This year just might have been the best Valentine’s ever: I was able to take a 9 hour train ride to Lons le Saunier, France to visit my sister for a week! Although the train rides were long and sometimes boring, the trip was really worth it once I made it to Lons. Anna teaches English in the primary schools in the area and has made some wonderful friends with those living in the town.
While in France I had so many new and exciting adventures it’s hard to describe the
m all! The first day I was there Anna took me on a small tour of Lons and then to a chocolate shop. Talk about being in heaven! If you like chocolate, GO TO FRANCE! The chocolate melts on your tongue and they have all sorts of flavors imaginable. Honestly, you can’t eat just one, you want to eat the whole store! Needless to say, we bought some chocolate and then went to the grocery store across from Anna’s apartment, Ed. While there, I learned a big difference between France and Germany: the French take their time in lines at the check-out counter and buy most of their groceries all at once rather than coming back every other day. Such a difference from Germany where you are supposed to have your money ready and pack your groceries quickly so as to avoid getting run over. Okay, that was a bit over-exaggerated, but you get the point.
After Ed, Anna and I made an attempt to make a great American treat: Puppy chow! Of course, we ran into two problems:1. we didn’t have the right cereal, so we compromised and used some of Anna’s roommate’s health cereal that is like cornflakes and 2. we didn’t have very much powdered sugar. So we made the trek back over to Ed and waited in the long lines just to get powdered sugar. But it was well worth it. The Puppy chow tasted really good and lasted about the whole week! I was also able to experience the French version of American Idol, Star Academy that night. It was the final, so we stayed up to find out who won. (more…)
