11 June 2008

Se Promener Dans la Nuit

Hier soir, le 9 Juin, à environ 21:00, mon père, ma mère et moi sommes allé se baladé. C’était amusant parce que nous ne se promenade presque j’aimais après 18 :00.

Nous sommes allés marcher à coté de la rivière. Nous sommes marchés de notre rue, Rue du Faubourg de Saverne, à Rue du Nuée Bleu, puis nous avons tourné à droite, pour se diriger vers la cathédrale.

Après quelques minutes Rue du Nuée Bleu se transforme en Rue du Dôme. Après ça nous sommes allés tout droit. Après plusieurs minutes nous sommes arrivés à la cathédrale.

La cathédrale est très grosse. Elle se mesure 142 mètres en hauteur. Je l’aime beaucoup. Elle est très belle. Mais cette fois il y avait quelque chose différent. À coté de la cathédrale il y avait deux grandes boîtes, environ 10 mètres haut. Sur ces boîtes il y avait des lumières. Ces lumières étaient comme les lumières à un spectacle : petits et noirs avec du papier coloré attaché.

Nous sommes allés à la rivière, cinq minutes de là où nous étions. Nous sommes regardés les bateaux pour environ quinze minutes.

Nous sommes allés pour acheter du crème glacé à l’extérieur d’un petit café. Après ça nous sommes retournés à l’appartement. C’était environ 22 :30 et nous étions fatigués. J’ai aimée cette promenade considérablement.

07 June 2008

Performing

Cameron and Meghan's end-of-year concert.





Feel Good Inc.



Highway to Hell



Owner of a Lonely Heart

03 June 2008

Our Greece Trip

On May 23rd our family left Strasbourg in order to go to Greece. We took a train to the Frankfurt airport, then a plane to Thessalonica, and finally another plane to the Athens airport. We only had a small dilemma, which is that we went to the wrong gate. The woman at the desk told us to go to B10, and we did that. Just before security, where you get your tickets checked, the person said that we were at the wrong gate. So we turned around, and went to gate A10 instead.

We then took a bus to Voula, a small town right beside Athens. We tracked down Posidonos road, very difficult to do because everything was in Greek, and found our apartment.

We found a small grocery store down the road, where we got most of our food on that trip. There was also a mall close to us with another grocery store and an internet café in it. We used the internet café for email a couple times.

A few days after we got there we went into Athens to go to the Acropolis. The Acropolis is a big raised platform with walls around it, on which there are some temples, including the Parthenon. The Parthenon is a huge temple to the goddess Athena, ordered built by Pericles. We also went into the temple of Athena Nike.

The day before we left we went to Lake Vouliagmenis, which is a mineral lake in a crater. There were tiny fish swimming there, and we swam with them.

We stayed a total of 8 days. The trip back was uneventful, and we were glad to see our apartment when we got there!

Hockey

This year has been tough in some ways, because we do not have all the things we had back home in Canada. For example, we do not have all the computer games we had in Canada, and we also had to pack many of our possessions in boxes to store for ten months. This can sometimes make it a little boring. One of the things that I miss the most is hockey. Here hockey isn’t one of the sports you can watch on TV, unless you get a special channel package. To ease the suffering a bit, my family and I started a NHL hockey pool in early February.

This was the way we did it: I printed out some charts of which players were leading in each category we were including (Goals, Assists, Points, +/-, GAA, Save %), and we took turns picking players. In the end I won the Goals, Assists, Points and Save % categories, and Meghan won the +/- and GAA categories.

Right now we are near the end of the NHL playoffs, for which we started a new pool. I can’t wait for October in Canada, when I will hopefully be able to watch hockey again. Until then wish me luck in our pool!