The Weekend to Nimes, again!

Ok, so, Saturday 23rd December...this is about the time when 'Je suis trop fatigué' (I am too/so tired) became the most useful and most used phrase in my French vocabulary.
So Alix had two hours of Maths on Saturday morning which I didn't go to because I would have fallen asleep and I didn't want to be rude. Instead I think I spent the time with Jacques, who also didn't go to two hours of maths. Jacques tried to contact the others who were supposed to be at school (Isabelle and Mia I think) over and over on their mobiles but couldn't get them. We sat in the cafeteria for a while and chatted to Enzo I think. We went down to the Polygone but unfortunately FNAC, which Jacques wanted to visit, wasn't open (I don't think hardly any of the shops in the Polygone were open. They are so lazy, they don't open til 10am!) so instead we went and sat down for a while in the comfortable armchairs in the Polygone. We returned at 10:15 to meet our correspondents and we saw a couple of the others who had been in classes. It was the last day of term so we said goodbye to all our classmates and each other because most of us were going away somewhere for some of the holidays.
Alix and I went straight to the Casino place again (it's a supermarket/target type store, not a casino) to do some more gift-wrapping for scouts. We arrived around 11am and didn't leave until 7pm! Talk about hard work! Not to mention it was 2 days before Christmas so it was packed with people buying last minute presents! My hands were green (the colour of the wrapping-paper) by the end. I was ready to fall into bed but instead we got home and had to pack stuff for Nimes for three days as well as organise ourselves for another party, this one Alix's best friend Laure's birthday party.
We set off for the party. Despite us both being completely dead we took a bus then had to walk for around 20 minutes carrying a sleeping bag each. Alix also had a roll-up mat. Two guys we walked past asked us which mountain we were walking to! We arrived at the party a tad late - 9:30 or 10 pm - but just in time for the present. The present was a massive cardboard box filled with packaging stuff and little presents that Laure had to find. In the meantime another girl underneath the box would stick her arm up and frighten Laure, who couldn't see into the box. It was pretty funny! After that there was the cake, which was a chocolate log cake. There was also 2 other cakes which naturally I had to try!
That party was better than the one the night before because it was inside (mmm, warm!) the food was better (mmm quiche and cake!) and the people were very nice. Unfortunately all I wanted to do was sleep!
Alix and I slept over there after the party and had hot chocolate and cake for breakfast the next morning! Then Laure's dad drove us to the Casino place for yet another stint at gift-wrapping. Woo-hoo is my response every time Alix says we have more gift-wrapping to do. I don't mind it, it's fun sometimes, the others are really nice and I'm learning a lot about wrapping odd things like skateboards, tricycles, shooting-star shapped boxes of chocolates and clothes of all shapes and sizes. There's also an incredible number of normal boxes of chocolates (mostly Lindt) to wrap, which makes you very jealous and hungry!
So we wrapped other peoples gifts for another 2 or 3 hours before walking back to Françoise's apartment. There we met Eléonore (Alix's sister) and one of her friends. We had lunch (I think it was veal in a creme-fraiche and lemon juice sauce) before one of Alix's cousins arrived. He was going to drive us to Nimes but first we had to stop by Michel's house so Alix and I could pick up our stuff.

Sorry that's all for now!
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Lots of love to everyone and I hope you all had a Merry Christmas and have a Happy New Year!
Emma.