Translation of French post

Helen asked me to translate the post so that she could read it. As she asked so nicely, I will comply! I have translated it more or less literally.


It was about time that I wrote a post in French, so here it is. It won’t be a very long one, but will tell you what I have done in the gap between this one and my last.

Obviously we all celebrated the festivities (that doesn’t make sense in English ummm). Christmas went by without too many problems this year. William came over to get his presents, dad came for the day, Nathalie was of course already at home with me and mum. I received some very pretty jewellery, several guide books for Sweden and Argentina (countries that I will be spending time in shortly), some DVD’s and little bits and bobs to fill a stocking.
We ate a lovely turkey which was very nice and a lovely Christmas pudding. That has to be my favourite pudding! It would have been nice to have a ‘buche glacee’ (like an ice cream roll decorated as a log, that you have in France for Christmas) but they don’t sell them in England :-(. It will have to be for another year! (Possibly not next year as I will be in Argentina)

The following day were used to empty more boxes of stuff, I went ice-skating with my sister Nathalie, Sarah and Tom. Sarah was a very effective decoy as he spent much of the time at the rink speaking to her, and trying to hold her hand! My plan was brilliant! Hehe! I ignored him mostly, if he doesn’t get a hint that subtle then he never will! It’s been two years since I met him now and he still doesn’t get it! Silly boy! Other than unpacking and skating, a lot of TV was watched.

New Years Eve we spent in Guildford with some friends and their friends, all very nice people. Everyone has written extensively about it so I won’t bother :-)

I spent 4 days at Claire’s house in the new year. We had said that we would do some revision but we didn’t do that much! But a little is better than nothing no?! I had a lovely time there, we went shopping, played some tennis and played lots of card games.

Manou arrived on the Saturday during the day and I went to collect her from Waterloo with mum. She wasn’t expecting to see me so it was a nice surprise for her . She is sleeping in my room, so I had to move all my stuff out before she got to London, which of course was a lot harder than I had thought.
That evening I went into London to meet up with a friend I met on New Year’s Eve. We went for a very nice walk around central London, with stops for a couple of drinks of course!

And here I am back at university, with exams in a few days. I will really have to start revision as I have hardly done any, but I can’t get started on it. There are too many distractions. We shall see how it goes in time.

But I am going to wish you all good night, and sweet dreams, as i think it is time for bed now! Speak to you soon!