured off into the city centre and found a supermarket to get sum milk etc. At this point mary and myself were tired, smelly and longing for a cuppa but quite nervous as everything was surreal, but we just about managed to buy the things we needed..except tomatos, which had to be weighed by ourselves, which we didnt do, so held up the queue trying to figure out what to do, in the end we ditched the tomatos and ran away feeling quite embaressed! after that fiasco, we met with grace who introduced us to kevin, half french, half irish lad, and had a good night playing cards, drinking wine and having a sing a long with me guitar. then collapsed into bed, preparing for tommorows adventure!

12th day 2.

today was the day we got everything sorted out like a new french mobile, taking photo's, being a tourist, grace has been excellent at speaking the language so have relied on her to get us thru, probly a bit too much tho! we strolled around the cathedral abit and took sum photos, grace n mary climbing on the cathedral.... which attracted a nice mob of police! yep we shat ourselves, as about 6 police came strolling towards us, but we walked away calmly, think we got away with it tho! for dinner i cooked up some lentil and veggie curry, and grace made sum cheesy chickpeas, twas very yummy indeed. oh and some wine of course to follow, we re probly going to make a habit of that actually, never mind!

13th day3

Early start, got up at 9.00, this is early.. for me. met with grace and went to find an internet cafè or sumthing to see if anyone misses us yet, then onto find the art college, which took a while as we walked in the wrong direction for sum time, map reading isnt our strong point i guess. We found it in the end and again, was stunned, it was like going back to the tudor times, very very old buildings but well kept! i felt sorry for the girls who are exchanging with us, there swapping there college for a crapper version,haha. After leaving the college grounds 2 policemen swooped in behind us to where we had just been, twas funny after yesterdays incident but then again, a mob of policemen came strolling towards us, wasnt laughing anymore!