Presque vendredi! (Almost Friday!)

So I found out on Tuesday that I can't come home on December 7th anymore. I have to wait and come home on the 8th instead. Apparently the flight leaving here doesn't get in St. John's until 5 and my flight from St. John's to Deer Lake was at 5:30. I would have never been able to make the connection. So I have my flight changed to 10AM Saturday morning....I'm getting excited for it already!

I got a package from mom today with all kinds of goodies in it. It was so nice to get it! It was like Christmas had come early. We have been watching One Tree Hill while we are here. We have the 4th season watched, and we are now watching the first season. We are a little backwards, but Erin already had season 4 on the laptop. We watched the first season online. Erin called her mom and is getting her to send us the second season. I think Stacey is getting the third season sent.

We had juggling on Tuesday afternoon. It was really fun. I can't exactly juggle, but I can do better than I thought I'd be able to. I'm gonna keep practicing and who knows. I might be able to by the time I get home. Anyway, that's all for me for now.

Amanda

La morale de cette histoire, c'est qu'il faut boire avant d'mourir!
(The morale of this story is that you must drink before you die!)

P.S. Photo count has gone up, I just can't remember it! Lol....close to 500 I think! The little quote about drinking is song lyrics from one of the songs that we sing in class. Most of them are kiddie songs, but they are kinda fun to sing!

Almost done the fourth week...

It's me again! Just wanted to make another post to keep everyone up to date. Erin and Stacey are gone out to belly-dancing. Just got online to do some chatting and updating. Hope everything is well with everyone. Miss you all like crazy! Nothing overly interesting has happened since I last updated. I SUCK at pelote basque! And I mean I SUCK! I think I only hit the ball 10 times in the hour and a half that we played. I didn't take any pictures, but I'm sure someone will have some on Facebook. My arm is still really sore from it. This Friday we have "initiation au hand-ball" which is basically soccer with your hands (I think?). I'll let you know after Friday. Anyway, another (kinda) short post. Loves y'all!

Amanda
Love all. Trust few. Do harm to no one - Shakespeare

P.S. Photo count hasn't changed.

12:30 on a Saturday night (or Sunday morning)

As the title of this post says, it's 12:30 on a Saturday night. Everyone else is gone out to the club and I am lying in bed updating my blog. I'm such a loser! HA HA! Like I really care. I have another 10 weekends left to go out. Man that makes it sound like such a long time! We went out last night though, and I wasn't really in the mood to go out tonight. We went out for a little bit to a friend's house, but it was only for an hour and a half. Erin and Stacey are gone out to the club too, but I decided to come back home.

Making these posts is hard cause I don't remember what I have already written. So, this is the start of week 4. That makes me excited! One week closer to coming home! This week was crazy for homework too. We have at least 3 tests a week. It's absolutely crazy! It's a lot more work than if I was home going to school. I'm still managing to have fun though. Erin and Stacey usually take a nap everyday and I go crazy just sitting here in my room. I start thinking about home and it makes me so homesick, but not to the point of crying. I haven't cried since the first Sunday that I've been here, so it's been 2 weeks! Go me!

Tomorrow (which is Monday now,) we are playing pelote basque which is another popular game here in St. Pierre. I think it's similiar to squash, but I'm not really sure. I will take some pictures of that too. Speaking of pictures, my count is now 440...didn't go up a whole lot, but like I said earlier, we were basically doing homework all week so nothing to really take pictures of.

Ok, so you can tell how bored I am by how long this post is getting. If you're wondering how come I haven't really posted any pictures on here it's because it takes such a long time. It'll probably have to wait until I come home (they will be put on my google page then).

Anyway, this post is long enough. It is now 1:00am. Miss everyone. Keep posting on the corkboard!

Amanda
Love all. Trust Few. Do Wrong To No One - Dr. Seuss

Troisème Semaine est commencée (Third week is started)

Ok, so this is the beginning of the third week. Only 10 weeks left! Oh my god, that sounds like such a long time! Our trip to Langlade and Miquelon on Saturday was fun. You wouldn't believe the hills that we walked up. Yes hills as in more than one. It was retarded! I have pictures to show when I get back. I'm gonna cut this post off now. Short and sweet.

BTW, photo count as of now is 438

End of Week Two

So, today is the end of week two (well, school wise). Things are going good so far. Still missing home like crazy, but that's normal. Last week we went to Le Rustique Wednesday thru Saturday and on Friday and Saturday night after Le Rustique we went to Le Joinville (another club here in St. Pierre). Le Joinville is more of a disco type bar, and you can dance there. Unfortunately, it's still legal to smoke in bars here, so I had a sore throat all last week. We didn't go to Le Rustique this week because we've had so much homework to do. We can't go tonight because we have to get up at 6 tomorrow morning to go to Langlade et Miquelon, the other two islands. The boat leaves at 8 tomorrow morning and we are gonna be gone for 11 hours! It's a Saturday...can't they give us a break? Oh well, I will be able to take lots of photos! Speaking of photos, I've taken 233 already and it's only the second week. I can only image how many I will have by the time I get ready to come home.

So far, we've toured an island called Isle aux Marins, visited a Museum, toured St. Pierre on foot and in bus, went shopping, went to the patisseries (bakeries) and went to the bars. I'm gonna bring back a few sweets for you guys to try. Me, my roommates and some of the other people from the program usually go to Bertrand's house in the evenings (he's the bus driver at my school "a.k.a the Francoforum"). Today, we played pétanque. It's like land bowling. It was fun but kinda boring. I have pictures of it to show when I get back.

One thing that I forgot to mention the last time I posted was that I have a sink in my room! I thought it was so weird at first, but it's actually quite good to have it there.

Wow, this is a long post. Anyway, I'm done for now. Thought I would get the post in while I can. Hope you guys are having fun (but not too much without me). I miss everything loads and see you in 2 1/2 months!

Vous me manquez! (I miss you!)
A plus tard! (Later!)

P.S. The picture is of me and my two roommates. Stacey, Erin, and me. I think that was before we were going to Le Rustique one night.

First post in St. Pierre

Hey guys. Hope all is well. This is my first post since actually being in St. Pierre. I'm doing good and having fun. Hope you guys are fine too. I miss everyone and can't wait to come home. We went out to "La Rustique" the past 2 nights and we are going out again tonight. I can't wait. "La Rustique" is a bar here in St. Pierre. I like my roommates. They aren't as bad as I thought they were. We are getting along well. I didn't even start talking to them until we were in the airport. Now we know so much about each other, it's crazy. Anyway, I have to go now because we only have a limited amount of time on the computer. Love you guys and miss you so much!

Au Revoir!

And I'm off!

I'm off to St. Pierre in about half an hour or so, so I decided to update the blog once more before I go. Besides, I wanted to try and put a picture on here so that once I take some good ones in St. Pierre I can put some on here for you guys to see. Maintenant, c'est tout le français, tout le temps! (Now it's all french all the time!)