As life gets crazy and why I m not wearing skirts

I haven't written here in a while. I had 3 midterms last week and a presentation, and this week I had an expose, 2 presentations and an interview. This week, I have an essay. Which I should be working on, but instead, I spent from when I got home (6 30 to now 11 23) talking with my awesome host family, made dinner and made meringue with my host father. All the while successfully avoiding doing all of the other homework waiting for me. But, I don't care (okay, I ll be honest, I care a bit) but I m choosing not to do it. It will be there tomorrow. Tonight, was totally worth it. I have started to write down all of the recipes I m learning, in the past two days, I learned how to make pudding and meringue, which are easy and absolutely amazing to eat afterwards( of course, its full of surgar and eggs. How much better can it get?). I also learned how to make pasta sauce. And, this is all from scratch.

I m going to have to keep this short, cause it is late and I have class tomorrow(but I can see the light woooo!) and just wanted to say, that I will write more about my life sometime this week. Hopefully.

Something interesting I've learned about France is their school system. They have public and private schools, but unlike the states, it seems like most students go to private schools. I thought this was really odd, because in Germany, almost EVERYONE goes to public schools. Here, they seem to have a lot of problems with the public schools, from the students, to teachers, to the goals and limits. So, parents send their kids to private. But, private isn't expensive like it is in the states, well this is all relative, but its not the same price tag. Instead, what can make it expensive is the lunch(apparently, either you go home for lunch OR you have to eat the schools) and the books. What a surprise. They have the same thing with constant new editions of books coming out, where mysteriously, the only thing that ever changes is the page numbers. Hmmm...

Anyway, it seems like a lot of students in the public schools are from the banlieues, which I want to call the slums, but its not exactly that. Its the suburbs, and some are better than others. They get divided up my race and nationalities, and like the states, these tend to be the tough neighborhoods. We watched a movie called Neuilly sa mere(Neuilly Your Mother) which plays on this. Neuilly is where the current president of France is from (Sarkozy) and its about a kid from the banlieues who goes to live there. We actually are watching a movie called La Journee de la Jupe tomorrow, which will further go into this topic and also on the fact that in France, to wear a dress or skirt means one can be considered a slut! Crazy right? But its late, I ll explain that later.