Volunteering In France | Interning in France

Meal at O P'ti en K

Saturday saw Hiroko go back to Bordeaux in order to finish off some shopping. Vanessa and Holllie set off for their pilgrimage to Lourdes. The rest of the group relaxed and chilled out at LG waiting for Hiroko to return in order to meet up for an evening meal in Chalais. There was also a second reason for our evening trip to Chalais……

Each year in the 1st or 2nd week of August, Chalais hosts an International Jumping tournament and on the Saturday there is a disco after the jumping has finished. Emily, Hiroko, Hugh and Sergey together with Paul went along to view the competion, sample the beer and listen to the music. We all left at around 1.00.

Friday night and it is start of the weekend, To-night Jean-Michelle and Endeara are coming to eat and Sergey from Russia was on dinner duty and oh what a nice surprise. Chicken and potatoes and what a sauce and also a superb salad well done Sergey.

Just as we were finishing dinner Emily from Loughborough in the UK arrived a day earlier than we expected. Emily is an old campaigner having been to LG in 2010. It is great to have here back.

Paul arranged for one of the group, Hugh,  to take part in the Football training at USB Brossac the local village club unfortunately he missed a superb dinner but there was a little saved for him. The rest of the group together with our French dinning friends went to play Boules with the Brossac locals. After Boules we took part in a Digestive or two at Saint Bernards.

Rosemary from Bristol is on her way home after 2 weeks at LG she will be missed and hopefully returns next year. During her time at LG rose volunteered in producing a page describing the LG project and its program in Germany. Rose also helped big time in the clearing of the parc north of LG and her patience in clearing the weeds is to be admired.

You can see the pages Rose produced by visiting the following links

Freiwilligenarbeitsprogramm