: : Byebye [[ echarpe ]] : :

Sorry - I will probably bring shame to all Australians when I say that today I was hot and sweating...9*C...:O Yes, me hot with my 9* here, while Australian summers reach up to 48*C.

Anyway, sorry there was no entry yesterday. After an hour or two spent crazy and laughing with Marine last night, I was too tired to do anything else.

Hm...don't really remember much about yesterday, sad to say. Only three hours in the morning at school - Droit, Maths (test - didn't understand all the French maths terms...:S but we'll see...tomorrow we get our results back), and Communications where we just did these puzzle type things.

We knocked off at lunch and went home to eat tuna/tomato/cheese pasta. At 2pm my host dad took Marine to her driving lesson, returned and then took me to my first trumpet lesson at 3pm (picking up Marine on the way).

What started off to be just a consultation with the trumpet teacher, Ruldolf (the red nose reindeer, haha, just kidding :P), turned into a lesson so I could "show him what I've got" haha. He said that my tone was good and I think he was happy to have an older student as most of them are younglings.

After my trumpet lesson we had 40 minutes to spare, so Marine and I went to Soissons to buy me a new bag and a necklace chain for the pendant she gave me when I firt arrived (a little sterling silver heart that says "I LOVE YOU" :D).

With that all done we went into another shop and tried on some really out-there clothing...too bad I had forgotten my camera :( would've been a good photo-op ;).

We arrived at singing 30 minutes early (started at 5pm), so we went into the bathroom to warm up...It turns out I got a little too warm and was walking around the place with red cheeks, haha, a few comments there.

***May I add, I think I'm now getting sick with thanks to the two sickies at singing *cough Marine cough Alexis* --- pardon the punn ;)

During singing each person was assigned a traditional French song. It was pretty awesome hearing some authentic French music :D Reminded me of all those French scenes in movies with the music playing while the characters enjoyed time by the riviera :).

At one stage one of the drumming teachers came in and started dancing funnily to the music. Good times :)

Afterwards, I think Marine's sickness got to head, haha :P, and she called her mum to ask where she was - but she was already there...haha, all the fussing about with Alexis' phone, trying to remember her mum's phone number :P.

Before picking up Aurore, we went to the French pattiserie and bought something for dessert. The cakes are so much bigger here! Which is kind of hard to believe considering some places in Australia! I got a lemon tart :D.

After a dinner of chicken and veggies, and our desserts (which I have a feeling contained a little toooooooo much sugar) Marine and I went upstairs and talked crzsily on the massive mattress - she then proceeded to draw me whiskers, and me, a moustache for her, haha. Then we took lots of crazy photos. Haha, was fun.

In the end I forgot about the whiskers and went downstairs to brush my teeth and say goodnight. That resulted in two laughing host parents telling me that I was cute, haha.

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Anyway, this morning Marine and I were pretty much dead. Marine with her sickness, me with my fatigue (and my soon to be sickness...Grr sickies, grr! :P), so we took the morning off from school, catching the mini bus at 11:36 to take us to school for a lunch of charcuterie meats, some acidic vegetable thing, potatoes, creme bruleee, and tomato salad (not necessarily in that order, hehe).

After lunch we had three hours of Communications. We had to go around questioning people using our pre-prepared questionnaires. After the first person, we both took to just handing our the leaflets. Haha, which we weren't meant to do...but hey? My French isn't all the understandable, and Marine had no voice. We did what we hado do :P hehe.

After we had gone through all our papers, we realised that some had been filled out wrong, so we found a safe place, away from teachers and altered the results...haha, SHHHH! No one needs to know ;).

We returned and entered all the "results" into the computer and constructed the necessary graphs, which we then copy and pasted onto a word document.

Then it was the end of the class, and time to go home :). Which is where I am now, writing this.

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Random things from today:

Missed Management in the morning which resulted in a lot of people coming up to Marine and I, telling us that the teacher of Management wasn't all the happy because I managed to get a higher mark than the majority of the class (the Communications teacher was proud :D - apparently he told her)!!!! Hehe, very happy with this.

Missed English too - top of the class :)

LOTS of people stressing about their French BAC - Marine's preparing now. Really hope she does well! Been studying really hard. But then again, a girl who went today had the adjudicator tell her that she was "catastrophique" which was bizarre because she's one of the smartest girls in our class!

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Tomorrow is FRIDAY!!! Which means that after 6pm...it's HOLIDAYS!!!! YAY! Hehehe!

Start at 11am tomorrow, and go till 6pm. Should be good :D.