5 Days

I have been very upset for the past few days! So I wanted to wait until I felt better to write on here. This is what happened: At lunch on sunday afternoon my host-father asked me what kind of church I went to in America (catholique?). So when I told him I was a christian, he could hide how disgusted he was! There was a very tense silence that followed and they were all looking at eachother with pointed looks. It was so horrible that after lunch I went to my room and burst into tears! I cried a lot that day and the next because I was realizing what I have gotten myself into and I was very very scared! I even considered getting a new host family because how can I bond with a family that doesn't like chrstians when I am one?! I have decided that if anything else as horrible as that happens again I will probably call my agency. But other than that episode they are nice. My host mom and my host brother and the kindest to me. My host-sisters friends that are guys were very rude to me because I like McCain, but her friends that are girls are nice. None of them speak English, only a little. Yesterday I spent all afternoon at Anne Laure's freind's apartment. I was very patient and didn't mind too much but after they started being rude to me I really wanted to go home! We spent hours and hours there and the whole time I was just sitting all by myself. I am not exaggerating, I sat there like that hours.
I called my parents when we got home and balled my eyes out! Talking to my mom made me feel a lot better. Today I got an email from Friedrich and he is having a very hard time also, and knowing that made me feel SOOO much better.
Thankyou for leaving me a comment Jackie! I love getting comments!! They drive on the same side of the road as we do. One thing I have noticed is that they are very crazy drivers!!! Cars will get within a foot of pedestrains, I am not exaggerating and I know this because it happened to me!!
So I have been having a very hard time, but everyday gets better, and my french improves everyday too. I start school tomorrow, so its going to be a very exciting day and it will probably be very hard. Tomorrow is also my birthday, so it will be a very intersting day and hopefully not to emotional!

A few weeks before I left I was watching a travel channel show, Anthony Bordain. I don't like that guy because he is really overly sarcastic and he thinks he's really funny because of it, he tries to hard! lol But I watch it if there is nothing else on, plus he goes to really interesting places. Anyways, I forget where he was but he was staying with these people in like, India or somewhere like it and the man he was staying with was explaining to him how in his culture, pleople often go to stay with another family for 5 days. And that even just 5 days with a different family can change you forever and that this is a very good thing. He was trying to get Anthony to stay for 5 days but Anthony was too cynical and he wasn't feeling it. But Anyways it made a lot of sense to me and that guy seemed very wise! And I'm going to be here for much longer than 5 days!
So anyways, please leave me comments and I will try to write after school tomorrow!