Winding Down

Stuff is pretty chill around here. Since I still haven't started school, there's not much to do. I don't even have chores- around here, parents do all the work. I get shooed from the kitchen when I start rinsing my plate, and the only thing I have to do is my own laundry, which is a weekly affair. So for the most part, I watch TV or study French while Célia goes about her several disparate businesses. Even Pablo and Matthieu have stuff to do- namely school stuff, seeing as how everyone else here in France has started except for me. Which sucks, because I can't wait for school. It will give me something to do, people to talk to, practice for my French, and interesting stuff to learn. I visited my school Friday with Célia, and talked to the principal. My school is very international- they even have an international section for students learning French. While I don't know exactly what my emploi du temps is quite yet, I do know several classes I'll be taking. Since I'm in Première L, something equivalent to a Junior who takes lots of lit classes, I don't have to take much math. I don't have to take any, actually- if I were so inclined (and I am), I could ask the principal to drop that class and he would. Not any student can do this- just the exchange students. After all, how will math help my proficiency in French? How will PE make me a more fluent speaker? So I get to take only classes I want, and drop the ones I don't want, and pick up a few more that I'm interested in. Like Italian, Spanish and English literature. I'll also have history classes, French literature (I'll take more of those than English), and French language classes. All in all, exchange students are treated very well at my school, so it will be easy to adapt. Monday I'll post my schedule, as well as proposed changes, and how my first day at school went.