Why I am awesome
reasons 1-10
By Kendra B.
1. Because I got a 10/20 in Italian and she graded me on the same scale as the rest of the class.
2. Because I think I am passing all of my classes.
3. Because I am feeling very nearly bilingual.
4. Because I have magical powers that let me eat Nutella all the time and not get ridiculously fat.
5. Because I have eaten spicy food 3 times here in France (and I mean spicy by my standards)
6. Because I have friends at school who asked me for my number so we can hang out (OMG THIS IS HUGE)
7. Because I was totally on top of things and remembered to get a present for Camille for her Birthday tomorrow.
8. Because everyone in my class may hate each other, but as far as I know, nobody hates me.
9. Because I can start conversations with people I've never met and actually have them think that I'm not ridiculously stupid.
10. Because I'm definitely living in France.
Ok! Now that I am finished with that ego boosting and arrogant list, I will grace you all with the random, slightly boring everyday comings and going of my life.
My history teacher, Mr I-dress-like-a-pirate,-have-a-huge-underbite-smoke-a-pipe-am-a-communist-and-have-horribly-black-tooth-sized-spaces-between-my-teeth Gavois, and one of the girls in my class got into a fatty argument during a test. They yelled at each other for about 45 minutes. It was pretty durn awesome as far a standing up for student rights goes in my opinion, because he is a ridiculous man who should not be in charge of students. In other history news, we had a test on all of the countries in Europe. GEOGRAPHY PEOPLE! We don't do this kind of thing in America as far as I know. I'll take a picture of my lovely map when I get it back and I'll put it online for you all. I think that those Eastern European countries might just have killed me, because no matter how much you study, there is a point where Slovakie and Slovenie just look the same. (oh yeah, all the country names were in french too, which means that places like Sweden become Suède and Czech is spelled Tchéque.)
I went to an H&M with Geneviève and Camille. It was semi disappointing because I wasn't with Rachel and Ana, there wasn't killer pizza across the street, and we didn't take BART, but still people, it was H&M. I bought a black sweater with grey stars. (note to Rachel and Ana, this is the same sweater that I almost bought in SF but then didn't because the lines were too long. I ended up paying stupidity tax for it here, because the prices are exactly the same only in Euro. Thought you guys might like that...)
My jar of peanut butter is safe and sound. I eat it with everythign, but I am the only one who does. All the better in my opinion.
I was really gross cough-y sick this weekend, and went to a French doctor (quite illegally mind you) for the first time. This being France, I was prescribed 4 different kinds of medication. I am feeling much better now that I am not coughing up my Pneumos (<---- silly word that I think means lungs) every 5 seconds.
Life is going pretty life-y as far as I'm concerned. It kinda sucks that I wasn't able to see everyone who was home on Thanksgiving, but oh well.
Christmas will be semi sad.
LOVE!!! To everyone in the 650 and scattered around the country.
Kendra
Monday, November 27, 2006
Sunday, November 19, 2006
Ohhh, bloggy goodness!
Yesterday was 3 months. That freaks me out; It totally doesn’t feel like its been that long at all. On the other hand when I think back to when I arrived it feels like that was a long time ago.
Thanksgiving is coming on quick. Its going to go completely unnoticed here if my predictions are correct. I wish I could go home just for a weekend to chill with my homies. Christmas is going to be really weird here I think. I wish I could hear about everyone’s new college life.
I keep having really strange dreams that take place in San Bruno but are in French. I had a dream last night where I was talking to Miriam, my boss at Peet’s, and she was asking if I could fly home to take over a shift and I told her that I would. HA! No way.
Genevieve is home now and is off of work for a month. Christophe pulled something in his back and can’t get up for a couple of days. Ben has a cold. Camille pretty much is living at her friend, Lise’s, house this weekend. We have a hospital going on at the house with both parents sleeping in the living room and Ben up all night hacking coughing. Gross.
Hope that wasn’t too much information, but for serious, I fear that I will be next.
Speaking of injury/sickness, Nisha, the Thai exchanger, broke her leg playing basketball. Party.
I got my receipt for my demand for my Carte de Sejour. This means that all of my papers are in order and I’m legally allowed to be in the country (sweet, since my visa has now expired) and that now I have to wait for another paper telling me when my state mandated doctor’s appointment is. This would be the equivalent of the opposite of a party. I’m probably going to get my Carte halfway through my stay here. Silly French government.
In happy blog related news, this blog is apparently on the Hampshire website. HOW COOL IS THAT?! (really) So yes, hi to any random Hampshire people who stumble upon my blog. You should totally go to Hampshire if you like learning. AND!!! If you decided to take a year off in between high school and college they’re really chill about it and they save your scholarships if you have any. Pretty durn awesome. Plus you’ll get to meet me… excellent.
I hate history class with a passion. I got yelled at the other day for asking my neighbor the meaning of an apparently very important word for the lesson and he fuh-reaked on me for talking. I had some very insolent comebacks prepared in my head, but considering that this is French high school where you can get fatty punishments for being insolent I held my tongue.
The church service has just ended and the stupid bell Will. Not. Stop. Dinging. Oh.my.god.stop.now.it.has.been.going.on.for.like.10.minutes.
*Ignoring*
My hands are cold like usual. I am seriously not prepared for winter. And then after having thoughts like that I think about how I am choosing to go to college in Massachusetts where it is a buttload colder than here. Nice.
It is still dinging.
Peace out.
Love Kendra
Thanksgiving is coming on quick. Its going to go completely unnoticed here if my predictions are correct. I wish I could go home just for a weekend to chill with my homies. Christmas is going to be really weird here I think. I wish I could hear about everyone’s new college life.
I keep having really strange dreams that take place in San Bruno but are in French. I had a dream last night where I was talking to Miriam, my boss at Peet’s, and she was asking if I could fly home to take over a shift and I told her that I would. HA! No way.
Genevieve is home now and is off of work for a month. Christophe pulled something in his back and can’t get up for a couple of days. Ben has a cold. Camille pretty much is living at her friend, Lise’s, house this weekend. We have a hospital going on at the house with both parents sleeping in the living room and Ben up all night hacking coughing. Gross.
Hope that wasn’t too much information, but for serious, I fear that I will be next.
Speaking of injury/sickness, Nisha, the Thai exchanger, broke her leg playing basketball. Party.
I got my receipt for my demand for my Carte de Sejour. This means that all of my papers are in order and I’m legally allowed to be in the country (sweet, since my visa has now expired) and that now I have to wait for another paper telling me when my state mandated doctor’s appointment is. This would be the equivalent of the opposite of a party. I’m probably going to get my Carte halfway through my stay here. Silly French government.
In happy blog related news, this blog is apparently on the Hampshire website. HOW COOL IS THAT?! (really) So yes, hi to any random Hampshire people who stumble upon my blog. You should totally go to Hampshire if you like learning. AND!!! If you decided to take a year off in between high school and college they’re really chill about it and they save your scholarships if you have any. Pretty durn awesome. Plus you’ll get to meet me… excellent.
I hate history class with a passion. I got yelled at the other day for asking my neighbor the meaning of an apparently very important word for the lesson and he fuh-reaked on me for talking. I had some very insolent comebacks prepared in my head, but considering that this is French high school where you can get fatty punishments for being insolent I held my tongue.
The church service has just ended and the stupid bell Will. Not. Stop. Dinging. Oh.my.god.stop.now.it.has.been.going.on.for.like.10.minutes.
*Ignoring*
My hands are cold like usual. I am seriously not prepared for winter. And then after having thoughts like that I think about how I am choosing to go to college in Massachusetts where it is a buttload colder than here. Nice.
It is still dinging.
Peace out.
Love Kendra
Sunday, November 12, 2006
AHHH!! Forgive me! I know I suck for not writing! (goal to self = write more)
*commence blog*!!!
Ok people, French school is officially kicking my butt as of this week. I have a book of letters written by some random Marquise to read and a full fatty essay to write… hand write. They don’t type anything at all here. And that is just for French class. Considering that I have 9 other classes, yeah, swamped.
As far as politics goes; Yay for Democrats taking over both houses! I must tell you guys it was kind of a hassle getting any news over here. I actually didn’t find out anything about the elections until Wednesday night here. I’ve been talking politics with Christophe a lot here and let me just say that I still have absolutely no clue exactly how the French system works. I do know that they’ve run the government 5 different ways so far (5 republiques) and that some people are pushing for a 6th change.
The Hawaiians all left last week and we had a party at Manon’s house with, holy mother of Jesus, spicy food. I almost died I was so happy. Ooh!!! In other food news, I definitely bought Jiffy Peanut Butter yesterday and I am oh so excited. They all think that it is disgusting – freaks. Cecilie and I tried to go to the Mexican restaurant, but considering we went at 10:30, it was kind of closed like everything else. Sadness. Hopefully I’ll be going there this week because I don’t have Theater class. AND! I tried the Vietnamese/Chinese restaurant in Mallemort… meh… it was ok, but next time I’m ordering spicy and regular rice.
Jeez, I had a lot of food news!
Genevieve is in the Hospital following her surgery. She had some sort of cyst-product, and although she is in pain right now, she’s doing a lot better than even yesterday. It is really sad to see her in the hospital though. She’s scheduled to come home this Wednesday-ish, but not do much for about a month.
On a completely different note, I am totally almost caught up with Lost. I’ve been downloading episodes on Limewire and watching them on the family computer. The 6th episode is downloading right now as I type. By the time you read this I will hopefully be caught up. I think that it is pretty much the suckiest thing ever that they’re postponing the rest of the season until February... What is that?!?!
TV here blows. We have 5 channels, 6 if you count Canal + (the pay channel) which is unblocked from 4-7 on Weekdays (Will & Grace is definitely on from 4:30 to 4:55). Nearly all of the TV shows here are as bad as, if not worse, than the worst American TV. Not even kidding. Examples: (1) Star Academy – This show is like American Idol, except for NOBODY on the entire show can sing and they all have really bad hair. This plays every night and sometimes episodes are as long as 3 hours. (2) Jour J – A really annoying man with an overly expressive face talks about moments in the history of music, stars and television. Unfortunately, episodes repeat segments frequently and the actual segments have nothing to do with the titles… I don’t really understand this one. (3) Random game shows that don’t even deserve to have names – Think ‘game show network’ but with really old people and even crappier prizes.
The only thing worth watching ever is ARTE, a channel on the 5 made for both France and Germany that has relatively interesting programs in the evenings.
Christophe just walked in with fresh bread, (ooooooh yeah) so I’m gonna break my fast with some tasty tasty french product.
Love kendra
p.s. NEW PICTURES!!! The link is to your right.
*commence blog*!!!
Ok people, French school is officially kicking my butt as of this week. I have a book of letters written by some random Marquise to read and a full fatty essay to write… hand write. They don’t type anything at all here. And that is just for French class. Considering that I have 9 other classes, yeah, swamped.
As far as politics goes; Yay for Democrats taking over both houses! I must tell you guys it was kind of a hassle getting any news over here. I actually didn’t find out anything about the elections until Wednesday night here. I’ve been talking politics with Christophe a lot here and let me just say that I still have absolutely no clue exactly how the French system works. I do know that they’ve run the government 5 different ways so far (5 republiques) and that some people are pushing for a 6th change.
The Hawaiians all left last week and we had a party at Manon’s house with, holy mother of Jesus, spicy food. I almost died I was so happy. Ooh!!! In other food news, I definitely bought Jiffy Peanut Butter yesterday and I am oh so excited. They all think that it is disgusting – freaks. Cecilie and I tried to go to the Mexican restaurant, but considering we went at 10:30, it was kind of closed like everything else. Sadness. Hopefully I’ll be going there this week because I don’t have Theater class. AND! I tried the Vietnamese/Chinese restaurant in Mallemort… meh… it was ok, but next time I’m ordering spicy and regular rice.
Jeez, I had a lot of food news!
Genevieve is in the Hospital following her surgery. She had some sort of cyst-product, and although she is in pain right now, she’s doing a lot better than even yesterday. It is really sad to see her in the hospital though. She’s scheduled to come home this Wednesday-ish, but not do much for about a month.
On a completely different note, I am totally almost caught up with Lost. I’ve been downloading episodes on Limewire and watching them on the family computer. The 6th episode is downloading right now as I type. By the time you read this I will hopefully be caught up. I think that it is pretty much the suckiest thing ever that they’re postponing the rest of the season until February... What is that?!?!
TV here blows. We have 5 channels, 6 if you count Canal + (the pay channel) which is unblocked from 4-7 on Weekdays (Will & Grace is definitely on from 4:30 to 4:55). Nearly all of the TV shows here are as bad as, if not worse, than the worst American TV. Not even kidding. Examples: (1) Star Academy – This show is like American Idol, except for NOBODY on the entire show can sing and they all have really bad hair. This plays every night and sometimes episodes are as long as 3 hours. (2) Jour J – A really annoying man with an overly expressive face talks about moments in the history of music, stars and television. Unfortunately, episodes repeat segments frequently and the actual segments have nothing to do with the titles… I don’t really understand this one. (3) Random game shows that don’t even deserve to have names – Think ‘game show network’ but with really old people and even crappier prizes.
The only thing worth watching ever is ARTE, a channel on the 5 made for both France and Germany that has relatively interesting programs in the evenings.
Christophe just walked in with fresh bread, (ooooooh yeah) so I’m gonna break my fast with some tasty tasty french product.
Love kendra
p.s. NEW PICTURES!!! The link is to your right.
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