It's also the last trimester, and goes until the end of the school year-- JULY 1st. Yeah, I end school in July. Hah. Quit complaining about going into the beginning of June this year, you guys :P! We do have a lot of vacation time, though. I think there are only about 14 weeks of actual school left.
I heard that last night you guys turned your clocks back. I guess we don't do that here, because all of the clocks are the same and my family hasn't said anything about it. That's kind of strange. Now we are 8 hours time difference instead of 7.
On with my day! I started school with Anglais Complementaire. No offense, but my teacher kind of irritates me. He makes me feel really uncomfortable. Today, someone said something that was not gramatically correct, and he turns to me and goes, "Miranda, would you say it like that?" I replied yes. Seriously, I would probably say "I passed time in my room" instead of "I had passed the time in my room." To be honest, I think majority of you would say the first one over the second. I don't like having to answer his questions. He puts me on the spot a lot, too, and when he asks me things, he words them so strangely that I don't always understand. Then I feel really stupid because here I am, a native English speaker in an English foreign language class, and I can't understand what the dude is trying to ask me! I reword his questions and ask them back, then he gets even more confusing. It is the most awkward class...
When that was finally over, I had a break from 11 to 12. Annick (my aunt here) invited me over to her house last night for lunch today. I met her daughter, Elodie, her son, Samuel, and his girlfriend (don't remember her name). Elodie lives up in Calais. I think over the April vacation I'm going to visit her and go to England for a little while :D! That would be funnnnn! We talked for a while and Annick fed me some potatoes and some kind of meat. I don't remember what it was called, but I think it came from a cow. It was yummy :)! Elodie brought me back to school just before noon.
Then I had theatre. That class went well today. I don't really mind it anymore, mostly because all I have to do is sit there for now. We found an easy script for me just before the vacation, but weren't able to find the book again. Now my teacher decided that she is going to get a script in English for me. Alice will take the French lines and I will get the English ones. Hah. I haven't really decided whether that is a good thing or a bad thing, but it works! I can do that! I just won't learn French that way.
After theatre, I had about a half an hour break. I went with most of the rest of my class to the foyer. We talked and hung out, and then went to Anglais 1L1 (not the same as before).
That class is has little harder material, but the teacher doesn't put me on the spot as often, which I like. Sometimes she asks if I would say something this way or that, but she does it when she isn't sure, not to make someone in my class feel dumb. She is a little more strict, too. Her "Shhh" is really loud, and she does it a lottt! Actually, you know what? She reminds me of the Super Nanny from TV. They even have the exact same voice/accent! In class today, we went over the tests that everyone took on Saturday (except me). It was a really strange essay. They had to analyze a cartoon about TV making you dumb. I dunno. I probably wouldn't have done too well on that to be honest.
Following Anglais was TPSVC (i think?), which is a biology-like science class. I understood enough to know that we're talking about photosynthesis. Unfortunately, I didn't understand that very well the first time I learned it in English, either. The best thing about science, though, is that a lott of the French words are really close to the English ones. It makes it a lot easier to follow.
I had a 10 minute break afterwards and spent that out in the yard with some students from my class. Then I had Anglais 1L1 again. This time, we read a page-long excerpt from a story. Guess who was chosen to read? Yeah, me. I didn't really mind, though. That was kind of fun. I haven't spoken that much English in a long time. I guess I read too fast, though, because after I was finished, my teacher told the class to reread it at their own pace so they could comprehend the story. We spent the rest of the hour answering questions about this story, which was about a woman protesting for her right to vote. The topics in that class have been really dry. I wish they could come up with something a little more interesting to put in our lessons.
The day ended with some Français. We talked about the Bac for a while at the beginning. This year the students take the French portion of this test. For those of you who haven't heard of the Baccélaureat (sp?) before, it's a big test that French students take over their last two years of high school. It's what earns them their 'diploma' and they are then finished with high school. If they fail it, they must retake the last year of schooling and try again. I'm going to try both the Oral and Written part with my class this year. I am pretty sure I will fail miserably, but I don't care. I'm not getting held back :P! It will just be interesting to see what it's like.
We also talked about the Saturday test. This week the subject is French. I really want to try taking those tests. I think I'm going to get my lazy butt up on Saturday mornings and start going. It can't hurt! This trimester I really want to actually work and get grades! So far, I haven't had anything graded except that one speech in English class. I really want to try and see what I can pull off.
After all that discussion, we read a really short (like, one paragraph in length) story called Diaphis, or something like that. Then we talked about it for a little while. All I really got was that the main guy really liked birds. haha.
I came home, had a little snack and then got online. Not a whole lot interesting has happened yet. Haha. I will talk to you all tomorrow, though! Pierre wants to show me something.
Byeeeeeee<3
-Miranda
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