Thursday, October 13, 2011

Month 2, Day 2

Now I'm finding it a little harder to find things to talk about in this blog because now nothing seems out of the ordinairy.  This is my life now, and it's normal to me.  I'm sure there are plenty of interesting things going on, but they've just become normal to me.  I've been here already for two months yesterday!

At school, the Rhétos (seniors) have been all busy thinking about and voting for colours and designs for the t-shirts and sweaters we will all get in November, as well as where to go for our Voyage du Rhétos in April.  Hopefully, I will actually get to go. I'm worried that it might overlap with the trip I'm taking to Spain with Rotary, so I'm hoping the one with school will be the day after I get back or something so I can actually go with them. I'd really hate to miss out ):
But there are so many choices!! A few different places in France, Croatia, Budapest, Austria, Copenhagen, Prague, Scotland, Portugal, Tuscany, and Barcelona are among them. Croatia seems to be in the lead as so many people have signed up for that one. I've yet to decide where I want to go. But I can only put my name down on one, and almost all of them are interesting to me!!

I got a letter from one of my best friends back home yesterday, which I absolutely loved.  I like getting real letters in the mail :)

I also went shopping in Charleroi after school yesterday.  I managed to find a pair of boots for winter for 25 € ! But that was an enjoyable afternoon.  When I arrived at Charleroi by train I met up with Martine, who's basically like a host mom to me here, except I won't live with her.  Her daughter is out on exchange to Texas, and I'm basically here in her place. So she takes care of me :P But she's super nice and really fun and we get along very well.

I'm strengthening my friendships at school, so that's good too.  I have a few people I consider close friends, and then I'm just normal friends with a large number of people.
So today in french class: we were in the computer lab, and I was trying to type stuff up for a project I have to do. I was getting really frustrated because I had to type so slow because the keyboards are so different and I would mess up every time I tryed to type fast. But my friend looks over and says "wow you type so fast!" and I thought he was being sarcastic, but then I realize he's serious and that everyone here types suuper slowly...
This weekend I have birthday parties to go to! Those should be fun. 
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  1. KelseyOctober 13, 2011 at 7:45 PM

    Tip for the school keyboards - you can switch them to be QWERTY instead of AZERTY (or, at least you can at my school).

    Go the the "control panel", then click on "regional and language options" (it's a picture of a globe). There's a dropdown menu - choose "English (United States)", and click "apply" at the bottom. Then, go to the next tab (Languages), click "Details", and then choose "English (United States)" from that drop down menu, and click apply again.

    Then, it should work! If it doesn't right away, down on the bottom where the time is, you should see a two letter code just to the left of the arrow (I'm in Flanders, so the code for me is NL). Click that, and you can change it to "EN" for English.

    Hope it works!

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