Monday, November 9, 2009

Toussaint, Day 5...


That's right. he's howling like a wolf.

Day 5 – mercredi 28 octobre
Carcassonne

Day 5 found us in Carcassonne, a two minute walk from a medieval fortress. Now, I would love to tell all kinds of stories about what was in fact a really cool castle. Unfortunately, our guide was insane. He spoke way too fast and abstractly, even though Dr. Allen had warned him to speak slowly for us. He also did a great wolf impression, which would have possibly been more hysterical if we had known why he was howling like a wolf. However, after we got back on the bus, Dr. Allen gave us the highlights and that was that.

Lunch that day was actually really fun. We had been invited to our professors’ house again, since they live near Carcassonne. So we had a delicious cassoulet at their house, along with the requisite cheese, dessert, and coffee courses. Bernie the nuisance was there as well, and naturally starting whining and howling anytime he thought he wasn’t getting enough attention.

After being force-fed a ridiculous amount of food, Madame Sinniger proposed a walk. So off we went, not knowing that our beautiful afternoon was about to be ruined by class time. Once we got to the nearby town, she and Dr. Allen decided it would be a great idea to go to the town’s museum that was an old military school. Admittedly, it was fairly interesting, but we all just wanted a break at that point from having to think about classes. On the way back, the sun was setting, and I got some great pictures of the sun setting over the hills. When we got back to the Sinnigers, we discovered Saïd had arrived (this was the day we switched out drivers), which made all of us very happy. Jean-Claude was a great driver too, but we had had Saïd for all of our trips thus far, and it was nice to have him back.

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