Weekend

School on Saturday should be banned, especially P.E. that is located no where near the place you go to school. Actually it wasn’t that bad. We did shot put for a little bit, did some weird long jump stuff, and I guess I have to decide which one I want to specialize in or something, because they choose what their best at because their grades count for their big end of the year test. So I don’t know which one I’ll choose (I think I can also choose running 500 meters 3 times), but it kind of hurts my feet to run because I only have my Pumas (no I told you so’s Mom!).

After me and 2 guys went to get some McDonald’s, which was amazing. Grease is good every once in a while, and it reminds me of the U.S (although they lack a dollar menu, or even a Euro menu for that matter).

We left for the country home at around 3, and nothing too exciting happened but I do have a pretty funny event to recount. So I love going to the grocery store and following my host dad around picking out cheese/wine, because he just has some innate knowledge about those 2 subjects that I’d like to acquire. Right now in France they are having this big wine sale called “Foire aux Vins” which is during the grape harvest where they have sales on all last year’s wine to get ready for the new stuff. So they had some bottles open, so my host dad showed me the finer points of some different wines, and I guess he hasn’t bought a lot of wine in a while, so in perfect Miles fashion (“ooh, it’s on sale, I’ll get 7”…kind of like that time at Sam’s Club where my Dad bought a golf club set for my brother, who, as a rule, only plays golf when Haley’s comet is flying overhead, which is to say not often…but who am I to complain, I get to use them…wow this was a long, unstructured tangent) we left with 5 cases of wine (6 bottles each) and the guy helping us gave us two pretty much full bottles of 15 Euro wine. Let’s just say the grocery bill was almost 400 euros…kind of intense. But I did get to drink some good wine this weekend, sleep and read a lot…but that’s pretty much it.

Thanks for tuning in friends,

Brent