Thanksgiving (?) Video Update

Mon dieu comment le temps passe vite!

Mon dieu!  C'est trop vrai que le temps passe vite! C'est déjà décembre!  Je suis désolé que je n'ai pas mis mon blog à jour !  Je vous promis que je suis très occupé et que je vais essayer de mettre à jour mon blog plus souvent!

Holy cow!  It's so true that times flies!  It's already December!  I'm sorry that I haven't updated my blog!  I promise you that I'm really busy and that I'll try to update more often!

Wow so where to begin...

First of all I'm going to say sorry in advance for my English.  I hope you understand it :P

I kept SUPER busy in November!  I can't really get into details here because I would have to write a tome!  However, I'll fill you in on the more general facts.  First, I went to Tours for the day with Julia at the beginning of November.  We took the train and just toured the city, visited two museums (Musée des Beaux Arts et Musée du Compagnonnage), visited the shopping district briefly (expensive!), and just spend a good day enjoying the French scenery.  One night at the beginning of the month we made Caipirinha at Gabriela's house (she's from Brazil), as well as other Brazilian cuisine.  It was really cool!  We watched movies and just joked around.  I've also been spending a lot of time with my good friend Jona (Jonathan) who's from Austria.  He's been sleeping over at my house quite a bit, almost every weekend!  But it's great because we hang out downtown and discover new parts of Châtellerault!  Oh!  And Julia and I went to a Halloween/Birthday party for one of my friends from school.  It was really fun, and we had a great time!  Everyone was dressed up in costumes!  I wore my graduation cap and gown :).  Two weekends ago I went to central France with my host family for a family reunion.  There were so many people and the food was so good!  And then last weekend I went to Nantes with my host family to look at a French engineering university, as well as visit le chateau de Nantes (a castle) and the shopping district (expensive!).  But we did manage to buy some really good caramel!  This Friday night I'm taking the train to Paris with Lucie, Marie, and Pauline to stay overnight at some friends' house.  Then Saturday morning I will take two SAT Subject Tests (Spanish & French), afterwhich we will do a little touring of Paris before returning to Châtellerault Saturday night.  And then next Saturday I have a Christmas party for AFS, for which we (the exchange students) have to prepare a food item and a show.  I'm going to be making Eggnog, a chain of Christmas links for the Christmas tree which will be there (everyone there will make a link), and then I will be singing O Christmas Tree in English, German, and French with Julia.  It's bound to be exciting!

OH!  And how could I forget!?  OBAMA was elected as president!  That's great!  I stayed up all night at a friends house to watch the elections!  I even had an interview with a local news reporter and I was in the paper!  Also, I should also mention that I celebrated Thanksgiving with my host family the Sunday after Thanksgiving.  I made the pumpkin pie from scratch ;) .  And, because we couldn't find a turkey, we had chicken instead :(  But other than that it was great!

Finally I'll finish up by saying that I've really been starting to participate in school, and that I'm understanding more and more of the material presented.  Hopefully after Christmas I'll have a language breakthrough!  And tomorrow I will be signing up to take le bac, or the national graduation exam at the end of the year.  I will be taking both the Junior and Senior levels, so it's going to be intense.  However, I'm lucky that I won't have to study for English (I hope!).

So, I know I haven't written much but it's getting late and I should be going.  I've got a lot of work to do!  Gotta keep busy ;)

AU REVOIR!