Alpine French School and montagne experiences 34 ~ 46

Day 34-45

For the next 2 weeks I had French school. The place was literally called "Alpine French School". Nothing fancy like Lyceum Alpinum Zuoz.

I didn't learn anything, because I have no idea what our teacher said, since she talks to us in French. I even got my seasons wrong because I said March, April, May were in autumn (l'automne), but I had it wrong because the seasons are different in the northern hemisphere (it should have been printemps).

After lunch, we had sport activities, they included rafting, zip lining, canyoning, paddle boarding, the pool, bouldering and the biathlon.

On a few occasions, we went to a local market and the chocolate shop, and on the last day, we went to the fair 'Kermesse', where I got fairy floss 3 times the size of my head and many failed attempts and spent euros to win a water gun (i didn't end up getting one).

"Montangne experiences"

This was the name at the activities group I was in at the Alpine French school.

The first day was going to the pool, where I spent 99.9% of the time waiting for the water slide, and 0.2% of the time in the pool or sliding (is that 100%?!)

The second fay we went canyoning, where I literally slid down a waterslide, but didn't land on a cactus. We also jumped off cliffs into tiny pools, and slid down a waterfall like we were a drop of water. We didn't have harnesses, and it was 20m high! It was definitely my favourite activity.

The third day was bouldering, and it took an hour to drive there, and it wasn't until I looked it up I knew we had driven to Geneva and back!

The fourth day was white water rafting, which was fun the first time, and we got a chance to buy crepes.

The next day was paddle boarding and everyone was capsizing each other which made it more fun, afterwards, we got ice creams. Everyone was getting 3 scoops but I only got one, so we could go to the really good ice cream place on the walk home (my favourite flavour was Amarena cherry and framboise and the owner is French but lived in Australia for 6 years).

After the weekend we went to the pool again, but after that on the next day we went zip lining, it was the same place as canyoning and while other people there were zipping over waterfalls, we and a few other people were stuck behind someone very slow, and at the end someone asked me how many courses I did, I said one and he said 4!

The next day I was excited because it was supposed to be painful, but it was cancelled because recently someone was shot in the eye.

Instead we did a "biathlon" which was 4 activities, shooting, archery, tight rope, and "fill the bucket" shooting which I was the best at. I was the only one to get all the targets, and I did it twice. I wasn't too hard, all you need to do is line up all the circles. I was also good at archery, but terrible at tight rope. "Fill the bucket" was a game where you had a bucket and a cup. You had to run down to the river and fill up the cup with water and then fill the bucket with the water and give the cup to the next person. The catch was the cup had holes in it. We got a quarter of the bucket full when the other team filled up their bucket, because that team had smaller holes in their cup!

The next 2 days were rafting and paddle boarding again, I got no ice cream this time, because at the fair earlier in the day I had totally too much sugar. Rafting was very hard because the person was yelling at me for not paddling strong enough and really hurt my arm. I had money to buy a crepe this time. I couldn't have chocolate because it had hazelnut in it, there there was also sucre or beurre sucre I decided to save 50 euro cents on the plain sugar it was good, but I saw someone got the butter sugar and it looked great. You live you learn.

The last morning in Morzine we went for a walk and then shopping for a souvenir. I was excited today, because we were supposed to go paragliding, but it was cancelled because it was too windy :(