I'm good to go to Rome in November!! :D I'm very excited! I'm going to try to teach myself some simple italian phrases. Too bad I don't really know anyone here who speaks Italian. Well... there's the chemistry teacher, but I don't like her very much. She snaps her fingers at me to pay attention like every class, and I'm already looking at her or the blackboard. It's not like I'm sleeping or anything. At least I only have chemistry once a week!
I wrote my first French essay this week! Actually, in one day. But it did take all day. Procrastination has followed me to Belgium. However, I think I should get a good mark on it; I was very proud of my work.
In French class the other day, we were watching the videos of the oral presentations we did a few weeks ago. I hate watching videos of myself and hearing my voice already, but this was a disaster! I was speaking French with my awful accent in my awful voice... I did not want to be in the room. But I witnessed how horrible my accent actually is even though I'm trying my absolute best to pronounce everything the way it should be said... it just doesn't come out right. It's so hard ): I know it's completely normal to have an accent and it would be weird if I didn't. But hearing it on a recording just embarrassed me so much and made me not want to speak at all, especially in French ): and I don't know how else I can improve it, because I'm already trying my best ! I can't believe I actually have friends here that can stand talking to me! But for them I am thankful.
Today the school had to do a race thing. My grade did it later in the afternoon. I'm pretty sure I was supposed to run it, but I just didn't and no one said anything, so I just watched other people run and Autumn (the American exchange student), and I taught funny English expressions to a friend who wants to go on exchange to the States next year. But sometimes talking with Autumn is very amusing because we note a lot of differences in people here as compared to people back home, and we understand each other's slang and humor - it's stuff that people here just wouldn't find as funny, no matter how well they understand English. The most prevalent one today was shorts. A fair amount of guys here wear shorts that average at a length much shorter and/or tighter and/or in brighter colours than most guys would ever dare to wear back home. One of my friends was wearing white shorts, another bright purple... it's just very interesting to watch these guys run. And there's this one guy who has crazy thigh muscles (think speed skater), and we just call him Legs when we talk about him.
It's getting so cold here! In the evenings/nights/mornings, it's down to just above freezing, and I think the hottest it got all day today was 10 degrees. I'm definitely going to start wearing mittens to school next week.
I'm pretty sure the Rhétos trip won't overlap with my Spain trip! The Rhétos trip usually takes the last three days of the Easter holidays, and the first three daysof school after that. And I think I'll be going to Croatia. It will be between Croatia and Scotland, and Croatia will be much warmer, and I'd probably be more likely to visit Scotland in the future than Croatia. Even though I have a bunch of friends going to Scotland, I'll still have a lot in Croatia too. We shall see. I've yet to really decide; these are just my thoughts.
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