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Since last monday started off on a bad foot.....I sprained my ankle Tuesday night at TFC practice...We were playing like 5v5 keep away and I cut the ball behind me and somehow all my weight went over my left ankle. It hurt like the 1st time I did it like a year and a half ago, but still a shock. They carried me off and then my host parents came and got me and we went to a clinic. Clnic = private hospital. My experience on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning with socialized health care was interesting...lots of waiting. The emergency room at the clinic was empty but we still had to wait like an hour. I got crutches and an x-ray, all free. Then on Wednesday I got a sonogram. I had to pay for it because I'm not actually French, but I can get it reimbursed my insurance at the soccer club. So Wednesday was kind of slow and I was bummed...I wasn't in that much pain, I just don't like being hurt...I'm never hurt or sick. Thursday was better, then Friday I didn't go to school either because for only 2 hours with cruthches, I didn't see it as necessary. I did do my english lesson in the afternoon and then we went back there for a dinner party. They were hoping to introduce me to new cuisine my making a tagine....then they were very surprised when I said that I had, in fact, spent 3 weeks in Morocco, and knew very well what tagine was. Then it turned out that my family's trip was almost exactly in the same places and the same time as their's! Crazy! Saturday it rained and I saw a movie...Christmas festive lights and things everywhere. I was happy to see my friends again...3 days seemed like a long time. It was also our 100th day here! Sunday was fun..Liz from Central visited. She's studying abroad in Nancy. She brought 2 others from U of I who are at the aerospace school there. It sounded like they were having a good semester...way different than mine though. Living by themselves and difficult schooling. Unfortunately after finding the correct bus stop, I guess it changes on Sundays, we were told that the Cité de l'Espace was closed this weekend. So that was a bummer...that's why they came to Toulouse. But we filled the rest of the day walking around... the weather was absolutely beautiful..they have been filled with cold and rain by living in the North, Southern France is nice. It definitely wasn't my normal December weather.
I have to leave soon to go to the stadium to see the TFC doctor. Hopefully I can play soon. It rained today...I got totally soaked. If only it was colder it would have been snowing. I have above the average in physics class..13, and the highest grade in the 2nd english class..18. I thought it was unfair on the last test how she took off one point for each of my 2 puncuation/spelling mistakes...when french kids would have only gotten like .5 a point off. Also the last question was opinion, so it bugged my when she took off because I didn't answer the question, when it was my opinion. The other english teacher and I had an argument because she thinks there's 54 states in the US....yeah. Also she thought prom was just walk around didn't believe there were dances. In physics we started doing chemistry...Ozenne has all this super nice equipment and each lab is really nice. We used all this (it seemed) fancy equipment to find the amount of salt in like 5 different brands of mineral water...but there was no "don't break the equipment or else..." speech, or instructions, so that was a change from Central. Liz and I both agreed on Sunday that it was fun talking to someone who came from the same place as us..it was really cool and kind of weird too. But fun. We'll always remember that day. It was also cool showing someone around Toulouse, I didn't get them lost.

Toodles!
Liz