I Never Thought I Would Say This.

But I can honestly say I love going to school. It what gets me out of bed in the morning. I truly love my class. Here, you have one group of kids who are in all of your classes, so you get to know each other really well. Everyone talks to everyone, and it's just great.

That said, I went to school today, on a Saturday, to try that Devoirs class (and to see everyone). This week the subject was French. We had two hours to read a few lines and respond to two things. The excerpt was from Manon Lescaut, the book we read over the break. That was nice so I at least knew what was going on! I got to the two questions, though, and I didn't comprehend either one of them. I read the exerpt again a couple times. Then I decided to disregard the directions and just summarize what I comprehended. I figured what the hell, it's better than sitting for 2 hours and turning in a blank sheet of paper. I got a nice size paragraph down! Then I moved on to the next part. It had you copy down roman numerals and take notes on an aspect of the story (i thinkkk). I just wrote down each character and then wrote a few things about them. It wasn't wonderful, but I'm pretty proud of my attempt. In the end, I'd filled up the front of a sheet of paper and a couple lines on the back. Everyone else had at least three or four pages full, but I still felt pretty good about my full page.

My host mom came to the school a little after 10. She found me and then we went and FINALLY got my text books! I have multiples for some classes. For instance, I have (no joke) FOUR books for Latin class alone! No one seems to bring them, though, so I think they are mainly just used as a reference at home.

Once we'd accomplished that, we picked up Pierre to take him to the gym. While he was there, my host mom and I went and bought flowers for her pots. The store also sold animals, so we looked at those. They had fishhh :D! They weren't saltwater ones, but it still made me happy! After buying the flowers and dirt, we retrieved Pierre. Then we came home and had lunch!

This afternoon, I'm going to go with Pierre to Arlette's house. I'm not sure exactly why (Arlette is a friend of my host mom's), but whatevs. He wanted to go and say Hi or something. Then later on, we're going with Thomas's family to a Playmobile Exposition. Tonight for dinner, Pierre, my host mom, and I are going out to eat at a restaurant in Arras with Annick. I'll update you on all that stuff tomorrow.

A tout à l'heure!
-Miranda