Well another month is complete and the months before I get back home are getting smaller and smaller. I guess when you are having so much fun and doing so many different things that you have never done before you forget that time is actually happening and going by whether you like it or not. This month has been the least exciting of all the months that I have been here in France but that hasn't stopped me from trying to have the best time possible. In terms of school, its still hard as hell and that will not change no matter how good my French gets. It is a struggle going to school and seeing crap grades associated with your name but that is something that I have accepted and that all exchange students have accepted. Going to school in a foreign country is never easy but as long as you give it your best then the results are not a concern because you can't judge effort. Since I take school matters very serious its personally hard getting out of bed and going to school and seeing all my efforts lead me to bad results with the exceptions of a few classes. I personally see no motivate of going to school if you are going to get crap grades but I have dealt with it alright and I never let myself get too frustrated about my school results. I always look on the bright side that next year when I get back to Pompano High I will back in my school getting the excellent grades that my name is very frequently associated with. When I decided to become an exchange student and when I heard that I was going to spend my year in France I was overwhelming joyful and excited for several reason. One reason is that I was able to finally accomplish or fulfill a dream that I have had since I was nine years old and the other reason was that I was going to lose plenty of weight because the French diet is very well balanced. So far, I have lost a mind boggling 35 pounds in these first six months. I accepted to lose weight but not so fast or so much but hey, I am not complaining that all my cloths fit me, that my ads actually appear defined or that my physical capabilities have increased. I guess when all that you eat is absurdly excellent for you and when you add plenty of exercise into the mix of things, your body has no reason but to lose weight and rather fast too. Since many life threatening disease's run in my family its good knowing that I am taking care of myself at such a young age an reducing my chances of contracting one of these disease's. It is great that I have lost so much weight here in France but the real difficulty is can I keep all of the weight that I have lost when I get back home to the states. You would expect when it is early march that winter would can to an end and the temperatures would change. The temperatures this month have reached -8 degrees Celsius and there have been many mornings when I wake up and the entire landscape is covered in a veil of snow. It is somewhat cool staying inside because it is actually too cold and for once not too hot like back home in Florida. I hope that in a month or so this winter stops because I am tired of wearing pants everyday to keep warm. With another month in the books, I have to look to the future and continue to enjoy my four months that I have left because I am returning home in late June. My agenda for the next four months includes a 6 day trip to Spain, a 12 day bus trip with some 30 exchange students around France, a trip to Paris with some exchange students, trip to Italy with my rotary club, changing of host families, continuing to go to school unfortunately, more enjoyable moment, continuing to learn the French way and hopefully if everything turns out well and if nothing stupid happens to me a 10 hour return flight back home will cap of this dream year here in France. Once again I have to thank Roy Joseph, Bob White, Doug, Lloyd Rougier and everybody in district 6990 for making this year possible. I will forever be grateful to this people because their hearts are only filled with good intensions and they gave me a chance to do something so few teenagers actually get to do when they are 17. Stay tone to me journal world because you will not be disappointed with what you read. So till next month and the next exciting monthly report of everybody's favorite exchange student Jorge Toro.