Aujourd’hui was a short jour a l’école, nous got out at 12:25 instead of 5. Maintenant, je suis à la maison écouter de la musique et painting my nails while Marine does some work. L’école was bon audourd’hui, j’ai eu Historie, something about Europe, Science, et Anglais (which je suis going to this semaine then possibly going to drop next semaine) Je really want to keep one Anglais class parce que je really love the ma professeur’s British accent!!! Il aussi asks for my pronunciation and spelling in some words. Je told some of my friends that je will aider them en Anglais if they aider moi en Français. Team Work!!

Anyway, je suis going to just hang out for maintenant…more later.

~Tara

So last night my internet was being weird so I couldn’t get online to post my blog. So real fast I’m going to tell you what happened yesterday (without French this time) So yesterday, on the way to school I saw a deer while I was on the bus. It ran out in front of the bus then onto the grass. At school, I talked with my main teacher about changing my classes and he said wait a week and if you don’t like the classes you can drop them. (I’m just going to go to them) THen after school, Viva and I went into the principal’s office to talk about classes. He said just go and listen to the French and don’t worry about texting. That’s good!! We also met this Australian guy called Pierce.

Aujourd’hui, je went to lécole. Ma classes were bon! Je saw the green-eyed guy again today and for the second time found out his name but can’t remember it. It rhymes avec wonton, so that’s the nickname for him. J’ai alle tous ma classes et thankfully demain is a half-day!!! Maybe I can hang with a friend…?? Anyway, maintenant je suis going downstairs to see if je can aide avec anything et to see what is pour l’dîner.

More later!

~Tara

PS. ma ami was teaching moi un peu de Français à break. Maintenant, je sais how to say, “are you having a party?” “Can I come?” “Do you know the [french kiss]” and “Can you teach it to me?” Mes amis are too funny!!!

(don’t worry, I most likely won’t use these sentences!!!) (:

Last night, je suis allé avec ma host parents to a cousins house for dinner. Ils ont deux enfants, Morgan (boy) and Ambre (girl). Je played avec Ambre for a while while les adultes were talking et puis nous  joined les adultes pour un petit snack (pretzels, chips…) Apres snacks, driving to their new maison to look at it, et regarder Les Simpson avec Morgan et Ambre, nous all fell asleep. Morgan et Ambre  dans le lit Morgan, et moi on the floor. Je was awaken et par le temps je got à la maison et went to bed, it was 2:30am. Je slept from 2:30am till 11am avec Calinou. Il was moving around all night, je ended up on the other side of le lit parce que le  was on my side. Il marchait over moi et around moi. Il est still mignon!!!! Il lifts one paw up for je can pick him up et them, il purrs as je pet him. AWWW

Donc, l’ecole est demain et je suis all ready, until tonight,

à plus tard!

~Tara

Aujourd’hui à midi, je sat avec my classmates Carolin et Alix along with some of their friends. Within the people who sat avec us was a REALLY good-looking guy. He has vert eyes et such un mignon smile, avec dimples! AHH!!!

Il est beaucoup good-looking guys ici!!! Maintenant, je sais pourquoi je suis allé à une école de filles.

Je don’t really have anything else to say this time…so until tomorrow,

A Demain!

~Tara

Ce matin je me suis levé at 6:30 apres going to bed past 11pm last night. Je me suis levé, got ready and walked to the bus stop (avec ma host mother) et it was FREEZING! Je got on le bus et went to l’école.

• Premier AHHHH moment:

At first je thought je was lost because je didn’t recognize anything. Then j’ai marché along a route and found l’école. Je was right on temps!

• Deuxième AHHHH moment:

Je still can’t comprendre everything mes professeurs say!  Je prends espagnol et mon professeur translated l’espagnol into français…Je can only comprendre ma anglais professeur.

• Troisième AHHH moment:

So j’étais dans le bus apres l’école et je thought it was the rught one. Quand nous sommes arrivés à the last stop, le bus driver told me that this was his last stop. (en anglais parce que je ne comprends pas beaucoup) Je told him je was going to the Le Cleu stop and he, very kindly,  drove me there.

• Quatrième AHHH moment:

Je n’ai pas mangé ce midi pasce que je parlais à Viva et le temps flew by. Maintenant, je suis hearing all these things about how je suis going to be malade. So je missed une meal, big deal!! je wasn’t hungry, je didn’t know if there was money on my lunch card, et je parlais à ma ami! CHILL OUT!!!!

• Cinquième AHHH moment:

please, DON’T READ OVER MY SHOULDER!!! Je n’aime pas ça!

et don’t touch my hair, mais that’s a different story.

from “le difficile” one, more later.

~Tara

Aujourd’hui was le premier jour de l’école. It’s très difficile parce que all mes classes are in Français, except une. My schedule is weird…here are mes classes each jour:

Ma classe favorite est Anglais parce que je can actually understand it and the teacher is cool. He has a normal France accent when he speaks Français, mais quand il parle en Anglais, il a un mignon British accent. Je wonder où il learned son Anglais…?

Je ne vais pas prendre des sciences ou de mathématiques this year so my schedule will be un peu lighter. Hopefully les devoirs load isn’t too bad

Maintenant to pick out my outfit pour demain!!!

More later!

~Tara

This afternoon je went bike riding avec ma host mother to pick blackberries. We brought them back and made a pie! It was tres bon!!!

Tomorrow je start l’école, je suis very exciting! J’ai my outfit ready and ma sac packed! J’ai to get up at 7am in order to leave la maison at 8:10. On Thursday and the rest of the school days this year, j’ai to get up at 6:30 in order to catch the 7:45 bus. Early days!!!!

This blog entry is short because:

1. je didn’t do much today
2. je need to get to bed

So until tomrorow, bonne nuit!!

~Tara

Real, quickly, back to yesterday. At the people’s maison where je went avec ma host parents, they were talking about the weather and how je only have thin jackets. Before je knew it, the lady was standing behind me with a white coat. Long story short, je came back to the maison avec a nice warm coat pour l’hiver.

Cet après-midi, je went faire du velo avec Arlette. (ma host mother) It was tres bon! It started out downhill which meant one thing…it was uphill on the way back. Even though it was hard, it was fun!

Pour le dîner, nous had pâtes avec tuna. Pour dessert, riz et lait!! It was so good, je actually was in the “clean plate club” tonight!

A demain, Marine, Olivier, et je might go riding (horse-back), so that’s exciting! L’école starts on mercredi, so je suis getting ready pour that. Exciting!!!

Maintenant, je suis going to bed…with a friend??? Calinou came to visit me, good kitty!!!

Bonne nuit!

~Tara

Aujourd’hui est the second jour he woke up avec un sore throat. Thankfully j’ai Halls.

While je was unpacking, je saw que j’ai trois pairs de jeans. So far, j’ai wore deux of them. J’ai worn many of les chemises je brought et still have temps to wear the others. Je suis glad je brought these clothes!

Je wish je brought mon pillow parce que je haven’t been able to fall asleep… Besides that, je should have brought thicker/heavier coats parce que it’s getting froid ici et it’s only septembre. Marine said je can borrow, so that’s bon. There are not beaucoup things that je wish je had.

Cet après-midi, Marine, Olivier, et je went to Marine’s cousin’s maison pour le déjeuner. Her cousins are called Morgan et Julian et ils ont trois fils, who’s names je can’t remember. Apres le déjeuner, je played avec les garçons. (ages 2, 4, et 6)

Je just got back à la maison a few minutes ago from Arlette’s best ami’s house. Là, nous had drinks (l’eau pour moi) et little munches (peanuts et chips).

Je learned trois things so far:

1. Je bois beaucoup de l’eau.
2. Je ne mangez beaucoup.
3. Je ne vais pas aller if there is une araignée in sight!

Maintenant, je vais au lit! Bonne nuit!!

~Tara

So, je suis going back in time to parler about mon voyage to France.

First, the other students et je boarded l’avion à about 1pm avec Christina. Christina is in charge of the program. Nous took off à 1:35pm et headed pour Reykjavik, Iceland. All the other students had large rolling suitcases while je suis mon père sac à dos et deux carry-ons. Wheels would have been good mais it tous worked out bien! On the way to Iceland, je sat next to deux filles qui où from France. J’ai parlé avec them un peu et it was cool. Quand nous landed en Iceland, nous est allé à le terminal où nous waited to board l’avion to Paris. Nous waited pour about 30 min then boarded l’avion to Paris. On the way to Paris, je sat avec Ikwe et Janna. Quand nous sommes arrivés en Paris, it was about 6am local temps. Je then got on a train avec Viva et Zac and went to Rennes. At the train station, je heard my name. Je turned around and saw this man. He introduced himself as Olivier, Marine’s boyfriend. Nous went over to meet Marine et her mother, Arlette. Then, à la maison later that night, je met Marine’s father.

The way the french greet each other is with a kiss on each cheek. This is quand je do maintenant.

Je pense que mon français is improving with each conversation je hear. À la maison, only French is spoken. Marine et Olivier translate words for me so je can then write them down et learn them.

Aujourd’hui, Marine et je drove au centre commercial. There, je got un photo avec Spongebob. Marine got nice pantalon noir et une chemise rouge et une jolie veste. Je aussi got a croissant, which was tres bien!

Back à la maison, nous avons dîné et je douchés. La douche est tres petit, so je thought je would shave my legs in the sink instead. Je savais before, mais maintenant je sais not to do a dry shave…

Bedtime maintenant, Marine, Olivier, et je are going to lunch with Marine’s cousins. Night!

~Tara