69 Days

Today I was in a really good mood. It was nice to see all my friends at school again. I woke up before my alarm went off and layed in bed until it finally did at 8. After getting myself all ready for the day, I had some extra time, so I started to empty the dishwasher. I didn't finish before it was time to leave, but I got a good start. My host mom took me to school at 9:45 for Anglais Complementaire. That class was as wonderful as always. We went over the questions from our oral quiz before the vacation. He asked one girl what the name of the type of drawing was. She said it was a cartoon. He told her it was not a cartoon, then he did what he always does and turned to me for the answer. "What would you call this at home?" he asked me. "A cartoon," I responded. I honestly was not trying to be a brat, but he asked what I call it at home and that is the honest answer. He was a little upset with my answer, but he added "You mean you would call it a cartoon strip. You could also call it a comic strip." I didn't want to argue, so I went along with that. Maybe in England they do call them cartoon strips. He said it was not simply a cartoon because there was more than one picture. They weren't in seperate boxes in a strip, though, so therefore I would consider that a cartoon. Whatever. I made a spelling error on my paper, too, and he pointed it out in a 'haha I knew that and you didn't!' kinf of way that ticked me off. It went like this: *pointing at my paper* "Is that how you would spell humorous?" (I had spelled it 'humerous') "Uhh, no. But I'm not perfect. I do make spelling errors..." "Yes, yes. I'm sure you do." The last thing that kind of stood out in this class today was actually at the beginning. Sorry this is out of order. He was asking us what we did over the vacation and there were a couple girls who had gotten really tan and said they went to the south and all that. Then he turns to me and goes, "You are not tan. What did you do over the vacation?" I told him that I went south, too, and then he wanted to know WHY I did not get a tan. ha. I wanted to be like, 'Oh, because I hate the sun and decided to stay inside the whole time.' but instead I just told him that where I was it was cloudy. Hah. I dunno why I didn't tan! Probably because I didn't lay out and bake all day long! Lol. That didn't really irritate me, I just found that kind of funny.

Next I had a break which I spent in the CDI. After that was theatre. Alice is in Switzerland doing an exchange for two weeks (the schools do that often here with a couple different places), so we couldn't work on our text together. The teacher told Wendie to take her place since we have our big performance here in May and I've only gone through this text once. My lines are not memorized or anything. I can read through it well, but I don't understand everything I'm saying, so it will be a little difficult to act out. Hopefully everything will be worked out before the end of the month.

I only had a half hour between theatre and Anglais LV1, so I ate a quick lunch with Sabrina, Virginie, and Laureen (Marion is in Switzerland, too) and then went to class. We did a translation worksheet and then went through the Bac Anglais that everyone will take next year. We got a sample text and questions and the teacher told us how to go about it and our time limits and everything. We had a while to read it silently. Noo one understood the story. There were weird names and some complex vocabulary terms and I can see how it would be challenging. Now that my French is overall pretty decent, I was able to summarize it for them. I actually had fun doing that. Haha. It doesn't sound overly amusing, but really it was! I like translating English into French for people. :)!

Normally, since it is an A week, I would have had SVT, but since we didn't have school the Monday before the vacation, we missed SPC, so the groups switched and I had SPC this week to make up for it. I LEARNED SOMETHING INTERESTING TODAY! haha! I dunno how many of you already know this, but the reason we put salt and/or sand on the roads in the winter is because it melts the snow (obviously). The interesting thing is that it does this by changing the snow into "saltwater" and therefore changing the temperature of the freezing point of the water, because saltwater freezes at a different temperature than regular water! I didn't fully catch the sand part, but I'm pretty sure it's the same deal. I also answered a question in class today! We were going through the names for when a solid changes to a liquid and a liquid changes to a gas and all that stuff, and most of the terms were pretty close, so I went ahead and guessed sublimation for the change from a solid to a gas- and I was right! :)! The rest of that class went by kind of slowly, though. The teacher did a little demonstration with the temperature change of water with ice and salt and i don't even know exactly. I mainly just talked with Sabrina, Jeremy, and Rafaël during that part.

After that class, I had Anglais LV1 again. We continued with the practice Bac again. A some work time had passed, my teacher called on me to read the passage. I was a little smarter this time and read slowly so everyone could follow along. After that, we spent the rest of class going through the questions. One thing I keep forgetting to point out is that my teacher calls me Melinda allll the time. She's not the only one, either. Madame Noëlle calls me Melinda sometimes, too! And it's happened other times, too. I don't know why Melinda seems to be confused with Miranda, but I answer to both, so it doesn't really matter. Madame Noëlle usually gets it right now, and I've corrected my teacher a few times, but she doesn't usually remember, so whatevs. I don't care that much. I just find that kind of strange.

The day ended with French. We talked most of the period about plans for the week and things that were coming up and whatnot. Then we got our Bac Blanc back! I GOT A 3/20! hahahaha! It was a different teacher that corrected our papers, and she actually thought I was French. She asked my teacher afterwards and said afterwards that I did a really good job for being a foreigner. Granted, everyone else had something around 10, but I lost most of my points because I didn't follow the format correctly and because I took a lot of things directly from the text and didn't write enough in my own words on the question part. I'm still pretty content with myself, though. A three isn't great when you compare it to everyone else, but I'm satisfied with it. :)! We have to rewrite our essay section and make all the necessary corrections and turn that in at a later time. I'm not sure exactly when that's due, but Sabrina said it will probably be sometime next week.

After school, I almost missed my bus. I couldn't remember exactly when it came, and decided on 6:18 instead of 6:08, so I wasn't watching for it. Ooops. Luckily, the stoplight was red, so when I caught sight of it, I ran up and the driver let me on.

When I got home, I ate a snack with Pierre and watched some TV. Then I got myself online. Same old stuff, there. Since I was gone, I never did my monthy progress update or set goals for this month, so I'm going to do that quickly. I've gotten a lotttt better with my pronouns! They come out naturally now, and I don't have to think about it everytime I want to use them. 'En' is the only one that I still have a little trouble with. It can be used in a few different ways, and I've got most of them down, but I don't remember all of them. I don't use 'lui' and 'leur' much, either. I'll have to review thse for next month. My others are honestly pretty good, though. I've always had trouble with pronouns, so I'm really happy with how well that came along. This month I reallyyy would like to work on getting the genders of nouns right. Normally, I just guess and hope I get it right. People understand either way, so I never really cared much. Now that I've got a hold of the other, more important, grammar stuff, I can work on those. We'll see how that comes along by the end of May.

It's time to eat, so I'll write again tomorrow!
bonne soirée!
<3Miranda

French Expression of the Day: Ce n'est pas grave! = It's no big deal/ Don't worry about it!