School

Hi

So this week has been my first week of school and I know I haven't been updating very often but not too much happens when your just going to school everyday! I will probably start updating like once a week or maybe twice. I had my first day of school last Friday but that was only two hours and it didn't really count as a real school day so my first "real" day was on Monday. I was kind of nervous about it but I wasn't too worried about not understanding the teachers because I don't have to get really really good marks here because none of the credits count! I went through Monday starting off with Religion, but I don't think we talked at all about religion, and then after that I had Neerlandais (Dutch). I knew right away that I wouldn't understand anything because that was basically the first time I had even heard the language! The teacher just told us to make a one page presentation introducing ourselves in dutch and I just told the other people sitting beside me that I didn't know a word of dutch so they told the teacher and he said I could do it in French instead! That was definately a relief! The next time we had class he asked us questions about ourselves and went into more detail about the things we wrote about in our presentations. I was pretty happy because I understood all the questions he asked me! My other classes went pretty much the same, with me not understanding much.. but I just try to write down all the words that I do recognize while the teacher is talking and during history I actually got like 2 and a half pages. Of course none of it made sense and when the other students read what I wrote they just laughed but oh well its something. My other courses are Gym, French, History, Art, History of Art, English, Math, Science, and Geography. School here can be pretty hard but I really like how on Wednesdays I finish at 1:00 and then on Thursdays I only start at 10:30 but on Thursdays I have to go until 5:00. Its pretty hard not having all my friends that i'm really comfortable with and not really having a set group of friends here right now but i think it will get easier as it goes on. Tomorrow will be a fun day at school though I think because in the morning we are going to a university city called Louvain la Neuve and going for a tour of the University and then in the afternoon we have sports day. It will also be good because we only have to be at the university at 10:00 and don't have to go to school before. The school is also a lot different than Canada because for one the teachers change classes mostly not the students and you are with one class all year. Also when the teachers are sick or don't come to school you don't have a substitute teacher, you just don't have to go to that class. So yeah! I am looking forward to tomorrow and hopefully i'll start understanding things at school soon!

Bye!