I've been here for five weeks today, and I feel as if yesterday I was thinking to myself "I've been here for four weeks". This week went by really quickly, which makes me wonder if every week will be like that. Right now that's okay, but I know in the Spring that will NOT be okay!
School was actually really good this week. I'm understanding the teachers pretty well and I had two quizzes. The Spanish one I did well on (I've taken Spanish before so that's no big feat or anything), and the history one, hmm... It was a paragraph answer, so much depended on writing! I got a three out of ten, which normally I would be appalled by but half the class got the same grade, and the American equivalent is about 60% (grades are a bit different here, a really good grade is 75%), so I'm not too disappointed! I also had an small oral presentation in French class where we had to bring in an object and describe why it is poetic to us. I brought my plane ticket to Belgium and I think it went really well! I was quite relieved and pleased when I finished.
Today I'm going to Louvain-la-Neuve with my friends Michelle and Minna. Michelle is an exchange student from Colorado who is also in Braine-l'Alleud, and Minna is an exchange student from Finland! I'm very excited.
I have also gone 5 days without skyping with my family, which is the longest I've gone here. I am skyping with them tonight though :)
School was actually really good this week. I'm understanding the teachers pretty well and I had two quizzes. The Spanish one I did well on (I've taken Spanish before so that's no big feat or anything), and the history one, hmm... It was a paragraph answer, so much depended on writing! I got a three out of ten, which normally I would be appalled by but half the class got the same grade, and the American equivalent is about 60% (grades are a bit different here, a really good grade is 75%), so I'm not too disappointed! I also had an small oral presentation in French class where we had to bring in an object and describe why it is poetic to us. I brought my plane ticket to Belgium and I think it went really well! I was quite relieved and pleased when I finished.
Today I'm going to Louvain-la-Neuve with my friends Michelle and Minna. Michelle is an exchange student from Colorado who is also in Braine-l'Alleud, and Minna is an exchange student from Finland! I'm very excited.
I have also gone 5 days without skyping with my family, which is the longest I've gone here. I am skyping with them tonight though :)