This Week in Dijon - Week 7

Hey,

I know its been like over a week since i last psted but ive been prety busy. Well not really but it seems like everyday after school Nathans mom has to go to the store. So its been a common thing this week to not get home from school until after 7. Update on last weekend, stayed home for most of it. Sunday was mom's birthday, so happy belated birthday mom. Also on sunday me and Nathan went karting. It was so fun, probably the most fun ive hadsince I got here. Even better was that Nathan sucked at it and was scared to go too fast and hit the wall so i lapped him like 3 times in 10 minutes. They were super fast karts too so it was so fun. So that was my weekend, exciting. Didnt really do anything during theweek because of school but Tuesday i had the afternoon off so i took the bus for the first time and went and got a haircut. The but was easy to figure out because all the bus stops are named and there is a screen in the bus and it tells you what the next stop is, made it much easier. After the haircut i went to the mall for like 5 hours. I thought it would take me longer to get there than it did so i hadto sit aroun for 5 hours with limited funds. Wednesday was another one of the Canadians birthday so we went out for lunch. It was supposed to be a shiskabob place so i ordered one with pork and BBQ sauce. When it came it was a half-rack of ribs on a skewer with BBQ sauce on them. I was so excited, they were so good too, probably almost the best ive ever had, i was very impressed. After lunch it started to rain though so we all went home. Earlier that day at school in english class I questioned one of the teachers answers to one of the blanks on the sheet and she wasnt happy and insisted that i was the one who was wrong when clearly i was right. Later in the class she was talking about verb tenses and another Canadian turned to me and was like "I dont know the verb tnses in english," so i said that i dont either and the teacher flipped out and sarted ranting about how we always try to correct her and always have comments after every answer she says. then shes like if you dont like it then you can just leave. I almost started laughing and just said okay really sarasticly. I thought that was the point of putting us in the english class, to help out the teacher and students with english. But whatever. That was the only exciting thing that happened at school this week. As of now, I have less than a month left here. The french is getting better but still isnt that great.

I got a little story here. So last friday im at a bank machine getting money out and someone comes by and coughs inmy ear.It wasnt a real cough though, it was one of those fake ones. So i turn around and theres this black dude standing there. He kinda scared me, but then he started talking to me in french so i pulled the good old I dont speak french trick. Then he starts speaking english to me but with a Jamaican accent. Every sentance had the word "man" in it. In the middle of this i thought he was going to steal my money so i quickly put it in my pocket. He started asking me where i was from and i said Canada and hes like oh yeah what part. So i said the west and he replies, "whats that like Toronto." Haha, im like no Vancouver. He asked what i was doing here and i said an exchange and told him how it worked and hes like "oh really man, you can do that, its possible?" This dude had to have been pushing 30 an he is talking to me like we are friends. told me his name was Freeman haha what a good name. Anyways, thats it.

Peace