O' the similarities

Fry sauce. Gotta love France.

Mercredi

Today I only had one class- Science of Earth and Life- and I actually understood it. It was pretty simple, we learned about reproduction and although the words were in french, they were really similar to English. It was kind of fun being able to understand it on my own. I think the french have the right idea- half days on Wednesday and long days every other day.

First day of school

Today was my first day of school. It is a huge school (about the size as West High but add on dormitories.) It was definitely very different than the U.S. because at every break, everyone goes outside and smokes. A lot of people roll their own cigarettes. I don't really know what goes in them but it comes in a little kit and everywhere you look people are making their own cigarettes. I went to school from 2 until 4 today. Tomorrow school starts at 9:30 and ends at 4:30. I am really looking forward to my classes tomorrow, especially English class.

TGV Station

My friend with the sign



In Paris, outside the train station

My bedroom!



My tour guides for today

Outside my high school

Front entry way

Today (the second day)

My city is beautiful! and my host family is so nice! I just returned from shopping- IN FRANCE. We walked a ways to get to the center of the city which is beautiful and it is full of shops. I was with my host sister and her boyfriend. I got a cell phone and a bag for school as well as a really cute shirt. I loved going into the "american" stores because nothing was really american :) just french shirts that say USA on them. I slept in til 2 o'clock french time (but so did Pierre and Laura.) I am so glad I am on this trip. I didn't take any pictures today but I will try to take some later and post them! Now I a going to Pierre's soccer game.

First day

I wrote this yesterday while on the TGV.
Things that happened today: I woke up at 7, in salt lake city. I caught my plane at 12:15, landed in dallas. had lunch at TGI Fridays. My flight to Paris was an hour late. I watched Mirror Mirror and had lasagna for dinner. The flight to Paris took 9 hours. My flight arrived in paris at 3 AM SLC time. I barely had any sleep. I got off my plane and had a guy waiting with a sign for me at the gate. He took me via train(s) to an even bigger train stations where I had missed my train by three minutes. So we waited the next 4 hours. for the next one, now I  am sitting here watching harry potter (again) on my laptop with my stomach growling like it never has. I have eaten an apple, three little cookies, and two pieces of gum. I AM STARVED.
I get to ride the TGV! in three hours i will have been awake for the last 28 hours. with only a couple short naps in the middle. oh yeah- and i had to pay .5 euros to go pee.

The TGV is amazing.

30 hours with only a couple short naps.

Departure Day

Finally, my last morning is here. This week I have been going through "this is my last soccer practice,"  and "this is my last AP Psychology class." This was my week of last things. I  know that I may play soccer in France and I may have a version of psychology in my school but currently, nothing is definite. I don't even know what classes I will be taking, or what time my school starts and finishes. I am in the dark until I get to France. I leave for the airport in about one hour.
I am going to France but I really don't think it has hit me yet.