It's already over!?
Mood:  lazy
Topic: Carnival Vacation
Carnival Vacation is drawing to an end all too quickly. I'm still kinda bummed that I didn't get to go to Germany but poor Heike, she was sick, so I won't blame her. :) Anyhow, I'm actually looking forward to going back to school! At least I will get to see everone again. Over vacation tout le monde left for all corners of Europe so it has been difficult to get in touch with anyone besides Romain and Finn who are always together and always a phonecall away anyways! (its a compliment, "own it" lol)

I stil have a lot of work to do on my French project and my partners in Science Sociale are counting on me to make a poster and pull up some information for our project on homosexual marriages. So there are two things that I need to focus my attention on but right now focus is one thing that I am majorly lacking.

Yesterday morning my host mom took me into town to get a converter so I can charge my video camera. So I plugged that baby in and then headed out for the afternoon. I caught the bus into town at noon and then took a corrosponding bus into Jupille (the little suburb of Liege where my school is.) I didn't arrive there until 1:30. It had been my understangind that Sarah (one of the girls in my Science Sociale group) would meet me at the school some time in the afternoon on Thursday and take me to her house so that we could work on our project. But no one was there when I got there and after waiting for half of an hour in the rain, I decided that no one was going to show up either. Soaking wet and not toooo impressed, I speed dialed Finn and Romain for some quick "friend picker-upper advice" and a "liege gopher"- or in real English I guess that is Liege Waffel, non? LOL Spent my afternoon with them and then headed home around 5.

My video camera, which I will call "Bob" (origional... je sais, tu sais) was done charging and I got to test it out. I tried following the directions with exact percision but that was until I found out that I had directions for a different model of video camera. So whatever, I "wung it" and just went around recording everything like a little kid!! "Look here is my host mom... and here is my kitchen... and look! there are my feet!" c'etait genial!!

I talked with Romain hier soir "last night" on line and he said that Adriana had called his family to tell them that she is in the hospital! What!? Mon petit chou est ou?!? I guess she didn't give an explanation why but Pierre suggested that maybe she is sick... that is probably a pretty good guess (I always did think, for the most part, that is why people go to the hospital, isn't it?) She is still in Portugal because she was spending the vacation there with her Aunt and I don't know when she is planning on returning. I'm worried about her, I hope it isn't anything serious!

Alors... lately I have been having the funniest dreams!! actually no... they arn't really that funny; like the concept isn't hilarious or anything but just the way I think is so stupid that it is funny. OK I explain: Everyone has been telling me that they can dream in French. Well i can't. Yeah, isn't that sad!? But I am bound and determined to start! I try all the time to think in French, and usually I do (sometimes I slack off) but when I'm awake it is easy for me to say "oh you are thinking in English again, that is not good." But, tu sais, when I'm sleeping it is harder to tell myself how to think. But I still do! I will be in the middle of a dream and I will realize that I am dreaming in English and I will think to myself "no tRACY you have to dream in French!" Then I will start to dream in French... slowly... everyone talks very slowly in French in my dreams... like that I can un...der...stand... them! :D So all in all, I don't get a very good night sleep because I am constantly trying to keep myself in line! dahhh!

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Let me impress you with my awesome cooking skills now: Today I helped my host mom "faire du mousse chocolate" and yesterday I helped her make "un gateau chocolate" Notice a slight trend, maybe? Of coarse, c'est parce que je suis en Belgique!!