The newspaper in the house is Ouest France. The headline for September 10 and 11 read, “Le jour qui a changé le monde” The day which changed the world….This sure says it all! The entire paper was dedicated to the aftermath and included articles by 18 different Americans-their memories and their reflections about the state of America today. I have tried to read some…French dictionary in hand. The horror of it all remains.…The only slim piece of hope is the goodness which many have brought to this through the good works after the horror.
Well, lest you wonder, the travel gods have smiled on me again! As I headed off to Granville yesterday afternoon, I saw a young woman, and I asked, “¿Parlez vous anglais?” [Do you speak English?] “Well, yes I do,” she said smiling at me. I asked her the fastest way to walk to Granville, and she said she was walking there herself. (Remember google maps said it was 5+km to get there.) Early-almost in the next breath-I learned that she teaches English, has been to Boston, and said, “Oh, I LOVE Boston!” This was my new and most interesting friend, Mimi Lemaitre, who presently teaches junior high English and German in Granville. She told me about the walk, and that part of it was UP and DOWN, etc. So off we went to Granville. She lives quite nearby, and has lived for ten years in her cute house which she had built. Early on she had also asked me if I would come to talk with her students, and, of course, I said yes! So we walked and walked and talked and talked. In Granville I wanted to post my blog and buy a ticket to go to Jersey on Friday. Mimi just wanted to go into the Marina in Granville for a drink and walk home. We walked by the Cyber Café, which was closed, and then I bought my ticket for Jersey. We had our drinks, and we started back. Mimi had invited me for supper and said I could use her computer. Our walk was two different routes; the one home was really the UP and DOWN one, but I quite managed. Coming home was much more scenic, as we walked along the sea. It probably took us 1¼ hour or so each way. By my calculations, I would guess I walked more than 7.125 miles to be (somewhat) exact. I posted my lengthy blog and met her cat! On the way home we stopped to meet her friend Chantal, who had lived in England for ten years.
Thursday Mimi will pick me up at 7:30 to go to her school, where I will meet with three of her classes. Since it is early in the school year, she said they may be shy, but it will be fun for a former English teacher to meet her students!
Today was a pretty lazy day. I did a wash, hung it outside, and took a lovely walk towards Avranches along the beach. At 5:30 after school Mimi picked me up after school to go grocery shopping. I'm going to check on renting a car perhaps for the weekend of early next week. Granville seems to be an interesting place with some different things to see. This is really a tourist area with lovely beaches.
Au revoir
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