Vivre les vacances!!
Mood:  incredulous
Topic: Vacance de Paques
Today is the offical beginning of Paques. (Easter Vacation= 2 week break.) Is tomorrow easter?! oh NOOOOO its on sunday... Why was i thinking that today is Saturday... I know I was in school today. o:)

oooooo I'm frick!n exausted! I am so glad a vacation has just landed in my lap, cuz I could use it! When I get home from school I'm always so happy and bouncy and my host mom asks me, "so you had a good day at school today?"
me- no, not necessarily... im indifferent to school... no, I'm just happy to be 'home' and talking with my host mom!! o:) (!!!) It isn't at school where I learn most of my french, it is here with my family.

Last wednesday I was at the Carre (the square of bars in the center of liege) and I left with Jorja, 'fugly slut' (don't ask :D (!!)), zimmie, and two other girls and when we were walking through one of the safer parts of Liege we met up with this group of guys that started harassing us and following us... I'm not one to be intimidated by that; ive never been attacked or anything before, like what are they going to do, stab me in broad daylight in a mall? no I don't see that happening... so when we went into the Galleries Opera (mini mall) and they tried to follow us, I 'closed'(not very gently either) the big heavy glass door on one of them and, well, they wern't much nicer after that. They started to spit at us and one even burned my backpack with his cigarette!! C'mone! sh!t that is an expensive backpack buddy! pffff we finally lost them and made our way back to the less secure part of Liege (I was just hoping they would follow us into the carre cuz i know guys there and if they were still harassing us, they would get hit... that is fur sure.)

Yesterday I had to say goodbye to Jana, my German friend. Adri and I didn't even have time to go into Liege and get a little photo with her before she left!! And I realized that, wow that is going to be me in 3 months, saying my goodbyes and it is going to be soo hard. I wish I had done more with Jana while she was here, she became such a good friend to me and she was there when I didn't have anyone else and now she's gone!! Who is going to go with me on Wednesdays to the Carre with me!? =O I mean, I don't wanna overdramatize it or anything, she only lives two hours from me, and I'm so going to visit her in the second week of vacation at her house in Germany where we are going to have crazy wild parties (and I am going to have to learn German or speak in French) lol it is funny with us, an american girl and a german girl, together speaking French because I don't speak German and she doesn't speak English! :D

Tomorrow I change families. My new host family is the president of Rotary =O I hope he's not too strict on me, all I ask is the freedom to be able to go out and do things. I'm ruuuuuly sad about leaving this family I have right now... they are genuine... I love them sooo much. My french has gotten 10 times better since I've been with them. So tonight is my last night. I still ahve to pack my valises (not that I have that much to pack) but its just that... once my bags are packed, its more real. It says: "NOW I am ready to go." But I'm not ready to go. :( And my location is prime. I live about a hop skip and a jump from Jorja which could have been great if we had more time to get to know eachother.

My host family has become like my real family. I can communicate with them... express my feelings, and that changes a lot. That is the difference between this family and my first one. I wasn't a real 'person' to them... I didn't have the ability to express myself and therefore a lot of things went unsaid. With this family, I had great long discussions with my host mom and we learned a lot about eachother and our different cultures. Its great to be understood.

tonight when I was arranging the table I went to put my little clothe napkin back in the basket with the other ones, then I realized that I didn't need to because I wouldn't be eating dinner with them tomorrow night... Its just the little things like that that really get to me.

No plans thus far for vacation. Well yes and no. Wednesday I'm going into town with Jorja to do... "stuff" as long as my visa is working then.. who knows what I'll come home with. 'shopping' if you will. ;) Thursday I am going to Mastricht (holland) with a rotary member and then to see where his daugher works (because she is an architect and I want to be an architect... so that should be interesting) :) Next week some time I'm going to Jana's in Germany and... yup thats it. No big trips or anything planned. noppeee. I was trying to get Finn and some other peeps to go with me to Amsterdam but I don't think it will work because I will be with my new family and I can't see them just setting me free in Amsterdam... :(

10:30 tomorrow morning I change families so my next post will be all about my 3rd (temp. family cuz they are just for the vacation.)And now I will bring to a close my last post at 'chez PIETTE' and finally get started on packing my suitcases... it just can not be put off anylonger.

gros gros bisous a tout le monde!
-ciao