Hey hey kids!


I have passed the 5 month mark here, and that kinda freaks me out a little. In some ways it feels like way less and in some ways it feels like WAAY more. I'm starting to grasp the realization that I will be taking the Bac in French in a couple of months, and that I will most likely stress a lot and then fail. I have yet to come to terms with this realization.

I really don't like not being good at things.
I do, however, enjoy double negatives.

Lately... what have I been doing? I have no clue.

Cecilie and Maria came over to my house and we made chocolate friands from the tartine book of glory. Cecilie slept over, we goofed around and hung out with my host family. It was the first time I've been able to have silly relaxing fun time with a friend, which was really comforting. I know that cecilie and I get on each others nerves sometimes, but she is the only other one who can really relate to whats going on in my head. It is different with Maria because she lives with her Aunt and speaks spanish at home. Totally different.

Our class photo is today, which makes me giggle a whole lot. I thought we stopped doing that in like 6th grade! But no, here everyone does it up until Senior year.

Silly.

I'm going to try to motivate myself enough to get some pictures online. Hopefully that will work.

There are officially 4 people in my class that I strongly STRONGLY dislike.
I participate more in French class than half of my classmates.
If I write another sentence with the word 'class' in it, it will lose all meaning.

There we go.

Sorry that this is so random, I have no clue what to write.

The weather was randomly really warm for like 3 weeks, but now the cold is coming (back?). There was a huge storm last night and thunder and everything and I couldn't sleep.

I bought boots. They're black with stars, and better yet, they were on sale. The month of soldes is almost over.

We still haven't recovered my bag of clothes. This is ridiculously depressing.
My last hope is drama tomorrow... if she has it by then, I'll be happy, but if not I think it is lost forever. SADFACE!

It was totally the bag that ana and rachel sent me for christmas. gahhhhhh!! sucks.

Apparently it is the franco-allemand week, which is something to do with connections between France and Germany, but I'm not entirely clear on the concept. It is possible that there are germans at l'Emperi for this week, but seeing as how none of my friends take german here, there is no way that I'd know/meet any of them.

This tv show that we watch (not because it is good, but because it is something to do) had an episode yesterday talking about foreigners and accents. They said that the american and english accents in general were charming, but I totally don't think they are. They sound kind of annoying to me. This one woman spoke a little bit in her accent-y french and geneviève was like "OMG that is your accent exactly. Weird." Apparently it was pretty good for an american, but i still don't like it. The problem is that I can't really hear my accent. I know it exists, but unless I pay super attention and repeat a sentence after someone, I don't hear it at all. Then again, cecilie says she doesn't hear hers either, and hers is so thick that I tend to do french to french translation for her. Maybe mine is really thick too? I have no clue.

I've officially stopped stressing about my accent, but I still don't like it when people comment on it, or when I'm misunderstood. I also think it gets thicker when I'm tired.


Ok, hope you enjoyed all that. Nothing major going on.

yeah.

love kendra