Joyeaux Noël et Bonne Année!

We had our theater "performance" at noon on Friday. It was, as I expected, horribly lame, but! I think that some of the kids who are a little more serious about theater are beginning to accept me into their group. My little part was singing "Cry me a river" and the teacher made me sing it 3 times in different areas -- kind of annoying since is was OMG SO HUNGRY and the cafeteria was trying to close, but still, it was ok because people clapped and stuff and normally when we tried to do anything people laughed or just stared. It was really that lame. I asked and apparently next semester 15 of the 30 of us will be doing a real play and the other 15 will continue with the stupidest clown unit of life. The teacher picks who gets to do what. Hopefully I'll be lucky... yeah, cross your fingers for me.

After one of the lamest science classes I've ever had (followed only by the lesson where we got punished for singing), Christmas vacation began!!! On the 24th (Saturday) was the first part of the Christmas festivities. Christmas Eve = la Reveillon (I have no clue if it is masculine or Feminine or if I spelled it right, so yeah, thats the general idea of the word). Geneviève and I made a christmas tree out of cardboard (there might be pictures on my picture site by now, I'm really not sure if I'm gonna be too lazy tonight, but in any case there will be soon.)We had a ridiculously expensive meal -- Fois gras, A seafood that I forget the name of, various vegetable products, and BUCHE DE NOËL!!! Omg so tasty. And Fois Gras is one of the nastiest things I have ever tasted, animal cruelty aside. After our meal we waited up until midnight to open presents and I taught camille hand games like 'Ms Mary Mack' and 'Mailman mailman do your duty' and the cup game that I learned at Westminister Woods in elementary school. We had a killer time. However, the soirée was ruined by Ben, who decided to sit there, reading his fantasy novels, not talking to anyone and being a bastard in general and pissing me off until midnight when he said "Its midnight, give me presents" to which I said "You're really pissing me off and your attitude doesn't make me want to give you any presents" and then he said "then fine, don't give me any" and then his parents told him to go to bed and that we'd do presents in the morning. Ooooh he can piss me off SO MUCH and its worse than if he were my real sibling because I do have to restrain myself just a little bit.

CHRISTMAS MORNING!!!! There were a buttload of presents 'under' our christmas 'tree', and the cat was freaking out and rubbing herself up against everything. I got some suuuuuper gifts from both my real family (can you say tartine cookbook?!?!) and from my family here, including a cd of some music that is always on the radio that I really like and a giant stuffed hippo. Around noon we went over to Christphe's parents' house for the even bigger Christmas meal, where we, finally, ate our roadkill sanglier!!!(boar) I totally forgot it was roadkill until my mom reminded me over the phone. This is the kind of meal where you start out by eating way too much, then they tell you that there are 13, oh yes, 13, desserts, including another BUCHE DE NOËL!!! (again, possibly there are pictures by now) So, we stuffed ourself and chilled with the family.

Yesterday (wednesday) we didn't have a lot to do, so Geneviève and I called her mom to see if she wanted to go out walking for a bit. She called back a few minutes later in tears -- their dog had be hit by a car. I must say, it was kind of awkward for me, because she was crying a lot and then I was home alone with the crying grandma because camille wanted to be at gross boyfriend's house RIGHT NOW... so yeah, she showed me all her plants and explained the entire story of Jesus to me when she showed me her thorn of crowns plant. Apparently because I wasn't raised Catholic, I don't know anything about Jesus. I tried to explain that my family is Protestant and she just continued on her Jesus for Dummies kick. I was pretty stoked when Geneviève came back. We did end up walking for a long time and it was pretty ok except for the fact that it was fricken cold;

I forgot to say that it was -6C° on CHristmas morning. MINUS SIX!!!

My family got the Bellons all ipods for christmas, and let me just say this has been ipod week. I have spent so many hours trying to explain how to upload, download, import, and unplug these silly ipods... its not even funny. And Christophe still hasn't even tried because he is still working like crazy.

Tomorrow Camille, Geneviève and I are going to a Hammam, which I guess is like an Arabic Spa. I'm pretty stoked.


Yeah, I updated! How cool is that!

Happy New Year to everyone!!

love kendra

(if my english has started to deteriorate, please please forgive me... the spellcheck is in french, and therefore finds every word I write to be misspelled)