Rotary weekend and school

Hello all. I feel like I update this a lot, but then the last time was last monday! Oh la la I'm so sorry. So yeah. School makes the week go by really fast, since the day is so long. I had my first history test today, and it covered the New Deal and lots of American history so hopefully my knowledge of things we didn't learn will impress her so much she'll overlook my 3 pages filled with french mistakes (hehe). Spanish is hard, but I think it's a plus that I know french. I'm learning in ly 2 different English classes many tenses that I never knew existed and I'm learning that how we, everyday Americans, contains many grammatical errors and it was kind of embarrassing. Also the teacher lived in London for like 5 years so she's kind of biased. Science and math are easy and I'm glad I took anatomy last year b/c thats what I'm in here!

So the weekend....friday I went wakeboaring for the first time in my life. It so much fun and I can't wait to go again. I went to a parc near Toulouse where you do it tele style, with cables in the sky and you sit on a little dock and grab on to something when its your turn. I finally made it up on my 4th try, then crashed in the water at the other side of the lake. But it was fun. I'm glad I know how to snowboard. Saturday and Sunday were busy and happy. There are 13 inbound exchange students in district 1700, 5 of them here from jan-jan, so 8 newies! Everyone got along really well, although the dominant language is english, so that was spoken a lot. Saturday we visitd the mideval and beautiful town of Cahors, and Sunday we went to a cave, then had a 2 hour long lunch filled with delicious confit de canard and and 3 other yummy courses, then we went to Rocomadour. Little different weather than in March, Mrs. Black! It was hot and sunny and filled with toursits. This time we were dropped of at the top and made our way to the bottom where the bus was waiting. It was fun and I spent a lot of the time getting to know Robyn, an exchenge student from Canada. She's having a little different experience being the only exchange student in a smaller town south of toulouse. Sunday night I barely had 10 minutes at home when I went with Nadine and Antoine to La Place de la Capitole and wathched France beat Namibia (by a lot) in the world cup. The game was at the stade in Toulouse and it was absolutely insane. The whole square was filled with people. No room for more. There was a giant screen and it was awesome. It had a really good "ambiance" as everyone says here...hehe. Afterwards was a musical show with songs and dancing from every country capable of winning the world cup (US was not included). For the All Blacks (new zealand) they danced and sang a Michael Jackson song. I laughed. For Scotland, Ireland and Wales they did some rock celtic dancing. It was completely over the top and only something that could be seen in Europe! I loved it.

So that's so far. Yesterday it rained for the first time since I've been here, and today it was nice and cooler. I had a 3 hour break today, so Sarah and I found an English bookstore, then ate some gelato, then went to library to go on the computers. Tomorrow is obviously a half day and hopefully I'll discover the pool and swim some laps in the afternoon. My friday schedule was changed so now I only have school from 9-11! This is awesome because I can go to my rotary meetings! Also I found a band to join and they can maybe lend me a french horn if I join it! It's gonna be awesome. They practice friday nights and I'm going to watch this friday.

So things are good and super. The pictures are: Nadine on her birthday last week with the cheesecake I made her. I used fromage blanc since there is no cream cheese here, the crust was a disaster, and it didn't taste like american cheesecake, but it tasted good. She liked it. I also forgot to set the timer if you can't tell by the browness (oops!!). The next one is the whole group on an overlook over Cahors. Then its Ekaterina (Russia), Anna Victoria (Mexico) and me in front of the famous bridge in Cahors, then a group shot. There is only one boy in our district, Vincent from So. Africa. The next one is Sanjena (India), Robyn (Canada), me and Sarah (USA) on top of the castle in Rocomadour.

C'est tout! Gros bisous à tout le monde! Love and miss everyone.

Love, Liz