L'Abbaye Chateau De Camon
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The Last Few Weeks
... is sure to wake you up as you walk out the door. Wednesday was my first 4 hour test: in French. I had to read and answer some questions in French, followed by a dissertation of a Fable by Jean de La Fontaine. That was a little over my head, but for the first time, I managed to translate the entire fable and understand the whole thing. I formulated a response to the question but I couldn't bring myself to translate the response into ...
Big Day Today
... of the forest and walked along a canal. After countless complaints from my sister, I realized that I was exactly like her when I was younger: perfectly capable of walking 6 miles, but it's more fun to complain and whine and say that you can't. I laughed a few times to myself. At one point, we turned and walked on the paved roads that run between the farms. Gucci went off and sniffed all the crops. The weather was ...
Making Progress
... later, I would know that there was some text missing. If you look at my notes from the first 2 weeks, there were more ellipses than words.
Today, we were talking about the way an eye works and my teacher had us write down the lesson for the day. About halfway through the period, I realized that I only had 2 ellipses for 3 pages of text. I had the biggest smile on my face. My friend ...
Thinking of Home
... drink hot chocolate in the winter. After it rained a lot one day, it smelled exactly the way it does in Palo Alto after the first rain. My Dad watches soccer and yells at the TV the same way my Daddy does at home. And there's nothing like opening a package from home and finding 2 boxes of Goldfish and a jar of peanut butter. (Thanks mommy!)
Last week I got my first math test back. I was the only person in the entire class to get a 20. In France, they don't ...
Reciting Poetry
... I told my teacher that I had memorized the poem and the entire room gasped. I got up, said the whole thing, and only forgot a few lines.
I finally did something that scared the heck out of me. No one pushed me to do it. No one helped me. I learned an entire poem in a language that I don't really understand. Then I got up in front of all my peers and recited it. I'm pretty proud of myself.
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