Today was a relaxing day.
The weather was extraordinarily beautiful; I was wearing only a tee-shirt
and jeans for a good portion of the day.
After lunch, my host sisters and Sophie’s family left. I helped Thibault fix up the family’s bikes, some
of which were having issues changing gears, and the four of us left at home
went on a quite a long bike ride down from St. Jean de Vedas to the neighboring
countryside. It was very beautiful. We stopped at an old abbey and looked around
for a while, but we could not go inside because it was closed due to being
Sunday, which is a little ironic to think about now that I actually type it out…
don’t ask me, it’s a French thing.
Continuing on, we went up and down a few more hills (there
are quite a few in this region, the “mont” in Montpellier being derived from the French word for hill) and
through another small village before heading back home. It was quite a pleasant trip, overall.
I helped the family put away some of their Christmas
decorations, which they had left up until their children had left and helped
Thibault disassemble the crèche, or nativity manger. Thibault practiced on the piano, playing
classical music. He was incredibly
skilled at it.
Then, before dinner started, we began watching The Matrix: Reloaded, dubbed in
French. I have only ever seen the first Matrix movie, so while I wasn’t
completely lost, I had a slightly hard time following it. The voice dubbing was very well done, though,
and the French voice-actor dubbing for Neo somehow managed to make Keanu Reeves
sound cool. So, hats off to him.
Tomorrow begins my first day of classes, so I aim to try and
get a decent night’s sleep. Bonne nuit!
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