07.27.08
Day 21 (AKA WEEK 4)
And so we begin week 4. Two weeks ’til home time people!!
I had an AWESOME time at Casino Night. It was so much fun, and hilarious. I was losing hardcore and then some man dumped all his chips into my cup. Unfortunately it wasn’t real money (actually that’s probably a good thing) and you used the money you accumulated to buy stuff at an auction. I only had 600$ and wasn’t really into sticking around to auction (because my numbers suck in French. i can only count to 30. Which is good, considering I could only count to 13 three weeks ago). So I stuck my money in Neha’s cup and Michaela, Jill and I went to the Castelet for pizza and giant cookies, then to the computer lab. (Cookie side note: the thing was bigger than my face. Honest to God, it was huge. And I ate it ALL.)
Today I woke up at 11 and slowly got ready for my day. Then Michaela and Jill showed up and invited me to the beach. In order to fulfill my dream of swimming in every ocean (well maybe not the Arctic) I went along. It was tons of fun, splashing in the frigid water. And stepping on the barnacles and tearing my feet to shreds. Then salt water and sand got into my feet (which look like they were attacked by a cheese grater) and the 10 minute walk back to school really sucked. But I found a First Aid kit and cleaned myself up. It’s weird, using my First Aid skills on myself. Like most lifeguards you never think you’re gonna need that for you.
Then Jill & Michaela & I walked (so much walking today OMG) to the lil Ice Cream place across the street. Jill went to do laundry after and Michaela and I walked around the festival being held on the grounds. It made me excited for this fall – I now plan on coming down to Bently in September to meet Mom and Auntie Val for the annual Farmers Market. I LOVE Farmers Markets!!!
Tonight is the Night of Terror walk in P’tit Bois. I was going to go, but now with a bum foot I am going to have a movie night with M&J.
Tomorrow is the second last Monday here!
07.20.08
Day 13 (address update too!!)
No whales 
It was too foggy to go. I was really disapointed but instead of moping around me and Jill “regarded Le Fantom de l’Opera dans mon chambre” (watched The Phantom of the Opera in my room)
I am currently in the blistering hot computer lab typing this on my glorious MacBook instead of those freaky deaky French keyboards.
I’ve already been here for two weeks!! Two weeks ago today I was…. um….. getting ready to leave, I guess. I don’t actually remember what I did that last day at home. I’ll have to check my journal. I think I went to Kindersley with Donna, perhaps. Anyway, not important
What IS important is that I am having a wonderful time and meeting new people all the time. But it’s weird, because we don’t really know each other. We can’t just sit and talk about random stuff because most of us are Debutant 1 and can barely string together a sentence (My sentences have horrible grammar and I die a little inside every time I butcher this beautiful language.)
Like Jill said (she was being very philosophical today), this whole experience is like a steep hill. We started at the bottom, and now we’re almost at the top. The rest will be downhill. Of course, I took it literally at first because we were on our way to lunch, and the cafeteria is on top of a slope. So it took me a minute to understand what she was talking about.
Tonight is the Lousiana themed party…. I am tried (mainly because the computer lab is so hot I’m falling asleep) but I’ll go for a little bit anyway. I wish I was a better dancer. For someone who kicks ass at music, I can’t dance at all.
Speaking of kicking ass at music, I uploaded my video from the talent show on my photo site (dropshots.com/lauriemarie) so if you are interested, and I’m sure you are!, you should watch it. I haven’t watched it yet. I’ve been way way too scared.
Tomorrow is Sunday!! Which means another lazy day. I might watch another movie (I brought Romeo + Juliet but decided that was dumb because I can barely understand it in English, let alone in French). So I guess that means I am watching Roman Holiday.
Oh, and today I washed clothes for the first time in my life. I had to get a girl to help me because I was a little lost at first (turns out the machine just wouldn’t take my money). And I didn’t even screw up sorting- everything came out the right colour. So now my clothes don’t reek, I have underwear, and best of all, I feel very independent. Don’t mock me for not knowing how to wash clothes. Mom was very reluctant to teach me. I think it’s because of the independence thing.
PS In other news, I got my official transcript results via Mom. My lowest was Math C30 (86%) while my highest was History 30 (97%). My overall official average for my last semester of high school was 91.66 which is pretty wicked if I do say so. AND! My Grant MacEwan registration stuff came, so Mom is gonan ExpressPost that ASAP. WOOT!
Kisses and Hugs!
PPS If you are going to mail me something, make sure you add Bozo 3 after my name, so they don’t have to figure out what residence I’m from.
