Aujourd’hui je suis allé avec ma famille d’accueil à la maison de l’ami de Camille pour l’anniversaire de son père. Nous were there pour 6 heures. Nous avons mangé, joué WII, et écouté de la musique. Pas de regular musique, records. Oui, records.

L’école starts demain et j’ai mixed feelings. Je veux  aller parce que je veux voir mes amis et je veux apprendre plus de français, mais je ne veux pas voir «quelqu’un».

J’ai ma nouvelle veste chaude, donc je ne freeze pas à l’école, donc c’est bon! Je pense aussi à what it will be comme être fluent en Français. Qui est ma raison d’aimer l’école, j’aime apprendre le Français. J’ai been told mon français est bon. C’est un start!

Ok, fini pour ce soir!

~Tara

Ok,

So I wrote this all out, then my internet crashed and it all got deleted. Now I’m writing a shorter version…

Tuesday:
I took the 9:33am train to Paris, I sat by Carolin and Beatriz. We talked in French for half the time and listened to music for the rest of the time. When we got there, we walked to the residence. We got disoriented a few times, but found it eventually. We met all the other people and found our rooms. In my room, there was 6 of us. Me, Ikwe, Beatriz, Natália, Natalya, and Veronica. That night, we went on a little cruise around Paris and saw the Eiffel Tower and the back of The Louvre. After that, we went back to the residence for “bed.” My roommates thought it would be fun to have a “party,” so we invited the boys over. We played spin the bottle/truth or dare and it was really fun. We actually did this each night. I mostly watched, but it was still fun.

Wednesday:
We went to Notre Dame, The Louvre, and the Champs Elysees. I got tons of pictures and got what I needed from the Champs Elysees.

Thursday:
Eiffel Tower, second floor. It was really awesome from there. Before we went up, I shared a nutella crepe and I had a cotton candy that was HUGE!!! After that, it was shopping time. Then dinner and more party time.

Friday:
Back home. I was on the train by myself, so I slept the whole two hours. Back home, I relaxed and at 8pm, Camille and I went to Elly’s host brother’s band’s concert. It was good, their music had good beats. I walked around the block a few times with Elly and we just talked.

Saturday:
Today, I met Viva at the metro station and we went to a cafe for a drink and Subway for lunch. It was good, not like America, but good. We just finished watching 21 Jump Street with Camille and her friends and now it’s bed time.

Bonne Nuit!

~Tara

I went to the seaside with my host family on Thursday night and there was no internet at the house so that’s why I didn’t write for a few days. Now, I’m going to fill you in about the weekend.

On Thursday, we drove to the seaside. I was in the middle seat, between Camille and Nicolas. We arrived at about 8pm, put our stuff down and ate dinner. I shared a room with Camille and that night I watched Just Go With It. It was SO funny!!! On Friday, Camille, Nicolas, and I walked down to the ocean. There were a bunch of big rocks that led to the water, so I walked across them and eventually got to the end. I felt the water, just to say I did, and it was VERY COLD!! For lunch that day, we had canard, or duck. And I actually ate it!! After lunch, we drove to Vannes to shop. It was all but Nicolas this time. When we got back to the house, we ate dinner and then I watched Twilight. On Saturday, Camille, her mom, and I went to see this castle. It was really nice and I got pictures! At the house, I helped Camille with her English hw. She had to record her voice as if she was doing an interview on an Olympic athlete. It was really funny because she wanted to do some of it in a British accent. I talked to her in the British accent and she was so amazed! I guess I can do it because I’m American. On Saturday, we also went to this boat sale thing. Which was cool. At the house, Camille and I were in our room and I was singing. Without me knowing, Camille was recording me. We played it back and changed the voice so I sounded like a chipmunk. We laughed so hard!!! That night was a family movie. We watched The Visitors in America, in French. The parts I understood were funny! Yesterday, we had calamari for lunch, then Camille, Nicolas, and I went on a bike ride. It was really pretty and I got lots of pictures. That night it was back to town.

Last night, I video chatted with Emily and we laughed so hard!!! We were reading Anti-Jokes and they were so funny!!! I really miss laughing with her!

Anyway, more tonight.

~Tara

Last night was Halloween and I went to a party with Camille. It was a surprise birthday party for her friend. After whatever we did in the afternoon, we got back to the house and got ready to go out. I was a burlesque dancer and Camille was a cat. When we got to the meeting place I was freaking out! Camille told me it was only Terminal people (seniors), then I saw him…OMG. I couldn’t even control my emotions! We all walked to the house and went into the garage, waiting for the birthday girl. After we yelled “surprise”, it was party time. It was really fun! We danced, went “trick-or-treating”, and just talked. I noticed some obvious things last night that made me really happy. (not going to write them here, but it made me smile)

Anyway, at around midnight, Camille and I got picked up from the house and crashed when we got home. All in all, it was a very good night!!!

Today, we are just chilling at home and tonight, we are going to the seaside until Sunday. My host family has a house there. I’m excited!!

Ok, ttyl!!

~Tara

Salut à tous!!

Cet après-midi, je suis allé avec Camille au magasin, Super U, pour acheter de la nourriture pour le déjeuner. Nous avons got hamburger meat. Quand nous sommes arrivés à la maison, nous avons obtenu quelques accessoires de costumes. Camille va être un chat et je vais être un danseur. J’emprunte un chapeau et une nuit boa et demain nous allons à une soirée! Je suis vraiment excité parce que j’aime dressing up et j’adore les parties! Mon costume est presque terminé. J’ai juste besoin de quelque chose de coloré et collants.

Ce soir, le frère de Camille est de retour à la maison. Il will be ici jusqu’à dimanche.

This afternoon, I went ice skating with Camille, Zac, Elly, Charlotte, and Zac’s friend Christina. It was really fun. We met Zac and Christina at the rink and skated for a long time. I love ice skating, besides the fast that now I have major blisters from the skates.

Camille and I just finished watching Easy A. That is one of my favorite movies EVER!!! She loved it too!

Now, it is time to get ready for bed.
Tomorrow I’m hoping I can go shopping for something for my Halloween costume.

Bonne Nuit!

~Tara

Hier matin, j’ai joué WII, chantant et dansant for about une heure ou so. C’était amusant! Dans l’après-midi, je suis allé au cinéma avec Camille, son amie Charlotte, et son père. Nous avons vu Sauvages. C’est avec Blake Lively, Aaron Johnson, et John Trovolta. Un film bizarre … mais good in a way. Après cela, nous sommes rentrés à la maison et nous trois filles regardé “Grey’s Anatomy”. Charlotte left after that et the rest of us avons dîné. BURITTOS! While nous avons mangé, nous avons regardé les nouvelles, et après, nous avons regardé l’âge de glace 3 (Ice Age 3) en Français. Je peux comprendre some of it, plus je l’ai vu avant.

Après cela, c’était bedtime!

~Tara

Donc je suis passé familles d’accueil aujourd’hui. Je suis allé à la meeting avec d’autres étudiants d’échange et de met de la nouvelle famille. Ils sont vraiment sympa et je suis trés heureux d’être ici. J’ai met les étudiants en échange d’autres aussi. Je suis vraiment heureux que j’ai mainenant une sœur d’accueil de mon âge, et elle est de 17 ans. Ma nouvelle chambre est trés mignon tout comme le reste de la maison. Je suis allé en promenade avec ma mère d’accueil et nous sommes allés à mon école so je would know how to get back à la maison.

Après our promenade, nous sommes come back à la maison et j’ai joué fooseball avec ma mère d’accueil … elle a gagné. Après that, on est allé chercher Camille, ma sœur d’accueil. Elle vient juste de rentrer de l’Irlande.

Nous avons juste fini de dîner, et maintenant je vais me préparer pour la nuit. Bonne nuit!

~Tara

Aujourd’hui, c’était le dernier jour de l’école for deux semaines! Je wore mes contacts et le maquillage since il était le dernier jour. Quand je suis arrivé à l’école ce matin, je suis allé dire “salut” à Viva. Her classmate, Loan, came over à dire “salut” aussi. Il est grand, et quand il leaned over pour m’embrasser (sur la joue), il a dit “petit!” Oui, je suis petit. c’est la même chose avec Kyllian aussi.

Première classe: Français. J’ai pris des notes plus et just d’écouter à le prof. Après Français, c’est the slower classe de Maths pour moi, Viva, et Elly. Apres Maths, j’ai eu 3,5 heures de temps libre. J’ai déjeuné avec Viva, then nous avons parlé avec quelques amis. When Viva allé en classe, j’avais encore 2 heures de temps libre. Pour une heure, je stood à l’extérieur de parler à certaines personnes de ma classe.
Une conversation bizarre was going on… Après that, j’avais encore une heure, so, je suis allé dans la “quiet room.” Apres that, c’était l’histoire et SES. There was un test en histoire, donc c’était un peu comme une heure de temps libre pour moi. J’ai beaucoup trop de temps libre!
J’étais SO happy quand the last bell rang! VACANCES!

Deux semaines avec rien planned, mais Paris on the 6th. Je get à dormir après 6h30!!!!

Je move demain.There is une réunion avec les autres étudiants d’échange et ma new host family. Aujourd’hui, c’était la dernière fois que je l’ai dit “au revoir” à Marine en personne.
Il était sad de voir years dans ses yeux quand elle left la maison.

Ok, la nuit dernière avec cette famille d’accueil. Je vais aller jouer UNO avec them.

BONNE NUIT!!!

~Tara

Today in history, I sat alone…why? There was one girl absent so this other girl sat in her place. Do people sit by me just because that is the last seat open? That’s just RUDE!! Anyway, after that I went to lunch early because, again, no English. I ate with Alix and her friends. When it was the regular lunch period, I went back in with Viva, Alix, and other friends. Take 2 for lunch! After lunch, the second one, I had 30 minutes before my next class. So, I stood outside talking to Viva, Pierce, and 2 French girls. Loads of laughs!!

So worst thing that happened today…he knows… How he found out, I have no idea, but he did. To the guys who I’ve been writing about, CONGRATULATIONS, you figured out your nicknames. Now you know I think you’re cute…big deal!! I know a lot of “cute” guys, you are just a few of the many.

After school, my LC picked me up and we went to the train station to by my ticket for paris because yesterday it didn’t work. it didn’t work today either, so my LC bought my ticket and I am going to pay her back on Saturday at the meeting. Either way, I’M GOING TO PARIS!!! I’m so excited!! After tomorrow, it’s VACATION!!! I can’t wait to just hang out and sleep past 6:30am.

Alrighty, bed time! Bonne Nuit!!

~Tara