I love english. So much.

What, so I don't write for, like, one day and I must be sick of this? Thanks for your faith in me. I just havn't been on a computer since then.

English class is the best thing ever. They had two lessons of it today (though not as a double, which is kinda weird) and I spent the whole time trying not to crack up for fear of insulting everyone. First they were listening to this tape, which had some guy from Texas (though he had no texan accent) and some lady from Geneva (with this terrible french accent) having a conversation on a plane to Heathrow, both saying the dumbest things ever. It didn't help that the tape kept jumping. One of the girls in the class, Victoire, turned around and was all like "how do you spell hiccups?" and I'mm all like 'kay, weird question but whatever'. Then I look up and see that the teacher has written 'hickups' on the board.
In the second lesson, they were doing all these activities with phoenetic spelling, which I can't understand. But he kept getting me to say words so they could hear the pronounciation. He was asking about saying 'thank-you' in Australia, and he's trying to say 'ooroo', and everyone's staring at me, and I'm like 'yeah, no one says that. No one.'. I swear, one of the funniest things in the world is listening to a class of french people trying to say 'boots' and 'puffing'. But then again, they think it's hilarious to ask me to say 'baby'. Between the teacher's american accent, the english of the people on the tape and my australian, I don't see how they're going to learn anything.

In France, you get wednesday afternoon off, so yesterday we went to the shopping center. There are Christmas lights everywhere in France. There are lights on every tree everywhere. I wouldn't be surprised if I saw a dog covered in lights around here. There were also these giant displays everywhere- right in the middle of the shopping center, there was this giant castle with animatronic bears all over it. They really like their christmas over here.

By the way, if anyone sees Telstra walking down the street, can you give them a good kick up the bum for me? We've called them twice to put international roaming on my phone, and it's still not working. Photos still coming, I don't know if the school library people would like me showing up with my camera and all the cords.

--Caitlin