This morning, I woke up bright and early at 11 am, when Hanaé knocked on my door. After I got dressed, her mother sent us to go on a hike to buy some pastries and two baguettes (quite literally a hike, I had to go down and then back up a mountain). On the way there, we passed by a church, where people were singing and praying. When we arrived at the small patisserie on the corner, I observed a small argument when my exchange student asked for a chocolatine, which was immediately rebutted by the shop owner saying “it’s a pain au chocolat!” After a treacherous hike back up the mountain, hanaé and I helped her mother in the garden, and repeatedly filled up water for her mother to water the plants. We went to go check on the growing strawberries and the smallest raspberries, and of course, took lots of breaks to pet her fluffy cat, Katniss. Soon after was lunch, where her father started barbecuing sausages while her mother brought in vegetables fresh from the garden while us kids set the tables. The well balanced meal was follow up with lots of cheese, which was interesting to say the least, and I tried to follow the dinner conversation to the best of my ability (which mostly consisted of my exchange student and her sister calling each other “cra cra” – dirty). The meal was wrapped up with her mother’s homemade raspberry and rhubarb tart, which was perfectly tart with a sweet crust. After lunch and a little bit of SAT practice, we went out in tours with Vanessa, Claire, and their partners. We went to a cafe and feasted on some macarons and taking lots of pictures there. Later, we went home and had a small snack before getting ready to go to bed for the night.
