It was by far the worst night. We all went to sleep early enough, same as Sunday. But the jet lag effect struck. At 1 am, Alex and Emilie were up, not able to sleep (but fighting!). I went to sleep with Emilie in her bed and stayed until we were all asleep, some times around 3.30 \/ 4 am. Even with a lie in, we were all very tired.<\/p>\n
C’\u00e9tait de loin la pire nuit. Nous sommes tous all\u00e9s nous coucher assez t\u00f4t, comme dimanche. Mais le d\u00e9calage horaire a frapp\u00e9. \u00c0 1 heure du matin, Alex et Emilie \u00e9taient debout, incapables de dormir (mais par contre ils se disputaient !). Je suis all\u00e9e dormir avec Emilie dans son lit et je suis rest\u00e9e jusqu’\u00e0 ce que nous soyons endormis tous les trois, sans doute vers 3h30 \/ 4h du matin. M\u00eame avec une grasse matin\u00e9e, nous \u00e9tions tous tr\u00e8s fatigu\u00e9s.<\/em><\/p>\n I tried the small gym in the building and decided to run 30 minutes. That was hard! By the time the cleaning ladies had done the flat, I was ready (I needed an extra hour to get over the exercises!) and we had lunch, it was nearly 2 pm.<\/p>\n J’ai essay\u00e9 la petite salle de gym qui se trouve en bas de l\u2019immeuble et j’ai d\u00e9cid\u00e9 de courir 30 minutes. C’\u00e9tait dur ! Ensuite les femmes de m\u00e9nage sont pass\u00e9es nettoyer l’appartement, je me suis pr\u00e9par\u00e9e (\u00e7a m\u2019a pris une heure de plus que d\u2019habitude !), puis nous avons d\u00e9jeun\u00e9. Apr\u00e8s tout \u00e7a, il \u00e9tait presque 14 heures.<\/em><\/p>\n But we still had a few things to do. I went to the bank as my card wasn’t working. As it turned out, it wasn’t activated (oops!). We had been invited to Sebastien’s boss, so I needed to get some ingredients for a salad. That was our daily walk: going to the supermarket and see what was on offer. Interesting to see the differences between our regular Sainsburys.<\/p>\n Nous avions n\u00e9anmoins quelques petites choses \u00e0 faire. Je suis d\u2019abord all\u00e9e \u00e0 la banque car ma carte ne fonctionnait pas. Il s’est av\u00e9r\u00e9 qu\u2019elle n\u2019avait pas \u00e9t\u00e9 activ\u00e9e (oups!). Comme nous \u00e9tions invit\u00e9s chez le boss de S\u00e9bastien dans la soir\u00e9e, il me fallait quelques ingr\u00e9dients pour faire une salade. Ce fut notre promenade quotidienne : aller au supermarch\u00e9 et voir ce qui \u00e9tait propos\u00e9. Int\u00e9ressant de voir les diff\u00e9rences avec le Leclerc fran\u00e7ais.<\/em><\/p>\n We were expected at 6pm, so we took a taxi around 5.30pm. We met Christophe, Heloise and their 3 girls. Alex and Emilie had a dip in the pool while we were waiting for Sebastien to come back from work. It feels very colonial having a glass of wine by the pool while waiting for your working husband to come home… I’m not sure I am going to get used to this.<\/p>\n Nous \u00e9tions attendus \u00e0 18h, alors nous avons pris un taxi vers 17h30. Nous avons retrouv\u00e9 Christophe, Heloise et leurs 3 filles. Alex et Emilie ont plong\u00e9 dans la piscine pendant que nous attendions le retour de S\u00e9bastien. Ca fait tr\u00e8s colonial de siroter un verre de vin au bord de la piscine en attendant que votre mari rentre \u00e0 la maison apr\u00e8s sa journ\u00e9e de travail … Je ne suis pas s\u00fbre que je vais m’y habituer.<\/em><\/p>\n We had a lovely time there. The BBQ was delicious. We were joined by a French family who was coming back from holidays in France and who lives in the same building as Christophe’s family. They’ve been living in Hong Kong for a few years so it was interesting to get their point of view. All in all, a very nice evening was spent \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n Nous avons pass\u00e9 un bon moment. Le barbecue \u00e9tait d\u00e9licieux. Nous avons \u00e9t\u00e9 rejoints par une famille fran\u00e7aise qui revenait de ses vacances en France et qui vit dans le m\u00eame immeuble que la famille de Christophe. 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