first pilgrimage

Thursday afternoon one of our art history teacher came in to teach us about the two church we are heading to on friday. We had to be up and on the road at 8am . Anyways we went into town with eric because they had a sound and light show. The only sound i heard was how the prye which we live is is now lived in by college students who are from PA. The rest was mostly history of the town it was very pretty since they turned off all the lights in town and used controls to turn on the bridge the church and the other buildings. So we walked back up the hill to out home and it was about 1230ish when we got into beds. I woke up and got into the car and on our way there eric was still telling us how these churches were built and everything and i was really excited.

The second church was amazing this organ was the biggest and most unique one i have ever seen before.

After a long day we were all tired so we got back ate and pretty much just all fell asleep . Saturday we went kayaking and then later that night we went down to Nadeines were i got some Heikens that i was excited to order on my own. Today we got up and went to church and now we are just laying around writing our blogs.

Jason The British guy with the chainsaw

I left off talking about a BBQ we were susposed to attend. We went to Jason's house which was beautiful it had a nice pool but it was a bit to chilly to swim. I played with there dog oscar while drinking a nice cold heiken. It was amazing place there were people from different countries but they all spoke english so it was nice to be able to talk to them easily. A british couple with there daughter were really nice they were Lovely(british accent). Anyways i met Peter and Margret who were two very well local known peter rents the bikes and Margret sings in the choir. We ate and ate and then after we ate we ate some more. There was so much food. But then Peter told us a story about how two families were in huge fight some years ago and now its a ghost story. Jason was joking around about how there was a chainsaw man who haunts the monestary. This is after we been talking about movies like saw 1-4 with i think everyone over here loves. Anyways this dinner and meeting was for the baptism of a young girl. We got up for church in the morning were lindsay said in french I love to call myself lindsay to the priest which speaks very little english but we had tim there to straighten out her mistake. The church is lovely and it was so nice. After mass we toured the family around the monestary so they could see the wonderful place we have. Later on that night we went into abli to see the fireworks and go to a carnival we picked up maddy who was the Godmother and she came with us. We played one game at the carnival which i one it was a punching machine. Tim drove us back up to the castle ruins where we stood about 40 feet from the hill and we got slammed on the ashes coming down. I talked to one of maddys friend who was in England so i thought i would talk to her it wasnt the best convo i had but it was fun. After we got home we were all tired and just passed out. Monday our first day of class arrived at last it was amazing i learned so much of french in one day than i did in 2 years. Tim gave us the go ahead to go get our bikes so us four headed out on bikes cause we had to be back at 6 pm we went down along the tarn river then it started to go uphill......mountians so teddy had is head phones in and lindsay and john turned around so i chased lance armstrong up and up and up then i was like he can find his way home haha so i turned around and headed home i got back to the bike garage in town where peter tim john and lindsay were there talking so i stopped and then the four of us minues peter came back up the huge hill to get to our monestary. Needless to say we all were tired but class was still fun and interesting after class we ate then tim left his car down at the bike shop so me john tim and lindsay walked with him at 11 oclock at night in a small rural town. I used a flashlight i thought i wouldnt use (THANKS MOM). We got the car came back where we met up with teddy to study a lil french before bed.

First day and night in France

I left about 1030 from Johnstown to get to pittsburgh. We got to pittsburgh where i checked my bags in and got the tickets. After that i met up with lindsay and met her family. 15 minutes later i met up with teddy where the three of us went to the gate we just sat around i called john saying we were getting ready to get on the plane he was still at home bc he was flying out of new york. We landed in detroit motor city and teddy and i went to the pga shop and played the 7th hole at pebble beach where teddy beat me by one stroke. Anyways it was about time to leave teddy was on a different flight so he walked to gate 30 when me and lindsay walked to gate 64 where she realized she was on his flight not mine so she had to run to his since he was leaving in like 15 minutes. So i got on my plane sat next to a nice guy who was retired from the navy. I watched iron man and 88 minutes and slept very little. After the 7 and a half hour plane flight i was beat but i still had to go through customs in amsterdam after that i had one flight to go. I was able to get through the long line with a kid from the States he liked my shoes bc he had the same pair so we talked about that and how he went to west point and my study abroad program after that we wished each other luck and went on our different ways. I was walking through amsterdam airport when i hear JIM JIM JIM it was lindsay and teddy sitting in this cafe looking area where there were walls of wine and liquors. Then we got on to the flight and it was only a 90 minute flight. Once in Toulouse we got the bags and headed for the door where a tall man with a red shirt asked if we needed a play to stay for the night it was tim. After tim showed us to the car he talked about the cities we passed and how we will go to the french college and eat with other students. Anyways we pulled into house(huge monestary) and john was waiting there to greet us and show us to our rooms. The places they redid are amazing. Anyways after we ate dinner which was amazing and the bread is as good as i heard. We sat outside for a little and talked then i came back unpacked and fell asleep. Good morning i woke up and start to write this blog and right before lunch i deleted in by accident so this is a new one since i deleted the old one. We ate lunch which was also very good and then tim had us walk down and meet the towns people. We have a BBQ at 630 it is now 5:17. My afternoon consisted of climbing and that pretty much it. Tim left us about 1:30 because he wanted to go see the people who are having the party if he needed to bring anything so it was our first time alone in france we decided to climb and climb we did. But the pictures we got were amazing we climbed to the ruins of a castle across the town from our castle in the sky. Anyways enjoy reading the rest of my blogs once i get them up and enjoy the photos because they speak for themselves.