my first day or so...

Hello all, it is 10:15 here, and i have been awake with nothing to do for about four and a half hours... yesterday i slept alllllll day after not getting any sleep on the plane trips over (on the flight to Paris, i had to sit next to this ginormous American guy who was taking up half of my seat, so that make it hard to sleep) I also sat next to a really nice american woman (who was small :). She asked me about the group I was traveling with and thought it was really cool that i could do something like rotary exchange. She was traveling to Paris for business or something, i'm not sure what exactly...
So anyway, i eventually arrived... Marie and Camille were waiting for me at the airport, as well as the district chair person and my rotary club president, they were all very nice :) I also met some other guy, but i don't remember who he was, it was kind of awkward because i tried to do the 'bisous' but he was trying to shake my hand... hahahaaa... we figured it out in the end :) and he made some comment about how i preferred bisous, ohh well :)
We eventually made it to the house, it took about 20 minutes to get there, i think... once we were there Marie and Camille showed me around the house, in French mind you... the only english they spoke to me happened in the airport and on the drive to the house, after that i think Marie decided, oh well! she can probably figure it out! So after showing me around and explaining things to me i ate some bread, drank some juice and went to sleep for the day, until about 7:30 that night :)
When i eventually woke up, i showered and went down for dinner, Camille had a friend over, she was nice to me as well, and interested to see pictures of my house and family. For dinner we had crepes with cheese and ham and an egg on top, and then sliced cucumber and sliced mushrooms with some sort of dressing on them, it was all very tasty :) For dessert we had chocolate cake, it was a very thin cake, kind of torte-like, and english cream with it. We sat around talking for a while (i was just listening for the most part:) and eventually Hugo got home. I gave them the quilt, a jar of rhubarb jam and one of those magnets, Marie was very impressed by the quilt. After all that, I played some Wii bowling with Camille and her friend, aaaaaaand after sitting around talking for a while Marie, Eric, Camille and friend (whose name i obviously do not remember, oops) went to bed. Hugo and I watched some tv, he told me a bit about this trip to Spain, and after a while I went to bed.

Some how i was able to sleep for awhile, but after waking up, i wasted some time, and went down to get some breakfast and take some pictures for you all to see...

My very messy room, and bed, which folds into a couch if I want.

This is the view from my bedroom window, Disneyland is to the right, and it's a lot farther away than I thought it would be, you can only see the top of Belle's castle from our driveway.

The shower, not that exciting... pretty normal really.

The other side of the bathroom...

This is my drawer in the cabinet that looks like a giant mirror in the other picture...

This is the staircase, sorry it's a bit dark.

The dining room table, there is a piano on the right, which Camille's friend played for us after dinner, she was very good.

The living room...

The other side of the living room...


This is the view from the entry way...


The kitchen...


The other side of the kitchen...


And finally, my breakfast :)

So there you have it, a view into my new life here... I like their house, it's very new, so there isn't much in it, but it's nice. I think I am going to go downstairs now and see if anyone is awake yet. More later!

Love - Siri Ellen

P.S. sorry for all the errors in this post, i am too lazy to go back and edit it.