Friday, December 01, 2006

I Stay in Frankreich

So just a quick little update on my situation.

First of all thank you so much for anyone who prayed for me, thought about me, offered me encouragement, or helped me bash on the French during this past week and a half. I am so thankful to have people that care about me. I hope you all know how much you mean to me. Now, on to business.

So all went well at the little “conseil de classe” thing with all the teachers. Actually a lot of my teachers actually defended me (including my Philo teacher who was like “why are we grading him, he’s here to learn French”) and one of the class delegates who was in the meeting told me that the professors really didn’t have a problem with me and that the bad talk stuff going on probably just stemmed from rumors and misunderstandings. I guess they actually never even brought up throwing me out during the meeting so that’s good. I figure that means I have at least another trimester guaranteed in France! So I’m just going to keep working at school like I have been and hope that my teachers continue to see that even though my grades in Chemistry probably won’t improve substantially. So all goes well here in the land of Frenchys, except for the fact that I just failed my math test that I actually studied for, so that may not be the best start to the 2nd trimester, but alas, c’est la vie.

3 weeks until Christmas break. Yessssssss. And then the day after Christmas (granted I don’t have a major falling out with my host parents or rotary before then) I will be going on the greatest vacation of my life for two weeks with Rick and his dad. So something exciting to look forward to for little old me.

I love you all. Thanks again for your support!

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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Brent,
I thank God that the truth came out in the meeting and that you have been allowed to stay. You did have a great deal of people praying for you.
Continue to trust God for your daily needs and ask Him to grow you this year to become the man he wants you to be.
Lots of love,
Mom

Anonymous said...

Brent, trust God to do something in the hearts of those you go to school with and most of all you.
The Holy Spirit is our enabler. He is the reason Jesus said it would be better for Him to go away. Just yield daily, for in our weakness He can show himself strong. We will continue to pray that you will feel His strength as you love those around you and depend on Him to enable you to live in a way that would be impossible without Him. Spend time with Him every morning for He does love us so much and longs to spend time with us as well. God bless. Uncle Keith

Anonymous said...

If you ever change your Ambassador/whatever plans, you could seriously be a photographer, lil' brudder.

Anonymous said...

um...I have read every blog entry and I have no idea what's up with this meeting...if I were you I'd just say "Przypraszam, nie rozumiem po polsku!" It works every time! My Chem teacher I patiently explained that even if I did understand what she was saying I have no idea what they are doing in their 6th year Chemistry...and it is more productive for me to read...priceless