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.