OK, so I don't think that title makes any grammatical sense at all, but really - who cares?? hehehe.

That's right - I'M BACK!!!!

Well, I had a few nice liddle chats with dan (LOL -yeah, I'm right in there with the most important bits! hehehehehehe). The loveliest thing was on Friday morning, coz the first person i saw (other than Jenny, who i was sharing a room with) was..... you guessed it..... Mr Daniel Louis himself. He was in the room next to ours, and as we were walking out to breakfast he opened his door and stood in the doorway and me and him said 'morning!!' to each other in cheery ways at exactly the same time. Awwwwwwwwwwww. Such a nice way to start the day hehehehehe.

Yeah, I've also got a couple of pics he should be in somewhere (LOL i tried sooooooo hard to cunningly place him at the edge of my pics! LOL!!!) but dammit, I missed my prime op to take a PROPER pic of him. Coz he'd found a really good shell thingy (thankfully it had already exploded ages ago, though I guess it wasn't thankful for those it killed but oh well) and so what I SHOULD have done was taken a photo of him and his "trophy" (he was SO proud of it! lol "it's got genuine Arras moss on it too!!" lol awww) but I chickened out coz I was afraid it might show my obsessive qualities. LOL. Coz, y'know, I'm usually SOOOOOOOOOOOO good at hiding them!! hehehehehehe.

On Friday morning LOL me and dan only seemed to argue. OK, so I think maybe we only argued once - no, actually twice. No no, we argued once on friday too. I can't remember exactly - but it felt like all we did was disagree! LOL!! and it was all in good humour, but still, i felt if i was trying to make a good impression then CONTSTANTLY disagreeing with him was not QUITE the way to go.

However, then we were at this place with a model trench (it was soooooooooooooo cool!!!!!!!) and there were some geese in it. And Mr Daniel Louis was standing with a couple of other ppl, and one of them had obviously questioned why the guy had put geese in there too (There was high fences so it looked like they'd been placed in). And I heard dan go 'geese can fly!' in a 'what a stupid question' kind of way, and she was like 'no they can't!' and he said 'yes they can!!' and then he seemed to be floundering a bit (but definitely only a bit, lol) and so i piped up 'of course geese FLY!!!' and he grinned and POINTED at me and was like 'SEE!! thank you!! GEESE DO FLY don't they??' and i was like 'yeah, totally, coz when Canadian geese fly over they're really noisy' and then LOL johnny joined in too and we said how they flew in "V" shapes and everything. LOL.

So yeah, Dan sooooooooooooooooooooo loves me coz I proved his point about the geese, hehehehe. And then after that we didn't argue anymore, but we had a little jokey chat about Barry (our tour guide) and how there should be a law that limits the number of graveyards you can visit in one day and stuff.

So yeah, he loves me. LOL.

And on Thursday when we first got to the hotel we were all carrying our bags and as he walked by he made a "how long have some people come for??" comment coz some people (*cough*including me*cough*) had really big bags compared to his normal sized one. And I was like, well I don't have a smaller bag so this one had to do. So he smiled and was like 'ahh, ok, that's a good enough excuse' hehehehe. so YAY that was a good start. lol.

Then we went into our room (so pleased with Fate that we got the one next to his coz i'd been thinking 'wow that would be cool if we did!' LOL!! yay!!) and there was a double bed and little folding put-up bed thing. so me and jenny were arguing loudly about who would have which one and we were stood at the door (LOL coz I knew the boys had their door open and i wanted to talk to damn if i got the choice! hehehehehe) and then Dan came out the door and looked at us, and I was like 'I'm taller so I should have the double bed right??' and he looked into the room and he looked at us and was like 'well, why don't u both share the big bed and then u can put your stuff on the little one and you'll both be comfy' and i was like 'dammit, thats so sensible!' pah. he just HAS to be right alllllll the time doesn't he? LOL. Anyways so (surprise surprise) that's what we did. And he was right, it was the best way. Coz was a big, comfy bed so we were fine. LOL.

And then, yes... Friday followed... and I already told you about that. hehehe.

I think he's addicted to gambling though, every service station we stopped at he ALWAYS went into the little area with the slot machines. LOL. And at the last one he was like persuading gary to go in ("just for a little bit") LOL. So YAY he's NOT perfect!! hehehehe.

Also - despite all of this - LOL i think matthew might be my soul mate hehehehehehe. BECAUSE (and i do actually have a reason this time) we're just TOTALLY on the same wavelength. We're both REALLY sarcastic and the number of times we made EXACTLY the same random jokes at EXACTLY the same time was scary!!!! Like when we both went 'maybe they've disguised themselves as sheep' at EXACTLY THE SAME TIME. OK, so it wasn't QUITE as random as it appears there seeming as you have no context, but still... It was quite scary. hehehehehe. And we kept bantering the whole time and insulting each other and then being nice lol.

Awwwww, i was very sweet to him today coz a limo parked next to our coach while we'd stopped at a service station. And when i got back on he goes 'look! there's a limo next to us!' and i went 'ooooh, is anyone special on it?' and he was like 'no' and i went 'aww, so you're not on it then?' and he was like 'no' then i grinned and was like 'see, i was really nice there' and he was like 'yep, you were' then jenny goes 'matthew's not SPECIAL!!!!' and we were both like 'unlike JENNY...' heheheheehehe.

And he's gonna give me a bag of Wotsits (crisps - ok ok, "chips") or some other form of tasty food coz I got 3 questions in a row right on french Who wants to be a millionaire by TOTALLY guessing at random (I walked in the room and went 'C' without even attempting to read the question! next one i said 'D' before the answers even came up on the screen and the 3rd one i thought about and worked it out and got it right! YAY!)



OK, now I've got the most IMPORTANT stuff outta the way I'm gonna go eat. LOL!!!!

Maybe tomorrow I'll get round to telling you about france and what we did and stuff. LOL!! And possibly remember more random stuff I said to dan! hehehe.

Oh- i missed out one thing, when Jenny was working out how to open our room door for the first time, the boys room door was open. And they were all like 'oooh look at this' etc etc in there to each other and i just like glanced through the door and saw damn. and he was standing using the tv remote on the tv, which was attached to like the ceiling in the corner. And this is gonna be impossible to picture, but there was like a little square lobby thing inside the room, with a window in it. But I wasn't paying much attention and I figured it must be a mirror that was somehow reflecting him standing there. and so LOL i was just like looking at him, and then he looked back at me. so i like glanced away quickly then looked back and he LOL was still looking at me and then he grinned and waved and so i like waved back and was like 'hello!' hehehehehe. then i realised that LOL it was a window so i was looking DIRECTLY at him, so then I felt silly LOL. Dunno why looking at him through a mirror makes it less bad, but oh well!!

OK - I really have gone on for LONG ENOUGH!! LOL!!!!

I've got about 40 pics to develop, and when I do I'll put the best ones online, and anywhere where Dan appeared, i'll put them up too! LOL!!!!! But you'll have to wait till after my Germany Churchys trip!!!!

I'M GOING TO GERMANY ON MONDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for reading.

awwww Lou...so cute. lol!
Luv the way you tell your stories ... tehehehe.
Sounds like you had a fanastic time ... with Dan .... ah hahaha.
Can't wait to see the pics of this guy - geeesh!

Welcome back - if only for a day or so ...

Yep, I loved the trip!!

I mean, obviously it was sad coz we visited SO many graveyards and memorials and stuff, so yeah....

...but in general it was SO much fun!!

Hehehe, on Friday morning we were at a Canadian memorial thing. And there were some trenches that were original ones (and showed just how scarily small no-mans land was at that point!) and yeah i think i should have got a couple of dan there. and then we walked up this hill thingy to the top of the memorial and dan took a photo with his mobile phone (my brother has one of those too) and then he had a teeny weeny digital camera hanging round his neck. Like, literally... ummm..... sorta 2inches by 1inch kinda thing. Like INSANELY small. And his mate Gary (only 3 upper 6 guys went - him, Gary and Johnny - and 3 guys in my year went, George, Matthew and Tom) had a camera much the same as mine (size, shape, blackness of colour etc) and dan was insulting it calling it a brick and stuff. And Gary was all, pah there's nothing wrong with my camera and i looked at it and noticed it was pretty much the same as mine which i was holding so i just butted in (lol) with "yeah, our cameras are fine" and dan was all "yeah, but my little one's nicer."

And, well, actually I'd have agreed - except this was a matter of principle! LOL! Just coz he is DAN doesn't mean that I'm going to give in and agree that yes he has a really really cool camera and i'd love one like that and btw i think he's awesomely good looking.

NO - I wasn't going to give in. LOL. So I tried to argue that my... umm.... 6ish year old big black brick of a camera was better than his new little nippy digital work of art. LOL!!!

And I was like, yeah but at least ours is easy to use and we can work it properly!! And he goes, mines easy and i can work it fine. And i was like, ahhhh but can you work it PROPERLY and he just looked at me LOL. And then gary was like, "yeah but ours is easy to use quickly. if something really interesting goes past really fast we can just go BAM and take a photo whereas you'd have to faff around getting it out..." "...fishing it out from the inside of your shirt and all..." i added, "....and then you'd have missed it" gar finished. And dan was like 'yeah, well if anything really interesting was gonna go by then it would have done already' and we were like 'yes, and you would have missed taking a photo of it!!' LOL.

but it was hopeless, coz I (and I'm pretty sure Gar too) would have quite quite QUITE happily swapped our camera for his anyday. LOL!!

And then I realised that arguing with him wasn't the best way to go, and that maybe we weren't "meant to be" after all. (but then the goose thing changed that, lol, coz he so loved me after that! hehehehe)


Hehehe, we watched French Popstars!! LOL!! (You get an Aussie version too right??) And it was still at the audition stages so it was GREAT coz we got to laugh at soooo many people!!

1. Geeky Guy. Awwwww, he was so sweet in a TOTALLY geeky way! I SO wanted him to get through, coz he's TOTALLY not a popstar type. lol. But he couldn't sing at all, so he didn't get through Awwwwwwwwww.

2. Marc the Chef. He was a bit like Santa Claus, only younger. hehehehehehe. And he was cool. And he got through! YAY!!!

3. Goth Guy. OMG he was SCARY!! And LOL had long black hair and black clothes and big silver metal jewellry and weird stuff on his fingers and just... ummm.... well, was a TOTAL goth. Then sang something classical and in English - could actually sing though - but didn't get through. Coz SURPRISINGLY they didn't think his image suited the whole POPstars thing. LOL!! But was so funny when he was singing coz we were like, "he has no idea what he's saying! He could be singing ANYTHING!" And then Tab started singing "there are chickens on the cieeellliinnnggg...." and i carried on "and they're wearing polkadot shooorrrrtttttssssssss" LOL.

4. Scary Girl. OK, so she started off well. She had long blonde hair and was quite pretty. She was singing in French. A pop-ish kinda song. She could sing ok. The first verse went great. Then the second one began. There was a slight scream in it. And then another. Then an anguished cry. Then a machine gun impression ("ratatatatatatat ratatatatatatat" - complete with actions!!!!). Then some more screams. All interspersed with the normal singing. LOL!! And she started acting a bit, with arm guestures and facial expressions and everything! Seriously the FUNNIEST, yet SCARIEST thing ever!!!!!! We were just sitting watching it going 'WTF?????!!!!!!' LOL!! Anyways, weirdly enough - she got through!!! She's psycho though! LOL!

Pretty much EVERYONE had watched that show though! LOL! Coz the next morning we found out that boys had been watching it, and the other girls had been too (in 2 separate bedrooms) hehehehe. And who knows how many of the upper 6th had been.

Coz there was 10 of us in our year, and it was really good. Coz we all got on anyways, but i'd not really spoken to Tabitha before (she was new at our school at the beginning of the year but she'd come from a diff school in the region so had other friends. and i'd not NOT talked to her.... we'd just never really had the chance to chat). And then there's Milli who came here from New Zealand 2 months ago, and I'd kinda got to know her before hand. But yep, in general we were all friends. So we generally all stuck together, though 2 of the girls (cate and catherine) sometimes peeled off by themselves. But it was good. And then the upper 6th just sorted themselves as they wished. Dan often liked to walk by himself, or he was just with gary. (Johnny's g/f was on the trip so he spent all his time with her and her friends). But it was all really peaceful and good and fun. It was really the PEOPLE that made the trip.

OK, that's enough again for now!!! heheehee

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Welcome Back Lou!!! (for now...little jetsetter that u are! LOL!)

I LOVE the details in ur stories (as u know) - I actually went and made a coffee before I started to read - I love it!

And ur sms' too about Dan - LOL! And the geese argument LMAO!

Glad u had a good time - hope to catch u online sooooooon!

Bec xxx

LOL glad you enjoyed Bec!!!! Coz my Churchills one is currently cough 13 pages long.... LONG!!!!! OMG that's long even for ME!!!!!! Even my Blair one was only TEN pages!! LOL!!!!!! I might try and cut a little out but maybe not... I've done it in SECTIONS... soooooooooo......

I've still got to finish my Official French Write Up too. Coz, see, they're not JUST for you guys - they're for me too!! Coz my memories all seem to blur a lot, and there are just certain MOMENTS that I don't want to forget. And I find that if I write them down, then if I do slightly forget things, or even totally forget them, then if I just read it, it jogs my memory and suddenly it's as if it happened yesterday and it makes me feel all that emotion all over again. Awwwwwwwww.

Ummmm... ooohh!! I got my first lot of pics back today!!!!! Dan is in 5 of them, very small but hey - better than nothing!!! hehehehe. He's staring really intently at the floor in one of them, I sooooo wanna know what he's looking at!! (The girl next to him was staring at the floor too... hmmmmmmmmmm....)

I'll scan them for you... ahh... sometime. With some other pics too, coz I want to put some on my website. Took my Churchills pics in today (there are about 7 or 8 France trip pics at the beginning) so I'll get them back probably on Tuesday, what with Easter getting in the way and all.

OMG I CAN'T WAIT FOR THOSE PICS!!! There's not THAT many of the Churchys.... but still - should be worth it! HOPE SO!!