Guess Who Made Page Six?

Yes, that would be me. And okay, it's only page six of the 'Paris-Normandie' newspaper, not the page six of the New York Post. But I was in the newspaper! There's a picture and everything. But more about that later.

Friday I went to dance after school. Once again, it was kind of hard, but that's okay. Amelia wasn't there because she was sick, but I talked to another girl in my class, Zoë (I think that is how to spell her name). After dance class I went home and ate dinner, not too exciting.

On Saturday I went to the Guérins' house to help sort through a bunch of rubbish that people brought for the flea market that was on Sunday. In Vernon on Sunday there was a huge flea market in the streets just like the one in Giverny last week except bigger. All the streets were shut down and it was like two miles long. Anyway, Rotary Youth Exchange had a table, with all profits going to our spending money that we get each month from Rotary. So on Saturday I helped Cathérine, Violaine, and Marcus sort through all the stuff and put price tags on everything. After that, I went with Marcus and three of his friends from school to get dinner. Their names were Marnie, Eline, and JB (I think, maybe those are their names, but I'm really bad at catching french names). We went to this kabob-restaurant that was really good. I talked to JB in English a bit and he asked me if I cried when Michael Jackson died. Also, Marnie and Eline asked me if I eat McDonald's all the time in the United States. That is the most common question I get from people here, besides "How do you pronounce your name???" and "Where are you from?". I said no because it's fattening, and they were like, "so? It's good!". French teenagers all love McDonalds a lot.

The giant flea market was on Sunday. I had to get up at 8, which was annoying. It was kind of cold in the morning, but then later it was really nice out. We sold a ton of rubbish, and really that's the right word for the stuff we were selling. At our table we had mostly old dishes, as well as three cases of California wine and three old bicycles. There were some old clothes and toys also. Joël and Cathérine told everyone that I brought the wine with me from California, so they sold like 30 bottles at 4€ each. It was probably not very good wine, but whatever. Marcus and Ophélie were wearing their Rotary blazers, which were all decorated of course with a bunch of pins from a bunch of different countries. I was wearing my Rotary blazer as well because they made me. This photographer from the journal Paris-Normandie came up to us and took a picture of us wearing our blazers, so that was how I got in the newspaper. So exciting, I know! (sarcasm) Cathérine made copies of the page (which really was page six), so I got one of those.

We had pizza for lunch and little cakes that some Rotarian gave us. Mine was like a strawberry shortcake... so good! In the afternoon I walked around for awhile to look at all the tables of rubbish, and I ran into Amelia, and later I talked to Ludivine for a couple of minutes.

The only things I bought at the market were pins for my blazer; Marcus found a guy selling these really good pins. So I bought 34 different pins... I got two Yves Saint Laurent pins, a Balenciaga Paris pin, a 100-year-anniversary of the Eiffel Tower pin, a bunch of different Coca-Cola and McDonald's pins, and a bunch more besides those.

We ended up making 475 €, which is very good considering we were selling junk that people gave us because they didn't want it.
On Monday I ate lunch at school with Julie, and I talked to her for like 45 minutes or longer in French, so that was good.
Tuesday after school I had a Rotary meeting, and I took some more packages of Nutella from the Hotel where the Rotary meetings are held. It's okay though, they don't really care.
Today (Wednesday) I only had two hours of school, which is always nice. I got the second and third Twilight books in English, so now I have something to read again during étude.

Okay, I have to go, but I am going to post again soon, maybe about la cuisine français (french food).

au revoir for now!

Halle