3 Weeks In!

So it's been three weeks since I got to France! I'm having sooo much fun! I just picked blueberries today with Camila (Brazilian), Joao (Brazilian), Elias (Venezuelan), and Cullen and Karlin (both American). It was soo much fun! There were a lot of other people there too. It was with this wine place. We picked three huge crates of blueberries!!! I think I picked over 300 bundles of blueberries, it was crazy! It was fun, but I also got some nasty scratches on my legs, and a lot of blueberry juice in my hair. That was not so much fun :/ . Anyway, I took a loooong hot shower when I got back and had to wash my legs, arms and hair twice to get all the juice and dirt off. It felt good, but would've been better if I could've just stood under the water instead of scrubbing my scalp and skin. All and all though, it was a good day :) . I can't believe I'm saying this, but I actually like school here! I can't understand my teachers (and what I can understand, I can't write down because I can't write as fast as they talk), but I like the french students! They are not even close to as mean as we americans think they are. All of them looove to practice english with me! (Yes mom, I tell them I can't speak english too much :|) They're all really nice! They invited me to go swimming today, but I couldn't because i was blueberry picking with Rotary :( . Luckily they said they would try to do something when I don't have somewhere I need to be. I LOVE FRANCE! I can tell my french is getting better too. Not too fast, but just enough that I'm totally freaking out that'll I'll never understand. Some things still have to be repeated, but I expected that much for a while. My blazer is all but overflowing in the front already! I bought a french patch and pin in Lyon when I was there with Rotary. Now I can show my pride for both of the countries I love! For my classes, it's sooo different then the schedule in America! Here they have three different sets of classes you can take. S (sciences), E.S. (Economical Sciences), and L (Literature). Then, there are première, deuxième, and terminale. Those are like 10th, 11th, and 12th grades in America. 9th grade is at what America calls Middleschool (It's College here). I have Première L. So, I have History and Geography, French (America's english), English Literature, French Literature, English, Spanish, and Gym. Then I have other classes that are either only one semester, or every other week. Class Life, Life and Earth Sciences, Chemistry and Physics, Civil Liberties, and classes to get ready for the BAC (French version of the SAT test basically). I then have another class that meets once a thursday for 1 hour, just for exchange students (I think) and it's to make sure we understand everything (......HA!......) Then, I have Music. This was hard to come by because at first I had L'Art Plastiques. I could choose between Math (hahaha!), Music, or Plastic Arts. I chose plastic arts because I thought it was just like art class here. I was really wrong. What it is, is really just a Art History class with a little drawing thrown in. Not what I expected. So, I asked to change into Music. Well, here, it is A LOT harder to change classes than it is in America. A lot harder. Our schedules aren't per block, per semester. They're like two or three times a week, all year. I'll upload a picture of my classes later, but It's really different. I kinda like it though :D . Anyway, it was really hard to change my class from Plastic Arts to Music. I finally did it, but not until Friday. The end of the second week of school. My English Lit. teacher is really nice, and she brought Elias, Camila, and Me up to the front of the class to talk to the students about ourselves in English. It was really awkward, but it seemed that the students were happy to know more about us. At the beginning, the teacher asked the students if they knew anything about us. When the students answered something right, we would smile at them, and they were happy and proud that they knew something about the cool foreigners. It was really funny because they were raising their hands like crazy trying to out eachother in what they knew about us. I have two really good french friends already, and one of them is my neighboor, so they won, but it was funny to see the class 'fight' for knowledge of us. The teacher was pretty cool too. When we had a worksheet about books authors from America or another English speaking country, the two students in front of Camila and I would always ask me for the answer (it was a teamwork worksheet mom) and I didn't know!! I haven't ever takin a class before that was solely for English Lit, and the people that know me know that I don't really read books that would be in one of those classes. So, it was really awkward because the only ones I knew were Harry Potter, Winnie the Pooh, and Pride & Prejudice (and that one only because I saw a movie that had something about that in it). It was so weird! Enough with class though. The two friends that I was talking about earlier are Loriane and Camille. Loriane is my neighboor and Camille is her best friend. They're those people who are friendly with mostly everyone. That's really nice because I don't know anybody. There close group of friends are really nice. It was really funny! We were playing a card game after school in the park the other day, and supposedly the french don't know how to shuffle properly, they just do the  mix the cards in your hands thing. It was my turn to shuffle, and being taught how to suffle like a pro at a young age :P , I did the shuffle thing and then the bridge thing. I did that a couple times without looking up, and when I was finished, everyone was staring at me like I just performed heart surgery or something!!! It was hilarious!!! Anyway, after that, when it was someone's turn, they tried to shuffle the way I do, they couldn't, and everyone laughed and it was really funny :) . Anyway, I'm getting tired of typing so maybe I'll post again in the next week, maybe I won't, or maybe I'll post only pictures. Any which way, I'm done with this post so Seeya! Wouldn't wanna be ya! (honestly I like where I am very much thank you :P )