Another Day in the Neighborhood

2 weeks today. Kind of weird…feels a lot longer than that. That may be good, as I feel like I’ve already improved so much in French…or bad because I may find that I will miss home a lot more than expected. But I guess I’ll wait and see.

Today was an awfully long day at school. I commenced with an hour of Spanish. I don’t speak Spanish. I think this is one of the few times since I’ve been here that I’ve actually been excited to finally hear someone speak French. I don’t speak Spanish…so that could make for a long year. I’ll leave it at that.

Next I had English with my crazy teacher who tells everyone to speak up but who herself talks like she’s in church. I feel really awkward in the class because I feel like I have to do everything correct and speak perfectly, but at the same time I don’t know how much I should correct my teacher and tell her that, for example, “fighting hunger” is perfectly okay and no one says “fighting famine.”

On to biology, which was an immensely boring two hours, and then three hours of math. Three hours is an ungodly amount of math for one day…not to mention I have two more hours tomorrow. The first two hours I experienced the joy of spacing out completely, but the third hour we started doing derivatives; of which I took thousands last year in Calculus, so I was happy I understood something, but I still didn’t really pay attention.

Anyways, that’s my day.

Brent