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07/03/86 Missing home and sight seeing

07/03/86 Thursday

I think I've learned to tolerate some things.  Since last Friday we've had no hot water and I've been taking COLD baths (no showers here!).

Musee Jacques Andre
Also I think I might like animals except all the dogs here smell SO gross! Also they have fleas!  There is one cat here that is ok.  He looks like mittens only he doesn't have white paws.  He is pretty clean too.

I have got to meet some people my age or I'll go crazy!  I can't stand not going out and going things for a whole summer.  I'll go nuts!

I miss home so much!

I guess I shouldn't complain.  I do have a nice house and Colette is nice but when I think of what I gave up I want it all back.  I loved my job, marching band, church, Rob, driving, freedom, understanding what people said, Mom, Dad, Becky, Ruth....EVERYTHING!!!
Senlis Cathedral

If I had some real friends here I would enjoy this A LOT MORE.

Today we went and saw a real big castle (Musee Jacques Andre) only we couldn't get in because it was closed.  It was real neat.  After that we drove to the Senlis Cathedral and walked around in there. It was very pretty.  On the way to Chantille we picked up a hitch-hiker also going there.  We went to the Parc du Chateau gardens. They are very big but also plain looking.  They weren't worth 12F it cost to get in.

Chateau du Grand Jardin
We then went to the Eqestrian Museum of Chantily (horses).  We spent a few hours walking through and seeing the horses.  It was neat. I enjoyed that.  It was rather expensive - the reduced rate was 25F.  I can't afford all these expensive places in one week!

Tomorrow I think we are going to Paris or Versaille.  I can't be sure.  Maybe we aren't going anywhere!
Equestrian Museum of Chantilly


After dinner I went for a jog/walk around the village.  It is very hilly so I jogged down the hills and walked up the hills.  It felt good.  This is the 2nd time I've gone.  Except this time I went further and this time I'm wheezing!

If I keep eating the fattening hamburgers and bread all the time I'm going to come home fat -- and have fleas too!  No one will love me then!

I keep hoping I'll meet someone my age - walking around or whatever - but it seems there is no one.

Inside Equestrian Museum of Chantilly
I wish there was a Mormon church, they'd have activities.  Maybe I'll go catholic for the summer, or protestant.  I don't like not going to church at all.  It might become a habit!

I am so homesick I just want to cry!  Tomorrow is the day of all the big parades and parties and everything and I'm going to miss it.  And when it happens here I will have no friends to spend it with!

I knew I loved my life at home but I never knew how much!  I am ALWAYS thinking about it!!! (that's not good.  I need friends!)


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