School and Everything else

So on Monday I started school. -_- School is very different than in Cody. Class starts at 8:20 and finishes at 16:00. Classes are only 50 minutes long, and vary from day to day, just like in college. There are two buildings at my school, because there are too many students for the space (grades 8-12). Also, if you have gym class (like I did), you walk like 6 blocks to another building (like I had to), in the rain (which is very refreshing but ruins your hair). School is extremely difficult for me, because the teachers talk very fast and use words I have not yet learned. I have a statistics class (which could be very easy), but I cannot read the word problems to figure them out. Yesterday in French class (like English class in the US), I could not understand the book the students had to read, so I could not answer the discussion questions. Instead, the teacher made me write a paragraph in French about why I chose Belgium to be my country. Using my dictionary, I was able to make out a couple sentences (although they were the furthest things from being correct), and I was feeling pretty good about myself. At the end of class the teacher had me stand up and read my paragraph to the class. -_- That was the hardest speech I have ever given, but in the end it was for my benefit.

I found this folder at the store.. should I get it?! ;)
So in my little town Huy (pronounced like 'oui') there are two other exchange students plus me. Deanna arrived in February and will leave in December, she is with a program called YFU (YOuth For Understanding). Joisy, arrived just a couple days after me and will leave around the same time (she is also using Rotary). These girls are literally my soul sisters! I love them to death and we stick together like three peas in a pod. It is still really hard for me to leave my friends in Cody (I still get the urge to text them every time something exciting happens), but in the end, if I had never done exchange, I would have never met these amazing ladies (or my amazing host families).

It's starting to get chilly here! I am going to have to invest in a bigger jacket and better shoes then I brought (I have to walk a block to the bus and then 3 or 4 blocks from the bus stop to school morning and night).

Joisy and I were talking the other day, and she asked me "Is this where you pictured your life 2 years ago?". I have to admit.. HELL NO. I would have pictured myself playing tennis and going to football games, sitting on the senior wall and sleeping my my (wonderful) bed. I do not in anyway regret this decision. I thank myself everyday that I did it. It was defiantly harder then I expected, it isn't always rainbows and butterflies, but I can already feel myself becoming more responsible and honest everyday.

I am off to France now for  couple days! Leave me feedback!
xx,
Skye