Cold Heat

I had a lot of fun today.

This morning I got to sleep in a lot. I went to bed at 12 and woke up at ten. It was awesome. I loved it. I could literally have laid in bed all day. Then the construction started being loud. Le Sigh. So then I got up and had breakfast, and after that I went to school to meet up with Cassandra and Patrick. We all were like we have things to do before we leave. So then we went our ways. I went upstairs to check the mail and found nothing in the H box. But really I was like this package should have been here a long time ago! So I looked in the K box… YEP. Some dummy had put my slip in the K box because they wrote Helwig, Kacy and someone thought that Helwig was a good first name. WHAT. So yeah then I was like well that was stupid. After walking up the stairs I was hot so I went to sit outside in the cold. FINALLY! It is cold enough to wear a sweatshirt! YAY!

I yelled at Patrick down the street. I started getting chilly so I went back downstairs and started talking to some people. Then we all met back up. We went to the card shop so that Cassandra could look for Cards against Humanity. Though I don’t really know why because she told me her mom was printing them out for her to bring when they go to Amsterdam… Sooo… Okay whatever. So then we went to get some Crepes. I had chocolate and banana. It was very delicious. We walked to the Bus place to try and buy Cartreize cards. Which was fine but then We learned that we had to have a passport like photo in order to do it. So that was a hassle.

We ended up going to MonoPrix in the shopping center to get pictures done. The security guard saw us looking like we were lost so I asked him where the photo place was and he showed us. He was VERY nice. So then we did that. We thought that we could just buy one photo for 2 Euros instead of five for 5 but it turned out that it was a like whole photo size photo which would not work. So now I have this big unsmiling passport like photo of myself. (Last time that I listen to other people… I was just going to buy 5…) But whatever.  Then we went back and got the cards. I still am saving money as I will use the card for going to the train and aeroport. After that we went back to school. We went and stopped at a convenience store and I bought a water and then I went and got my package in the building across from the cathedral. I happily carried my package down to the cave where there were like a lot of people for a Friday. It was impressive. I opened my package and was happy to find candy and vitamins, bandaids, motion sickness pills, some things for Paul, Tums, Peanut Butter, and a heating pad. I was most excited for the heating pad.

I sat in the cave for a while. Patrick left after inviting me to join him and Dan for happy hour in a few hours. I said I might. Then I sat in the cave for a while longer. Cassandra was looking at going Paddle boarding tomorrow in Marseille. I was like I’d be down but send me the plan and I’ll be in. So then she left and I sat there a while longer downloading the end of project runway season 11 which I think I have seen… Yeah turned out that I had. I imed THad at his early morning before work in San Jose this weekendI watched Spencers new minecraft video. It looks like a fun easy simple game. I think that I would like it when I go home. I talked with LaSia and Jonathan who had bought this like sausage that was made from Bull and Beef. I was going to try it but then I smelled it first and that immediately put an end to that thought. They said it tasted better than it smelled and I said well dang I hope so! But I couldn’t get past it. But we had a good talk until they went to go watch a movie for their class.

After a while I decided to go home and lay on the heating pad. But it didn’t get hot. Or work like the directions said that it would. So then I looked a the directions and it said it needed to be plugged into a 120 volt thing. So I sighed and told mom it wouldn’t work and she told me to go buy a convertor. Which was expensive… While I was walking around the electronic store I literally ran into Kelan. Like neither of us were paying attention to our surroundings and we ran into each other. It was funny. He was looking at movies to buy so we helped each other out. I helped him look for movies and he helped me look for a convertor. Most of the things that they had though were all adapters so that was a bit obnoxious. So then I went and bought it. The lady was really confused by my id because I had to use a card to buy the converter. She was like umm where is this from and I was like USA and she was like well where and I was like Oregon and she was like what is that. It was funny but she was really nice.

After that I came home and plugged it in and tried to get it to work… But the thing wouldn’t like TURN ON. Like the light would come on and I would pick the temp. level but then it wouldn’t like stay there it would start blinking like it was in auto-shut off mode. So that was frustrating. I finally googled the problem and found that the heating pad had bad reviews online of people buying them and them not working… So… Maybe I shouldn’t have thrown away the box…. Maybe that’s why mom put the box in there… So that is not so good. So I’m assuming it was the heating pad that was messed up this whole time and now I just bought this stupid transformer thing…. That was stupid…

Madame came home and she had bought a new phone, for only one euro! She was very excited and it is her first new phone in ten years! She got a Samsung Galaxy. She likes it a lot and was thrilled that it was so cheap. Wish my phone was that cheap… So then she left and I left to go meet Dan and Patrick. I met Patrick first and tried to go to the school to get the box out of the trash but it was locked.

We sat down and were joined by Michael. We got our drinks and started talking and after a while Dan showed up. We had a nice time. Patrick and Michael talked about pretty intense topics like religion and Politics. Michael is Armenian Orthodox and wants to be a Priest so it was cool to talk to him about that. Dan and I spent most of our time talking about how the other two were talking about very heavy stuff. Dan said dang we are not drunk enough for this. I laughed and continued sipping my little red drink. We had a really nice time though. It was nice to talk to some different people than who I usually talk to. Michael and Dan invited us to hike Mount Sainte Victoire with them on Sunday and I told them I probably couldn’t because I would have to go so slow. They said well we got all day! So I think I will go just to have something to do plus I had a good time with them. This was probably one of my favorite parts of my day though.

After it started to get towards dinner time I went home and after a while Madame and Paul came up for dinner. Paul wanted to look at Pokemon on Tumblr so I opened it up for him. I also gave him the silly teeth (that took 5 times to figure out how to spell) things that mom had sent and he thought they were awesome. They are just like plastic things to put over your teeth. They were pretty amusing though. I also gave him the Pokemon cards. He liked that. For dinner we had Cordon Bleu and French fries. They were very good. We played a guessing game during dinner with animals. I am only totally disadvantaged for having to pick basic animals that I know the names of and to only be able to guess when I know the French word. It would be a fun game for a classroom though. After that we had bread and cheese and paul kept eating his dinner slowly and then when we were done Madame gave me a mandarin orange. She said that because they are the first of the year we can each make a wish. So we did. I wished it would snow here before I leave. I hear it is cool because the whole city shuts down. But it never happens. Though it is starting to get cold enough!

After dinner I went and got the reeses that mom sent and let Madam and Paul try them. Paul refused as he doesn’t like anything but Madame tried it and really liked it! She says she likes Peanut butter but she never buys it. But she seemed to really like the chocolate. But whether she liked it because it was like a gift or whether she really liked it? That is a hard one to figure out. She tossed out the idea of sending a box back to my parents thanking them for all the things that they are sending. So maybe that will happen? I dunno but then she would know more about sending things back and I could ask her about it.

We started trying to watch Lilo and Stitch but the DVD wasn’t working so I went and cleaned it and then it worked and Madame thought I was like magic or something. Then I helped her get the DVD player to work. She thinks I am a genius now, so that is cool. After that I got online to see what was up with tomorrow and Cassandra was being wishy washy about what we are going to do. So that was only really annoying. It was like pick to go or choose to go to the markets. And she just wouldn’t make a decision but kept like saying reasons why not to do both. So finally I cornered her into picking so we are going to the markets tomorrow and then I think the plan is to go and have dinner with Patrick and some other people. So that should be fun. 

Mom just messaged me saying she sent me a convertor *facepalm* no mom I need a different heating pad so now we both bought convertors! Oops… Oh well. What is life without these crazy times?

Also the pictures today are the rest of the stairs to get mail, the outside of the school, the building where I go to get my packages and those stairs, and then Beebow eating Yogurt.

Castles and Stairs

Today was way better than yesterday but it would be pretty hard not to be. I woke up at ten to my alarm after my usual 8 o clock window fixing. Then I went and took a shower and used my new shampoo/conditioner that I bought at Carrefour. It smells much more like me so I like it. I wish I had different body soap because it smells weird. It was good. I have started putting on music when I get ready in the mornings and have the house to myself. It is nice. Then I got dressed and went to do my hair. My bangs have gotten long so I decided to cut them. I think I did a pretty good job. They don’t look freshly cut which was the goal but they are definitely shorter which is good. I should have cut them just a tad more but they suffice for now. You may be thinking why didn’t you just go get all of your hair cut? Well because that’s 30+ € that I would rather just save and let my hair grow out so I can take it to my friend Joe and he can have a field day with it when I get home. Plus that is pretty steep for a hair cut! No wonder everyone has long hair here! ;-)

After I did that I packed up my stuff and went to school. My plan was to finish the last 30 pages of my Game of Thrones book but then Mom was on Skype so I messaged with her instead. That was good and then pretty soon Cassandra came in and was like what did you think of the reading and I was like what? And she was like the homework for this class? And I was like oh I didn’t do that. I was so done with school by the end of class yesterday I just didn’t even care. So she filled me in on what I missed. I didn’t miss much judging from what e talked about in class but I’ll get caught up this weekend. I just needed to not do any more work yesterday after all the horribleness that happened. But class was interesting. We are talking about the German Unification now.

 After class I climbed all the stairs (all but one staircase I got pictures of for you Mom, and then was sad there was no slip of paper saying I had a package. When I got back down my backpack was ringing. I was like what Is that? Turns out it was my phone and I missed a call from some number that I did not recognize. I tried calling them back but go a machine that was about 10 seconds long in French and there was no way I could understand them they were speaking so quickly. So I decided it was nothing. After that we went to the new building and sat for a while before going to our classes. Kelan noticed I cut my bangs. He won the prize and was the only one who noticed.

Literature was alright. We had read A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings : A Childrens Tale. It was a good little story but I feel like the class discussion just went WAY too philosophical that like I was wondering if the professor got our class confused with his next philosophy class in the same room. It was just like too much. I understand like analyzing but it was too much.

After that I went down to the convenience store for a juice and the cashier lady was not in a good mood. I went back and sat in the cave and finished Game of Thrones. It was very good. Except now I have to read The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky which is not going to be nearly as exciting… But I have to finish it before I can read the fourth book. It was good though I liked it a lot.

After that I met up with Patrick and Cassandra and we went to Happy Hour at Woohoo. The pigeons kept coming over because I kept looking at them and because we have peanuts on the table they thought I was going to feed them. Cassandra is araid of birds though so Patrick and I would just not tell her and then she would like turn around and it would be like RIGHT there and she would freak out. It was pretty funny J. Or at least we found it very amusing. It was chilly so after we were done, we went back to the school and I grabbed my big B.K. book and we parted ways. I came home and bought 5 days of internet because I am going crazy. Then I started reading. I am about 30 pages in. But it starts on page 16… So really I’m like 15 pages in and so far it is dreadfully boring. But it is just back story at this point so hopefully it will pick up. 

I stopped when Madame came home and asked how my day was and then immediately if I went to talk to the internet people. I told her I didn’t need to because this morning the internet started working again! A little white lie but it saves me the stress and her the stress and I knew the internet was a risk when I bought it. So this way is best I think. But then we had dinner which was 2 croque-monsieurs each, (Grilled cheese with ham) to be eaten with a fork and knife, we also had salad. Toujours salade, jamais Malade, as Madame says whenever we eat salad. It was a lot of bread and afterwards I got hiccups. Madame laughed at me. It is pleasantly getting cold here which I love. Maybe tomorrow I can wear a sweatshirt! I am meeting Patrick and Cassandra to go for crepes tomorrow for lunch. Then I can check my mail again.

I have my Skype date soon with Thad which will make it just under a week since we have been able to talk. It’s at 11 my time so pretty late but Madame says she doesn’t care as long as I’m not screaming or being obnoxious. She says it’s like if I had a TV on I can make that much noise.  But I am excited. It has been too long. 

 I got online and talked to dad about my test. He said that I need to have FUN storming the castle. :-)

 

You know what I liked best about today?

The end of it.

Today was probably my worst day here….

It started off fine. I woke up and had breakfast and talked to Madame. Kristine the housing lady was coming today at 11 but I didn’t have to be here. But it is nice to know that they do at least check on where you are living, that is a good thing. We got a stellar report I hear. I took off about 45 minutes early to go and study some more. There were a couple girls who had the same idea so we bounced ideas and concepts off of each other. I was feeling pretty confident.

Class started and we got the papers with the images. They were mostly ones I had studied the most so I was very happy. I felt pretty confident. The girl next to me finished in not even 10 minutes and went to the professor who pretty much was like ummm no. This should take you longer you are going o fail if you turn it in this fast. This is because they are like you need to write an actual paper on them. I felt pretty good though and remembered all the vocab and dates mostly (iffy on one of them) but overall I think I did about as good as I could and I think I did pretty well.

I was exhausted by the time I finished though. I turned mine in when about ¾ of the class was done which I feel pretty good about. Usually that means that I knew more or put in more detail, so that was good. But my brain was pretty fried afterwards. So after that I went and got a baguette and an apple for lunch, as well as a Kinder egg and some smurfs. Kinder eggs are cool. Mlle Pearman gave them to us once and told us how they are illegal in the US because they are edible eggs that contain like little games or prizes on the inside. But that our government doesn’t think we are smart enough to realize that the plastic inside the chocolate egg isn’t edible. I got a puzzle with cute animals in mine.

After that I watched some youtube videos that Spencer had made of him playing Minecraft. I really liked that. It let my mind take a break and I got to watch my brother play a game which I always like. After that I had about 4 hours before class. I did my Literature homework for tomorrow which didn’t take too long and then started studying for my French test of 328 verbs and adjectives which all have to do with the 5 senses. So yeah they are all in a way either the same definition or almost the exact same. DO you see a problem with this? Do you also realize the caliber of 328 words? 328! Trois cent vingt-huit mots. That’s a lot. That’s a lot of accent marks to know, and definitions and a lot of words to distinguish from one another. THAT’S A LOT!!!! Do you see a problem coming?! Well you should…

So I studied and made flashcards and wrote the words out and looked up all the definitions (Because they weren’t all discussed in class and there were no definitions on the sheet.) This took quite a while and with over three hundred words it was really hard to keep them all straight.

Pretty soon study time was up so I went to class. I talked to everyone else and they were totally lost too. But I mean a lot of people say that and then are not… So I dunno. We were all hoping when the professor didn’t show up after 5 minutes that class was cancelled but then the secretary came and told us she would be there in ten minutes. I was happy for the extra study time… When she got there though she handed out the test right away.

Okay here we go. First part the 5 senses I knew this would be on it what are the names of them. Uhhh okay la vue (sight), le toucher (touch), ummm crap. What are the actual names for the other two. L’oeil? Or is that eye? Umm it is something like that though. Crap. Okay what body parts are they that do those? Okay easy done. Second part: Here is a sentence now give a synonym. Ummm what? Okay… SO a word that means admire but isn’t admire in French umm…. Yeah nothing blank completely blank. Really? Of the 150+ verbs I just studied for hours I can remember none!? Okay skip okay.

Third part: Here’s a bunch of words put them in the box from one of the 5 senses. Okay so I know some of these so put those ones in. Oh crap these are mostly adjectives and I didn’t study those as much as the verbs because I figured they would be more useful. So I literally have no clue for like 6 of these… Okay well I think the best chance is to put them all in the same box because then at least maybe one of them will be right.

Fourth part: use sentir (smell) , se sentir (to feel) ressentir (feel for someone else) Is that how it works? I think so. But how do I conjugate them like this? She didn’t even tell us that this was going to be on the test! I could have had this easy but I didn’t know it was going to be on here and has not been on the forefront of my mind!

So Literally I did not have a clue for over half of this test even though I studied because there were just too many words. Awesome. Turn paper over put head down and try to forget this ever happened.

After a few more minutes the professor came and took our papers. I didn’t even lift my head when she took mine. I knew I did horrible. I know that I completely failed it. There is no well maybe I will get a C. No. I failed. I have never felt more horrible for a test than that test ever before in the history of my life. What a failure. How could I remember nothing? How is that possible? I know I wasn’t absorbing much when I studied because of having a test earlier but REALLY KACY!? REALLY!? You can’t remember a single verb for admire!?

We started class and the professor was saying she was going to grade us easy but I just new it was so bad. I started tearing up and was trying o not make a deal about it but the professor when she looked at me was like do you want to leave? And I was like Yes. And then ran out. As soon as I hit the hallway I broke. And probably the class of only like 8 of us all heard it and I was embarrassed. I knew it was going to be horrible so why am I having this reaction. Everyone else probably did badly and they aren’t freaking out. It’s because I’m me and I can’t handle failing. I just really cannot. So I ran downstairs to go to the bathroom but it was busy so I just went down the hallway and cried. And I knew I needed to suck it up and go back but I just wanted to cry. I miss home. I miss my family. I miss Thad. I miss talking to someone who knows and likes me and who sees me for the person that I am and cares about what I say and think and do. I miss feeling heard and feeling comfortable with where I am. I miss not having to pretend that I fit in. I miss my friends who I know support me. And I miss the professors who find me interesting and who listen to my opinions and thought and care about if I am having a horrible day. I miss the security of knowing my surrounding and not feeling like a complete outsider all the time. I miss everything and I miss not failing tests because I can’t comprehend and learn 300 words at a time.

About two minutes later the school secretary came out of the bathroom and came over to see if I was okay. I toke her I was just sad because I just failed a test and that is 100% unusual for me and I was homesick and haven’t been able to talk to anyone for almost a week. She asked if I wanted or needed anything and tried to comfort me and she was helping but I told her I just needed a minute to put myself back together so I could go back to class. I just kept sitting there saying if Mom was here she would tell you there isn’t a way out and you just need to suck it up and go back and do it. You can’t leave. You have to go to class. So just suck it up put it behind you and go back to class. There’s nothing you can do about it now. So once I got myself together I went back. I came in and sat in my seat and avoided eye contact with everyone and started translating the text we had. The professor came over and asked if I was okay and I said yes in a very choked up voice. Stupid vocal cords.

We went on with class as usual but the professor didn’t come check my work as usual and kind of just let me be. I kept getting choked up and teary during class as I kept getting reminded of the test and how bad it was. Even now I’m choked up writing this. But also when I get stressed like that my vocal cords tighten up a lot and it hurts so I cry because it hurts but then that doesn’t help either. So it was just all a bad combo. My friends infront of me kind of were avoiding eye contact as well which I was glad for. Nothing worse than crying in class and then having everyone staring at you. Finally and not a moment too soon the class was over. I figured the professor might want to talk to me and that was something I’d rather avoid as I would just start up again so I left with everyone else. When we got outside Kelan asked what was wrong and I told him I was homesick and failed that and my internet hasn’t been working and all that. Christelle said she would ask her roommate for the free wifi city code so I could have that as an option. I started crying again which I hate because my crying sounds so fake I feel like so I hate to cry in front of people. But they were really cool about it. My professor walked by and said she hopes I feel better. So that was enough for me. I got myself together and then walked back home stopping to send Thad a text of what sort of happened.

I came home and was glad for some me time. I started reading so I could get my mind on something else. Madame came home about 20 minutes later. She asked how I was and could tell I was upset. I told her my morning test had gone well but my second one hadn’t. She’d seen the sheet I was working with and after I told her sort of the layout of the test she was like that sounds super hard. And I was like yeah hence why I did really badly. She gave me a don’t beat yourself up speech and that French is a hard language even for her and it is her native language and that I’ll get it next time but shouldn’t beat myself up. I said yeah. Then we went downstairs. Madame told Paul I did badly on a test so I was sad. He didn’t understand what a test was because they don’t have them t his age yet so we had to explain it. He sort of got it. Then we played balloon and he showed me his new Skylander dude and then we played throw th basketball in the little hoop from across the room which was difficult. Madame did it on her first try. Too bad I suck at throwing things. But it was a good game for a while. Then Paul wanted to know what my headbad was so I took it off and showed him and then he had me hold it while he tried to throw the bll through it and into the basket. He couldn’t, but I could. After that Laurence and Jean-Claude came home and we went upstairs. Madame explained how to tell if the mood is waxing or waning which was cool. If it makes a P with a line it is starting to be full if id is a d then it is ending being full. So that is cool and easy to remember! Cool trick.

When we came upstairs I started reading again and Madame made dinner. We had salad and her honey and lemon chicken. YUM. It was really good especially because she didn’t put anything on it that I don’t like! Win for once today… After that we talked about what Kristine said, and about astrological signs and birthdays of different people and stuff like that. I feel like we are a good pair her and I. We get along really well. I think some of the people at school would really not get along with her. There is a level of graciousness and politeness that a lot of people here don’t have that I feel like is required…  like that we are good at communicating.

I am so glad that today is over though. I wish it was Thursday so that I wouldn’t even have to go to school tomorrow… I am so like done with school right now…

Missing my internet...

This morning I slept in almost until 10. I woke up as I usually do on the days I can sleep in at exactly 8 o clock when the construction starts. Then I run to the bathroom and close my windows. Which is really quite the task for being half asleep. The way that my windows work is that there is the shutters on the outside, then a little foot big space, then the windows. Then a middle curtain and two side curtains. The problem is that when I sleep I have the shutters closed but the windows open and the curtains holding the windows open so that I don’t get super hot. But then I have to throw the curtains over the windows to close the doors… So that is a problem!

I slept really well last night though. I woke up today and went and put my journal up at school. My internet is still not working here. I learned that Jean-Claudes internet isn’t going to be installed until November 5^th… That’s like a long time… There is a pass I can buy for 5 days of internet which is always good for 15 euros for 5 days. It is not the best deal… But It would work. I might try it if my internet doesn’t come back soon. But I mean if I buy it, I would only have to buy it 3 times for the month because I have fall break starting the 25^th when I got to Barcelona and then Paris. And then I wouldn’t need it for a week and a half. But that still is a lot of money… I dunno. I am thinking about it but I do have internet at my school it just doesn’t make it convenient at ALL to Skype anyone because they are all asleep in the hours that I can be at school, because we get kicked out about 6:30-7 each day. So that is sucky. I haven’t Skyped Thad since like Friday. It feels like FOREVER. I am not liking that… Not one bit…

I went to class and talked to mom a bit when she was up at like 2 your time and then told her to go to bed. In class we talked about the Second Republic of France. We also turned in our papers and he was telling us how he just got done grading some French students papers and only half of them had gotten better than a C. :-S That was exactly what I wanted to hear from the professor who is going to be grading my paper and my test tomorrow! NOT! But hopefully because we are Americans he will grade us a lot nicer. Hopefully? We will see. But I don’t need to do well, I just need to pass! That is the name of the game this term!

After class I climbed all the stairs to find no mail. :-/ Then I remembered I hadn’t done my little homework assignment for next class so I quickly did that between classes. I also ate a PB&J and some pretzels. I ate a lot of fruit for breakfast and accidentally exploded my applesauce on me while trying to disconnect it from the other ones. Whoops! Oh well it was comical.

In Literature we talked more about The Angel Esmeralda. I am starting to like it more but I still don’t find it nearly as interesting as a lot of other things that I have read. We didn’t even get to me to talk about the little assignment so really it didn’t matter that I had forgotten and done it right before. But oops! On Thursday we are getting a take home midterm paper to write. I like that a lot better than a midterm in class. We are also going to start watching a movie in class soon so I wont have reading homework. But I need to start the Brothers Karamazov or else I know I will fall behind. But also I need to finish Game of Thrones first. Maybe I can tempt myself to finish the Brothers K by saying once I finish it I can buy the fourth book. Hmmm that might just work!

After class I went to the cave to study for my test tomorrow. How it is going to work is that he gave us 20 images from things that we have studied in class and from those 20 he is going to pick 3 and then we have the class period 1h20 to write on all three giving as much detail as possible. We have to give the name, date, artist, affiliation, what it is, the importance of it, and all the other things in the world about it. We have to use lots of vocabulary too which is pretty difficult I think. I have been also really unmotivated to study but have been forcing myself all day. I talked to Mary and Sally a bit about it and then studied more and then Patrick came down and we talked about it again. I also put up more pictures of my trips on Facebook. I forgot to do the slideshows so shoot me an email if you want me to do that and I will be more than happy to it doesn’t take much effort from me but it takes a while to upload. But I can do that tomorrow. 

After a while Patrick went home and I stayed around until they kicked me out, mostly because I didn’t know if Paul would be there and then I would get nothing done. Luckily when I got home though no one was home so I studied some more. I also ate 4 packs of 2 cookies each of Speculoos. Those need to exist in the states or I will go through withdrawals… And then when Madame came up to make dinner she was like oh you are working hard and I was like yeah I have a test tomorrow in my French monuments class and she offered to help me study after dinner. I said sure. We had pasta and zucchini and ham for dinner. It was simple but fast and good. Cheese and bread of course! After that we had pudding which is more runny here than at home but also more rich. 

After that Madame quizzed me on the monuments and was pretty impressed with me. She was like dang this is hard I wouldn’t know this stuff and be able to remember it! I still am not clear on years and names but… Well… I dunno I will go over them right before the test and then those will be fresh and I can just regurgitate them right off the bat. Then we talked about cruises, internet, buying cell phones and how much of a pain it is, which phone she wants to buy, how I have different free apps on my iPod, finally how it is not a phone(!), and also about how the milk here is so different. She found that interesting. She also told me she hasn’t asked the vet yet but she is very glad I told her that in the states you can get a cats claws removed. She thinks that is the coolest and wants to do it. Beebow eats the weirdest stuff. He eat ham, chicken, fish, corn, melon, pudding, and mushrooms so far that I have seen. How weird are some of those? Bizarre. Cats are weird.

After that we watched a show about cruises and Madame started falling asleep. I think I will head to bed soon too because I want to wake up a bit early tomorrow to study at school. Overall today wasn’t too bad except for all the studying. I could have really done without that J Also Cassandra paid me for part of our Munich trip so I don’t have to withdraw money this week which is cool. Though they are all 20’s so they suck to break…

Bisous! Bonne nuit!

Also some girl was singing this song in an apartment when I walked by: Travelin Soldier Dixie Chicks

Fun fact. When I was in sixth grade I really wanted to play the piccolo. Also this was my favorite song for like a year and dad would let me play it all the time on the way home from school :-) Now it makes me think of my dad whenever I hear it. Plus she was singing in English which I found a bit strange but awesome.Also i'm not the biggest country fan. Sad song. But good.

Chocolate and Tests

Today I was so reluctant to wake up that when I did I ate breakfast and then slept until I absolutely HAD to leave. I was so tired. These past two days took a lot out of me. But I suppose that means that I have also been taking advantage of my time. I went to class and was totally lost the first twenty minutes but then figured out what was going on after that. We talked about the Amphitheaters in the Roman and Gauloise civilizations. It was kind of interesting. For the longest time I didn’t understand a picture because I wasn’t seeing it in the right way. That was awkward.

After class I went downstairs to try and put up my blogs. It was working rather horribly as well so maybe all the internet is being terrible… It is really annoying though. I wish I had not terrible internet. It makes it really hard to talk to anyone… But I finally got just the text up. Then I went to the other building to put up my pictures. I went and got a baguette and some candy for lunch. Super healthy I know but I had a test later. And nothing helps a test go better but chocolate! Plus I only had a twenty so I had to buy something more than a baguette or they would have really hated me. So I also bought some more granola bars.

I went back and put up my pictures for my blog and also studied for my test. Actually that is mostly what I did today was study. I put flashcards in an app on my iPod and just mostly studied. I corrected my paper for history and printed it out. I really didn’t do much. I talked to a few people on facebook but that was about it. Mostly it was a boring day.

I did well on the test though and that is what mattered. The first part I didn’t do so hot on but the second part I gave 39 answers for a 15 point question. So I think I am in the clear! But I guess I will see on Wednesday after my second test… On like literally at least 200 verbs and 200 adjectives all having to do with the five senses… That will be not so good. I have another test that morning too so it is just all going to be crazy. I am already tired of it and it really hasn’t even started. The rest of the class was good we translated a poem and then started another but we ran out of time. After class I facebooked a bit and then that was the end of that.

I came home and played with Paul a bit. He is staying the night tonight. He is being typically himself. He called me fat again… I feel like I should have a talk with him about that but I am not sure that the word he uses carries the same like negative connotation but yeah…. Not the best feeling…

We have been watching Scooby Doo and I have been writing this. Pretty soon is bed time and I am happy to comply. For dinner we had some sort of meat with mushrooms and crème sauce as well as potatoes and green beans. It was okay not really my favorite but I was glad for the green beans. She gave me too much so I wanted to not eat it all but then she gave Paul the starving children in Africa speech to get him to eat so I was pretty sure I was obligated. Which is fine it just was a lot and the meat was really tough so it took me a long time to get through it all because I had to chew it so much. But it was okay.

Mostly I am homesick and tired and nothing of much excitement happened today. Not feelin super great but such is life sometimes.