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After April break, I was, of course, back with the Courtets. I dropped normal-English but stuck with History-English, where we are currently studying WWI from the British perspective. Next Tuesday I get to do the talk about me and the US, which, with this class, shouldn’t be that bad.
My teacher for Literature broke her wrist three weeks ago, in something involving a race of some kind, I’m not sure what. She was replaced two weeks ago, and we have been rushing to finish the program ever since. The new teacher knows her stuff, but is not as charismatic as the last one.
In History, we have almost finished the program, and technically, will finish Tuesday morning, just before the ‘Conseil de classe’ where not only will all of the grades be in, but the teachers share opinions on each student individually.
In Math-I still do the work in a third of the time as anyone else.
In Science: I like Physics, even if the teacher doesn’t think that it’s important to teach additive color mixing, and don’t like Bio/Geology/Anatomy because I don’t like the topics.
In Phys Ed: Climbing the wall is not as fun as
climbing trees. Evaluations were last Thursday, and technically I should never have to climb anything other than stairs, ladders, or mountains ever again.
In German, despite the fact that I’m way behind, I still get decent grades because the teacher is nice to me. And she’s nice because in class I shut up and listen, and I do my homework.
No more Philosophy-that hour was given over to the cause of finishing the curriculum in Literature.
In Art-We’ve talked about some interesting movements, seen some videos that nearly put me to sleep, and done some practical work that I actually am quite proud of (I painted, on a fairly large scale, and it was not a disaster!).
My friends are crazy but wonderful. Elise wins the prize of craziest, Natacha perfectionist.
Other stuff that I’ve done recently:
-I lost my bus card (yesterday). There is still hope of finding it, thankfully.
-I’ve been watching the Nouvelle Star, the French version of American Idol. I don’t love the show or the contestants, but I learn the names of French artists and songs to look for when I check out CD’s from the local library.
-During one of the long weekends in May, we visited some interesting places in the Gulf of Morbihan, including Carnac and Locmariaquer, which both have Neolithic monuments. There are some photos in the blog from that.
-During another of the long weekends, we went to Paris, visited Parc Astérix and the Musée Grevin. There are photos of that too. Oh yeah: Astérix is a character in a famous French cartoon; Musée Grevin is a wax museum.
-We had the ‘end of year’ reunion of YFU students in the region. The Canadian girl and I amused ourselves after we’d done all of the activities and finished eating lunch by writing ‘I love you’ in as many different languages as the students present knew on the back of a plate: we got English, French, German, Swedish, Finnish, Chinese, Spanish, and Latin. I couldn’t remember the Hebrew.
‘Til next time (hopefully before I leave France).
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