About two hours ago there was a very emotional goodbye to Katie at our front door with the Wlodarczyk's and Floriane's family (Katie's previous host family). After a lot of fussing about with the weight of Katie's suitcase (she had a bit of a dilemma as she was only allowed 20kg and 1 kg over the limit is something rediculous like 100 euros or something; and she had 32kg...most of which were books which she put in another bag instead...oh and she only had 15 euros), which in the end of 26kg, but we decided that she'll have to cry and throw herself on the floor - it was time to say goodbye.
As soon as I saw Katie becoming emotional, I started to cry...and laugh at my stupidity...At first I thought my crying was due to seeing Katie cry but even after she had left, the tears came :S. Bizarre, because I've only really known her for a week and conversing was strange because I knew that we could converse perfectly in English but French? Not really, yet I was made to speak it, hehe.
Marine went with Katie and Floriane's family to the airport with Katie.
Last night we were all a bit crazy and slept in the big blow-up mattress, which was good apart from my pillow falling off the bed and not having enough blanket at once stage...
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School is going good. This weekend I have to write out all the definitions for Droit...A LOT of definitions! I should be doing that now actually, however the definitions are on Marine's computer but it ran out of battery...hehe, didn't really understand the "low battery" warnings in French, haha.
Sport. Let's talk about sport class...Here are some words to explain it :: MUST. KILL. MARINE. haha...I didn't have any clothes for sport so she let me borrow some pants...Which she decided to tell me once we were AT school, were extremely large :S. So the last lesson of the day was two hours of sport. I got changed into my massive, while, TRANSPARENT pants and prepared myself for sport (what's more, my peach top also happened to be semi-transparent...oh and the class is mixed :S). I didn't do much in sport as the class was being graded on their "step" routines. Still, it was an interesting experience, haha.
Before sport was TWO hours of Droit (it's like Business Studies) which Marine and I were late to (we had gone into town during lunch --- more on that later). Because the teacher of Droit is rather strict we made up the excuse that because I was new to Soissons, I had gotten lost and Myriam and Marine had to search for me :S haha. I had absolutely NO idea what on Earth was going on in Droit so Marine and I took to playing French (for me)/English (for her) hang-man, noughts and crosses, and that dot game (don't know what it's called)...Which we stopped doing after 30mins and took to writing down the notes...which Marine told me not to worry about anyway.
Maths is great. It's easier here than in Australia. Most of it is learning the various functions of graphing etc.
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Right, lunch. After lunch, Myriam, Marine and I went into town to three different parfumeries, which was fun. Because they were all really expensive, Marine took to telling the sales-assistants that I was from Australia and I want to send some gifts of French perfume. In each shop we got two samples of different perfumes : ). They're really good here!
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Wednesday after-school, I went and watched Marine's singing class. We finished school at 12 so that gave Katie time to bake some cookies for the class too - which, may I add, were really good, with many people going back for thirds.
Wednesday night, we went to Didien's (family friend) house - he is extremely funny! - for dinner. And ate, and ate...and ate some more, haha. Marine and I were a bit crazy and for some reason decided to eat a peice of our napkins dipped in mayo...wasn't too bad suprisingly, haha, although it was a tad chewy, haha. We also tried some baguette with Swiss cheese and this choc/banana milk powder (which was really really really good...haha, so good that Aurore and Katie tried it too ; )). That night we went to bed at 12:30am...and then got up 5 andf a half hours later to go to school.
On Thursday Marine and I walked to Didien's for lunch - we ate pigeon, which was...bizarre, but quite nice; however the meat was quite rich. With the pigeon we had chips and mushrooms. When I first cut into my whol pigeon I was surprised to see...the interior...haha...don't worry, I didn't eat it.
When we returned to school, Marine and I were yet again crazy and used the school hall as a catwalk, haha...and took photos ; )...hehe, all before our next class. Communications. OF which there were only two students - Marine and I. Marine told me I could sleep if I wanted - at first I refused...but then my eyes took over :S haha. Just after I awoke again, a lady come to tell me that it was time for me to go meet Jean Lin - the exchange coordinater here. After speaking with him, he took me, Marine, Katie and another exchange student outside to take photos, which he printed and then took to our house when he came for dinner that night. Again, the lack of sleep caught up to us all and we found ourselves laughing like idiots. Haha - a lot of photos that night.
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This morning we woke at 8 am to have our showers before leaving at 9:30am to take Marine to driving school. Katie, me, and the parentals went grocery shopping at Cora where I also bought all my school books and stationary for Monday (haha, instead of my usual collected of six or so papers that I carry around with mee - once sheet for each class, haha).
When we had finished (it only took about an hour, which, according to Katie, was quite quick compared to the norm) we went to pick up Marine and then continued on home for a lunch of mushroom soup - well appreciated after being out in the cold.
Tonight we are going to a family friend's house for dinner going to be lonely without Katie : (...but as she said, I will survive : )...(and not to waste my time on Facebook : )). Hence the smaller-than-usual lunch...Apparently tonight we are going to eat a lot, haha.
Soooooo, anyway - a bientot!
x.
List of bizarre foods so far ::
Skin of cow tongue (bizarre texture!) --- first night
Pigeon (texure kind of like braised beef) --- third night
Tripe (texture...interesting...not my favourite) --- last night
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