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!!

Mes aventures avec Finn et Charlie
Mood:  surprised
Topic: Carnival Vacation
Still no word from Heike... no phone calls, no e-mails... errr. alors... il resemble comme je vais reste ici pour la vacance.... hummm.

oh atta, je mange...

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ok voila. heh.

Hier wow, je ne sais pas qu'est ce que je peux dire de hier... J'ai regarde le film: The Grudge avec Sarah Michelle Geller... wow j'ai beaucoup de peur!!! et apres... umm wow je ne crois pas... ahem et apres j'ai parti pour chez Finn. Carnival est grande la! Je veux aller encore!!! je veux faire les choses fou aussi!!!!! ahhh!


What!? Superbowl? lol awww too bad! dommage! *snaps fingers* I think the Superbowl is unheard of here. There was not one broadcasting of it, not one commercial for it, not one advertisement mentioning it... nothing. Then on MSN it says and what were the best commericals on Superbowl... lol what? I missed Superbowl!? hehehehehe!


When is February ever going to get over? Because IN Maaaaaaaaaaarch Lourenco comes back!*eu te amo!* :D

-ciao

Carnival Vacation...umm... yay!
Mood:  chillin'
Topic: Carnival Vacation
So today begins another vacation. I am happy... don't get me wrong. It seems like we just had vacation... oh yeah, we did! Everyone in school has plans to go to Spain, Portugal, France, Germany, or God knows where else, and me... I'm sitting here on a Friday night staring at a computer screen. I hate the thought of wasted time seeing that my time seems to go by 5X faster than every one elses. Somehow I have bumped my life into hyper-drive and now I can't get it out, so when I have a spare minute, it just doesn't feel right. I wanna go to Germany! After all, the festivals in Germany for Carnival are top notch (like Rio de Janeiro) and I am right here in Europe, an hour from the greatest city in Germany. Take the opertunity to see that I say! But I haven't been able to get a hold of Heike... so I can see myself spending this vacation at "home" studying for my French exam (which, I know, isn't a bad idea and I will admit that my presentation is going to be kick ass...) but I want to go out and be crazy with everyone else!!!!

Jana, a girl from Allemande (that is french for Germany) came... almost two weeks ago, and she will be staying here for 2 months. She lives in the neighbor city to Heike's and so she will be going home this vacation to see her family and party. Then after vacation she will return to learn more french. How I wish I were her... with the possiblity of just going home for the weekend... ahh that would be nice. She knows french really well ( well enough that she doesn't have to rely on her English or German and she can formulate sentences to express what she wants to say ) and that is a great start because getting to that level when learning a language is the slowest part but once you reach that level everything picks up speed, so I think in 2 months she will learn a lot. I am bound and determined to teach her all I know (which you may or may not think is very much... *ahem* Charlie!*ahem* ;) lol ) as well as helping her with her English occasionally ;)

So I am in train of making the best damned presentation for French class that the school of Institude de Notre Dame de Jupille has ever whitnessed... yeah... its that good. I've got a movie lined up, the Pledge of Allegiance, and I'm practicing it like a mad woman.

That is about it for now. Tomorrow I am going en ville tout seule to cherche un film pour ma presentation en Francais. And Heike is supposed to be calling me then too, which is good because Sarah va m'appelle aussi parce que je dois travail sur ma presentation en Science Sociale avec elle a jeudi si je suis ici... mais je ne sais pas si je vais en Allemande... well wish me luck finding plans to make this vacation pick up some speed and not be a complete waste de temps.

-ciao

HEIKE and GERMANY (encore)
Mood:  a-ok
Topic: Trip to Germany
Last weekend...wait, was it last weekend? Yeah I think so. Ok, so last weekend (Friday) I left for Germany again and got to meet Heike for the first time ever!!! But I already felt like I knew her so well!! She met me at the train station and introduced me to her friend, Sarah, and then Jo took us to a school party. I thought there were a lot of people there but Heike said that there are normally more except that on Saturday many people had to take exams so they wern't there. I think I'll write about that in a different entry... Everyone there is so unbelievably friendly and I got to meet tons of people who had gone to America last year and they were asking me if I knew the people who were their partners and things. It is so funny being a world away from Maine and meeting people who know my people!! (Does that make any sense?... Ok, I'm really tired!)

We got "home" to Heike's pretty late and on Saturday slept in until about 11:30. Then left around 3 in the afternoon to pick up Flo (Heike's brother) and go to their Holiday House that they are still in the process of building. I just can not get over how quickly it is getting finished! The first time I saw it, there was no furniture, kitchen apliances, or anything, now it is "presque fini" except for little things like painting... oh and Heike still doesn't have a bed yet. (lol, just minorly important):) We stayed there for the afternoon and invited the family who lives right by them (the one that is building the house) to come for tea and cakes. (Wait, did I go to England or Germany!?) :) That night we went first to Heike's aunts birthday celebration, and then to Jo's brother's new girlfriend's birthday party! LOL! I prefered Friday night, but Saturday was fun, none the less!

On Sunday they were invited to visit a new neighbor so I went with them. It was a young couple with a 2 year old baby and they just completely redid the house (which is huge) Everyone can speak really great English so I got to be in on the conversation too!! (Such a change from Belgium.. but *ahem* anyways)

Heike let me borrow one of her valise so that I can fill it up with useless things (like my scrapbook and all the things I was going to put in it) and give to the Fauquenoit family to bring back to America when they go in March.

I'll try to post some of the photos tomorrow that their family got back from the first time I was there. (Before Heike got home) but I'm too tired to do that now.


*ciao*

"I'm a genie in a bottle baby" ... wow, where did that come from!?
Mood:  lyrical
Yesterday was Wednesday so everyone got out of school at noon time. I stayed at Adriana's house and then today I was supposed to stay in school until 4:30 when it usually gets over but on Thursdays I have 3 hours of study hall then English, so I decided today to just go home at noon. I was sooo tired. Here, I will tell you my normal schedule for school now that I have changed families. Don't think I'm bitching; I'm not, I just think it is amazing how much time I spend at school/ getting to and from school.

6am- wake up
6:45- leave for the first bus
7-7:05- bus arrives
8- I arrive at school
8:35- school starts
4:20pm- school ends
5:10- take the first bus home (of 2)
6:15- I finally get home!!!

*phew*

http://www.ufrgs.br/cvresultados/listao/
^go here, it is a website (all in PortugUese) with the list of names of the people who got into this really important college. "011820-6 Lourenco Fernandes Dutra Fonseca " :D CONGRATULATIONS LOURENCO!!!

This weekend I'm going back to Germany! So I will finally get to meet Heike! IM SOOOOO EXCITED because the last time I went, she was staying at my house and so obviously she wasn't there. So here we are... two girls who have never met before but we feel like we've known eachother forever; we know eachothers families, homes, and now we are finally going to meet eachother!!!! wweeeeee!

I just sent an email to my mom asking her to buy me the plane tickets to Brazil for December so I can visit Adriana next Christmas. Cross your fingers for me, I don't know if she will have a problem with it or not... After all, this trip is really expensive, I don't know if I can afford to go on another trip so soon... We will see.

Ok I guess that is pretty much it for now with my Random Thoughs of the day... I can't really say what I've been doing, because I haven't been doing anything! Oh yeah, I just thought I'd enlighten you: Where it says "Post Your Comment" and then there is a little bracket with a number in it, that is saying how many comments have been posted to that entry. You can click on it even if you do not want to post an entry just to see what other people have written. I'm not sure how many of you already knew that but I'm telling you, it took me a long time to figure it out... so there you go.