10.28.07
Autumn
Hi. Sorry I didn’t write for a while. Work is more stressing now, and I have hobbies on evenings and weekends.
The land and house searching has been down since the last (and first) house we looked at.
We celebrated the 30th birthday of Anthony middle of September, as well as our first year together. It was a big feast, with lots of people. Everyone brought meat to eat, and after that evening we ate good meat for one week.
Then we made a wine route, this year we repeated the success of Bourgogne. The reason we went back was that year 2005 which just came out, was an exceptional year for the wine from bourgogne, and we came home with 60 expensive but very good bottles. You have the best photos on my photo page.
This is freedom, and a good view.
Lindy at last
A couple of weeks after I went to Aix en Provence (just above Marseille) to do lindy courses at Provence Swing festival. It was fun to see how Lindy is in france. Better than I thought. The style is a bit different, but it fits, me, I will learn their style with time. There was a Jack’n Jill competition starting on friday evening with final on the saturday evening. The rules is that you change partner. It was the first time I took part in such a competition. It started out quite bad on friday, first it was one girl two much (thirteen with only twelve leaders) and of course I got no man :-/ But to the second song, everyone switched partner and I had one. But he danced rock, not lindy. I don’t know rock, except that it’s a lot of six counts, and more like swedish bug with the hands. On the saturday evening I was surprised to hear that I got to the final. There were five couples and I got to dance with a guy I nevern danced with before, from Toulouse. They dance a bit different over there so I had a hard time to follow, I was concentrated to max. I thoght we would change partner again, but apparentely in the final you kee the same, so we shook hands, and presented us for each other. His name was Nicolas, and danced the medium tempo, and then the fast. That was hard. Later in the evening when they announced who won I couldn’t believe my ears, we had won!! Crazy. The other dancers were really good too.
Katarina was with me at the camp. She’s living in Montpeiller this autumn, to study french. It was so good to have her there, I was not all alone in the big french world.
There was also 10-15 guys from Nice and I began to feel as a part of them.
The end of a wonderfull day
This has been a relaxed day. Anthony was climbing and I walked around in the house and garden and did small things, cleaning the bbq here and putting up lamps in the living room there. I ate lunch in the sun, it was so warm. It’s time to sleep now. We’ve had Pierre and Delphine here for dinner, it was a fantastic dinner, with chicken in nuts. It cannot be described really. It was perfect. I love France.
