Sarah's Report - December

Not as much school this month because of Christmas break but teachers still don’t really talk to me but now that I’m speaking more French my History teacher is getting me more involved and doing the homework and tests. There's not much to really comment on with school this month. Still trying to make friends in my school but it seems like my class is just not interested in doing things with me, but I am still going to keep working at it and I’m hoping that once they really understand I’m speaking more French that they will be more interested and integrate me more. I have people that I will talk with and walk around during the breaks but if I’m not there waiting for them they will usually just walk away and not wait for me or anything and will only wait for each other. It is hard but it's not like they are mean to me. My Rotary club thinks I have a lot of friends because I have added everyone in my class on Facebook but when it comes to being in person they usually aren’t interested in me.

 

I went to my Rotary’s Christmas dinner which was good, it didn’t seem like that many people knew how to talk to me so even if i was standing right there they wouldn’t really talk to me but it was still good. It was my first time seeing the entire or most of the club since the other 2 times I’ve seen my club barely anyone was there. Nothing else for Rotary for the moment.

 

I was able to learn how to ski with my first host family during the first week of the break and it was a lot of fun. Christmas eve we went to my host mom’s sister’s house where all the family was gathering for dinner. Everyone was dressed up as well. Christmas day we got up at around 9 in the morning to open presents. My family liked the presents i gave them so everything was good and I was really grateful of the presents that were given to me by my host family. For lunch we went to my host dad’s parents house where again the family was gathering and was dressed up. It was fun as well. Both ate foie gras which I don’t like (tried 3 different ones) and just talked, asked me questions about Canada and both were very enjoyable. For New Years Eve, I went to my host parents’ friend’s house because their daughter who is 14 was having a party with her friends so I was with them that night. It was good a bit awkward though because I just showed up and they didn’t know me but I did talk to one girl a lot that night and it was fun. At midnight they set off fireworks, sprayed confetti everywhere and it was pretty much the same as in Canada. It was a good vacation. I was supposed to change families the 3rd of January but family had to go away that Wednesday until Saturday so I changed on the 9th. This is my first week with them and so far it's been really good. I have an older sister who's 18 and she's really nice and talks to me a lot and says I can come with her and her friends. My host parents are easygoing and nice to talk to and I’ve been settling in well.

 

Same as usual, French has improved a lot and I do think in French before English now and as I was writing this I kept nearly writing French. That's all for this month. And as most people know I do make monthly videos and post it every 25th of the month (arrived August 25th that’s why) so you can watch those on Facebook.