School this week has been wonderful because one full day (Tuesday) was spent on a field trip in St. Tropez, and this morning (Friday) I went again to St. Tropez. Why, you might ask. Because the Antipodes film festival has been happening this week and into the weekend. My class (Premier L-for litterature) got to go all day Tuesday with our English teachers to the Australian/New Zealand film festival happening. Tuesday we watched 17 short films which were all very interesting. Only one or two of the films were not to my liking. Tuesday mornings are one of the market days in St. Tropez too so I got to see a little of that. After the morning half of the films we went to an exposition of photographs from an Australian explorer back in the day. The photos were from an exploration in the South Pole. An Australian visual artist was there showing her own photographs from an expedition on a Russian icebreaker. She's studying global warming and the melting icebergs. I was enthralled... I know think I'm gonna have to go Antarctica or the Arctic Circle. Following was lunch with a group of friends in my class on some of the large rocks by the sea.. quite beautiful! After it was back to viewing which I was happy to do.
Thursday was the first day of real cold here. It was rainy and in the 50s... I definitely felt the change in temperature, but I'm excited for the new season. I need to buy a good coat though. Haha, back to Toulon!
Today, we went again to St. Tropez. We watched a longer film (an hour and half) accompanied in the theater by Anthony LaPaglia-the actor who plays Special Agent Jack Malone in the tv show "Without a Trace." I got his autograph after. The movie was very touching. It was about a strange man who shows up in this town on the coast of Australia. He ends up spending time with these two twin children and their family. The twin girl ends up dying and her brother must cope with the loss, and then there were other little plots and connections. After that film we changed buildings to watch a documentary of an adventurer, John Muir, and his lone traverse across Australia. He went only with his Jack Russel terrier, Seraphine. I absolutely loved the documentary. It made me realize even more that I want to do something with the environment.. he lived solely off the land, taking minimal supplies. Very inspirational! I went back to school to eat lunch, but I didn't have any classes this afternoon (normally I just have English, and my English teacher stayed in St. Tropez with the second group of students).
My day only continued to get better. When my host mom picked me up from the bus stop she told me that a package had come from my sister. Lauren told me that she mailed me a package last week so I've been expecting it. I'm so fortunate to have Lauren as my big sister and role model... this is what all my wonderful sister sent me: a Michael Jackson t-shirt (haha I started cracking up when I unfolded it-I can't wait to wear it), a Furman Tri-Delta t-shirt (it's extremely cute), two Twilight saga magazines giving on the scoop on New Moon (plus they had posters that are now hanging up in my room-I now sleep under Robert Pattinson's beautiful face), an Orbit BigPak in my favorite flavor (spearmint), two really cool picture-like things she made for me with quotes on them, a singing Halloween card with Halloween stickers :D, a pack of cute pens, the movie Dazed and Confused (thanks!), and the book The Time Traveler's Wife (she just finished reading it) with a really cool bookmark that she made me. So basically it was the best thing ever. I love you Lauren!! I'm working on a package for you, but I only have one thing so far.. I'll get on that :D So that's all for this week... if anything interesting happens this weekend I'll be sure to post.
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