67 Days

Today I went from a really great mood to a really pissed off mood. We'll start off with the good part at the beginning.

I got up and got ready, and then had some extra time, so I made Wendie a birthday card since it's her birthday today. At 9:00, I had math. We got this huge assignment to do for next week, and worked on that the whole hour. Sabrina and I worked together, but we didn't get very far, lol.

In theatre, Wendie and I read through my text a couple times, and then the teacher wanted to go through it with us since she hadn't even heard me read it, yet. She had a really difficult time understanding my accent, so she made me read insanely slow reading each word one-by-one concentrating on the articulation and pernouncing everything the best I could. There were a few things I really sucked at saying, so she changed my lines and we rearranged some of the parts. Honestly, it sounded good to me, and no one else has difficulty understanding me (at least no one's said anything or made me repeat things often), but whateverr. I have to continue to read s u p e r s l o w l y until she says otherwise. That's seriously a lot easier said than done. Now that I recognize all the words and everything, I want to read at a normal pace, but I have to force myself to slow down. It does make me focus more on the pernounciation, though, so I can't say it's pointless. It's just a little frustrating.

After that comes the hilight of my day. Wendie and I went off to practice a little on our own and she was trying to help me get my pernounciation down. We spent forEVER trying to get my 'R' to come out, and after talking about it and trying a million times, I got it!!!! I had always thought it was a harsher roll than it really is. It helps to think of it like an 'hhhh' sound with a tiny bit of a roll to it. I dunno how to explain it exactly, but you basically start out by making the 'hhhhh' sound and then you add the hacking sound (for lack of a better term) to it and voilà! For now, I can only get it out when I talk at a slow to moderate pace, so now I've gotta go back to the beginning and slow down in conversation again. That kind of sucks, but hopefully it won't last too long and I'll be able to pick up speed pretty quickly. We attempted to work on my 'U,' too, and I can make the right sound only about half of the time. I'm going to continue to work on that as well, and hopefully by the end, my American accent will be gonee.

Anyway, after school I came home and had lunch. Afterwards, I started working on my French 'anthologie' (which is taking FOREVER) and got 2 out of the 8 pretty much finished. I was in the middle of the third one when my host mom wanted to take me to a lady's house for a craft show (I don't really know how else to describe it). I left the computer with my stuff up and went with my host mom. There was a lady there who does all kinds of crafty things with napkins and paint and furnature and vases and pots and tons of stuff, and she was showing them off and explaining how it was done, and then you could buy kits and paint colors and all that so you can do it yourself. My host mom bought a kit to do one of her little tables out on the veranda. It's supposed to arrive in about 10 days, so I'll let you know when we actually do that. It was interesting to see this lady's presentation. All of her stuff was awesome. I don't think I could get the same results no matter how hard I tried. haha. When I came back home, I went to the computer and EVERYTHING was closed out. The Internet sites with the extracts, the three documents (only two of them had been saved!!), everything was closed. I know Pierre had to have done it, too, because he was the only one here and the two documents I changed slightly since the previous save were saved over, but the other one was completely deleted. I'm assuming he just clicked 'Yes' for all the messages that popped up when he clicked the X, because they would have been something like, "Save changes before exiting?" (yes) and then "Are you sure you want to exit without saving?" (yes). That reallyyyy pisses me off! He asked me at lunch if I could help him put music on his MP3 player, and I told him I would after I finished my homework, so I think that when I left, he tried to do it himself and closed all my documents. gahhhh. I wish he could have just minimized them if he reallyy felt the need to get on the computer. I also wished I would have thought about that ahead of time and saved my stuff right before I left. I learned my lesson the hard way, and now I've gotta restart the 3rd one and then do 5 to 7 more.

Damn. I've gotta go to music, now. I forgot about that. I'm going to be up late tonight! -.-

à demain.
-Miranda

French Word of the Day: Enregistrer = to save