At 5:00 we went to the group singing lesson. We were a few minutes late because Aurore and Barbara were spraying hairspray everywhere in the bathroom (getting ready for the Spectacle) and then Marine put some in her hair and chased me around the house with the can, haha. Then we escaped to the car so that Marine's mum wouldn't suspect that it was Marine who had sprayed the hairspray all around the house. But sure enough, mothers being mothers, she knew exactly who had done what. So as punishment she took her own sweet time getting to the car. Haha, gotta love it : )
Anyway, this particular group singing lesson was a deciding point for me ; ) enough said there :P.
Once everyone had gathered around in a circle - the teacher started a warm-up activity where you had to throw an imaginary baloon at someone else in the circle and make a sound (started off with one sylable, and the second round, three). I immediately sat down. Haha, technically I wasn't actually part of the group. But sure enough Karine (the singing teacher) said, "Becky. Stand yourself up." (but in French). Haha, so yes, normally I would hate these activities as I'm not really a fan of making funny noises and trying to keep it serious and proffessional. But it was actually quite fun, surprisingly : ) hehe.
After the warm-up we all stood in a semi-circle (after getting our chairs and whatnot) and Karine began to teach a song in French (haha, this time she didn't ask me to join in...I wonder if that was due to Billy Jean...). Then we sang it through with the CD (the intro was rather funny, so Alexis did a little dance, haha). Then she moved on to the solo performances for the Grand Spectacle in March. Alexis was first, singing "Scooby-Doo" (haha, not "...---Dooby-Doo where are you?!") which involved a lot of Chorus parts. So Karine got all the girls to sit on the circular blue and white block and sing, "Scooby-Dooby-Doo ooohaaah, Scooby-Dooby-Doo" when neccessary.
Floriane was next. Her song didn't require any Chorus-ing on our part, so a few of the girls sat down...Hehe, and Marine, Natacha and I welcomed the space, haha. I was quite amazed at how many people could fit on such a small block. Then Alexis decided to sit right in the middle of the three of us : | Bye Bye space, haha (nah, just kidding : )). It was nice to have some Facebook entertainment, haha. Marine was the most approving of this though, I believe. Responding with a long, "mmmMMMmmm" when Alexis confirmed that, yes, he had unlimited internet access on his phone, haha.
It was then Marine's turn to sing, SPACE AGAIN! WHOO! :D Just kidding again ;D. She sang really well : ) I had heard her practicing before we left : ).
It was then time to go...When we arrived home, Marine and I quickly grabbed something to eat before collecting Marine's old "Sing Sing" t-shirts (haha, this was our way of getting a free pass into the Aurore's concert, via the company "Sing Sing" haha...and it worked :D).
We headed out again after only 10 minutes of being home. After we picked up Mammie and had made it through the front door, we waited for Natacha and her family. Although there weren't enough chairs so we had to extend our row a bit...Or as mum would say, "be creative" (yes yes mum, just like your parking :P).
The Spectacle was hilarious! HAHA! It started with the lowest group, who made animal sounds, and ended with a very...disturbing performance by the adults. This resulted in my silently laughing and crying (haha, the blonde in front of us wasn't very happy...I don't think she understoood that it was meant to be funny...oh well, her loss ;)) and Marine shrieking and actually screaming at times! And my host-mum crying too, haha, with laughter.
I don't know what the performance was meant to be...but thankfully little kids have yet to develop a "dirty mind" :O
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Once Mammie was safely back at home and we had returned to the house, we ate three "half" sandwiches (tuna, tuna and ham and cheese) that my host-mum had prepared earlier.
We slept at midnight that night...After doing the unthinkable :S (we were tired, okay!)...Something that involved a cup, "tea" and a window...Something that will remain between Marine, Sawdatou, Henry and I...:O
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Yesterday, we were hoping that maybe because we had gone to bed rather late, that my host-parents would let us take the morning off school and start at 10am instead of 8am. No such luck. Let's just say that that was one loooooong day. And we finished at 6pm.
I got 08/20 in Gestion. Which is apparently average. Rather surprising as I actually did not understand a single thing on that sheet. I still don't know what exactly Gestion is :S.
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We had three hours of lunch. Apparently the food at the cantine wasn't good so we went into town to a nice boulangerie that my mum, host-sisters went to to buy the baguettes that one night where all the boulangeries seemed to be closed (aka, the night before Marine and I went to see "The Princess and the Frog" at the cinema). Sawdatou, me and Marine all got these massive tuna paninis which were stuffed with tuna, egg, lettuce, tomato, and had an extra layer of panini in the middle. Really nice though :D.
And, due to our earlier extreme hunger, we then proceeded to get together all our coins and buy a pack of raspberry jam doughnuts (they're better here, : ) they're not fried and sugar dusted :D a nice change)...And then proceeded to go to my host-mum's mum's house and say that we hadn't eaten (although I was stuffed...haha, so I just ate a biscuit because she insisted that I must eat something for lunch...too bad she didn't know about the OTHER somethings...).
Anyway, we returned to school for three hours of Communications. Hehe, and I can proudly say that I successfully completely writing conclusions for my survey graphs all by myself :D. Although Marine proof read and there were a few mistakes (surprisingly A LOT less than I thought there would be).
For the following two ours we worked on this sheet on Word that the teacher had prepared earlier. The folder wouldn't work for me, so I had to work off her account. She told not to save my work. I only saved once (haha, Ctrl+S is automatic for me, so I did pretty well)...and then had to delete everything I had writen and saved again : ).
For a while, Marine and I wrote messages to eachother on our documents...I really hope I deleted them all! Because Marine logged off for me and she accidently clicked "Yes, I would like to save the changes made to this document"!!! And I couldn't do anything about it either!!! Because I didn't know the teacher's password :S.
Anyway, went to bed rather early last night.
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Didn't sleep well at all last night, Marine gave me her cold. It seemed that whenever I lay down in my bed or drank water, I had a very strong urge to throw-up. Too bad I'm a person who has an inablity to do so :S. Can't stand the sight, feel, or sound :S...or taste, for that matter.
Anyway, after talking to my host mum, she decided it would be better if I stayed home. So I went back to sleep and slept an extra 3.5 hours. Didn't really do much else today. After eating lunch I started a drawing of Marine's eye and then went back to sleep for three hours before waking and saying hello to Aurore and my host dad. Marine finished at 6pm today after started at 8am. Anyway, feeling a lot better now : )
And tomorrow I will hopefull make it to Cora to help my host-parents with the shopping and the ingredients that Marine and I need to prepare diner tomorrow night. Mini yoghurt based pizzas (with baby spinich leaves - oh I had fun trying to describe them to my host-mum before, olives, tomatos, red capsicum, ham or other meats, and cheese, and white-chocolate, raspberry muffins (my mum's recipe :D).
Dinner should be soon...seems to be rather late tonight, as it's already 8.08pm.
(Uh oh, throat getting that itchy feeling again :S...more caramel flavoured throat syrup for me : )...although it does taste more like coconut :D, me likey :D).
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