So yet another couple days done...not much to say but just a comment on how different some things at school are. So first of all there are days when you will have school till around 6 o'clock and others where you are done at noon because the schedule is set up sollage style except you stay with the same group of people all day. Today I was done at noon. Why? Because my latin teacher decided to not come to school today.. So I got to go home early after walking around Epinal(the city my school is located in). which I can't really complain about. But theres also the fact that every time you have a class the room where the class its located in is different. But i think one of the most interesting things about school is that our class picks two representitives and at the end of each trimester those two people will helps the teachers determine our final grade for the semester. We have the voting sometime in the next two weeks and lets just say I hope it turns out to be a good difference.=)

Sports Day!!!

Hello everyone,

Here in France I had an awsome day at school. The entire school got together to play sports pretty much all day for some sort of friendly competition. Our class was our team and each student was chosen to be in one of many activities...somehow I got stuck in Course D'Orientation, the only activity I should say that I can't really say should be considered a sport. So basically there is a group of four to six people from your class who have to do a couple things. The first part of the activity was like a scavanger hunt where you had three maps and went around the school looking for different hints to words that ended up being some sort of phrase. the second was locating more objects using a compass and directions like a treasure hunt. And I cant say they werent fun because they were but I am wondering how its a sport...Anyway the last activity was the most different; So the teacher brought our group out to the forest and then gave one person a compass and longitude and latitude of the school and where you were. Then the teacher left and expected you to find your way back to the school on your own with just those two things. All I have to say about this was that it was interesting and rather entertaining to try to go in the same direction when everyone thought it was a different way. Anyway ahile I was stuck in the forest all day the other kids inmy class played normal sports like soccer and basketball. At the end of the day We all met back in the gymnasium and after the results my class got Fourth place which I have to say isnt bad. Anyway interesting and fun day=)

Welcome to France

Hey everyone!

So sorry I dont have as much internet out here as I though to write to you guys, but it is alot of fun I have tried so many different types of foods and half the time I have no clue as to what exactly I am eating but it has all been amazing! As for my travels my fellow AFSers and I flew by ourselves in a group of six on the plane to Paris and it was fun and we arived saely to Paris where we lived the next three days for pretty much non-stop orientations and last minute preparations before starting our adventures with our host families=) Then sunday we all went our seperate ways by train and it was a bit sad because we are all really close after practically living with each other for a week. But we also really liked meeting people from all over the world and litening to different stereotypes and what was true and not and we diidnt talk much about those of us americans but there were some interesting ones for example I was talking to a girl from Australia and about kangeroos and apparently they are so common and everywhere that they get hit by cars more than deer... but the rest of those are a whole other story.

I also started school yesterday (finally) and it was really easy because the schools are set up collage style except you stay with the same group of people for every class. And schools for Juniors and Seniors are specialized into different categories like S Class which focuses on math and science and ES Class for History and language I think and also L for the more literature and performing arts type of thing. But the wierd thing about my first day wasnt the fact that I didnt seem to understand practically anything in history class which is sad considering I took AP Euro last year but the fact that I really didnt have school yesterday since we finished at noon and I lived off capmus half the morning because I didnt have class. Oh and I did have an english class which was interesting because they speak a little differently then we do;;;and its not always correct. For example who says "who had his tattooed names on his back?" or something like that??? Oh well its been fun so far and my host familly is great and I was planning to post pictures but my computer is being stupid so I will update those when it decides to work! Until next time=)