France Vs. USA

Salut,

It is now tuesday night and I know I blogged yesterday, but I noticed a lot of differences and similarities through out the day between France and the USA. I'm sure you all are thinking we know the differences, but these are not just "they speak french" "we speak english" sort of differences. These are the ones you would only notice if you had been staying for an extended amount of time. Like more than a week! LOL! (technically that's not me. But who cares)

1. The shower is labeled with a C for hot and an F for cold. This one caught me off guard tonight...-_-
2. The windows don't open like doors. they open like a mail box door. If that makes an since, you pull the window toward you. I'll post a pic.

3. Toilets are the weirdest thing ever. They are all different. It's the biggest surprise every time you go in a bathroom! Hahaha!!

4. Kinder eggs are here. Kinder candy is fabulous, it's a chocolate product and it is sooo good! j'ai t'aime!

5. The way my schedule works for school and the way classes are, the high school is more like college. 2 days days during the week I have a 3 hour break in the middle of the day. I could walk home eat lunch take a nap and walk back in that amount of time! 

6. NO SPORTS IN SCHOOL! My least favorite thing, but it's not that big of a deal. I have 2 hours of a P.E. type class. Except here you actually work out and play sports, unlike America where you walk in a circle for an hour.

7. Kids are allowed to smoke. pretty much every second of the school day you can find a group of kids smoking. Luckily the group of girls I made friends with doesn't smoke and is insanely nice. I really like them.

8. You have the same group of people for every class and you just switch class rooms and teachers. 

9. Classes are either an hour or 2 hours. not 83 minutes or whatever it is at Vandegrift. 

10. Kids cannot drive till they are 18. 

11. The foreign language classes are taught in the language that you are learning. 

EXAMPLE: Today in my spanish class the teacher spoke spanish the entire class and would occasionally through in a french word. LOL!! In America the foreign language is taught in english and the teacher occasionally speaks the language you are learning. For me having the spanish teacher speak spanish the whole time was amazing because I actually understood her! Hahaha!! Plus there are only 8 people in my class, which is nice. Most kids take italian or german. 

12. They do not drink cold water or put ice in any drinks. So i've gotten used to drinking room temperature water. (Juju would love it)

13. There is no AC, so my window is open 24/7.

14. They don't use sheets here. There is a fitted sheet and then a comforter or blanket. Which personally makes me a little hot at night since there is no AC, but it's really not bad.

15. Breakfast is only sweet stuff. Today Wojtek made me crepes!!<3 and I put nutella on them. But don't worry parents I've been eating a banana with my sweet.

Okay enough of that. This is for my parents. They will be so excited when they read this next paragraph and probably laugh their butts off.

So here at casa de Miciuda, the washing machine is about as big as an easy bake oven. So the size of a load of laundry is very very small. They also don't have a dryer. They have a clothes line outside and I have to hang my clothes up on that with little colorful clips and everything. It's actually kinda cute. Anyway so moral of the story, I have to do my own laundry. So I wash them, hang them up, and then wait a day and then go get them in my green basket and then I iron anything that is super wrinkled and lastly I put everything away!:) 

My parents are probably in shock! LOL! :)

Today was my first official full day of Lycée (high school) and it was fabulous. Like I said earlier the girls in my class that I have made friends with are soo nice and I really enjoyed English class! :) It's fun because they teach british english and I know American english so I help the teacher and teach him some things as well. Like they say 'tick' instead of 'check'. like when you write a check mark on a piece of paper. Plus I was able to understand and participate in spanish and a little bit in math.

Alrighty thats all for now. Au revouir, Bonne nuit and Bonnesoir!!! :)

All my love! 

Grace <3