FRENCH NOTE #2

So, I can pretty much understand everything that people say, and almost everything dans les films. The only exceptions are at school with my professors, my history teacher, and M. MORON en particulier.


Now, talking is a different story. It almost seems in some cases that I'm taking steps back, in the sense that  certain people have no ability to understand what I say. When I talk with my host family, or friends at school, all goes well, but I tried to engage in a conversation with a lady at Migros, and she couldn't understand a word I said. Our conversation ended with her saying, in french, "I'm sorry, I don't speak your language" and walking away. I almost told my host family, but I'm starting to learn which things to tell my family and not. Certain things, like something really embarrassing for example is not to be told, because they will tell the rest of the family and all of the rotary people. It is especially important that I do not do anything, that could even be perceived as bad, or funny in front of my host brother, because he will immediately tell my host mom who will continue the grape vine.

I really like my host family, but the story telling gets really old, really quick.

The Jet-list

Okay, so I recently engaged in a riveting conversation with my mother about the things that I would regret not doing, if I left without doing them... If that makes any sense.

We decided that I should make a list of all the things I wanted to do, and I will check them off as I do them, That way no regrets when I get back.

So for lack of a better name, I will be naming this list "The Jet-List". Like the Bucket List must be completed before "kicking the bucket", the Jet-List must be completed before kicking the Jet... boarding the Jet... whatever comes first.

Anywho, just a small explanation for the little list that will soon appear on the side of the screen.

Y'all have a good one!

Weekend du Cervin (Matterhorn Weekend)

So i recently (Two days ago) got back from an extraordinary weekend Rotary trip to Zermatt Switzerland with a whopping 140 (roughly) exchange students . While this was my third time there, I loved it just the same and saw a new side of it, as well as the old.

We participated in a scavenger hunt of sorts that was split up into teams of eight, and involved two facors.

1.) Complete the Missions- The missions consisted of a series of tests such as "find a fried egg" or "take a picture of a wedding"

2.) Trade up- We started with a cheap candle (others with pencils or other assorted cheap items) and we had to trade them for something better. Well one thing led to another and by the end, we had obtained a TV, a club shirt, a stack of postcards, a small heart shaped fuzzy pillow, a bottle of alcohol and a few other small assorted items. And that's only what we had at the end, not what we had traded in between. other groups ended up with skis, snowboards, wine, hockey equipment etc. Rotex told us after that people in the years before had gotten couches and TVs as well.

we stayed at la Maison du junesses, which pretty much means House of Youngsters (kinda like the YMCA) and the next day took a gondola i didn't even know existed. I think pictures are worth a thousand words, and videos show 26 frames per second, so my 11 minute video of the inside of a glacier equates out to about the complete Harry Potter Series and Twilight combined... enjoy