Social side of the week

C3

Last Thursday night, I co-lead a successful C3 night, a photo scavenger hunt. We put people into teams with cameras and they went out and about in the local area coming up with photos to suit 15 captions that we had given them. Ranging from ‘It’s a French thing’ to ‘It’s a childish thing’ to ‘It’s a historical thing’. Afterwards we displayed the photos on a projector and judged the photos for a winner. Everyone had a lot of fun taking and looking at the photos.

Dinner with L&H

On Friday, I went to a gorgeous little crêperie, just behind my local supermarket and I would never have noticed it was there unless I was taken! I went out for dinner with Laurence and Hugues. We had a savoury crêpe followed by a sweet one, accompanied by cider and a good dose of friendship :) Laurence and I have been a good support to each other at school and outside of school this past 8 months, we’re going to miss each other.

Bal folk

On Saturday, my friend Nicola and I had pushed our friend Hugues (a different one from the one above) into organising an outing to a bal folk. This is because I knew that Nicola would love it, Hugues goes there often and is good company and we needed a car to get there! So five of us went – Hugues, me, Nicola, Nathan and Natasha. We had loads of fun, and except for nearly dying from the heat inside the room it was a great night out :)

Last Sunday

My last Sunday here was a hard one to stomach. I said goodbye to the Église du Triolo, youth group and Christchurch Sunday evenings. I’m sure I’ll make it back occasionally, but it was fairly definitive, realising that it wasn’t going to be part of my regular activity any more. I got a lovely card from youth group thanking me for my involvement. I’ve got really attached to the group considering I’ve only been part of it for 5 months. One of the girls clung to me and threatened to not let me go! Another of my friends was on about stealing my passport so I couldn’t leave. Aww…. At one point this week I was ready to ring her up and say ‘You want my passport? Come and get it!’

Les profs on Monday

So as I said in a previous blog, I went to say goodbye to the teachers of Armentières. I spent a nice hour or so with them and I really appreciated them taking the time to come and say goodbye. They gave me a necklace and earrings which were well chosen and a bottle of wine called ‘Fiona’! It’s so cool!

Last GBU

For my last GBU, they cancelled the Bible study and had a goodbye evening for me! Lara cooked roast chicken and potatoes with green beans which was delicious, and we had a chocolate cake and apple tart after :) It was a mixture of happiness and sadness, because they’re so dear to me and I was enjoying the time with them, but I didn’t want to leave. The consolation was that half of the group is coming to see me in less than 10 days for the weekend :)

Packing up

So I leave on Saturday and I’m packing, cleaning, saying a few final goodbyes and trying to write my uni project all at the same time. Will write again when I’m back in England…

Fiona x