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Bonjour!

I think my french might be starting to get a bit better! Well I am speaking it more often I feel like at least. Tonight at dinner I spoke French pretty much the whole time with the exception of saying some words I didn't know in english. It made me feel a bit better about the whole language thing and maybe a bit less homesick, which is good! I am really looking forward to learning more and more french as time goes by and I am going to try my hardest to be fluent and to be bilingual. I hope some day I can maybe become tri-lingual as well..if possible. At dinner we had chinese food, which I don't normally eat in Canada even though you would think its more common to eat chinese food in Ca

nada than in Belgium! I need to start getting used to eating later dinners though because I always get pretty hungry around 5:30 but we don't normally eat until around 8:00. I am also starting to really like the breakfasts. We have bread everyday with whatever you want on it, which I never had in Canada. In Canada I don't like having toast for breakfast and the bread is just not the same as it is here. But yeah, anyways my host brother, Louis left yesterday at 6:00 PM for his exchange to Argentina. I was very excited for him but I was also very sad for the family because I really know how they feel. Being at the airport with the whole family when they said goodbye really reminded me of when I had to leave Terrace. The whole morning I was thinking to myself that I didn't want to cry, but as soon as I walked through the doors at the airport I did. It was probably the hardest thing i've ever had to do, but I knew that I was going to have a good experience. There was also another exchange student in the airport heading out and I really wanted to ask him where he was going, but then he started talking to Louis and said he was going to Mexico. Its weird the connection you feel between other exchange students even though you don't know them at all. If I could speak french better I probably would have talked to him. After Louis left everyone was pretty sad so we went to a movie to get our minds off it. We went to a movie called Knight andDay with Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz, and it was okay. When we got into the movie theatre it was really nice outside and sunny but when we came out it was raining! The weather is weird that that here. One minute its really nice and then the other its like a storm. After the movie we walked around, I had no idea where we were going but then we stopped at an Italian restaurant and ate dinner. It was already probably 9:15 or something. I ordered a pizza and it was huge! I would've defiately shared have if I were at home. While I was eating it I was thinking about my brother because he is always trying to make pizza like this pizza we had in Disneyland so long ago which was like the pizza I ate. So I took a picture for you Matt. Today there wasn't much to do because Ines had to work and Claire had dance, so I decided to go for a run. I ran for probably half an hour around a couple little lakes and then I decided I would walk for a while. I saw a lot of different things and many times I thought I was going to get lost but I always found my way back. I was on my run/walk for about 2 hours and then I was really tired. When I got home I just went into my bed and slept for an hour. I hope I will be able to get out and do more exercise while i'm here!

Au revoir!