mmm... 10 hours of school today... that is a scrumptious thought. Bask in that for a moment. Yeah.

As far as school goes, its good, if not difficult. I'll put it this way. If you were to take your average Capuchino CP class of juniors, give them just a little bit more motivation and higher expectations from their teachers and parents and put them all in IB diploma, that would be french high school for you. Teacher don't show up, so we don't have class. I tried to explain the concept of a "sub" today and they thought it was the strangest thing they'd ever heard.

I got all 11 of my books today. They fricken cost me 120€! I hope I get it back, because I know at the end of the year I have to return them.

I got a little sad today in French class (FOR 3 HOURS) because they were going over writing technique and such, and nerd that I am I was getting all in to it, and I knew the answers, but only in english, so they all assumed I couldn't understand. I really wanted to tell her that you have to look for SYNTAX!!! only to learn 5 seconds later that the French word for syntax -- is syntax. That was fun. I have absolutely no clue what the homework is, except for that it has to do something with poems? and charts... yeah

and I don't know what my english homework is because the instructions are in french and as far as i can see they direct me to page 415 of a 200 page book. fun stuff. English class is silly though cause the teacher is british and she made me describe chips and then told me I was wrong.

The girls in my class are nice -- theres a good group of them who talk to me (and attempt to talk to Cecelie the Danish exchange student whose french SUCKS) at breaks and help me in class. They even made fun of my accent today which is good, i guess, because it means to me that they feel it is ok to joke around me. I wish I didn't sound like a hobo when I try to speak.

The cafeteria is good but strange. It kind of tastes like middle class gourmet -- like someone tried to do something really fancy on a tiny budget. (I think I'm on point with that one). I've had couscous royale and salmon product. The girls said that it is required that I try MacDo (mcdonalds) in france, because it is better? I'm taking them up on it, as much as I hate it, because I want to have someone other than Cecelie to hang out with. She is nice, but UBER clingy, and understandably so since I'm pretty much the only one who can understand her at all.

I keep seeing people at school that remind me of people at home. There is this one girl in particular who is like a tiny, girly, clean lindsay, but she isn't very nice. I don't like her so much, she makes me miss real lindsay.

Weekend tomorrow, which is kind of like Jesus and Santa and the Easter Bunny all combined.

I can no longer rely on my happy english books that I've been reading before I go to sleep (I've read over 1500 pages in the last week and a half) because I have been assigned Les Liaisons Dangereuse by October 6th, and it is gonna be hell for me.

Yay...