2 month Anniversary

Salut my good people,

Today November 6th marks my 2 month anniversary for being in France!!! Yaaayyyyyy!
I can hardly believe that I have already been here 2 months, yet at the same time it does feel like I am actually here now! Before you go on exchange you hear everyone telling you, this month this will happen, then the next month this will happen and after that you feel this and then that...etc. I expected it to be sort of similar to what those people said, but I didn't expect for them to be right on the money!

My first month of exchange was this whirl wind of weird, new exciting, different activities and experiences, so it didn't seem like I was actually living my life. It was like some magical dream! But when the second month rolled around I had really started to develop a routine! I had been in school for a while and made friends and was staring to kind of figure out what was happening. Things were starting to become normal! Now that the second month has passed everything seems and feels normal, this is my life, I live in France as of right now! LOL! It seems as though I just came to this realization as of this very moment! I promise I haven't, my feelings just match the reality now! :)

I am really understanding sooo much more than I was at the beginning of the month and I think my speaking has improved! At least thats what all my friends at school have been telling me! hahaha! :) To conclude, I feel really good about everything right now and I am so happy to be reaching mile stones in my exchange!

Donc,
Here in Wittelshiem, the weather has officially started to change! It is pretty much always cold now, no more fluctuations between warm one day and snowing the next! It is just cold! However, I am enjoying it!:) This week has been pretty rainy! It rained all of yesterday, it started the night before yesterday and rained until the middle of the night last night! It wasn't too bad really, I layer in my bed with my window open and read my book all day. One of my favorite things to do!:)

 I've gotten smart and brought my umbrella with me, so I can walk home after school instead of Renata, or Wojtek having to drive 5 seconds to pick me up! Hahahaha!:) It also gets dark crazy early here now! It messes with my body clock a little! I've been feeling like its time for bed at like 7:30-8 every night! LOL! It gets dark around 5:45 and by 6 its pitch black and the moon is out! It was bizarre because today I was walking home after school and today was my long day, so I finished at 5:30. When I left school it was already almost completely dark and by the time I got home it was pitch black and like I said the moon was up in the sky! It was awesome though because it looked like a full moon, I don't know if it was or not, but it looked that way! So it was a pretty walk!

One last thing before I go! Renata had asked me last night if I could make pancakes for this morning. I have been wanting to do that for a while since, they don't eat pancakes very often here! So I said sure! I wasn't even really thinking about the fact that I would have to get up at 6:20, make the pancakes from scratch, converts the units of measurement and cook enough for 4 people. Then I find out as I am literally needing to eat and leave for school, that the recipe was tiny and I should have tripled it! So then I have to make another batch, but by then I had no choice but to leave it there for Renata to finish, because I had to go to school! It was crazy! Renata kept telling me to, " to sit down, chill out and eat." (in french of course) But I kept telling her that we didn't have time for that, so I ate as I cooked! It was crazy and hectic, but really fun! And thinking back on it now, we both probably looked like lunatics half asleep and destroying the kitchen at 7:15 am! :) I did teach Renata how to just cook pancakes in a pan on the stove, rather than in a machine, so that was cool also!:)
(don't ask me how she cooked pancakes in a machine, because I have never seen that in my life)
While we were driving to school, Renata looked over at me and said, "what was I thinking when I said can you make pancakes this morning!" It was really funny! Neither of us really considered the time we needed! LOL!:)

Alrighty, I hope you all have a super weekend and friday! I am not really sure what my plans are, maybe get the perfume I have been waiting to buy since I arrived! Hahaha!:)

Hasta luego and bonne nuit,
XOXOXO
Grace <3