You know it is really hard to stand up on a bus with heels on. And when I said hard I mean HARD. I mean I don't have great balance anyway. So standing on the bus alone is difficult but adding anywhere more than and an inch or so and I will for sure fall flat on my ass. Pardon my french. (haha get it because I am in France. That is literally my favorite joke here.) Anyways so that was fun. But I can now proclaim that I have mostly mastered the bus system here. Even though I got lost yesterday I Indiana Jones my wayed back to my house. My new room is quite nice and I have just cleaned it for the first time. You should have seen it. It was like the Tasmanian devil came at destroyed my suitcase. (shout out to my australians who taught me what an actual Tasmanian devil looks like, if you don't know then here is a picture) \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/

Anyways back to the subject it is clean and mean. Not really my room is nice. Anyways my new host family is also awesome got a really big tv. That is cool and it is 3D soooo... no big. There is a lot of snow you know typical day in Longwy and when there isn't snow there is rain. That is the biggest thing I need my sun from California. But it cool to experience other weather. COOL. IT IS COOL. Get it. It's a pun. I love puns. Okay well that is me signing off, til next time. I think I stole that phrase from a tv show oh well catcha ya on the flip side. :)

It is really freaking cold here. And my boots are soaking, but at least snow is pretty. It beats rain everyday. Here is a video of snow.

Just finished with a vacation to the North of France and finished with Christmas. It was different. People eat to much friggin chocolate I think I am going to die. Met the host families family. Super nice but kind of awkward. Because I said Hey how are you I am the replacement daughter hows it going. A bit bizzare but pretty nice. Went to the Louvre, not the the real one but the younger red-headed cousin look-a-like of the Louvre in the north. I am having some feelings about missing my friends and family in america, but I can get through this. So pretty good vacation so far can't wait for the rest.


btw. I have an irrational fear of becoming a hobo.

This week was quite eventful. It was the holiday of Saint Nicholas. It's like Christmas but different. The story, I think, is that some butcher captured these kids and chopped them into little pieces. And then Saint Nicholas came and saved the three children and turned the butcher into bad santa, Pere Fouettard. And if you are a bad kid he hits you with a stick. harsh. So that was cool and we went to this church and we sang the same song 60 times and broke a world record. It was so long. And I felt like my arms were going to fall off because I was holding a banner. It was so cool but really long. And last piece of info is that I didn't have school on Friday because of the snow!! It was wonderful!

Today was an almost perfect day. At first I was feeling a bit homesick but I am awesome now. Made some new friends in the canteen :) and talked to the person who rides the bus, which is a big step. I was talking myself in to when would be the perfect moment for me to talk to him but then he came up to me. Sorted. I gave another presentation and we talked about the differences of cheese and bread in the US. We also played pop culture Jeopardy, I won. Given I made the test but... P.S. the french don't know who Aretha Franklin is???? Well today pretty good. It was also probably the coldest day in my life and if it gets any colder I think I am going to die. I'm a boss in English as usual and I actually officially start PE/sport tomorrow. Stoked. Also nervous. Signing off. By the way since the clock is back an hour I finish school in the night time. If I take the bus at 5 or 6 it is night dark night. It is bizarre but I kind of like it. I stare out the window and I pretend I am in one of those movies where the main character is down on their luck and they take the bus "wherever it takes" them. Or the beginning of a really good movie where a person gets rich but starts on the bus with the bums. Not that there are bums on the school bus. Okay now I am signing off.

It is my first week without Anna and it is going fine. But I am very stressed about school. There is a controle that we take home and I don't understand any of it and I am scared that I am going to fail the class and be in a bad place for senior year. It sucks when you can't understand a single word of your homework even after you have translated it. So yeah not the best feeling in the world right know.

Vacation

I’m on vacation right now. We are in the middle of nowhere and there is no Wi-Fi. Which is like no food. I think I might die. I never realized how dependent I am on the Internet. Let’s just hope a mass power outage never happens. Ever. I missed California a lot this week because it was Halloween. And my host family and I didn’t do much. I missed dressing up and getting diabetes from all the candy. You know what the saddest part was. I downloaded “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” and I watched it in my room alone. Yeah that sucked but I am okay now. It’s my birthday Wednesday the 14^th of November and I am super pumped. I also bought this postcard and it looks like the Hogwarts Express that was cool. Speaking of Harry Potter, no Internet has given me the chance to read my books that I brought, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. (p.s. Lupin is a bamf) Also I have found out some really merdey (I know that isn’t a real word but I didn’t want to curse because my parents read this) news. Apparently all the rest of the Rotary weekends with all the inbounds in my district are canceled, because of some bad choices that were made at the last weekend. Which sucks ass. Because I am really close with all of my fellow inbounds. They are my true friends here. So to not see them makes me really sad. I also hate the fact that the Rotarians may never trust all of us again. Which is horrible. It feels like when you ask your parents if they are mad at you and they say, “no, we are disappointed in you.” That is like the worst thing a parent can say. It’s like ahhhh crap they are disappointed, not mad, disappointed. It is like them saying, you can have cake but it can only be 20 year old fruitcake. And it pains me that the Rotarians are disappointed in all of us. And even though not everyone did something bad it makes me sad that everyone is getting punished. That said, I understand why they are doing this. And I respect their decision. But it still sucks. So this weekend has been quite a roller coaster ride of emotion. But I am stoked for my birthday. Ok, that’s it.