Ohhh, jeeeeez ...

I really miss you girls. You're both in Paris together right now ... pffft. I'm sure you're having an amazing time! Someday, we've all got to go there together.

Anyways ... I mean, you both talked about school and ... uh, I'm not going to give you my schedule, just because it's really not important. I'm a Humanities major for now ... Ian's dad told me some horrible joke the other day (after inquiring about my major) about how people who major in Humanities end up working at McDonalds. That made me feel nice.

Aside from Ian's dad, I really am enjoying Waldorf much more than I could've ever imagined I would. I had some seriously negative feelings about Waldorf last year, but I now realize that it was the high school part of taking Waldorf classes that put such an enormous damper on it for me.
It's so whatev'. It's great to have school be sort of an apetizer to the main dish that is my life, rather than doing nothing but school and squeezing as much non-school-related things into the tiny amount of freedom from school that I have, like it was in high school.

There's a new Cabin Coffee that just opened up in town literally a day ago that I'm going to apply to work at...
But aside from that ...
Right now, I just drink a lot of butterbeer and coffee and make imovies. I've seeeriously gotten addicted to editing stuff in imovie. It just feels really good to be creating something. I know it's not necesarily an "art" or anything, but I'm not really an artistic person ... I mean, I can't draw and I can hardly paint, so things like taking pictures and now imovie-ing-it-up are sort of where I get my fix, I guess.

Anna and I have a 5 day break from school this weekend, so we're heading to Kansas City to hang out with my bro for a bit. I'm pretty pumped, because I've never been there (shocker) and I haven't seen Geoff in a while, so it should be a good time. Plus, he's at culinary school and he's cooking and baking ALLL the time, so hopefully Anna and I will cash in on some tasty homework assignments, or something!

I mean, my life is not too terribly exciting at the moment. It's not exactly how I'd planned for this year to go, but I really do feel that it was the RIGHT way to go.

Jannie, do you have skype?? Siri and I talked on it for the first time the other day, and it was greaaaaat. It'd be amazing to talk at your face, too!!

Bleh, I love you guys and I'm really glad to hear you're both doing well and are happy!

UPdate!

Heeeey ma beeees, I agree with Jannie, the time has come... So I am posting my first entry from france, hooah! Just to copy Jannie, i will give you my schedule! which totally blows.

Monday: 9-10 English, 10-11 French literature (in which my brain melts), lunch, 12-13 english agaaaain, 13-14 history (my professor is so nice in this class, he always plays classical music and gives us chocolate :) aaand 14-15 i meet with a frenchie and help her with english (i haven't actually started doing this yet, but on monday i will)

Tuesday: 9-10 English, 10-12 P.E. (climbing at the moment), 12-13 fucking english again, lunch, 14-15 French lit, hour break = useless, and finally 16-17 math

Wednesday: 8-9 Biology, 9-10 Math, 10-11 english

Thursday: 8-9 Spanish, 9-11 French lit, then a three hour break, 14-15 English, and 15-17 my 'European' class which is history in english and french

Friday: 8-9 Spanish, 9-10 History, 10-12 French lit

and because french school is mean,

Saturday: 8-9 Chemistry, 9-11 History

     So yeahhhh, i don't like school. But anyways, other than school, i am having a good time :) There have been many instances when i have wished you two could be with me, thinking of sarcastic comments to make, and laughing at ourselves :) highschool in forest city feels like decades ago, but i will never forget alllll the time we had to waste together, because it was the best part, by far.  

     The other day at school i was sitting with a couple people from my class, waiting to go to lit, and a guy decided to squeeze in between me and the girl i was sitting next to, and talk to us.  So, inevitably, he found out that i was American, and instantly about 7 other guys flocked.  It is so absurd how much of a novelty i am here, Jannie, you must have felt like this too, americans are just as bad :) I have decided to start telling guys that i have a boyfriend, because when they find out that i don't, everything gets ridiculous.  French teenagers are exactly like american ones in their social behaviors.  Well, i suppose there are slight differences, but overall, there are just as many idiots, just as many carlys (not very many, carlys are hard to come by) and just as many helplessly dorky people.  Although, everyone dresses a little bit better here. 

     Being here has given me a great appreciation of independence.  As of now, i feel aggravatingly young, despite the fact that i am older than most everyone around me.  I do not like having to rely on other people for so many things, but at the moment i don't really have a choice.  However, the more i learn, the happier i get, mostly because i feel like i am getting myself back, rather than living with a strange version of me in which i live inside my head, feeling like a stupid kid.  If you want to be humbled, move to a country in which you cannot understand or speak the language, it definitely works.  

     I think the US public education system does a great disservice to the youth of america by not teaching language at an early age, we take our natural english speaking ability for granted, don't bother to learn other languages and stupidly assume that everyone else in the world should adjust to our culture.  Blehhhh it's rather disgusting.

     So anywayyyy, i miss you both, and love youuu :) Laura, i wish so badly that you could be here next week with jannie and me, it won't be the same with out you :(  But we will reunite eventually, and it will be AWESOME. Alors, a bientot :)