Ok, I know I haven't posted anything in a month. And I honestly have no excuse. Get over it.
I've had a lot of things happen in this past month! I finally changed families for starters, and I am SO MUCH HAPPIER! I feel much more at home with this family and everything is just better. I have two little brothers, Clement and Theo. I now live in Isques, though I still go to the same high school. School is super fun actually--it's great that I can just burst out laughing when I get 2.5/20 in history because my grades aren't being recorded. I help my host brothers with their homework a lot, though strangely more often in Spanish than English. It's really sad how stressed out kids here are about school. Clement always has a ton of homework to do every night and people at school are always freaking out about grades. It's actually a little strange, because we do the same material but in the US everyone is expected to know more answers than here. For example, on a math test that was no harder than a math test I would have at Summit, people got really excited about having 17/20. So, ultimately people work harder here, but people are expected to do better in the US.
I've purchased an ungodly amount of things here. I currently own a new pair of boots, bracelet, scarf, and bag from the last five days. But seeing as I've saved up all of my money to spend it this year, spend it I will. It looks like I'll be going to London in January with my English class to see Billy Elliot (so excited!!).
We had our Rotary weekend recently which was such a crazy time! We went to Mont Saint Michel which was super pretty and then we walked around barefoot in the mud and thigh high water for four hours. If you know me at all, you'll know that I was not a happy camper then. We saw a bunch of other districts too and my blazer is slowly filling up with pins!
I got a care package from my parents! Inside there was my calculator (little tip for exchange students who enjoy math: bring your calculator! It may be the only subject you understand and calculators in French [or any language I imagine] are confusing.), some stuff from bath and body works, the camera, candy corn, milky ways (I frackin love milky ways. I can't even deal with how much I love them), count chocula, my rings, and some Burt's bees. SO HAPPY.
I can now watch The Vampire Diaries on my iPad! Everyone talks about it here but I hate how everything is voiced over so I prefer watching things in their original language.
I went to the house of some family friends this weekend which was super fun! Everyone was always doing something and it was just really awesome.
My swimming teacher tells me that I swim too fast. He's annoying. Seriously, isn't the point of swimming to become faster?
Either someone called me super pretty today or insulted me. My friends said that the word meant really pretty, but I wouldn't put it past them to lie to me about it. I'm talking about you, Hector.
Wintergreen tic tacs taste like medicine to French people. If you give them one, they'll spit it out in less than twenty seconds. It's hilarious.
Our class photo was today. I forgot.
Well, as you can tell, I'm out of things to say. I'll do my best to post soon, but that probably won't happen. Bye for now!
