That's right, I'm attending a Catholic school. I haven't noticed anything specifically Catholic about it yet, though, except for the chapel, and a priest. I assume he teaches religion classes, but I haven't had him yet. As for the other classes, it's really hard to keep up with what's going on, but the teachers are nice and understanding. I've only had two half days of school so far. On Wednesdays, school always gets out early, but don't be jealous my American pals back home, because school goes until six in the evening every other day.
I have two classes in English: English itself, and a geography history thing. I wish my old high school taught classes in other languages. It'd make studying French so much easier. Anyway, I'm not too worried about those classes, since last I checked I was fluent in English, but my other classes are going to be a lot more challenging. Everything's a bit overwhelming. Even the binder paper is different (it's thicker and has about a thousand more lines).
But sitting in a classroom listening to a teacher talk about "science de la vie" isn't nearly as hard as making friends. For the last two days I've just tagged along with my host sister Mathilde, but being around a group of French girls is difficult. They all talk fast, and at the same time, and sometimes break off into giggles. It's very hard for me to even understand what they're saying. But I did somewhat confidently answer some questions a boy posed to me today after school, and I felt good about that. My French may not be great, but at least I'm learning to communicate. And that's the entire reason I came, right?
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Naturally, living in France, I don't get Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday off, but I did get to give a presentation in English today on the topic. Unfortunately, the prof decided to set it up more like a question-and-answer session and kept talking about weird stuff. He's nice, the prof, but he's not very interesting, even for the French. So anyway, I brought a whole bunch of markers with me to school today, and as a little celebration, my friends and I all drew turkeys on our hands. Yay!
