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chillin'I am so relieved! I have completed my presentation in French class! *phew* THANK GOD!!! For the past 3 or more weeks I have been spending every waking hour working on, thinking over, or worrying about that project. Today I did it. After all the practice runs, it was hard for me to realize that this one actually counted... this was the real deal. It was awesome! Genial!! Je suis trop contente!
Ok now I will go into every grusome little detail about it. Just giving you a heads up!!
Before I started, I put on my Rotary blazer with all my little pins. I wrote the words for the "Pledge of Allegeance" on the black board and then I drew the outline of America... Stuck a small American Flag to the window and told everyone to stand up and face the flag while I recited the "Pledge of Allegeance" Then I began...
Of coarse the entire thing was in French and my pronounciation is terrible, but I still think I did an excelent job. I brought a film in to present to the class and half way through my presentation when I was ready to show my film, I made everyone change rooms, which was good for me because I got a 5 minute break to breath... think of my next phrases and points, and try to get my face back to a normal color (which of coarse never happens until atleast 2 hours after a speech anyways.) I think the film was a big hit, it wasn't anything corney and I got it in French, obviously, so everyone could understand it. Then when I finished they got to ask me questions... that was the difficult part because I couldn't prepare myself for all the questions they would ask me but I tried to answer as best I could. My presentation took up the entire class (which is 50 minutes) and that is, let me tell you, a hell of a long time to stand up infront of a group of people and speak in a language that you don't know very well!! But it felt so great at the same time... Like: look everyone, I can speak in French!!! And you all thought I was as good as a boiled egg! Look at me! And my actual presentation went so much better than every time I had practiced it before. I could not have asked for a more perfect preformance! It was (for me) perfect to the highest level of perfectivity!! I didn't rush my words... I paused in all the right places, made eye contact, interacted with my crowd, didn't read off my paper unless it was utterly necessary, and then did a question and answer session at the end which was totally unexpected!!!!!
And now I have nothing to do... I have spent every waking minute working on that project and now that it is over... I'm lost. Ok, I still have my Homosexual Marriage Project to work on... and 5+ books to read for French2h ... and a letter to write also for French2h... and the DREAM program that I have to start for Science Sociale.
So as it happens, I'm not actually lost... I've just run out of things to focus my attention on that I feel strongly about... the things that interest me. My presentation for French was something that I looked forward to doing... all these other tasks are just looked upon as... well... tasks. :/
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Tomorrow I don't have school because of a teachers meeting also known as a : Conge. My host mom is taking me into Liege to do I don't know what but it seems pretty important to her. She has asked me twice if I will go with her. I guess we are just going to have lunch, but thats cool.
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Lourenco went back to his beach house until March and I didn't even get to say "bye" :( He waited for me for 4 hours on MSN but my host mom was using the computer and by the time she was done she said that it was to late for me to get online. Errrrr! I'm so sorry Lourenco!!!! Eu te amo!! And I just put two pictures of him in my "And Ends" Photo Album so if you want to see how absolutley amazing this guy is, that is where you will find him!!
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pffff its midnight 0'1 so I'll be going now.
*bisous* -ciao
happytracyinbelgium typed this up
at 12:05 AM CET
