What's up everyone! Here in France the weather has been not so good a lot of rain, but today was blue skies so I'm looking hopeful. In some classes I can kind of take good notes and follow what's going on, and then in ones like French I just try to translate the gist of the old poems we study. I'm going to start doing rock wall climbing instead of volley ball, and I want to start doing something after school, but I'm not quite sure what, maybe ping pong? I'm trying to get my mom to send me my ukelele. Couldn't go to Marsatec :( but there will be other music festivals. Instead I got to do some promenadin' and got to see "les fruits confits" which are basically fruit filled with syrup covered in pounds of sugar, it was a bit too much even for me. But they looked very cool, like Willy Wonka! Last weekend I ran a 11km race, which was like going from nothing to max, it was really hard and I'm still sore. But won a medal and some good food and drinks for trying! Bobby and I showed everyone the "american" way of handball. Some differences about France that I'm not sure if I've mentioned : Everyone does the "bises" which is 2 kisses on the cheek nearly EVERY time they meet. There are no hugs. No one chooses their classes in France and you are with the same group of kids all year all day. Everyone takes every core subject every year. Sports are not that big at all in school, there's no mascot, no rivalry. It's popular here to wear closes with english writing. I've seen multiple kids wearing straigh up american flags. Today I wore my Olympic bright red USA long sleeve. I was feeling pretty good about that. I swear everyone has better style here, I'm trying to get into the scarfs. Also in my family, we had bread and cheese EVERY lunch and dinner. How cool is that? Hope everyone's great and I'm continuing on my quest to meet up with the exchange students. Bonne journée!
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