St. John's!!!

Ok, so I'm out of St. Pierre and in St. John's waiting until tomorrow morning to come home! Can't wait! It's so great to be able to walk through the malls and understand what people are saying! You really take for granted what you have until you no longer have it. I spent all my Euros before I left, which was good because I don't need to try and change them. I got 3 of my final marks back today. I got an A in all three of them. Got a 75% on my lit final, which isn't bad. I have no idea what I got in my culture course, and to be honest, I really don't want that mark back because I know I done bad, that exam was brutal! Anyway, enough of my ranting! Only 1 more day!

J'ai hate de retourner chez moi! (I'm excited to go home!)

Amanda

One week...

WOOHOO!!!!!!

*Lamest post ever

2 weeks!

Only 2 weeks left! I'm so excited! Only problem is we have 3 tests + a presentation next week, then the last week we have 3 exams and a play. It's gonna be a busy 2 weeks, but that will make the time go faster I hope. I'm going shopping tomorrow (kinda). I hope I can finally find some souvenirs. We had a wine tasting today. It would have been ok if I liked wine to begin with, but since I don't like wine, it wasn't all that great for me. It is raining like crazy here. No snow yet. Mme. Luberry told us that it doesn't usually snow here until January, so I guess that is kinda good. I wouldn't wanna get stuck here due to snow. I really can't believe how quick the time passed. There were times where it seemed like we were never gonna get out of here. I'm glad that the program is almost over, but I will miss it here.

Amanda

Good times...

...fever, flu, headache, bad back = good times! Ya right! So I was at Bertrand's Saturday night and I fell down the last 10 stairs at his house. As if my back wasn't bad enough. It doesn't hurt as much as I thought it would though. Friday night we went to the Joinville bar to listen to Albin's group Blague et Hale (Albin is one of our professors here). It wasn't bad, but I didn't really stay long enough to hear a whole lot because the smoke there was unbearable! Veronique came out with us for the first time. Saturday night, we went to the Maringoun'fe to eat...it was good, but me and Heather didn't the desserts that we ordered, I told the waitress and we still didn't get them. Oh well. No biggie! Anyway, that was a short but sweet post.

Missin' everyone so much

Just over 3 weeks left!

Moins qu'un mois qui reste! (Less than a month left!)

So I just remembered that I haven't updated this thing in a while. Only 29 days left! A nice bit has happened, but I can't remember all of it. We have a new girl staying with us now. Her name is Veronique. She moved in last week and is here until December 21. She is from Moncton and is here on a bursary program to observe how to become a teacher. She is Francophone so she really helps us with our french. She is really nice too. Tonight we went to the Joinville bar (not the dancing part) to hear one of our professors play. It was pretty good, but the smoke was starting to irritate me, so me and Veronique left. I just decided to update my blog since I haven't done that in a while. I am very excited to go home. It is FREEZING here! I brought warm clothes, but it's not warm enough! Anyway, that's it for now. I will update again soon (if I remember!)

Gros Bisous de St. Pierre (Lots of love from St. Pierre)

Amanda

P.S. Photo count has gone up, but I lost track!

Tired...

It's 2:30am here. I have no idea why I'm not at the bar, or asleep. Just decided to post a quick update. My throat is better now. I went out tonight and was drinking, but I still don't want to go to the bars. I got a 90 on my last phonetics test and an 81 overall in one of my grammar courses. I was very excited to here that. I was talking with Ambre again tonight. I wanna take her back to Newfoundland with me! She's so adorable. There's not a whole lot of new news, so I'm gonna leave it at that for now. I'll post again as soon as I can. Miss everyone

Amanda

P.S. I'm too tired to try and find a quote to put here!

Sick, and in St. Pierre...lovely!

So as my title says, I'm sick. I have a sore throat. It hurts so much. I think it is because of the smoke from the bars to be honest. But despite the fact that I have a sore throat, today was an awesome day! I spent the afternoon talking to Mme. Luberry (the woman that I am staying with) and Ambre (her great-grand-daughter). It was good because I was speaking all french. I didn't understand everything that they said (obviously), but I understood it for the most part. Ambre (that's how they spell Amber in french, yeah I know, they're backwards), was talking about swimming, and I understood everything she said. She was almost as excited as I was when I told her that I understood her.

The house that we are staying in has an upper level. We have been here 6 weeks and haven't been upstairs. Today Mme. Luberry showed me the upstairs. I'm so jealous because the rooms upstairs are a lot nicer than our rooms. I didn't want to stay in my room after that, but I like my room anyway (did I mention that I have a sink in my room?)

I went to Bertrand's tonight for a little bit....bad idea. My throat is killing me right now. It has gotten worse! If only I knew how to stop talking...hmm, not possible. :P I hope I feel a little bit better tomorrow because I need to go to a souvenir shop. I haven't even been to one yet. Actually, I went to one, but it wasn't specifically for souvenirs.

Anyway, that's it for me for tonight! I am so glad to see a couple new posts on my bulletin board! G'night everyone (It's 2:30am here)

Bon soir! (Had to throw some French in there somewhere!)

Amanda

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
- Kurt Vonnegut