So guess where i went? haha yea.. The Eiffel Tower. It was cool. I went to northern France for fall break. I visited Paris for a day, saw the Eiffel, climbed the Arc de Triumph, saw the Louvre [it was closed] saw Notre Dame [also closed] ate on the Champs Elysees that was cool. Went in Louis Vuitton that was cool too. So it was nice. After the day in Paris we took the train to La Ferte Bernard, stayed there for two days. The whole city is old from like the middle ages it was cool going in a church where the wood was over 600 years old..it was hella tight. :] boi. haha
After La Ferte, we drove to Tours, which is a big city, did a little shopping ahah met some cousins, then after two days there we drove to another super old town called Troo, and its famous for cave homes. We got to go in a bunch and they are SO COOL. OMG like seriously i want one. We were there for halloween and were walking around in the caves on halloween then walked back up to the house and we passed this really old church right as the bell rang and like it was misty out and just after dark it was so halloween-esk. i loved it. After two days in Troo is was back home. The next day i went to Chambery for the day to say goodbye so a friend who was leaving and to hang out with some friends, it was fun! Did a lot of shopping at a second hand store. Love it.
Okay so my best friend from back home , Amanda, JUST got a facebook. And i was like aweeeee and we've been talking non stop the past two days, well today and last night. I stayed up until two in the morning last night talking with her. I miss her a lot. And today i got to video chat with my aunt in Wisconsin. It's SEVENTY degrees in WI right now. I was like WTF?! Its not that warm here. jank.
Hmm what else? Yea I'm just chillin' not doing to much lately.
I've realized I'm a VERY laid back person. I couldn't be high maintenance if i wanted to be...
well im gonna end it here.
PEACE.LOVE.OHSNAP.
DUDE-MAN, I'm totally off the wall crazy, i can tell i am. I'm happy and content one minute, and sad and depressed the next. Not about life, though i have no life. Oh indeed in France i have no life. i stay home all the time, one moment I'm content with being here in France, and the next I'm depressed and angry and wanting to go home. I don't know, people frustrate me, sometimes i just can't stand...[big sigh] people. So...yea i have no life as well as having mood swings. The host brother has a life, maybe it's just because I'm only three months in...i don't know. But the other exchange kids who have been here for just as long as i have...have a gillion friends, and go out, and speak way better french then i do. And i know I'm improving and when i realize that i am improving that's when I'm happy but then the rest of the time I'm just down and out and in a funk, i just can't describe it. I get news from home, most of which hasn't been great, grandpa's in a wheelchair now, i never get to talk to my sister because she has two jobs plus school. I talk to my parent's all the time and don't get me wrong i am not homesick. Okay i lied. well no i didn't. Well, [sigh] i miss home, i miss my friends, my true friends, the people who truly care for me. And i am fine on my own, granted I'm lonely, but I'm where i can't be with people who keep me good company, and make me feel good, and [giant sigh] it's less fun here than i thought it would 
be. Alright so last week i missed school for the first time in a month, all day Tuesday, Wednesday, and the morning on Thursday. At first i felt bad but then i just liked having the time to myself to think. But my host mom just came in and gave me beef for it. And she was sweetish about it, but it's not something you can necessarily be sweet about, but she said, damn it happened five minutes ago and i can't remember exactly what she said, something about rotary..and I'm on the borderline and she's the one with the power right now to send me home. But i do remember one this she said perfectly "this is not your home, you have to play by the rules." Isn't the point of the rotary exchange to be welcomed into a strangers home to intensively learn the language and culture and become part of that family, and they change you're life forever. So far some of that has happened for me..i will remember them forever, even if i do go home early, because i have never been such an emotional wreck in such a short period of time. Which freaks me out, and i feel really just ying yang about everything right now.
