I just have to tell you all that my time so far in France has been amazing. I love my host family, I love the other american students, I love Rennes (I even know how to use buses really well now, without getting lost!), I even love my classes, so this is looking good. Yay.
Today was our first full day of school. The first class starts at 8h20, and my last class (English) finishes at 16h45. There's actually a class after my last one though, although I have free today. Not true every day. I'll true to give you guys my [complicated] schedule once it's actually finalized. But really, school is great. All my classes and teachers seem great. Today we had French Language (Langue), double history (Histoire), French Lit (Litterature), lunch, Art History (L'Histoire D'Art), Math (PreCalculus), and English. Art History was especially a surprise, because I teacher is amazing and hilarious, which should be awesome. I was already excited to take Art History because I never would have been able to take it at Arcadia, but yeah...JP is the cooles[t] Art History teacher ever, as far as I know. (Yeah, we all actually do call him JP, his full name is Jean-Philipe...too long!) Langue was also very fun. English is going to be amazing. We actually get to do (drum roll please, Aracdia honors students...) legitimate creative writing (get this!) on a regular basis. Yeah. It's pretty awesome. Plus, we're doing a seminar style/Harkness discussion based class. Kind of the best kind of class, if you're Rayla. It goes without saying that I'm excited. [And PS, Katelyn: We're reading Beloved!]
Yesterday, mercredi, was a short day (it always is), with the last class of the day getting out around noon. I, however, do not have class during the last period, or even the period before, effectively (and actually) making my school day on Wednesday end at 10h30. And get this, I also don't have a class first hour! So my school day is 2 classes, and an hour and a half long. It's kind of cool and also kind of sucks, but it leaves lots of time to relax in the middle of the week, which seems like it will be nice. Yesterday, me and Ashley and Uchenna found out that all of us get out at 10h30, so we went to get lunch and the took the bus downtown and school supply shopped, window shopped, went to a cafe, went to get crepes, and generally wandered around Rennes for a good part of the afternoon. It was really pretty awesome.
Well, I have to go now because classes got out and I want to see if anyone's going anywhere. I'll post again soon, I hope. In the meantime, amuse yourselves by reading the various entries I just uploaded.
Au revoir et gros bisous de France!
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Hi Rayla!!! =D Wow, France sounds like so much fun. It is like... the opposite here. -__- And *GASP* you get to write creatively in English??? =O Not fair. XD OK well you keep blogging and hopefully we can set up a nice time when we can chat through WEBCAM. =)
Yay for Beloved. :) You'll like that book. Good thing you get to learn about it in the english language tho, because it's hard enough to understand as it is. You'll be an expert for next year for women's lit tho. Which is super awesome. It'll be cool to see it from 2 perspectives too, one with each teacher.
Like emily said, we need to make a skype time. When are you available?
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Hey Rayla! It sounds like you're having a great time in France. :) School here hasn't been too bad, much to my surprise, but I think it's going to get worse soon. School there sounds like a lot of fun. Keep us updated! :D
Oh by the way buzeebee10 is Morgan! :D I had to use my aim acct.
HI Ray! Sounds like France is amazing! I want to come visit you :) I'm glad you are posting blogs. When I went on my trip to europe in December we blogged and then put a book together with pictures and blogs from the whole trip on mypublisher. It turned out so cool :) Miss you!
LOL! sigh, you make me laugh, i miss your typical RAYLANESS. anyway i'm guessing you're EXTREMELY psyched about the creative writing. although i think, personally, i'd die from it. i'm not a very creative writer, or a writer at all! xD yea, this year is all nonfiction 0.o so it's kinda scaring me. because that's what i LIKED about sophomore english, the ficiton!!! and all that good analyzing characters crap :D
well TECHNICALLY they do have art history at arcadia. -_- except it's ap. how is it over there though???
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