Hanging in Orleans

Hey all,

Today I slept in a little, and then went to the Carrefour (supermarket) to buy breakfast/lunches for the next few days. When I got back home I had an e-mail from Lucas Saucedo, the Argentine coach, asking if I wanted to come train with him today at 3. So, since the Singapore girls still were missing their bags, I met up with him and Maria Belen the fencers and went of for a nice training session them, singapore, the americans, the azerbaijanis, and some french fencers from Orleans. We caught the bus there and back, so I had fun chatting with the singapore girls and Lucas. He told me its too bad I'm not Argentine, because they would have a strong team. He also agreed that the move to Panama was a good idea for me, so at least I still have a friend in him! :) Tonight we're planning to meet for dinner around 9, so I just had a snack of bread, hummus, and tomatoes and am planning on meeting them in an hour and a half or so.

Tomorrow there's another practice, but I think I'll do very minimal fencing. Just more to ready myself psychologically. Its funny, right now I'm thinking in spanish again because I've been hanging out with the Argentines... ay dios.

We're definitely in Orleans again because the big Jean d'Arc statue you is still there and we got a huge full spread in teh newspaper. Rumble in Orleans again, I guess.

See you all later,

Eileen

Hello all...

I'm currently sitting ing the boarding area for eurostar and will be on my way to Paris soon! It's a blizzard there too so hold onto your hats and hope I make it all the way! In another note... I finally bought some warm clothes!

Let it snow... a lot.

Snow!

Well, good and bad news!

I am now stuck in London. It has been a very snowy night and day in the old city and all trains/buses/trams/taxis are all suspended. 10 inches and counting (there's probably way more by now.) Its the biggest snow in 18 years and there are no snow removal equipment in existance here. I am stuck here and am not going to make it to paris this trip. I'm going to try again tomorrow to travel with Nona Lim from Singapore straight on to Orleans. The entire US/Hungarian/Italian/German/Azerbaijan teams all seem stuck here as well.

Good news is, I'm supposedly going to get my bag when I arrive in Orleans. Super mommy found it after fighting for me on the phone with US Air for a long time!!

So today me and my roomate RuthAnne Hacking went on a snowy excursion in small shoes armed with cameras. Here's a few fun pictures of the madness in Croydon; the british all seem to be freaking out as if its the apocolypse. AKA cueing at the grocery stores to stalkpile survival sandwiches.

Diamond doing a leap of snowy joy







Eileen