Les vacances de touissant!

Well, after three weeks of working we were thankful for a two week break. We kicked the break off with a trip to Besancon for a doctor's appointment in order to validate our Visa. We woke up at 5:20 am to catch the train only to miss it and end up being 30 minutes late for the appointment. Luckily we met up with a couple (Leona and Nathan from Ontario who have been married a month) who are also languagge assistants in the next town. Unfortunately they helped us find the office, it was bizarre! First of all we had to ring a bell to get into the building adn then once we were there, there wasn't a receptionist. A frantic woman came in to the waiting room grabbed our passports and ran away with them. This was normal compared to the time spent with the doc. When we first walked into the office we were told to lay down on the table and he did a little tap on our chest,back knees and then squeezed our arms and ankles. Then he literally pulled us off the table and pointed to the scale to weigh us and measure our height. Next was the most crucial part of the appointment, our chest x-rays. Why, you may ask? We don't know but we have a copy of it. So the doctor's visit was very informative and it really proved that we were healthy and fit enough to teach english. What a relief. Then we went off to validate our Visas so we guess it's official, see you in 6 months!





Then we went to the train station and met up with Mhairi for a fun filled day of sight seeing in Besancon. We started off with some window shopping and then we were off to the Citadelle. The Citadelle was out of control. The Halifax Citadel has nothing on this bad boy. It was IN-TENTS! It wasn't just an old stone wall but it had several museums, a zoo, a beautiful view overlooking the city, and puppets! It wasn't quite a zoo but random animals all over the place. For example, in the mote there were evil looking moneys. The zoo was really cool because there were animals that you don't typically see in a canadian zoo. There were FLAMINGOS and kangaroos! It was so huge that we spent the whole day there. We caught the train back to Montbeliard and ended up running into Nathan and Leona again. Which made for great conversation and debates learning about thier first month of marriage and what a sweet honeymoon they are on for 7 months in France.