La Greve

So I first want to say  to Madame Lund that you were completly right when you told me that I would most likely experiance a time when the French went on strike. The next two days here in my region of France at least there's a train stike so only one train runs in the morning and only 2 or 3 at night which is both good and bad for me because I take the train to school and back every day, so I get to sleep in a little more because the train in the morning is later then my normal one and my school understands and doesn't count me late or absent. I do have to say though it's a little annoying that I have only one or two to choose from when coming home since I finish at a different time every day of the week. Oh well my host mom told me that winter seems to be the season for stikes( Le greve) and my host family jokes around saying it's similar to a sport for the three groups of people who go on stike most often.(Teachers, the trains/public transportation and doctors suprisingly) So I will probably get to experiance more then one.

Also the second thing here is that this past Sunday my family took me to what they called a "fois" in a town nearby called Mirecourt and basically its a lot of little shop/stall things similar to what we have at the state fair with slightly different foods and it's more like shops rather then activities. I am not quite sure how to explain it, but Pascaline said that for some reason it's really popular for kids around my age though I wasn't too thrilled about it so I am not exactly sure why...Oh well it was an interesting experiance, but maybe I didn't like it so much because I stood for an hour at this one place and we had some guy talking really fast and he just gave away the most random stuff for around the house. For example, I got a notebook and my host mom got a new pan and other things for around the house and my host dad got a new tie and such...you get the point. Oh well it's just different=)

 And finally, since it's Wednesday today the week is half way done and that means I have a two week vacation starting after school Friday!!! I'm excited because I will spend part of it at my friend Erikos house(another exchange student with AFS) and for the second week I will be staying with a different family to go see Luxembourg and Germany=) Other then that there's not many new or interesting things here, but that mean I may be getting more used to life in France and luckily for me I think my language skills are finally improving a bit.