4/10/2012

Hello! It's been a while since I last updated this. I've been rather busy, so I'm going to try to summarize last week in a few (hopefully) brief statements. In my french class we started homophones, that was rather interesting because of my difficulties pronouncing some words and my smaller vocabulary, but I found it rather fun. In English class we started talking about American Highschools so I am answering several questions the students have about it. Wednesday after school I started on my long list of college essays to write and Thursday I did'nt have school so I worked on the essays all day. Friday we started derivatives in math, well I started at least. Everyone else had two months of derivatives last year so I was totally lost. Saturday I went to the sea with the scouts here. It was rather cold but very fun. I waded in a little but but got cold (that and I was wearing jeans). We also played a game of tug of war and built a large sand castle. Afterwards we rode around on these pedal cars that were like two tandem bicycles stuck together to seat 4 people. That was very fun and I got to see a bigger part of the coast like that. Sunday I worked on the essays a little more and did some homework. Monday I learned about the class trip that the class takes every year around eastern Europe and I intend to go. Also I learned about a trip my science class is taking to the university at Liege to see some experiments and displays. Tuesday there was a political debate at school that I attended. Unfortunatly due to the language issue I didn't get as much out of it as I would have liked. Wednesday I took a Biology test (that I think I did pretty well on) and started learning about soaps in chemistry. Today we had open hour where the teachers of our class talk about a project that we will be doing all year. Afterwards I got back the first chem test I took here. I got a 25 out of 90. At least now I have a better idea of whats going on. Also I had some issues understanding the questions. I then had Math class where we took the test on derivatives. The night before I asked my host dad to help me with them and I now understand them but I still found the test very difficult. Afterwards I had history where I actually understood everything the teacher talked about. This weekend I am going to a reunion of some sort with my family where there will be lots of games and other things to do so I am very excited for that.