Sorry for crappy English, don't blame me, I'm French now.
(Tässä vietän puolirentouttavaa koti-iltaa illallisen päätteeksi. Söin ekaa kertaa artisokkaa simmottis lehti lehdeltä, ja nyt varoitan kotiväkeä sit etukäteen siitä, et mun maku kehittyy tätä myötä vuoden aikana laadukkaaksi ja vaativaksi ruoka-aineiden suhteen. En aio tottua tosin pakasteisiin, jota tässä talossa syödään paljon, mut ne on käteviä kun tulee koulusta. Saa kunnon ruuan aikaseksi aika helposti.)
Well, things that has happened: the sports at the school, for instance. I got to chose the three sports but got no badminton, damn. So now I have volleyball, 3 x 500 m and PING PONG. Yea, I got it right, because we had a lesson already. I had never played table tennis and the teacher had to explain the rules and stuff to me in French. Everything I understood was that when doing the service, the ball has to bounce here and there. And guess what, I didn't suck! (You see, this rhyme thing is getting all over me, I had an exam on Romeo and Juliette today, again.) I lost as many games as I won. That's good. It's the golden mean.
Last week-end we went to this castle by the river Loire. There were about 20 friends of my host-mama Isabelle. Our accommodation was a lovely 19th century country house in the middle of the forest, I just loved it the minute I saw it. The castle itself wasn't too bad either, it's one of the most famous places in France, but apparently I had never heard about it. Lovely but cold as hell (strange comparison). But we only visited it in the Sunday morning. Saturday evening was the strange part.I think there's this period of hunting going on now and some kind of breeding season perhaps, because when the sun set, we drove off to the forest and there were these guides waiting for us. It was then that it came clear to me that we were going to spend some time in the forest listening to the odd sounds those animals made, trying to attract females. And the guide explained that we're supposed to be totally quiet, totally without any light or without a word, not to scare the animals, and if a wild boar happened to come, one shouldn't move but to wait. "They don't do anything." Exiting, hmm. So we drove deep in the forest and remained silent, the guides posed us sitting under a tree in pairs, just about 30 metres from each other. There we sat, me and Isabelle, listening to the moaning and bellow. Sådär.
Afterwards we went to some place to eat a bit (or a lot, it was quite good). But the whole thing was a ... nice experience, I must say. I almost started to laugh in the forest, it felt A BIT weird, but it was not bad, not bad.

Today was the first day that we had something really good in the school cantine. Spaghetti and sauce. It's starting to roll a bit better, now that I've really realized that one has to RUN to get the place and food. And the place doesn't feel like a shitty aircraft hall anymore, I've grown used to it. Good. Remains of appetite remain.
And the best news of the week! It's no longer 15 degrees in this room since I found the heating and realized to switch it on! Whoo me. Now they mock me for not being the typical tough finnish, but hey... I had a good excuse :P My bare feet stick like half a meter out of the bed, it's really not quite my size. So no cramps or blue toes anymore! It's wonderful.
Tomorrow I'll come home to have lunch and I will walk listening to Rehab. I love tuesdays though it's the only day that I start at 8. I have only two hours of English, the both sorts, because I have two kinds of English here. There's the ordinary one in which we read a text and discuss about it for ages, no, REALLY for ages. It wasn't until the last lesson that we got our second text. Gosh, and the point is to try to find meanings in the text and analyse the people and their feelings that don't really exist in the source. Just about the opposite that we've been taught back home :D Frustrating. But the anglais renforcé is nice, we talk about current issues and do a good deal of talking. I should really do something to maintain even a bit of the high-level English that I'll be having in Finland after this... and Swedish. Oh. We'll see. At least Spanish can get better, it's a lot harder here.
Geeeees, I have to get to bed, if I really want to live tomorrow.
Bisous à tous.
(PS. Sorry for a boring entry, I'm not very imaginative right now but hey, at least I'm not pissed, darlings)

