The Lazy Teenager In France: This Week In School: Walking in a Winter Wonderland....

Somewhere beneath all of this lies the BBC's School Report image from previous Weeks!

ITS CHRISTMAS! Well okay we still have got a good portion of the Month left but with all this Snow you can't help but get into the Xmas 'spirit'. Is it just me, but is Christmas seemingly coming earlier and earlier for these past few Years? Not to mention its also getting colder and colder (Day after Tomorrow style apocalypse coming?)! All this bad weather we've been having has put all the Schools in France into a massive standstill. I hear its just as bad in the UK, so I hope you guys aren't freezing to death over there! Bit of a mixed feeling here cos' 1: Yay because less School! And 2: Damn because of more Homework and all of the catching up I'll have to do and the (seemingly endless) amounts of Tests which will start spewing out onto the floor! Luckily that hasn't happened yet, as we've only had two days off so far. But just you wait...

Monday, despite being broadcasted to be a complete snowy blizzard turned out to be just a normal day in School (much to the dissapointment of my Class), although when I got up in the morning it was pushing -8! It was so cold the AIR had frozen! No Ice on the roads though, those Bastards had gritted it. I was breathing out smoke all day (many smoking jokes were exchanged the playground). Nothing much happened to be honest, German was a bit tricky (we're studying how to say the time at the moment, I'm fine untill you have to use words like 'Es ist Funfundzwanzig nach Funf...' and so on), Science was a bit boring (We are currently studying carbonised wood of all things!), Art was fun (still working on that map from last Week) and I got a whopping 16/20 in Maths! 16/20! Can't believe that, so far my Results have been bad, good, bad, bad, bad, bad, good, good, bad, and good! Didn't help my Score though, unfortunately only the first five Tests in Maths counted in the first Trimestre and seen as they were mostly (par one) terrible my Overall score in Maths is 8,45/20. C-R-A-P. Not the worst in the Class though, the lowest score was 6,24/20 if that counts for anything. The Teachers comments are that we are a nice Class to work with, but half the time we don't understand a thing and refuse to ask her for help. Basically we're about as smart as a bunch of sticks...could have been worse. In Geography we were each tasked with creating a fake Holiday Brochure (directed to the Amercains, who apparently know NOTHING about Europe) and show off what this continent had to offer Culturally, Religiously and languistically. I came up with the idea that seeing as your average brochure offers several different languages, and I am fluent in English and am sufficient enough in French, I should do a Brochure with both languages being available (cos' when you think about it, this is supposed to be aimed at Americains, they don't understand a word of French), I could have done a German language on it as well, but that might have become a bit too hard so I decided against it. Its going well so far, I hope the Teacher likes the whole multi-languages thing. The Test (also in Geography) went well, except when the Teacher tells you learn every country in Europe off my heart...and you do exactly that....you would think she would ask you to currectly put on a map the name of every country in Europe for the Test? I only had to put a few countrys on the map (approximately 15 out of the 27 countrys I had learnt). Bit annoyed, so I didn't really have to learn all of them did I? Another thing that Grinds my Gears (here we go again) is that she told us to put all the easy names on the Map, like France, UK, Spain ect... EASY ALERT! In French the Dictation went very well (I think I only made a few mistakes) so that was all good. FLE aka French Language Education (every Monday I have a 50 minute lesson with the Science Teacher that is designed to help me with my French) was a real shocker, Mme Philippe (the School Headmaster) came into the deserted Classroom and asked the Teacher with he had some cables he could hook up to a Car battery (I think one of the Teachers cars had broken down and he was the only teacher to have them in his Car) and he left WHILE Mme Philippe tutored me in his abscence! The Head? Teaching me French? On my own? It could have gone better, she had this very loud growl every time I got a question wrong...

After Monday, Tuesday was more of the same: We were still studying the time in German, still working on the Brochure in Geography (Plus in History my Overall score for this Trimestre is 18/20 which is the highest score in the Class by the way *ACCEPTS APPLAUSE*), doing endless exercises in French (I was given my score for this trimestre as well: 9,45/10. Well its French, it was hardly going to be a miracle, was it?) and solving tricky Maths problems in Maths (Okay, In a news program that lasts half-an-hour, three thirds of the programme is dedicated to reporting and the rest of the time is donated to the commentary of the presenter. What is the length, in hours, of the Presenters commentary? Get it right and I'll reward you a gold star).

Wednesday started off badly, I injured my leg while doing the high jump in Sport and failed BAAADLY. In Technology we had to look online to find a device that could run the houses electricity automatically (ex: if you were to walk into a dark Room, the lights in the House would automatically switch on, and it would switch off when you were no longer present).

I got up on Thursday to find out that it had Snowed a BIT overnight, the roads were clear, and there was quite a bit of Frost but NOTHING that would stop the School from opening. Turns out, practically NO ONE turned up for School. There was SIX people in my Class that showed up (including me!). Where is everybody? I had no idea, either three quarters of the School are lazy buggers or we must be the only area that isn't SWAMPED in snow. I had to endure two hours of Permanence (some of the Teachers didnt show up as well, even the Maths Teacher was late) and, because the Sport Teacher had made it, one hour of Ping-Pong/Football that I sucked at, and loads of what I would call 'filler classes' where we would watch a boring Documentary about boring things. The Teachers could hardly continue normally with only six of us, so we were playing a board-game in German, a few Maths exercises in Maths and cleaning up classes that need a good scrubbing in the place of Music (basically we were doing errands for the Head). Very pissed off, I mean did half the School just throw their hands up and refuse to go to School, just over a bit of Snow (It wasn't even 5mm thick!)?

Friday, didn't exist, because the School had shut down. I'll put a few pictures up, and email you even more, but its quite literally a WINTER WONDERLAND OUT THERE RIGHT NOW! YAY! SCHOOLS SHUT, ITS SNOWING! *RUNS OUTSIDE LAUGHING HAPPILY* Snowball fights, sleeping (getting up at 8am in the morning is too FAR early for me) and just a general 'Xmas fun' feeling insued!