School

The first day of school was kinda terrible, so I'm just going to pretend that it never happened, ok? The second day was much better! I made a few friends and I made even more friends on the second day! I didn't even expect to make any friends, its hard to rely on the kindness of strangers! The best one is Julie, she is soo patient with me and she always makes sure I know where my classes are. And she always speaks french to me first because she knows how much I want to understand (a lot of people have just given up on me and speak english), and she is just soo helpful, she is amazing! Also we have a lot in common because we both like to read! :)
My school is HUGE! It is also really ghetto lol. When Julie was showing me where the nurses office was we had to go through this one part of the school and she told me to be very careful when I walk through here because if you stare at any one or bump into them, they might beat you up! Ok, well I found that really funny but she was serious!
On thursday, I didn't get out of school until 6 o'clock!!!!! My schedual is really wierd! Like, I don't have any classes on wednesday, and sometimes I only have classes in the mornings and other times they don't end until 5 or 6 and also, I have one class on saturday. Overall, its not too bad though :)
I have been so so so tired lately. I think it is because of the stress. And also I think I have been getting a wierd rash. Last night my back itched like crazy and so I looked at it in the mirror and it just looked like.. well you know how you sometimes get marks on your face from your pillow after you wake up in the morning? It looked like that, only much bigger and I thought it was just from my shirt becuase I was really cold all day and had like 3 layers on and I was leaning up against my pillow reading for a long time. But right now I'm getting the same thing on my arm, it is soooo itchy and it does not look good! I washed my arm with hand soap and put some of theis Cetaphyl lotion stuff on it, so I hope that helps, it kinda looks like burned myself.I looked up the french word for 'rash' and 'to itch' but I can't guess how to pronounce them.
I have finally gotten exactly halfway through reading The Portrait of a Lady! this is a major triumph!! It is a very long boring book that was writtin in the 1800s and I don't know why I'm reading it! Its a classic,reading the classics makes me feel smart and its about a girl who goes to europe so I thought, its just like me! I've put it down for the time being and now I'm reading Northanger Abbey, which actually isn't that hard to follow. Well I really miss my 21st century books and I'm waiting for my mom to send them to me in the mail but that is going to take a while!
I know I was unhappy back home with school and stuff and with my parents because we fought all the time and I never felt like they loved me but now I miss it so much. It does not help that my parents were super nice and loving right before I left. I would give anything to wake up in my own bed and go downstairs and see my mom sitting at the kitchen table just like any other day. And to hear the tv blaring becuase Lia has bad hearing .My host family is so different, every thing is so quiet here! People even talk more quietly here I aways have to ask them to say something again because I can't hear. And they hardly ever watch tv and every one just minds their own business everyday and I wish some one would just bother me!!!
Wow I am crazy, ok then.
Thankyou for the comments! I love getting those they make me so happy! You want some more stories about France experiences? Ok well here is something really funny. I went school shopping the other day with my host mom and I was looking for conditionerd. Apparently people in France do no use conditioner and I don't even know the word for conditioner so it was pretty intersting. I found something that might be conditioner so I bought that but when I was looking at stuff in that isle there were also things like douche milk and douche gel! Lol that made me smile. The word for shower is douche in french. Also, I have had another major accomplishment!!! I have figured out the buttons on the toilette!!!!! They are for conserving water, one is for using a lot of water and one is for using a little water, it depends on the size of your...you know. lol so that was very exciting, I asked Julie when we went to the bathroom at school.
Ok well this is super long, I love you guys so much and hope you are doing ok, send me an email if you want! Anna.Kaiser1@yahoo.com
p.s. I promise to answere more questions in my next post because this one is rediculously long.