Back! Lourdes :)

I’m back! Well actually i’ve been back for ages but i was just too lazy to update this blog =/ . Contrary to what i predicted… Lourdes was actually quite .. erm good. I didn’t expect it to turn out the way it did. We set out from Stanstead airport on Friday early morning and we got there in time for lunch at the hotel. The first two days were completely free and we could do whatever we wanted so i just did some shopping and sight seeing. We went on a coach trip to the Pyrenees and i really loved it up there! The views were amazing and we were so close to the snow-topped mountains but where we were… it was actually around 35 degrees!

The real work started on Monday and it didn’t stop until an hour before our flight back… literally. I teamed up with a friend I met on induction day and we were assigned a “malade” (french for sick person… apparently it’s less offensive) to look after and take from place to place .. in a wheelchair of course . Our malade was reaaaally nice! He was youngest out lot i think so he wasn’t grumpy like most of the others and he was soo funny! He’d rather do something himself rather than force/leave other people to do it for him.

The only thing i didn’t like was the curfew. 12 o’clock? Like seriously? My other friends didn’t even have a curfew as long as they we’re sober for the next day! To top it off.. my “guardian” said that if i wanted to go out, i had to stick with the only other two people from my local group. Let’s just say they weren’t the social type… they went in the club and after 10 mins came back out and said they we’re going home. Leme just say that this was at around 10pm. Like urghh. So i had to go back to the hotel with them and pretended to be asleep for half hour and sneaked back out again Once we figured out how easy it was.. we did it every night after that xD  Each night i got about 4 hours sleep each night cos we came back around 2 am (EVERYTHING in Lourdes closed at 2am).

Friday came and i was releaveeeeed to go back home! I’d never done so much work with so little sleep ever! When i got home, the first thing i did was hit the bed. Forget unpacking when you’re that tired! hhaaha

I’ll try and post some pictures up soon

xoxo -dlc

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