So spring time is now rollin' around and things are going super! i just had my February 2 week break and i pretty much just hung around my house and bothered my host family like usual. Like at my host family is going really smoothly, the kids are now accepting some of my authority ( i think) and i have started to get pretty good at the vocabulary that you would use to deal with a child in France. I found that an iron fist is needed with some of these children, and i got no problem smackin' down the hammer of Thor when necessary!
With the weather changing and all, i have been able to downgrade from 3 layers to 2, for it is now becoming hotter and sunnier. during the break there was a pretty freaky snow day, and we got quite a bit of snow, but it has all melted up i think. Next monday i start school back up and get the ball rolling. My mom sent me some books for the english class i'm taking on the interwebs, and now i have something to read during my french classes. Nothing has changed in my school life really, i still dont really do anything, but now all of that has dramaically changed with these english books.
I can't wait for summer to roll around cause i realllllllly want to go swimming. The sensation of my little piggy toes in the water has escaped my grasp during this winter, and now i shall be liberated by the hot sun of summer! I just accidentally exited out of this page and forgot to save, then when i opened it up again it was all already saved, and i was like yisss. But ya.
So on the Bobby front, i'm starting to look back at RBV (my highschool) and looking at it much differently, as in i still want to go there for senior year but i can see myself relating less to some of the people i know over there, i guess my sister and everybody in the rotary program is right when they say that after you go on an exchange you slowly realise you can't exactly relate as well to people back home. French progress is pretty much stagnating i guess you could say, but you know you still learn words from situations. I've also been eating healthier than i did in the states, and i've lost 14 pounds. So yup thats about the gist of it!
Saturday, March 2, 2013
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Alrighty Then!
Well, i have not written here for a while, so i guess i'll get every body updated! The last time i posted a blog was i think around 2 months ago, and lots have events have come to pass during these last 2 months!
Those last four weeks before the next vacations were the same as usual, quick as a bullet and solid progress in French. Around the end of the six week block, Rotary took us up to Paris to see the sights and meet another group of exchange students from the city of Lille. Everyone had a really good time and we had the opportunity to meet and relate to a huge and new group of people in our very same situation! Getting up to the vacation, we had my host family's parents come down from Paris to stay with us for the week for Christmas.
Christmas was really nice and laid back with a few presents coming my way (aww yisssss) and my present to everybody else turning out to be a huge success!( A CD of patriotic songs that embody the United States of America!) After this nice little quiet week of vacation, I went up to a ski-lodge with my host dad, his girlfriend, and my host brothers.The week was great, but was plagued with injuries in my group. We were a total of five at the beginning of the trip, with a sixth added on a couple days in, and had 4 hurt. It started with my host dad's girlfriend injuring her knee the first day, Timothe with a pulled muscle the third day, and I, with a tennis ball sized pocket of blood under my knee, and my younger host brother Lucca with a severely broken leg, which has given him a cast from his toes to his hip. So that just left my host father and Quentin ( my future host brother) completely in tact. Even with all these injuries, the break was still great!
Just after the end of the second break i moved over to my second host family and so far it has been really great. In my second host family there are many more kids than the first, and the number of kids depends on what day it is for my host mom runs a kinda foster home/her home cross over. With everybody, there's me, two girls aged 15 and 16 ( both foster kids ), 3 boys aged 18, 11 and 6 which are all sons of the host mother ( the 6 year old being adopted ),and a second group of 3 boys aged 14, 9, and 9 ( I think ). Finally there's my host mom and her boyfriend Gyome. Well actually im not really sure if they are married, boyfriend and girlfriend, or even in a relationship at all. The last three weeks of school have been going by really fast, and i'm making some good memories with doing ridiculous challenges at my school or just hanging out with good friends.
As for French progress, I can quite honestly say that i am approaching fluency in French, and it feels pretty good. I usually never have to ask for people to repeat themselves while talking anymore, and people seem to better understand me when i talk in French due to good accent practice, and I've even been passing time by reading French books in class and translating the French words that i don't understand into English with an enormous dictionary. I use this French reading method because i still can't seem to follow the subjects in my French classes, and to be honest i lost just about all interest in most of my subjects a while ago. I will try my hardest to post next week as well, but don't take my word for it! bye bye!
Those last four weeks before the next vacations were the same as usual, quick as a bullet and solid progress in French. Around the end of the six week block, Rotary took us up to Paris to see the sights and meet another group of exchange students from the city of Lille. Everyone had a really good time and we had the opportunity to meet and relate to a huge and new group of people in our very same situation! Getting up to the vacation, we had my host family's parents come down from Paris to stay with us for the week for Christmas.
Christmas was really nice and laid back with a few presents coming my way (aww yisssss) and my present to everybody else turning out to be a huge success!( A CD of patriotic songs that embody the United States of America!) After this nice little quiet week of vacation, I went up to a ski-lodge with my host dad, his girlfriend, and my host brothers.The week was great, but was plagued with injuries in my group. We were a total of five at the beginning of the trip, with a sixth added on a couple days in, and had 4 hurt. It started with my host dad's girlfriend injuring her knee the first day, Timothe with a pulled muscle the third day, and I, with a tennis ball sized pocket of blood under my knee, and my younger host brother Lucca with a severely broken leg, which has given him a cast from his toes to his hip. So that just left my host father and Quentin ( my future host brother) completely in tact. Even with all these injuries, the break was still great!
Just after the end of the second break i moved over to my second host family and so far it has been really great. In my second host family there are many more kids than the first, and the number of kids depends on what day it is for my host mom runs a kinda foster home/her home cross over. With everybody, there's me, two girls aged 15 and 16 ( both foster kids ), 3 boys aged 18, 11 and 6 which are all sons of the host mother ( the 6 year old being adopted ),and a second group of 3 boys aged 14, 9, and 9 ( I think ). Finally there's my host mom and her boyfriend Gyome. Well actually im not really sure if they are married, boyfriend and girlfriend, or even in a relationship at all. The last three weeks of school have been going by really fast, and i'm making some good memories with doing ridiculous challenges at my school or just hanging out with good friends.
As for French progress, I can quite honestly say that i am approaching fluency in French, and it feels pretty good. I usually never have to ask for people to repeat themselves while talking anymore, and people seem to better understand me when i talk in French due to good accent practice, and I've even been passing time by reading French books in class and translating the French words that i don't understand into English with an enormous dictionary. I use this French reading method because i still can't seem to follow the subjects in my French classes, and to be honest i lost just about all interest in most of my subjects a while ago. I will try my hardest to post next week as well, but don't take my word for it! bye bye!
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