Perfect timing
Continuing on the theme – “No two days are the same.”
Yesterday: wake up with a sore throat. Discuss the possibility that it’s just the changing weather with Sonia and Martine. Research Blackberry/Outlook sync problems for Peter, and come to a dead-end with Orange/France Telecom account preferences. Help Martine with lunch. Cut and prepare 14 grapefruits. Write a letter while waiting for the very, very late group to come back from field research for lunch. Eat a late lunch, translating French jokes for the EarthWatch team members.
Jog downstairs to catch a skype call with Barbara in Scotland (our incredibly important A Rocha administrator). Find an A Rocha poster that Barbara in Scotland needs by August. Call my mom.
Cycle into town to post the box with the poster and some A Rocha France mail. Mail the post. Cycle to the train station and buy tickets to Paris (to see my housemate Anne June 19-24) and to Italy (to go back with Sarah as our last hurrah the first week of August). Drop of a DVD at the library and choose another, and get a glare because I’m checking out a children’s DVD and I don’t have the right library card (how do I explain to a scowling librarian that I want to watch the old Black Stallion in French as my language level’s that of a child’s!). Cycle to the copy shop and pick up two color copies of a map of Christians and biodiversity for Peter.
Arrive back at Tourades pouring sweat, and nervously notice Peter’s car. I find out that he is going to be interviewed by the French TV station today, not tomorrow, and needs the maps… do I have them? I pull them out and hand them smoothly to Peter. Escape before the TV crew interviews me again.
