2 Month Mark!!

Five days a week, I spend every subject with the same class. I absolutely love my class. Even though I can't talk all the time, considering I'm American, they are always so nice, supportive, and they manage to include me when they can. Oh, they're really funny too! I found out that I only have 8 more weeks of school here in France, and that practically brings me to tears. The thought of leaving my class is awful. It will be a million times more difficult to leave here, than it was to leave the United States. This is because, not only the fact that I will never come back to these people, but I already know that I will become closer to these people that most of the people I knew in the USA. Most days, I'll forget I'm in France, and than one day it'll hit and I'm just so happy! The down side to school here, other than actual schoolwork(imagine that?!), is I can be very lonely sometimes. I tried to explain it one day to a couple of friends when they asked about my life here, and one kid actually laughed when I said that I'm all alone, because he didn't understand how I could be alone when they were there. Sure I have people to do things with and talk to, but I can't talk-talk to them, considering I can't say very much when I am used to being able to talk in English and have people understand me. All the same, I think they will be the group of people that I will have the hardest time saying goodbye to once I actually can get points across. Speaking of all this speaking, today is the 2 month mark and I understand a whole lot more than I did when I first came here! Still working on the talking and writing part, but I definitely understand! I also noticed how I know a lot more vocabulary. When did I ever think I would need to know the French word for 'butterfly'? Apparently, it's pretty important! Yeah, so everything is going good and I ordered American food online. I swear the French go out of their way to make sure they despise anything American that touches their lips, but McDonalds is absolutely fine. Who cannot like Dr. Pepper, peanut butter, Hershey's chocolate, or Pop-Tarts?!?! It is beyond me. Okay, I have to vacuum my room!