i have the coolest thing ever.........an electronic translator...yeah so what if that classifies me as a geek...its awesome.

umm....fun-ish weekend. spent saturday with my host dad. we went to a craft store so i could get some watercoloured pencils (cos im always soooo bored), we had macdonalds...it was so funny...people would order in french but then you'd hear a fake american accent "big mac" or something like that. didnt do much for the rest of saturday but that night i had to go to dinner at my host mums sister house. it was crazy.....like 10 or 11 over 50s drinking soo much and talking sooo loudly. they were drinking like 14 year olds in the botanical gardens...everyone had like 4 or 5 beers before dinner...then we went through 9 bottles of beer for 11 people including 2 sober drivers. and had spirits with desert. drunk french people are very amusing, especially when they are attempting to talk english. considering that they can't talk it when they are sober, it was great trying to understand their drunken attempts. we didnt leave until about 12.30. so i spent a saturday night drinking with old people.....it was a good laugh and i think putting up with that night will get me out of going to the next few family dinners.

sunday was average...didnt do much. talked with my host mum about speaking more french around the house cos she only peaks english with me. her one condition of having a student was that they always spoke english with her. so it was a lil tricky to try and explain that i wanted to speak french more...especially cos she has limited english and only understands about half of what i say (apparently its because i have a bad accent but everyone else who talks english with me has no problems) managed to figure out something so now we talking french at dinner time. and i can always talk french with my host dad cos he cant spek any english.

yesterday i found out i can go skiing or snowboarding each weekend in winter from january to march. so thats cool. it snowed about 1 hour from where i am so itll start getting colder soon...and i might actually wake up and be able to look out the window at a white backyard :)