The village of Carnac

French sucks.  I can't understand the language, but want to so badly at the same time.  I wish I could speak/understand it.  It makes me really nervous thinking about traveling alone to Taize…hopefully it wont be too bad and I can pick up some French phrases.  I love English.  A lot of people speak it thankfully, but not all.  The french definitely do not like americans.  I feel like I'm being talked about all the time.  It has made me realize just how much I love America and England.  Places where I understand the culture and the culture understands me.  Also, unlike America and England where if you smile when something is being misunderstood people sympathize and it lightens the mood and people think you are cute…well in France people get annoyed (or at least appear to be) and look mean and upset and just unhappy-like they are constipated almost…

The food is realllllyyyyyy good though.  Very light and refreshing.  For breakfast it is just cereal and yogurt and fruit and coffee.  Well, lots of bread if you can eat it.  It is really rather unfortunate just how much I can't eat here. I got glutenated tonight, and I don't know if it was from dinner or if it is the cereal I have that I know has malt in it, but it is the only cereal I could find without ble (flour) so I am making do (do). hehehe. If there was ever a time to cave and eat gluten, France would be the place. I'm mean literally it is about 85% of their diet! EVERYWHERE. Stupid Celiac disease.  All I want to do is eat a baguette. I know Rachel that it wouldn't be worth it, but this time it would be. Put some cheese on it…YUM! Ah! The cheese!!! So delicious! Oh, and the chocolate and caramels and nougat and candy and YUM! Oh and tonight we had all these different fish…Ned, you would have been in heaven.  It was divine.  I'm going to try and stay gluten free, but we shall see how long it goes.  If I do, all I will be eating is fruit and cheese…which doesn't sound too bad if I can find some good fresh fruit.  I have only had one glass of wine so far…I hope to have more. We just only have 30 euros per person per day which may sound like a lot if we are just getting fruit and cheese and bread (baguettes only cost like 59 cents…I think they are the cheapest things you can buy!) but when you go out for dinner (we haven't stayed in a place yet where you can cook) you end up spending around 25 Euro per person….ridiculous. 

Sigh…

Bayeux was beautiful and the tapestry was amazing!! (if you don't know what I am talking about look it up cause I might die a little inside if you ask me what it is…it's called the Bayeux Tapestry if you don't (don't tell me) know.) We are in Carnac right now.  Carnac is where all the megaliths are and it is right on the coast! There are THOUSANDS of them (again, look it up…it is actually pretty cool!). We are going to go tour them tomorrow.

I'm liking the trip so far, I'm just a nervous thinking about after this trip…it seems to be all I can think about (probably because I am not as prepared as I should be SHOCKER). Once I get some wifi, I'm going to book train tickets and hostels/hotels for before Taize and after (maybe since idk if I can stay a second week I feel like I shouldn't book because I don't know what I am doing). I'm definitely going to be getting rid of some of these clothes while I am over here.  Way too much (sadness).  Thank goodness I brought my own shampoo (thanks dad for putting it in there last minute!) because it cost around 8 euro here…thats about 12 bucks for the SMALL bottle!! I miss you guys a lot.  

The people on my trip are cool.  Robin is really sweet and is seriously the nicest person I have ever met! Mariah is sweet and funny. Seth is sweet and is a mini version of Dr. Hill.  Dr. Hill is good, is getting used to us and traveling around with us.  

I need to stop dishin out dirt on the French.  Needs to stop.  

We are staying in this adorable little hotel in Carnac.  It's kinda like a cottage you would find on the East coast, like in Rhode Island or something.  It is very quaint.  We had dinner here, a very fancy smancy kinda restaurant although I'm slowly discovering that most restaurants are like that at dinner time (which is 730-9 in France).  It was really funny because there was this old lady there with CRAZY looking hair (it was cute but it was just pulled out and standing on its ends) and she was a regular, I think, because they had set up a bottle of wine and one place setting (she ate alone) before she even got there.  I think she was talking about us as well, because when the waiter came by to check on her they were talking and laughing and then I turned to look at her and she immediately put her hand to her face to tell a secret to the waiter and they both started laughing and smiling.  It was adorable.  

We walked around the town for a bit, and after that went down to the beach.  It reminded me a lot of the beach at Bamburgh, though this one had more sea life.  

It was really just the quaintest hotel to stay in.  Carnac is very beautiful. Iphoto just moved all my photos to finder, so I have to individually move each picture to iphoto so I may not upload any photos for a while which stinks poo poo, but I'll try to post some soon. 

Ta-ta for now!