As it was the weekend, I slept in until past 10. I felt quite well rested after that. After a quick breakfast by myself (because everyone else, in fact, did not sleep past 10 like I did), I had free time with Simon and his family. I started by playing foosball with them. It was interesting; they seem to play foosball a lot and thus have developed a strategy: they would hold the ball in one of the back rows of players, then flip over their players in front to have a (more) clear shot to the goal. Simon’s little sister especially was very energetic, dramatic, and competitive as we played foosball. Well actually, she’s very energetic and dramatic all the time, not just when we play foosball. Afterwards, Simon brought out a table for us to play table tennis. The table was quite small compared to a regular table tennis table, but it was still fun. Simon tried putting a lot of spin on the ball when he played, and his sister lacks a backhand. Unfortunately, there was wind which made it more difficult to play. We had lunch afterwards where we ate pulled pork and mashed potatoes left from yesterday as well as some salad and tomatoes. I couldn’t eat too much due to the fact that I ate breakfast really late. I also got to try a type of syrup (that, to my knowledge, we don’t have in the US) that French people sometimes put in their drinks that makes the water sweet and, in this case, minty. We started the afternoon by… playing more table tennis. Though this time, we did some more bizarre things like using our hands or removing the net and blowing the ball back and forth (which was quite hard because of the wind). I also played badminton with Simon. After, around 3-ish in the afternoon, we went to a festival with a lot of shows. We watched two shows together. In the first show, two people were basically taking a bunch of old objects and kind of competing against each other while building (kind of imaginary) homes. It was quite funny and there were a lot of people watching. We ate a quick snack there and watched the next show, which had more people and less good spots to watch. In this show, a guy was making jokes and doing some stupid things to prepare for a motorcycle trick, which he did at the end. A lot of the jokes I didn’t understand due to lack of vision and the French being fast, but Simon and his dad agreed that the jokes were not interesting and that the show was really long. We went back home and ate dinner, which was pasta. Later in the evening, me and Simon went to watch the second half of a movie we started yesterday: The Fabelmans, which was an interesting movie related to the life of Steven Spielberg. Simon’s sister and father joined later, and we finished the film at almost midnight, at which point I realized I still had to write this blog…
As it was the weekend, I slept in until past 10. I felt quite well rested after that. After a quick breakfast by myself (because everyone else, in fact, did not sleep past 10 like I did), I had free time with Simon and his family. I started by playing foosball with them. It was interesting; they seem to play foosball a lot and thus have developed a strategy: they would hold the ball in one of the back rows of players, then flip over their players in front to have a (more) clear shot to the goal. Simon’s little sister especially was very energetic, dramatic, and competitive as we played foosball. Well actually, she’s very energetic and dramatic all the time, not just when we play foosball. Afterwards, Simon brought out a table for us to play table tennis. The table was quite small compared to a regular table tennis table, but it was still fun. Simon tried putting a lot of spin on the ball when he played, and his sister lacks a backhand. Unfortunately, there was wind which made it more difficult to play. We had lunch afterwards where we ate pulled pork and mashed potatoes left from yesterday as well as some salad and tomatoes. I couldn’t eat too much due to the fact that I ate breakfast really late. I also got to try a type of syrup (that, to my knowledge, we don’t have in the US) that French people sometimes put in their drinks that makes the water sweet and, in this case, minty. We started the afternoon by… playing more table tennis. Though this time, we did some more bizarre things like using our hands or removing the net and blowing the ball back and forth (which was quite hard because of the wind). I also played badminton with Simon. After, around 3-ish in the afternoon, we went to a festival with a lot of shows. We watched two shows together. In the first show, two people were basically taking a bunch of old objects and kind of competing against each other while building (kind of imaginary) homes. It was quite funny and there were a lot of people watching. We ate a quick snack there and watched the next show, which had more people and less good spots to watch. In this show, a guy was making jokes and doing some stupid things to prepare for a motorcycle trick, which he did at the end. A lot of the jokes I didn’t understand due to lack of vision and the French being fast, but Simon and his dad agreed that the jokes were not interesting and that the show was really long. We went back home and ate dinner, which was pasta. Later in the evening, me and Simon went to watch the second half of a movie we started yesterday: The Fabelmans, which was an interesting movie related to the life of Steven Spielberg. Simon’s sister and father joined later, and we finished the film at almost midnight, at which point I realized I still had to write this blog…
