Another Update

I don't have any picture this time (well I do, but uploading them is a pain).  I will make sure to share the good ones when I'm home.

I've been doing good, if you are wondering.  Definitely getting a bit home sick.  Someone told me before that the first week I got here would be the hardest, I disagree.  It's getting more and more difficult as time passes, but I'm holding up. :)  The main thing that keeps me from enjoying France is the school, as I have told people before.  It takes a lot of getting used to.  Anyway, only two and a half weeks left of school (+two weeks of vacation! YAY!).

I've been enjoying my time with the family at home and stuff.  I've been sick once and had a migraine the other time and they definitely made me feel taken care of.  The weather has started to get really nice so we even played ping pong outside (with four of us, running around the table) and I had a lot of fun.  France is a really nice place to be, especially at this time.

I want to apologize for the crappy paragraph structure of this blog post as well.  I didn't really bother to keep one topic in a paragraph... so yeah...

Some non-France related things:
I've been using my Kindle for reading a lot.  It's definitely awesome to have free 3G anywhere (yes, even here in France) and be able to use it to browse and sample books whenever.  I've heard a few people say WiFi is everywhere, which I don't think is true.  While I do have WiFi at the house (this house in France, and my house at home), when walking or on a bus or in a building; a lot of the time there is no WiFi.  3G is great, but needs to get cheaper.  So anyway, reading on my Kindle is really nice, and the paper-like screen and long battery life make it even better.

Secondly, I can't wait for the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 (inch screen).  It's coming in June (to the US, donno about Canada just yet) and hopefully if the price isn't ridiculous I can get it (just gotta make some money... hmm).

Week Update

Okay, I know I haven't been blogging much, and I've learned some people actually read this *gasp*!  Just blogging to say that I'm doing well and stuff.  School has been difficult, mainly because I don't understand the (French speaking) teachers and don't understand the work (eg. math, science).  But, the good thing is that they took away a lot of courses that I would have a very hard time with (eg. other languages).  I don't really have any new pictures on my computer (though we did go to a very old castle that was cool, and I did take pictures but their on my camera).  So heres a wonderfully foggy picture of the Eiffel Tower.  (We are going to Paris again today with the school so I only have 1 hour of school)

Art/History Museum in Paris

As you may know, I was back from Skiing on Monday.  Yesterday we went to two museums in Paris.  The first one, which I forget the name of (sorry!), is a big museum with different objects from history.  There were two parts in it that I really liked, the first was video game history (with popular game consoles from the past), and the second was the communications history (with objects such as phones, typewriters, computers, cameras, etc from the past).

The second museum was really big and is called the Centre Pompidou.  It is an art museum with pieces of art from famous artists.  Some of the art was pretty cool, but the one thing that makes me love art is how other people actually appreciate it.  And I mean that in a good way.  For example, there was one piece of art that was completely blue.  That was it.  Just blue paint on a canvas.  And someone was taking a picture of it!  Funny to some, but to me it means that people are open to all different forms of art and artists.

Anyway here's pictures of the museums that I took. (click to view large)

Skiing Day 4

Fourth day of skiing, and it keeps getting better!  The weather was great, and I am getting more used to skiing (I don't ski much).  Heres a picture of me below:

Also, the friends of my exchange family have taken a video of me with a video camera that attaches to their helmet!  It's pretty neat.  The family is very nice and has two boys named Pierre and Paul, and a girl named Juliette (spelling?).  I have a picture of all of them together on the mountain, I will post it later.  We're all having a lot of fun.

Skiing Day 3

Today was my third day of skiing in the Alps.  The mountains are awesomely cool, like out of a movie.  Today we went to Monti Della Luna, which is in Italy.  It was very sunny and not too cold.  I have a picture of one of the mountains below.

Have any questions?  Post them in the comments below!  I don't have much to talk about at the moment, so I will post more later.

New Blog

Okay, so, I've got a lot of questions about my trip in France, and instead of answering the same questions one by one, I've decided to answer them here!  (Also, spell checker that I rely on so much is in French and I don't want to mess with the settings, so excuse my spelling for now)

I've gotta go now, I will talk more after.  (Going skiing =D)