By Bela and Benjamin
This morning we met at a parking lot after having breakfast with our host families. We had a short bus ride to meet with Bernard again. Unfortunately, because the fields were so muddy, we couldn’t continue with service, so Bernard gave us a scavenger hunt for yellow shells around the village. Each of these shells had writing on it, each with a brief description of the surrounding area, and we took turns reading the information aloud to the group. This also gave us a nice tour of the village and the beautiful meadows surrounding it. At the top of the village we had a beautiful view of the mountains. We ate the delicious lunch provided by our host families at a park and then hopped onto the bus to make our way to a beach town called Gruissan.
The beach was beautiful, but very cold and windy, so we all took comfort in walking around the water and some people dipped their feet in. We also collected many unique shells.
We got back onto the bus and rode a few minutes to the downtown section of Gruissan, where there were cafes and shops open for us to walk through. There was also a tower to get a better view of the ocean and city below. After about an hour we headed back to Carcassonne to have our Franco-American football (soccer) tournament.
However, we were unable to play football as we had no soccer ball to play with, so we had to improvise. Instead, we learned how to play a French game (1, 2, 3, soleil) and played a round of Capture the Flag. The park we were at had a great view of the lake. We then went home to have dinner with our host families and then we packed up to go to Toulouse tomorrow.
