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=)