Karting, parties and snow!!

Hello everyone! It's been quite miserable here in Mormoiron with rain and cold weather. The forcasts say that it may snow today! It's raining a bit but I don't think it's cold enough for snow.

It's been quite an exciting few weeks. Mum was in Holland last week. Dad, Ivy and I went to Monteux to race go-carts again! It was absolutely fantastic because you didn't have to brake a lot around the corners so you were always going quick. I was old enough to get the 200cc go-cart and Ivy got the 120cc go-cart. We tore around the track for 2 sessions of 10 minutes. It was so cold; we wrapped ourselves up in our coats on the second session. After Ivy and I stood on the podium and had photos taken of us. On the last corner I cut in front of Dad to get over the line first and he spun out! I was still laughing when he arrived in the pits.

It was Ivy's birthday on the 23rd of November so we all went to a restaurant in Avignon to celebrate with Pascal and his family and Ivy's friend. It was a buffet of Chinese, Indian and Japanese food. Then for dessert there were cakes, ice-creams and different sauces to mix with it all. At the end I was so full! Ivy got a sushi kit for her birthday so I can expect some yummy food to arrive, non?

On Wednesday afternoon I went to Monteux again to play Handball with my school team in the premiership. I didn't score any goals but I did assist a few. There is a boy on my team who is really big and in the first game the end result was 6-2 to us. I was amazed because he scored all the goals in the game!

I really hope it snows here. But as it is so early I can not see this happening.

A bientot! Au Revoir

Sean

Ferrari, go carts and bowling!

The last week has been fantastic. I have been to many places and I can't wait to tell you about it.

I went with Dad to the Circuit de Lenon. That is a race track about forty minutes drive from our house. We arrived and Dad was immediately put into the briefing room with the other drivers. Dad had the opportunity to drive a Ferrari F430 for six laps. It really was a beautiful car. I took photos as he raced around the track. He then jumped into an old Ferrari which was fitted out to race with a roll-cage, racing tires and a huge spoiler on the back. I also saw a Ferrari Scudera in matt black. It was beautiful. I was looking at Dad's car when a man asked me if I wanted to sit in the passenger seat and be driven around the track! It was fantastic because the man went very fast. I hardly had the chance to think about anything before we we pulled into the pits again.

After that Dad and I walked over to the smaller track and we raced go-carts together! The carts were really powerful. We went at about thirty to forty kilometres an hour! There were quite a lot of turns and my favourite was the hairpin bend. I went a little bit too fast on some sections and may have hum.. lost control?

That Thursday was a public holiday so we went to a friends' house. We stayed until quite late. The next morning I was exhausted and sick so I stayed at home for the day. So it turned into a four day weekend! That's what every-one does in France. They 'jump the bridge' from the Thursday public holiday into the weekend. Almost every-one stayed home from school for the day, most of all the my teachers!

On Sunday we all went bowling at Le Pontet, just before Avignon. It's a large 'commercial centre' which is a huge group of shopping centres and warehouses. We went bowling at a big arcade in the middle of Le Pontet. It was fantastic fun. I got two strikes and three spares. My first score was sixty three and my second was ninety-four. The record was two hundred and thirty four!

That's all over here!

Au Revoir!