Oh hey there!

So I really have nothing better to do right now. I'm just sitting in my room listening to music, and typing this blog. Life not too exciting around here. I have one more day of school until the two week holiday!! I'm kinda excited for it! School's been school. I got yelled at in etude today because I sat in the wrong spot. I don't get why it mattered where I sat, but whatever!!! I actually had a decent lunch today! Other than I had some bread thing that I guess I thought it was something else and when I opened it, it smelled like play-do and it kinda tasted like it  too. So note to self, if it smells like play-do then it probably taste like it too so don't eat it. I started reading my first french book here! Haha considering I read my book for english within the first 5 days of being here. It's been weird being away from family and friends for this long. Any time I go away I am either with friends or family but not this time. I just re-read this and I am kinda just rambling on about pointless things. Since I am rambling about pointless things, here's a view from my window! :) It's right up there ^
I guess I have done enough rambling for now! Until next time!

Mackenzie

Sweet school days!

First of all I couldn't think of an actual title so it's going to stay as sweet school days, though my school days aren't so sweet.So anyways, this was my first week at my school in France.  I pretty much teach the English class, the school is ghetto (it's a ghetto prison! bahah). They still have projectors from god knows when, there is no computers in any of the class rooms, not even ones just for the teachers. Also the cassette player my English teacher whipped out the other day was literally from the 70’s. Like no joke, I almost laughed when I saw it. I wanted to take a picture of it so I could show you, but I am pretty sure I would have been eaten by my teacher.  On Thursday, my English teacher made me get up in front of the class and talk about Canada, my life, what it’s like to live in Canada and my school back home. Well let’s just say it was a tad embarrassing.  But I survived and that’s all that matters. Haha. I pretty much have no free weekends in March because I’m either going somewhere or my host family has something planned for me. It’s a good thing that I don’t have to go to school on my birthday because it is during the 2 week holiday (yes I said TWO weeks of holidays, why can’t’ they do that at home???), but other than that it’s been the same old, same old. I also watched a movie called LOL this weekend and I went to go see black swan. LOL was actually a pretty good movie considering it’s a French movie I believe. Black swan was.. was.. I don’t even know. It was so messed up. She must have developed schizophrenia or something! I understood the movie and everything but you walk out of the theater thinking WTF just happened?? But other than that there is nothing super exciting going on in my life over here. I wake up, get ready, and go to school, come home do homework, eat, go to bed and then start all over the next morning .Homework from two different countries. It’s just oodles of fun! Haha Well today's lunch was kinda gross. Kinda wish I could bring my own lunch somedays... I had some cheese, apple tart, that was the good part and then the main was some chicken or something.. and with rice that at first tasted fine but then it started tasting like cat food. I'm not joking, I wish I was! But all in all things at school are getting better. I'm slowly making friends. But anyways I have english homework to do, (bahaha it's pretty much a joke, today the teacher asked me to help her correct the grade 12 classe's test, while the rest of my class worked on something else).


Mackenzie :)

First day of school!

School, school, school. That’s all I seem to be doing. We actually do so much in one day. For physique chimique I kinda already know what we are doing. So there is no point of me being there. Same with math. Already done all of that stuff. So again no point in being there. Hopefully I will get moved up a grade because I really hate whatever I am in now. I know I am all complainy (yes I know that’s not an actual word) but the truth is, school here are very different and it’s hard to adjust. Like my classes are everywhere, in and out of one building, and then the same for another. There are also so many kids at that school. There is easy 3 000 kids that go there. All of my classes have like 30 plus people in them. Which is super dumb, but I guess they have to since there is that many kids.  Like I said before schools here are very different. For example: You have to stand when a teacher comes into the room and you can only sit down when they say so. Also no gum, no phones (they have to be turned off when you are on school property), no IPods (not even when you are working), and you can’t eat or drink in the classrooms.  It’s super different than Oak Park. I actually kinda miss Oak Park. I liked our freedom of speak we had there and mainly all the freedom we had. Now at the school that I am at its kinda like the kids are to be seen and not heard type of thing. It’s very strict. Also the times for classes and stuff is super weird because on Monday I have class from 9 to 3:30, Tuesday 8 to 3:30 (sometimes 4:30), Wednesday 10 to noon, Thursday 9 to 4:30 and Friday 9 to 5:30 (shoot me now!). Also my classes change every day. Why can’t it be like at Oak Park, you have to same 5 classes’ everyday in the same room at the same time. It would be way easier that way. That’s pretty much all I do every day. I get up, go to school, come home, eat, and do homework. Mind you that’s what I did before but it’s not as exhausting. We don’t have to bring lunches to school; there is a cafeteria thing that you have to have this card that has money on it, blah blah blah. The food is actually kinda gross. I had some apple sauce, some yogurt, some bread, and rice with some kind of meat on it…??? With some sauce. It kinda tasted like chicken pot pie but a lot worse. I think I just need to give it a few days, just so think iron out because I don’t have any of my books for my classes because after the holidays that are in like two weeks, they might switch me to a higher grade. Which I would love so much to be with people my age and not a year younger. I guess I will leave it at that. I have to go do English homework. But before I go is this grammatically correct: If your car is clean, you can probably sell it more easily. ß Can you even say more easily?? Or you have to play more quietly, your Dad is sleeping. And again can you say more quietly?? It doesn’t sound grammatically correct to me.  Also sorry for this one being super long and me asking you if those sentences were grammatically correct.

Mackenzie J

Oh hello there!

So you are all probably wondering how I am and such. Well I am pretty good, other than the fact that I have a cold. :( I kinda dont like it. But anyways I kinda hate typing on this stupid keyboard so I am going to keep this one short too. I start school on monday. Guess what my first class is??? Its english! Awh yeahh!!! The school here is very very different. I would explain but its too hard. I really dont know what else to say since I really havent done anything the past few days; other than get on planes, chat it up with people I dont really know, sleep and try to figure out how to use this stupid keyboard. I ll give you just more updates when I start school.


Mackenzie :)

Time to get this show on the road!

   So I just finished packing. My suitcase is 44.5lbs. A total win I think. I still can't believe that I am going away for three months to go to school in a different country. I know what you are thinking, I will miss you all very much. It will be hard to be without my friends and family for that long, but somehow I will get through it. I am hoping to keep this one rather short because I will most likely have alot more to write once I am in France and I don't want to bore all of you reading this. Anyways, back to my point. I leave tomorrow in the am time. It should be an interesting plane ride considering I will be with people that I do not know. I guess that's all for now since I haven't actually started my adventures in France just yet.


Mackenzie :)