　おいしい！

Wednesday, August 02, 2006

The Morphing begins! I have been in France for 17 days now and the days seem to float by. Attended a harvest festival the other day in Gauville, a village near here and witnessed incredibly beautiful fireworks at close proximity. Never would I imagine myself standing in the fields of Gauville at the age of 23, admiring fireworks; surrounded by so many French people. My last fireworks would probably be the one at Esplanade in Singapore though I forgot what the occasion was. The fact is, I am here now. An Asian amidst the French. In the countryside where no one speaks my language other than my beloved husband. Seems like a chapter out of a story book, isn't it? Mais non. It's the real life.

The countryside is really really beautiful. With the lush greenery surrounding the little cottage up on the hill. haha.. I'm romanticising it by calling it a cottage but in fact, its really heidi-ish if you get what I mean. I always think it's so cool for Heidi to be sleeping in the loft and people going "Hey Heidi!". Okay, not really funny. But then again, that's my brand of jokes. Been missing many periods of my life. The nerdy primary school days playing hard and studying hard, the slack IRC years of secondary school life and the slackier life of junior college. All the friends that I have made are left behind some point in time due to me not keeping in touch religiously enough. As a result, I became Heidi, albeit a lost Heidi in the world of the French!

Melancholy isn't it? Haha, all of us have melancholic moments all the time but that, will pass. A new life of harvest festivals, fireworks, french dinners and clearing of horse poo from stables. Picking beans from the garden, sitting by the stairs, facing a rainy french pasture. A far cry from the days of clocking into the office, always having stuff in my in-trays and nonsensical follow-ups on the phone. The office days are over and a farmer's life has begun...

4:48 pm　うまい！Y