Another month has whipped by. Actually a month and a half, but things are going by so fast it feels like a month. The unavoidable countdown is now looming around every corner. I know that I still have four months, but at the pace they’ve been passing it seems more like four weeks. Needless to say I am not looking forward to leaving this beautiful country. Despite the constant rain and lack of government, it has a feeling in it that I don’t want to lose hold of. Not to say that I am not looking forward to returning, the thought of seeing my family and friends again still makes my heart lighten.
Now enough of this sappiness, cause I’m having too much of a good time to linger on such inevitabilities. So this month has very much been the month of preparation, preparing for school projects and test, preparing for voyages, and most importantly CARNAVAL! Now even though carnaval has already passed, it was in March so I’ll save it for the next report, mainly because it’ll take an entire report just to explain all its intricacies. But there was some preparatory celebration. The four jeudi gras leading up to carnaval are all celebrated (jeudi gras meaning fat Thursday). I only participated in one of them, the third one. It is the one more popularly celebrated. Essentially the whole town dresses up and comes out to have some fun. Most people dress up in groups, but I did not know this until it was too late and therefore had to go solo. I went with two of my friends, Rwendy and Denise. They dressed up as smurfs. I dressed up as a woad Scotsman. So we had an African smurf, a Tex-Mex smurfette, and a crazy Scotsman. Quite a crazy blue combination. I had a great time and saw some great costumes. My personal favourites being the Barbies in boxes. Though of course school the next day was interesting. Everyone showed, but not in the greatest of form.
School has been going well. The poetry in French class has been really interesting and great to do. Math is making a lot more sense now, and even the sciences are starting to improve. I got 100% on my last Chemistry lab! English however is just getting irritating, which has nothing to do with the teacher as she is great fun, just for obvious reasons it doesn’t keep me very interested. Though reading the Orient Express by Agathie Christie was nice and suiting. In religion we’ve started group projects, mine being on the Holocaust. So that should be very interesting, to see their point of view on something that was so much closer to them (geographically). We’ve started gymnastics in physical education, which is proving to be a difficult and interesting challenge for me.
Soccer has been going fairly well, though the attendance of my team or lack there of, is really starting to get on my nerves. At practices it means we can’t do things full out and therefore I get less of a workout, thus why next week I’ll be going to see if I can start track and field, cause if not these fries, waffles and chocolates will start building up some nice comfy curves on my body.
I’ve had three Rotary events this past month. One just a normal meeting, the next I helped work the bar at a big car rally. And the latest being a trip to Luxembourg with all the other students. We visited a beer brewery, Bofferding, and a ham leg (the likes you see in cartoons) factory. We then went for a nice visit of the town itself and got drenched, which later resulted in me getting a little cold.
As for Valentine’s day, all plans fell through and I spent it alone. It meant I got to have a nice birthday skype my little cousin Aidhana though. That’s been this month, expect a lengthy report in half a months time.
Thinking of Misaki and Peter, hoping they’re both safe and healthy.
