Yireh's Third Report from France

November 8, 2005

Salut everyone!!

well what can i say.... life has been rocking here so far!  I have done so
many things that i dont think i could list them all, but i will say they are
the weirdest- at least to me.  Like i had said before i live on the
countryside.  Well i dont know if its a thing of living in town or in the
country but i have learn to make jelly, mayonnaise, bread, and all sort of
other things that never occurred to me to make!

On october i got to go to the forest with my family to pick wild
blueberries! when we got back home we made a couple jars of jelly and made a
cramboulet! yummy... thats all i can say!  It was awesome!! I have also
learn so much about agriculture.... i had been wondering why we had stopped
eating cantaloupe for appetizers so i asked my host dad and he point it out
that the season had been over.  Most of what we eat is grown in our own
garden or completely made from scratch.  All the wonderful corn fields are
starting to be cut because season is over.... i know that that is random,
but i find it great! i like seeing cornfields, their cool.  However, i -and
my fam after i told them- and it's strange that for having so many cornfields
in my region, no one eats or likes corn..... :/

I also went with the family to St.Malo!  Its so cool and freaky at the same
time.  St. Malo has a wall that goes all around the ville because the water
gets so high it could wipe off the place.  Even with this humongous wall
there are signs warning that when the tide is high you have to watch out
when ur on the streets.

My 2nd RYE meet was in Mont St. Michael!!!  it as an amazing sight!  It was
a pretty long walk to, and up the place, but it was amazing.  Sunday we
walked to another little mountain thats incredibly far from the Mont S.M.
but it seemed to be important. seemed because we walked there and the guide
talked, but im not really sure what he said, i was in the middle of a debate
when he was talking.  Well the coolest thing about walking there was that
there is quick sands along the way! its not really sand... its muck. but if
you stand on it you start to sink.  In the least dangerous of them we got to
play in! i only let it get to my ankles, but a friend of mine sak up to her
knees.... im not that crazy yet!

well school its awesome, ive learn sooooooooo much that i cant believe it! 
It is 10x harder than the US but i can really say that its worth it.  In a
nutshell the last two years of high school here are like our first 2 yrs of
college.  You have to pick a concentration (Literature, [b] Social and eco
studies[/b], or Science), then you pick an option ([b] economics[/b],
Language- eng, span, german-, Math).  All that means that basically all
schedule revolves around my concentration and option. Theres alot of more
details, but i dont know how to explain them yet.  There is no sport teams
in the school, no school colors.  Competition between schools  is consider
to be incorrect.  if you want to do sports you find the team thats of your
town, and there are no real clubs, maybe like 3 (but thats my school i
think).  They consider that school should be only to develop intelectually.
  Thats the only thing that i can seriously say i dont like and thats weird.

Changing the subject, my french has gotten better, i can understand most of
my classes, and i watched Zorro 2 in french, it was great i understood it all
and laughed!!! i cant complain ! im liking my life.

well this is long enough, i gtg,
take care everyone, and stay safe in all this hurricanes!

Yireh RM +