CRAZY

WOW
time has really flown by!!! I'm on a computer at school right now, so this is gonna be a speedy update of, I guess, the last almost 2 months...
April 14 à 18: Band camp in Seix. Fun..played lots of music from films and made friends. Roomated with some girls I never met before so it was interesting. All French. All week.
April 24 à May 5: Europe bus trip with Rotary. 60 students all together...majority were American, Canadian, and Mexican. Stops included Paris, Reims, Strasbourg, Munich, Innsbruck, Verona, Venice, San Remo, Monaco, Fréjus, Cassis, Marseille, Avignon, Lyon, Annecy, Geneva, and Dijon. You win a prize if you tell me which country all of those are in. There were others from my district, but most of the people were from the North of France and had met eachother before. But it was fun and I made friends.
April 11: switch host families. I now live in an appartment in part of Toulouse, not exactly the middle,but that's ok. I live with the Gilmore Girls, basically. Host sister is 3 months older than me, went to Japan last year, SUPER nice and is studying law. Mom is in her early forties and is really nice too. Place has 2 bedrooms, so I get the office..practicing dorm room living because it's so small. Guess I get a good location in place of a omputer. I am limited to at school and interet cafés. That also means that no pictures will be on here (on facebook) till July. Oh well. Well, they both have computers but for like work/school only and haven't offered for me to use them yet. Oh well, I'll probably get more sleep now.
May 9 à 24: Parents here. Yaaaaay!!! We went to Barcelona right when they got here, and Figueres too. Learned tons about Dali and Gaudi and Picasso. Cool stuff. We also visted a bit in the region some, like Albu and Corbes-sur-ciel, the Montagne Noire area and lots of Cathares castels. So cool! Then we went to Grenoble and my dad worked with his collegues. Driving across France is pretty and fun.
So basically I haven't exactly been at my host families house too much..but now it's settled down.
May 24 à 25: Last Rotary weekend. We went to Collioure on Saturday and walked around..it started hailing! Then we went to Canet-Plage and we to Le Brésilien, a "camping". That means bungalows and nice pools and a restaurant and bar and little shops. SO NICE! Us 5 girls were in a bungalow and it was so much fun. We went swimming in the Mediterrenean Sea in the evening and then had dinner with everyone. The whole place tries to be like a family summer camp type atmosphere so there was a cabaret show where we voted on people lip synching .... Sunday was supposed to incdlude a pétanques/boules tounrament, but it was raining, so instead we had a trivia quiz. My team won and I was the captain so I won a tshirt and place mat..woohoo. The questions were about art and flags and music from movies and tv-shows. Yay scholastic bowl! We also got certificates that says we completed this year..so then we were joking that if we got sent home this week we still had the certificate that we were an offical Rotary Ambassador for a year. We also got silly Rotary t-shirts and hats. Usual XXL size. Then in the afternoon we had a walking tour or Perpignan.
School news: Well in the last 3 weeks I've only gone to school on Wednesdays and Fridays, since I was got the monday and tuesday with my parents and Thursdays there's been holidays and strikes. But in swimming in PE class I'm the fastest! hooray! abother 20/20! But I keep missing science so today she told me I had 4/20. Well..maybe they even eachother out.
There are lots of striked right now, which I guess is commin in May, people don't want to work. Makes sense. Mostly against Sarkozy's elimination of 9000 jobs. But last week was all "fonctionnaires". This is the last week of normalish school. All my friends are going on their Eurio trip this weekend, so then it'll just be me at school. Till June 13. But I'm gonna go and visit some friends. On friday Maroon 5 is playing for free in Toulouse! And the rugby team just lost in the championship of Europe. And I don't play soccer anymore here. That's a long story... call me if you want to know.

Anyways..got to go to english now.


Bisous, Liz