Proper Multi-Language Protocal Confusion (not THAT is a moulthful!)

Today I had lunch with my friends from art class! And yesterday I had lunch with some other girls in my class! FINALLY, I am making friends with some normal kids! Not that I'm not thankful for those who befriended me in the beginning but hey, its good to hang out with people who don't smoke between every class and wear all black. How the heck did I manage to make friends with them in the first place? Oh yah, I didn't speak any french and have a choice, but it was nice of them to help me out at first. I can tell it gets annoying after a while and they hardly talk to me any more, its just nice to have someone to stand with and not be a loner.
Yesterday I had a free peroid before lunch so I had to try and find my friends in the masive lunch confusion. I stood there forever looking like a loner and then this really nice girl from my class asked me if I wanted to eat with her and her friends! I was so happy because I really wanted to be friends with them! I know I sound like such a loser right now but, hey its hard being a stupid american in a foreign country! And when I say stupid american, I really mean that, my french is soooo bad!
So lunch was really great yesterday, the other girls I sat with were so fun, they reminded me of my friends at home, they just seemed a lot happier than my former emo lunch buddies. NOT that I have anything against emo people or anything like that, its just that they can be such downers! And who knew France had emos!? Its so wierd!
So I ate with my art buddies today because they invited me and that made me so happy=] The best thing about them is that they don't speak english. People here always speak english to me and they act like they have to. The thing is, in France its rude to expect people to speak english with you, you have to make an effort in french first until they realize that you are a helpless cause lol. But some people just always speak english to me and they act like I expect it, which I don't! And that gets really annoying after a while, because I want to be polite. The french are big on protocal, which I just keep learning the hard way. At lunch they introduced me to some of their other friends and they said that one of them is Anglaise. At least thats what I think they said when they introduced her. Sometimes it takes my brain a while to process the french, but I can't just stand there not saying anything because then I would look stupid so most of the time I just nod my head and pretend to understand lol.
The thing about Anglaise, is that it can mean either British or American which I find really annoying. Anyways I asked her in french, " tu est une etudient echange aussi?" Are you an exchange student also? And she replied in french also and I didn't understand a word of it because she spoke so fast but I just nodded my head politely and was cringing inside because I realized that it was probably wierd for me to speak french to her,I should have said that in english. I am so embarrassed now! Everyone here thinks I'm such an airhead, which I kinda am, uggh!
How the heck am I supposed to know, since when have I EVER experienced anything like this! I hate it when I mess up like this because french people aren't good at hiding how they feel. These people are all about body language and so when I mess up, I definitlely know it!
This isn't my first air-head moment, I've had a few others, and I'm sorry but french people can be sooooo bitchy sometimes! Everytime some one is rude to me here I try to calm myself down saying ,its just how they are, theres nothing I can do, I'm a foreigner, its hard! It can get so frusturating sometimes!
My personne relaise still hasn't replyed to my email! I had been having a really hard time and waiting was the worst! This weekend is a reunion for all the exchange students in my region and my personne relaise is going to be there so I'm going to talk to her. Every keeps asking me if I'm going to switch and when. I don't know! I don't know if I'm going to switch! I kinda want to but I just don't know. Its kind of a big deal to have to switch host families, but I really want to be happy here you know? I'm nervouse about talking to my personne relaise, I'm afraid that I won't say the right thing, I'm so bad at talking about stuff like that. I'm afraid that my mind will just go blank when I try to tell her why I'm unhappy. Its happened before!