08.08.08
Day 32 & Day 33
Today is my last day here OH MON DIEU!!!!!
I can’t believe it. I thought it would never be over.
Yesterday we had to take the placement exam over again, to make sure we progressed properly. It wasn’t for marks or anything. Compared to how I did at first, I did awesome ha ha ha. After that I did nothing. Had a nap, talked to mom on the phone, and hung out. We had a barbecue for my res. I forgot how delicious real meat is! At 9pm was the Souvenir Video. I was in it (for the talent show) so it was OBVIOUSLY amazing. hahahahaha. The end was really sad because it showed the girl getting on the bus looking all depressed to go home, and I realized how much I’m going to miss this place. It’s weird because 4 weeks ago I would have told you that I wouldn’t miss it at all, but now that the end is here I see how much fun it really was.
That said, all you immersion people who read this better keep in touch, damn it!!
Today my final was at 8am (the same time as my class everyday). I didn’t really find it hard at all. I took about half an hour or so. I can’t believe I never have to be in that labo again!!! There is the final information session at 1:30 at the theater (this is where we get our schedule for tomorrow for what times we leave, I think. Because there’s nothing else to talk about really). The banquet is at 6pm, and because all the food choices were really gross (fish, cordon bleu or “fiesta tofu”) I chose tofu, although I’ll probably just have salad. At 8pm is the burning of the contracts (WOOOO) and then the English Sorriee starts at 10pm. But really ut starts as soon as those bloody things burst into flames, because I think everyone is going to be so glad they can speak English again. It’s gonna be LOUD!I
I leave the school at 3am Halifax time (midnight SK time), leave Halifax at 7:50am (4:50 SK time) and arrive in Saskatoon at around noon.
See you tomorrow!!!
08.06.08
Day 31
So it’s officially been a month!!!!
I have nothing new to report really, other than I went swimming yesterday and saw how out of shape I was. Then I did nothing, really. Just hung out and stuff. In the evening the Taekwondo, Social and African dance Atiliers showcased their work. It was really awesome…. made me wish I could dance.
Today was our last day of classes. I am quite relieved actually, but MAN am I nervous for the final. I guess I don’t need the credit fro anything, but still. I like to feel smart and confident going into tests and I don’t. But it’s not til Friday morning, so I have plenty of time to study. But basically if I don’t know it by now I’m screwed, since I’ve been speaking the language for 5 weeks.
My plant gets in at 12:10 SK time, so I’ll be home around 3 or so (hopefully we can shop in Saskatoon for some stuff…. I need sheets for my bed in Edmonton etc.) I have no idea who is all coming to get me. Hopefully there’s room for me! I am going to leave here at 3 am. It takes 3 hours to get to Halifax, and my plane leaves at 7:50 NS time. So I need to be at the airport at 6:50, which means I should leave Pointe-de-l’Eglise at 3 am. I could probably make it if I left at 4 (a bus leaves every hour) but I don’t want to chance it.
08.05.08
Day 29 & 30
I am getting really confused by not posting everyday!
Monday (yesterday) was a pretty routine day. Nothing exciting happened except that out atilier was only a half hour, not an hour and a half. Sweet!
Today was our second last day of classes. Tomorrow we have revision time in the labo, then Thursday we take retake the placement test that we had to take on the first day here, to see how we progressed. I am obviously going to do way better than before because I know more than 3 words of French.
On Friday is our final. I am really nervous, but I’m not gonna be overly worried because I’m not even using the credit for this course. Still, I’m not gonna slack just in case I decide to take a non-credit French course at MacEwan.
Today we did interviews. Most people did the whole celebrity thing (Opera and Britney Spears, etc) but Drew and I decided he was just going to interview me. So I talked about the only interesting thing I’ve ever done, which was shaving my head. It was interesting, to say the least. I don’t know if people really got it, but whatever.
3 more days!!!!!!
8 days and I’m 18!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
08.03.08
Days 26-28
Okay, so I haven’t blogged in a while so I’ll just push the whole weekend together into one post.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 1
Friday was the 50s Soriee. After diner Jill and I hung out at Michaela’s room and pre-partied, made fun of people who are annoying (Qu’est-ce que tu fais? HAHAHA) and I drew on Michaela (she asked me to, don’t worry 
) The actual soriee was pretty boring, so we went to the different res parties instead.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 2
I went canoeing at 10am. That was fun. Then I came back and met up with Jill and Michaela again. Later on M & I fell asleep on the grass outside the residences after supper. Then I heard some very familier, very ENGLISH music. Some girl had put on ‘What Is Love’ by the Haddaways and was pumping it through her iPod speakers and started to dance to it. There were about 4 profs/animateurs standing outside one of the residences. They just looked at each other and were like ‘WTF??’ and the chick got an advertissment. She was either really dumb or did it on purpose. Which is dumb.
After that incident we went to the Café Bric-a-Brac and played tile Rummy with a girl from M’s res, and then went back to her res to play some more cards and pig out on chips. J & M went to the soriees (there were two) while I went to bed, because the Haute-Mer was at 8am the next morning.
SUNDAY, AUGUST 3 (aka today)
Whale-watching at 8am. It was really cold out on the ocean, but I did see some whales and seals. I didn’t get any pictures of the whales because they move too goddamn fast, but I did get a video and some pictures of the seals. Then I fell asleep on the boat (the cabin was nice and warm). I was so hungry when we left that the whole time I had a stomachache because I needed food in my belly. So when I got to the cafeteria I gobbled down some food. Then I went to the labo, then here.
My weekend was very entertaining.
5 days left!
