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♥-♥-♥-♥-♥ Valentines 2009… Hey, that ryhmes! ♥-♥-♥-♥-♥

{ February 12, 2009 @ 2:30 PM } · { Deja Moi Comme Ca, Poetry }
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Hey everyone!

So seeing as this Saturday is St. Valentines… I have decided to do a very special post for you all! This could make those passionate messages from the heart much, much easier to write :P .

Seeing as French is the language of love and I speak it. I’m going to put up a bunch of endearments for you to learn and say to your darlings… Or simply copy off here into a card ^.^!

We’ll start with the most obvious and for those of you who do wish to whisper “les mots d’amour” (The words of love) to your love I will also add pronounciations!

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I love you – Je t’aime (J-euh tem)

I love you with all my heart – Je t’aime de tout mon coeur (J-euh tem d-euh too mon c-uh-erh)

I adore you – Je t’adore (J-euh tad-or)

I miss you – Tu me manques (Too m-euh mon-k)

(If you are a guy) – I am in love with you – Je suis amoureux de toi – (J-euh s-weez amoo-hr-euh d-euh twa)

(If you are a girl) – I am in love with you – Je suis amoureuse de toi – (J’euh s-weez amoo-hr-euh-z d-euh twa)

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You are – Tu es (Too ay)

My love – Mon amour (mon amoo-hr)

The love of my life – L’amour de ma vie (lam-oorh d-euh ma vee)

Amazing – Magnifique (mag-nif-eek)

In all my thoughts – Dans toutes mes pensées (don toot may pon-say)

(To a girl) – My darling/ dear – Ma chérie (ma sh-eh-rhee)

(To a guy) – My darling/ dear – Mon chéri (mon sh-eh-rhee)

(To a girl) – My soulmate – Ma soulmate (When saying this just try to put on a really French accent and you should get it right! :) )

(To a guy) – My soulmate – Mon soulmate (As I’ve said above)

(To a girl) – Best friend – Ma meuilleure amie (ma m-euh-y-eur am-ee)

(To a guy) – Best friend – Mon meuilleur ami – (mon m-euh-y-euh am-ee)

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I want to be with you – Je veux etre avec toi (J-euh v-euh et-rh avek twa)

My love for you is eternal – Mon amour pour toi est éternel (Mon am-oorh poor two ay ay-turn-al)

Kisses are the unspoken words of love – Que mes baisers soient les mots d’amour que je ne te dis pas (Kh-euh may bay-zay sw-ah lay moe dam-oorh kh-euh j-euhn t-euh dee pah)

I want to spend the rest of my life with you – Je veux passer la reste de ma vie avec toi  (J-euh v-euh pass-ay la rest d-euh ma vee avek twa)

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For that card where you really don’t know what to say:

Two hearts in love need no words – Entre deux coeurs qui s’aiment, nul besoin de paroles (ont-rh-euh d-eu  c-uh-erh kee sem nool bes-won d-euh pah-rhole)

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Short French Poems:

I love you, it’s my pen that writes it, But it’s my heart that says it. – Je t’aime, c’est ma plume qui te l’écrit, Et c’est mon coeur qui te le dit. (J-euh tem, say ma ploom kee t-euh lek-ree, ay say mon c-uh-erh kee t-euh le dee)

You and me – It will not change. – Toi et moi – Ça ne changera pas. (Twa ay mwa – san shon-jer-ah pah)

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To end your loving cards off:

With love – Avec Amour

Yours forever – A toi, pour toujours

Love and kisses – Tendres baiser

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Hoping this helps you guys out with Valentines 2009 (Hey, that ryhmes! :P )!

Hoping to hear from you soon!

- Bianca :)

There’s a lot to look forward to in this year… Thirty-two days until my 15th birthday for one : P.

{ December 31, 2008 @ 6:34 PM } · { Deja Moi Comme Ca, Kiss My Fishy }
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Hey guys!

It’s the last day of 2008 and tonight we shall be having an extra second added to the day. There’s a lot to look forward to in this year… Thirty-two days until my 15th birthday for one : P.

I intend to be speaking and understanding French much, much better by the end of 2009. I’ve already come so far with my language learning this year.

This time last year, I hardly had any friends in France… I was only starting to learn my guitar. I hadn’t ever been in a band… Nor had I even had much courage to sing in front of people other than my parents and my sister… And then I was still iffy about that.

I couldn’t even do a simple stop in ice-skating never mind all of the things that I’m capable of doing now. My blog was only a baby back then as well. I had never met Gadget, my kitten… Gadget actually hadn’t even been born!

This is my blog from the 1st of January 2008 –> I can’t believe it’s not… turkey…..?! ( http://dejamoicc.wordpress.com/2008/12/18/i-cant-believe-its-not-turkey/ ). Remember, these had to be back dated, the proper dates are on www.kissmyfishy.blogspot.com.

Anyway, I’m going to leave it very short today, Venetia’s moaning at me to go watch a movie. Catch you guys later, hoping to hear from you soon!

Have a happy new year and try not to make too many impossible new year’s resolutions : P.

- Bianca =)

I’m addicted.

{ December 30, 2008 @ 11:02 AM } · { Deja Moi Comme Ca }
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Good morning everyone!

So today is Tuesday, the day I was born. For some reason it’s my favourite when I think of  “a favourite day for no reason”… I have absolutely no idea why it is my prefered because nothing new ever really happens on a Tuesday… I think I just like the sound of it /: |.

On other exciting news topics :P ; So for Christmas Venetia recieved a computer, pretty awesome, huh? The only little thing is that the computer happens to be French… And of course with a French computer comes a French keyboard. It’s much, much better for us to use because it means we’ll… well, know the French keyboard /: |. And it even makes a lot more sense than this keyboard. Even if an awful lot of the time I was hitting a “,” instead of the wanted “M” or the same with NEEDING an “A” and only finding myself looking up to find a “Q”… I was getting used to it after a while but I”m sure it’ll take a lot more practice :P . I chose not to write a 500+ word Deja Moi Comme Ca blog on there, hee hee :P .

Okay… That was just not funny -_-… I tried to find the apostrophe and was looking to the top of the keyboard again -_-. Oh yes, the only thing that doesn’t make too much sense is that you have to click the “Shift” button to get to any of the numbers… But it’s very clever otherwise ^_^.

I’m addicted. I found this My Chemical Romance song yesterday and I just can’t stop listening to it… It’s just incredible! I love all of their music but this song’s new to me and now needs to be worn out by my ears :P … Therefore it is on repeat ^_^. I got these awesome new headphones for Christmas so the best thing is, I’m not bugging anyone whilst “My Chemical Romance – Heaven Help Us” plays over and over and over… and over. Venetia always gets really annoyed when I play my music over and over again. I made her play it out loud three times… I hope she wasn’t listening because then that’s going to my three times that I could of played it over and over without having to moan for it ^_^.

Oh yes! Another song that I’m really into is “Charles Aznavour – For Me Formidable”. When you read the lyrics – Or, ehem… In my case… Sing the lyrics :P – you just melt! It’s the sweetest song ever written… Well, I’ve yet to find sweeter anyway ^_^. As you can see… My music taste is unbelievably varied :P .

Oh! I was mistaken for being a FRENCH person! Do you believe that :O? Me! French! Crazy stuff, hee hee! Well, you see Venetia and I were in the locker room at the ice-rink when we walked past an older couple trying to figure out the locker… I was taken aback with awe as I felt my mouth drop… I quickly ran to Venetia’s side and whispered “They speak English!” accompagnied by a big smile.

They seemed to be having trouble with the locker and it’s many numbered buttons, it was the perfect opportunity to speak to them. So we went over and Venetia said “Do you need some help?” and I was utterly upset as the woman replied with a “Do you… Do you want to speak English?”. Who says that? Have a conversation with the people! Don’t just ASK if they want to speak English… We smiled, Venetia said something along the lines of “Ehm… Do you need help with your locker?” (I was too shocked to be listening) and the husband replied with a simple “Ca marche.”… I never got to speak English :( . I just like to hear where people are from and how long it took them to speak French :P … Nice to not think ^_^. But since they mistook us for being French, it wasn’t all that bad :) .

I’m going to leave it at that. Hoping to hear from you guys soon!

- Bianca =)

I have a terrible weekend sleeping pattern -_-

{ December 21, 2008 @ 1:59 PM } · { Deja Moi Comme Ca }
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Hey people!

Today was so freaky! Well see, it was all normal, I got up and was ready for ice-skating… And then was dropped off at ice-skating, so all normal UNTIL… After an hour or so of being there, my French friend introduced Venetia and I to this guy who was described as being “anglais” (English). When he started speaking though Venetia and I were absolutely mind boggled (This isn’t anything new but anyway : P)… He had a South African accent : O!

It’s like, what are the odds of two Zimbabweans moving to a little town in France and then being introduced to a South African… by a French friend… I just can’t get over it! It was just so nice being understood and actually understanding everything! Even phrases like “How’s it?”… As Venetia had the strongest craving to say and then said it, of course : P. If you’re from Zimbabwe or South Africa you’ll know this means “How are you?”.

It makes sense and you’d probably be able to guess what it means even if you’ve never heard of it but the amount of times that it slipped up when I was conversing with friends in Ireland and all that I got was a blank stare was unbelievable : P.

Although… it was actually a little bizarre not having to think to reply to someone, of course I speak English at home and I watch English television a lot more than I’d watch French but it’s just different speaking to someone that you don’t know very well, so easily. When you don’t or haven’t lived in a foreign speaking country, you just don’t appreciate how little you have to use your brain when doing simple daily things : P.

Look! I even use my brain with French when it’s not necessary… For instance… As I was typing “daily” immediately the word “quotidien” popped into my head… It must be absolutely overloading if you speak a tonne of languages : P. It is cool though ^_^.

Oh yes, see his description was donned as “English” because that’s what anyone who speaks English is called by most of the French. I’ve had to correct people so many uncountable times and ten minutes later they’ll be back to saying “anglaise”!

Owww! I just placed my hand on the side of my chair and was ATTACKED!! Gadget was, oh so kind enough to leave little (But PAINFUL) punctures on my knuckles, nice! Now he’s killing an unlucky piece of paper : (.

My accent is hopeless… I have no idea what it is. It has hardly any ressemblance to my prefered accent, Zimbabwean… It’s definately not Irish… I pronounce my “S”’s like “S”’s not like “Z”’s… So it can’t be French… Oh and actually, when the French speak English that’s not what they sound like /: |, anyway it doesn’t sound like the stereotypical Frenchy… I don’t roll my “R”’s so the two months spent in Sicily did no dent into my unidentifiable accent. Well, this is all that I can tell of it anyway : P.

It’s 1AM and I want to go watch “House (M.D.)” now… I know, I have a terrible weekend sleeping pattern -_-. But hey! Now I have the 21 on my calendar coloured in as well : ). Late night writing rocks!! : P

Catch you all later! Four sleeps until Christmas!

- Bianca =)

He bit me!

{ December 18, 2008 @ 2:00 PM } · { Kiss My Fishy }
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Monday, November 26, 2007

Hey everyone!

I know it’s been a while since I last wrote, okay about 3 weeks (I’m really sorry I didn’t realise it’d been so long!)… and I have no excuse :-P . But since I’ve been going ice-skating I’ve been meeting French people so I’ve been whiling away my week days by learning French. I know a lot of words, thousands, it’s just the difficulty I’m having with understanding everyone!

I think it’s the speed they can talk at or the accent because I can understand my dad perfectly when he speaks French to me… then again it could be because my dad and I know generally about the same amount of words so we know each others limits on the language :-P .

So back to posting properly now :-P . I will try write more this week, but I just can’t really see much point in it since I’m having no responses /:- … Aww well it’ll do for my own reference. You know you guys just don’t have to kiss a real fish I’ll also be pleased with… Okay for instance my dad’s friend is going to go kiss Belfast’s Blue Fish for me and take a picture when he has the time to do it. It’s a giant sculpture of a mosaic sort of fish in… would you ever guess, Belfast :-P ! I’ll put an image up of it.

Now back to blogging, I last left off on my story of how I became to be in this exact place in south west France where we’d just moved into our first, temporary house in France. Yes it had a lot of downsides but also nice upsides too. The landlady was… well she was very nice, but not so organised with things. A few weeks before we were going to move she decided to get some builders to make the windows in the house double-glazing. Now first off it was summer time so what exactly was the point of double-glazing now and secondly why choose now when we were just going to move out before winter and she could have had them do it then!

They didn’t even finish the job and so for a week Venetia and I were left windowless, thank goodness for French shutters :-P ! Eventually though they did finish it but a week later we moved :-P .

On the 26th of August it was my dad’s birthday. We just had a lazy day but went for a walk later on in the evening. We said hi to Billy the Billy goat, oh yes, back to how original my naming system is :-P . Billy was very sweet, he lived in the sanctuary close by and you could see him when you walked along the road, he’d come running over and if you went to scratch him he would push his head against the bars so that you could get to him! Gizmo wasn’t much of a fan of Billy. Every time we put Gizmo on the wall to see him, Billy would bash the bars and give Gizmo a heart-attack.

This particular evening a guy was feeding Billy some berries in his little area and so he came over and spoke to us (the guy, not Billy :-P )… yes, of course in French. Apparently though Billy is actually called Michel, meh I still prefer Billy :-P .

The guy asked us if we wanted to have a look around and of course we accepted. He introduced us to his wife and began the tour, their property was absolutely gorgeous. They had horses and cats and dogs and goats and donkeys and Shetland ponies and pigs and even an African grey Parrot (my all-time favourite bird that I’ve wanted since we had to leave Nando (my first parrot) behind in South Africa when we moved to Ireland). Nando was a green ring neck though and he’d just began talking as well :-( ! The picture below is of me when I was two years old with Nando at our property in Zimbabwe.

So anyway they showed us around and then brought us into Billy’s little area… he began to bite my jeans and head butt me. The guy said he was just playing and wanted me to push him away. It was really funny, when I did Billy stood up on his hind legs, acted as if he was about to ram me and then just fell back down again. The pig was sleeping under a pile of hay so I only really saw one of his ears that was sticking out and nothing more…

The horse stables were built into their house, like they had the stables that if you went up a few stairs there was a dining room and then up more stairs was a door to the rest of their house. At the stable area they let out an absolute monster of a horse, I mean he was extremely stunning, he had a platinum mane and a dark golden body but was far too big for my liking to be around. What made it worse was that he just wouldn’t go back in, so I kept my distance until he was safely locked up again :-P .

When we were in the field with two black horses outside, a cat wandered up and the woman began telling us how the cat loved to come here and rub herself up against the horses legs… crazy cat I’d say :-P but they were very friendly horses, that liked to sneeze, maybe they have cat allergies like me :-P .

Oh! A cat adopted my sister and I the other day when we were taking Gizmo for a walk. She appeared out of nowhere and then just began to follow us. After two minutes we played with her for a while with a piece of grass and then kept on walking. She kept following us then began climbing the neighbour’s rocks so we brought Gizmo inside, I went out the back and called “Ici, chat, chat, chat! Ici chat, chat, chat!” (Here kitty, kitty, kitty! Here kitty, kitty, kitty :-P ) just incase it wasn’t obvious :-P . I made a few cat noises and she came running, we played with her in the garden for an hour or so, she even spotted a little red squirrel in the tree, so that was nice to see.

Later on we went walked her back to the road she’d followed us on, and went back inside. Later that night though when I let Gizmo out, guess who was waiting there! Yes, the cat. So we let her in, she wandered around for a bit and the was off again.

An hour or so later she came in through the basement window! So we gave her some milk, let Gizmo downstairs, which was actually really funny! Gizmo has this thing about toilet roll tubes… and socks… but anyway I threw one for him when he was downstairs and because the cat was there and he wanted to show off he fetched it looked to see if she was watching, brought it back and did it quite a few times. Usually he would just run off and hide :-P .

Anyway after a while of playing like this the cat began stalking him so he began stalking her, they went around in a circle watching each other for a few minutes and then she decided she’d had enough and began looking up at the windows so we let her out but haven’t seen her since :-(
I’m sure she’ll be around though, she was absolutely gorgeous like honey coloured. The only problem is though that I have allergies and the whole night I couldn’t sleep properly because I couldn’t breathe and I didn’t even touch her!

Oh right, back to the sanctuary place :-P . Yes, so it was very nice of them to just let us in and have a look around. We said our goodbyes and then were off home again. To be moving into the new house the next week :-) ! I’m going to leave it at that… back to French now!

Hoping to hear from you all soon!!!

- Bianca

Ice-skating!

{ December 18, 2008 @ 1:58 PM } · { Kiss My Fishy }
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Thursday, November 15, 2007

Hey everyone!

I know I haven’t written anything lately, but it’s because I’ve been busy learning French and …. ICE-SKATING! I absolutely love it! On Saturday we went to the one in my little town for the first time mainly because we couldn’t find it and it had been closed the for summer months.

The first time we got there we were a bit too early so went driving for half and hour and then came back. At 13:30 it was time to go. We didn’t really know what to do, since the only time any of us had been ice-skating in France was in Disney Land’s outside ice-rink.

So anyway I went up to the woman behind the counter said “Patinoire?”. She replied “Oui, oui pour deux?”. Once we got our tickets we walked around to the doors, there was one of those twirling barriers that you walk though and it clicks, so like you would Venetia just walked into it… yeah, you actually had to click this button before so it would unlock. Venetia quickly clicked it and off she went. Once we were in we asked the two girls in there what to do, they pointed and we sort of got the jest.

After a while of unstable-ised walking we finally got used to them opened the swinging door and were met by the freezing temperature inside and the empty atmosphere. There was absolutely no-one there yet. This wasn’t a bad thing, it meant that we could skate and get our bearings before anyone else came out. I was actually extremely surprised! The last time I’d been on ice was nine months ago in Ireland, saying good bye to my friends. But I just got on the ice and went.

More people came and by the end of the day there were at least 40 :P . Big difference to the amount of people there would have been in Dun Donald Ice-Bowl. It was the ice-rink in Belfast. Like you’d get there and there’d be literally hundreds of people crowded the rink!

The best part was that at 15:40 there was a LOUD siren and the shutters began to come down over the large windows, then loud “electro” (rave) music began to play and the disco lights came on. Lots of fun! About 20-30 minutes later though, the shutters came up again and the lights switched back to normal. I was like Aww!

It’s okay half an hour or so later it happened again :-D . In Dun Donald it stayed with the lights and the rave music the whole time. We skated for four hours straight, I only fell once :-) ! It wasn’t really like falling, Venetia was pushing me from behind then I skidded but quickly lifted myself up again :-P .

Once the session was over, we got off the ice, wobbling because of the numbness and because of how painful our muscles were! We changed back into our shoes, had some difficulty walking, and then went home. It was so nice to sit down! For three whole days I was in severe pain with my legs and arms. Guess I’m not used to doing so much exercise :-P . On the third day I thought it would be so much better but it was worse! I literally just flopped out of bed.

On Tuesday, I was much better and so my mom and I decided to go ice-skating! Wooo! We went to the place, but we were an hour early, so we went shopping, came back and then it was still closed! I looked at the large time-table again and realised I had been looking at the wrong day! The patinoire (ice-rink) was only open three days a week, Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday. Wednesday does seem like a pretty random day but in France, schools finish early and primary schools don’t even go on a Wednesday. So we reluctantly went home but decided that we’d come back the next day.

Yes, so yesterday we got there at 13:30, skated for three hours, went shopping and then picked my sister up from work. It was loads of fun, despite the fact that I fell three times. The first time I fell it was because I was trying to show my mom something :-P .

The other two times were near the end and were very painful! I hurt my knee, elbow and my side. I actually grazed my elbow and just sat where I fell and said “… Ow”. Really funny after the pain had gone away….

Last night I couldn’t even sleep on my side! I also fell on my hands, so that was very sore with them being numb from the cold already! Other than that I had an awesome day! My mom’s figure skates were sticking into her toe so we asked if we could change them and the guy said we could use the hockey skates if we wanted. We did! It was so much easier, for the first 10 minutes or so it felt very slippery but I got the hang of them.

I can even do the leg movements like a continuous figure eight, the snake, turn and skate on one foot and do a stop on my right heel whilst gliding on my left foot. So I’ve made up my mind about which ice-skates I want to get, just for recreational “go-around-the-rink” ice-skating. Hockey skates! :-P

Pity Venetia didn’t get to try them out but I’ll just ask if we can use them this Saturday again. Oh! We also found out how to use the lockers! It’s all electronical and the instructions were easy enough to follow except for one that I couldn’t understand. We just got the guy to come and show us :-) . So now I know :-P .

Really looking forward to Saturday, Venetia’s going to teach me how to skate backwards and do a T stop :-) . So I’ll tell you how that goes and I’ll also try and get some pictures or even recordings for you.

I think that I’ll leave it at that and I’m still waiting on those photos :-P .

Hope to hear from you all soon!

- Bianca

Snakes On A Path… Get it?… Like the movie! Never mind :-P

{ December 18, 2008 @ 1:37 PM } · { Kiss My Fishy }
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Friday, November 9, 2007

Hey everyone!

It’s starting to feel lonely again with no pictures… on this page anyway. It also feels like I’m talking to myself… but it’s okay I have a tendency to do that quite often :-P .

Back on track though! Yes so going around England was loads of fun, and the Saturday before we were leaving my aunt (Natalie) was in a cycling contest for a charity more to the north of England. It was a 100 mile cycle and she did it :-) ! Woo! So we got her a miniature cake saying Natalie, Worlds Best Cyclist. I’ll put a picture up of it :-P .

Someone found us a house and it looked okay in the pictures… So we packed everything up after being in England for a month, said our goodbyes, with a lot of tears, even from Jett. And off we went on a 17 hour drive! Well actually it was about two or three hours and then we arrived at the underground train. You park your car on it, stay in your car and half an hour later you’re in France.

I thought the underground train would be a lot more exciting… but it was just like sitting in your car that you’ve parked in a long, white room, with little windows on the sides that you couldn’t really see out of, but it got the job done anyway, it’s not as if they could have put a theme park or anything in there :-P .

Now it was the long 15 hour haul… for my mom anyway since she drove the whole the way, with a break only now and then for coffee. The first stop we made in France was at a little side-store that had a coffee bar inside and was still open. So we went inside and you’d never believe the odds! There were two guys there that were driving to Belgium… but they spoke English :-) ! We chatted for a while, they said you might see us at our next stop (we didn’t :-P ). And then off we went again. I couldn’t really sleep the whole time; a few times I dozed off but was interrupted by an elbow in my side or a leg in MY foot space!

It was slightly… okay very cramped in the back of the car… first there was Venetia, then Karen and then Gizmo taking up when my feet were supposed to go… and of course me. I always get the middle seat >:-. So I was extremely squashed :-P and it was very difficult to get to sleep because I didn’t have a door or anything to put my head against, so I got very grumpy when I was woken up after saying that I was going to sleep and not to bother me… Grrr!

It was alright though, when we finally arrived and met up with the owner of the house, my dad filled in the papers, she showed us around and then left. It was okay… at least this house’s kitchen was tiled, it had more than five rooms, a sofa and even a T.V. It also came with the stove, fridge and washing-machine. Big upgrade from our Sicilian house… or so I thought until there were more aliens, too many flies and dare I say it… MICE!

There were upsides to the house too though. A five minute walk from the house was the gorgeous lake that all of my fishing photos were taken at, an absolutely gianormous garden and even two pear trees… but they were very tall pear trees so I only ever managed to whack one off and after all of my effort when it finally tumbled down… I could hardly bite into it because it wasn’t ripe yet! So I let Gizmo have a go at tackling it then threw it away after the pear having several miniature puncture wounds from Gizmo’s vampire teeth :-P .

In that house we were also surrounded by fields, and just a few minutes walk was an animal sanctuary… which could explain the fly situation, seriously every day I was swatting at least 20 flies, but they just kept coming from nowhere! I had a pet spider there though, he sat in the lounge/dining room/kitchen in a little corner. Yes I know, huh :-S, it was a big room that housed all of the downstairs rooms in one :-P .

Anyway yes so the spider was so much fun to watch catching a fly and then quickly wrapping it up! I don’t know what happened but sadly one day (a few days before we were leaving for the new house), I came down stairs to find that my spider had shrunk! Instead of my big one it was this little tiny baby, he was pretty cute actually but meant that he couldn’t catch the flies any more!

Speaking of spiders! Woah! At that house there was an absolutely gianormous spider that lived above one of the bushes outside by the house. It was the identical colouring of the bumble bees that it ate! Venetia took a few pictures of him, so I’ll also put that picture up.
They were quite a few insects in that house actually… the most annoying… and scariest were the giant aliens that fell down by you when you went to close the window! I don’t know how many times I almost had a heart attack in that house! I did love the geckos and lizards that came into the house though, especially the baby ones!

Oh my word they were the cutest! About as big as my baby finger, in length! I saw one in the kitchen then decided to go out on a hunt for them outside… can you tell how bored I was :-P ? After just a few minutes I spotted one and tried to catch him, he wriggled away under the rocks though. The next week or so I actually caught one, kept him for an hour or so then let him go in the grass again. The one in the kitchen lived in a little hole in the wall and would come out onto the window sill every now and then to sun bathe. I tried to lure him out with bread… it didn’t work.

Even in the new house there used to be one baby lizard that would come out and sun bathe on the patio, since it’s gotten cold I haven’t seen him around lately…

There’s been loads of insects here, once there was even a preying-mantis! Now he was cool! We named him Barley because of the look of barley on his stomach. Woah, and there was also this giant caterpillar, he was huge and very pretty too :-P !

The things that weren’t so cool though were the amount of snakes… the first one was when my mom, Venetia and I were going walking, we were about 15 minutes into our usual routine when suddenly my mom started walking backwards and saying… a sentence over and over again… I don’t think I’ll type it out :-P . The snake was about as long as my leg but once we got closer, we noticed how flat it was… it had been run over or something so not much danger there. We carried on going.

A few days later my dad and I were sitting outside practising our French, I was looking at the book and my dad jumped up told me to go to the other side of the garden, so I stood up even though I didn’t know what was happening… then I saw that large, green snake making its way with a lifted head toward my dad. Gizmo also seemed to notice it at this stage… he just got up and began waddling over to it. My dad yelled at him and Gizmo came running to me. I ran to the house put Gizmo inside then went to find something heavy for my dad, since we still hadn’t had the internet in this house and also hadn’t been able to find out what snakes where poisonous. I found a large concrete type thing that was lying by the house, as I did this I heard a THWUMP and quickly grabbed it and carried it back to my dad. Saw the snake limp… not limp like walking weirdly… mainly because snakes slither. I mean that it was dead.

It was really sad, but my dad had to since it stood on its tail and was getting ready to strike. Later on we found out that green snakes aren’t poisonous here either, it’s just the small black ones that can kill. It’s also the big green ones that’ll act all dangerous but the little ones will run… well slither away.

One day I was brushing my hair, stood by the window and because it was hot I decided to have a good look around to see if I could spot a snake. What are the odds! This thing which I thought was a lizard’s head at first was coming over a rock and moving toward the house, I kept watching it for a second and then realised what it was once its whole body was visible and no legs were to be seen. It began slithering against the house, this is when I yelled for my mom and told her that there was a viper (the small, black, poisonous one) outside. My mom ran outside to see if she could kill it or catch it, but it was already making its way for the rocks and had gone. From then on I made sure that I watched Gizmo and didn’t let him go into the tall grass when he went outside… I also started to wear shoes when I went outside as well :-P .

Oh another snake incident was when we came to have a look at the new house. My mom and I walked by the house and you’d never guess what crossed the path right in front of us! Yes, that’s right another snake! It was only a green one though, but it was still big and began coming for us, we backed away quickly, so it kept slithering and lifted itself over the person’s fence next door… moving to this house I thought we were escaping the snakes!

No other snake stories though… also no fishing ones! It’s just become so cold! I’m hoping to hear from you all soon!
- Bianca

French stuff… I guess… you could call it that…

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Monday, October 8, 2007

Hey all again,

Well, not much news over here… none about fishing anyway. We’re all settling down very nicely in France, in the new house. We’ve even bought a new car with… a whole lot of frustration from me having to translate and the sales people not understanding… or usually me not understanding what they were trying to get across… eventually though we did it, and it was well worth it.

Tomorrow we’re taking a drive to Carcassone (a medieval city… somewhere in France, will get more details on it tomorrow or on Wednesday), with it. So will write about that afterwards and try get some pictures :-) . On Sunday I found out that’s it’s only a five hour train journey to Paris from Toulouse, so that’s good to know… I guess :-P .

Oh! About two weeks ago, my sister (Venetia) and I made French friends… okay they made arrangements to meet up with us the next day in town, but they didn’t pitch up :-O!!! Okay well I think we got lost in translation… Still haven’t seen them around, but on the first day that we met, they took us to a little square, beside the park in our town.

Here there were tonnes of kids dancing, they called this type of dance “Tecktonik” (Whew, that is the way to spell it, I used to have it as Techtonique… looks French enough :-P … but was wrong >.<). It’s … quite different to British dancing… Tecktonik is like loads of arm movements and twisty leg movements, some jelly body movements as well, (wow, now you can REALLY imagine what I’m trying to describe :-P ). At the beginning Venetia and I thought of it as strange, but after watching some videos on youtube, I think it doesn’t look… too bad :-P , and want to learn it… so far I can do… one move… and it’s a very simple one (most of the time I can’t even get my hands right with it >.<). Hee hee! The girl who does break dancing even said it was more difficult than that, so I don’t feel that bad about it :-P !

How sad am I?… Actually don’t answer that, it’s just a rhetorical question :-P . I have absolutely no other news… wow I need to get a lake! :-P Hope to hear from you all soon!

- Bianca