Scouts de FRANCE ( in Fontvieille, Provence)

From Left: Super Suitcase, Super Toilet,

Super Love & Super Super

So, yesterday we went to Fontvieille to spent 24hours at Scouts of France, with atleast fifteen people having a crazy, stay up late, eat candy, party hard weekend. It started with lots of introductions, "bonjour je m'appelle Stanislaus, me (points to himself) Stan!!" and so on and so forth. "I speak badly English!" Then we went right away into our teams:

LES SUPER NULLE - Jeremie, Benoit, Alice & Marie

LE SUPER EQUIPE - Jane, Sylvia, Quentin, Stan & Genevieve

LE SUPER MOCHE (sorry can't spell) - Aurore, Simon, Morgane & Thomas

We rotated around the stations:

1. THE WORLD (all the continents are on different boards in a circle and they give you water balloons and a towel and between two people you put the water balloon on the towel and try and get the continents wet and you get points for getting it but if you're like my team you lose points because you continually get SUPER SUITCASE wet with your badly aimed waterballoons)
2. THE BLIND FOLD STATION (You and your group have to bind your ankles together and then go around trees and soccer balls and cars and then crawl and then do it all again blindfolded as well without touching the trees, cars, etc. and if your like my group and continually 'accidentally' untie your ankle binding things you get points off, oh yes, and you get points off if you continually touch trees and cars for guidance, which we also did!!)
3. THE GET ON THE MAT STATION (you have two mats placed together and SUPER LOVE tells you all the body parts that need to fit on the mat, ie one leg, one bad, two buts, one hand, three feet and between the five of you you need to accomplish this without any more or less and everyone needs to be on, this is the one station that my team was good at, unfortunately, so was every other team!!)

That evening we played a board game after our messy, campstyle dinner and it was pretty much come up with songs, make up dances and/or mime things for your team and the words were random things that had to do with the SUPERS, like 'constipated' for SUPER TOILET and 'love' for SUPER LOVE. We finally went to sleep after partying and singing and crap (videos will follow) at around 2 am and we woke up and had a nutella/baguette filled breakfast around ten before going to Mass because, unfortunately, SCOUTS is Catholic. Anyway, living through that we went and played out in the woods, all sorts of crazy games and then we played this weird stick game where everyone holds hands in a circle and there is a couple balanced sticks in the middle and if you seperate your hands you are disqualified and if you knock over the pile you are disqualified, I tied for first with Jeremie the first game and was knocked out first with Quentin in the second, but it was lots of fun.

I had a bit of trouble with a certain exchange partner who was a bit rude, distant and unwilling to help, 'you don't understand, you don't participate' kind of deal, which was annoying, but Stan was always willing to try his English and be very helpful while being very preppy yet goodlooking!!! :)

D'accord, I am now very tired from my long long long long long 24 hours and I'm going to go clean my room, do some homework and get ready for school tomorrow. It's a brand new week!!! Pictures will be up at somepoint and so will many more videos!!! Love you,

Jane

ps I have no religion, none whatsoever I have decided because I do not believe in a single thing that was said in that ceremony, although being together and singing and being part of something even if you don't necessarily believe in it is quite fun!!!

Le Mistral is going, going, going, going....never gone!!

Le Mistral, the name of the big wind here in Provence, is supposedly leaving us after giving us one week of hellish, Canada like coldness even though it is atleast 10° Celcius!!!!!

I am feeling better today you should all be glad to know, I have my package, I am content,I am about to take a shower and get clean and I feel positive, which is a lovely outlook on life. It's funny how one minute something feels overwhelming and the next it feels entirely do-able. Well, right now it all feels do-able and this afternoon I'm going camping with Scouts of France which should be...........interesting!!! We'll see.

Anyhow, pictures of school, Isle Sur La Sorgue, and all that jazz that have been accumulating for the past two weeks should be up tomorrow (I hope) and shortly following that the pictures (if theyre good) of Scouts should follow. Missing you all but of course throwing myself into endless homework demands from Canada, stupid projects from French teachers and my newest favourite song 'Get Off' by the Dandy Warhols, so I'm not doing too too badly!!! Je t'aime!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Love,

Jane

ps I'm sorry I took the Aurore vid off but she's not really a video fan and also, a video of the chickens and a video from the music concert my music class held should be up soon!!!! A bientot!!

Hating moments. Feeling the one month strain.

So the last week has been absolutely great but it has been filled with little moments of anger, stress, sandness, etc. and it's been slowly mounting up and last night I was enjoying some downtime and just getting myself to feel better when Aurore, who was waching tv, said Jane can you set the table please? And I did but I was really mad because I've done it everyday this week without being asked and I need a minute to just veg and zone out to recuperate and she just doesn't seem to see what most people can see sometimes. Long story short I started to cry because I felt like shit (after I set the table) and Aurore got so worried then and was like Jane don't cry please don't cry and then she did something stupid (which I can't remember at all) and I started laughing and crying and it was a sight to see. I honestly feel the pressure mounting as I hit today, the one month mark and it takes longer and longer now to bring myself a happy place and my mood has been out of control, happy one minute and sad or angry the next. So, I am in retarded English level one on the computer and I am dying of computer boredom!!!! I am also feeling like I want the package that my mom sent me to come because here Emma is talking about a second package and the first one for me, that hasn't even arrived, is leaving me in tears (just last night) and making me all stressed out. Which is not good because the whole purpose of the package is to make me feel better and to give me a little piece of my home. And so I shall leave you know and go and enjoy my recess before I relearn all about Hitler (when she says it it sounds like éclair, yumm!!!) and World War Two in History class before going home and praying to god that the package has arrived. 29/30 days until Morocco (give or take!!) and 55 days until Canada!! I promise it's not me counting, its the Canadian who is sitting next to me.

A feeling blah Jane. <333

Dancing Queens

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsi8figfUtk

YESTERDAY WAS THE BEST DAY EVER!!!!! Not only did I meet a hot French guy who remembered my name!! (That is impossible!!!) But, I had an awesome bunch of classes, had fun playing basketball and had fun eating with Kayla, Jamie and Alex at lunch and talking about French stuff and Aurore and I took the train home together and had tons of fun and talked about everything and made 'French' plans for before I leave and when we came home she put on "That Don't Impress Me Much" and "Man I Feel Like A Woman" and Aurore, Alix and Sylvie went crazy dancing and it was a wonderful night. I shall upload chicken videos later, but for now, the link above is a combinations of the two songs and Aurore, Alix and Sylvie, but mostly Aurore, dancing and going nuts!!!

♥JULIAN♥

JANE HAS FOUND HER FRENCH HOTTIE!!!

.......shame about his long distance girlfriend though......

Aloha amigas!!! (crap-wrong language!!) Well, today I played an hour of basketball at lunch with a bunch of French guys and Margot (a girlfriend of one of the guys-I'm making all the right friends!!!) and had tons of fun and during this I met Julian who is gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous and has not adopted the mullet like many of his French comrades. I played like crap but I had fun and we talked and then later in the hallway I was hanging out with Alex, a friend of mine, and he was nearby talking to a friend and he pointed at me and was like 'elle' and it could have been all negative, but atleast I am now making an impression on people!!! And that is nice!!!! Aurore and I had fun dancing today to Shania Twain and then made plans to go shopping in Avignon, go bowling, and do all sorts of other stuff so I am feeling very happy and pro-France today, I truly had a wonderfulllllllllllllllllllll day!!!!!!! Anyhow, now I must go and do some Canadian work (sighhhh) and then sleep because I have a long, early day tomorrow!! Crossing my fingers that mumma's package arrives tomorrow and that I don't fall asleep in uber-boring French. I HAVE TWO STRAIGHT HOURS!!! Godd!!!! Although, benefit is that I don't start until 9 tomorrow and I finish at 3!!! Gosh, it's almost as if I'm in Canada!!! Oh yes, I don't have class between 1 and 2 though, so not quite!!! Je t'aime and I shall blog later, but I love Julian, screw his girlfriend and I am making friends and loving la France!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

♥LA VIE EST BELLE!!!!

CORNILLON♥♥♥

WINDSWEPT BEAUTIES JKS JKS - So, Sunday we went for a picnic in Cornillon at André's shack, yes, his shack. IT WAS CRAZY!!! I had a lot of fun, picking flowers, eating good food, enjoying the sunny outdoors, getting windswept on the hour drive there, and watching the horsies and listening to my iPod!!! All in all, Cornillon provides me not so much with stories at it does with pictures which you can expect.....next weekend, maybe?? We'll see. So I shall leave you now, if only to write a seperate blog with a different title, because there really isn't much to say about Cornillon except that it was tons of fun and I really enjoyed eating good food and vegging with my iPod, also I got bitten by plenty of bugs. I forgot, there is toujours a downside to nice, beautiful weather.

A little aside to my momma - Everyone is gaining kilos by the kilo (?) and most people have gained around 4 or 5 kilos and Jane here has gained 3 lbs and has started running every day after school when she doesn't have soccer!!!!!!!!!!!!

Etre fiere de moi!!!

The effort is being made, the payoff shall be visible

I swear

when I return to Kanata!!!

(I'm going by the native name!!!)

For The Record...........

................THE FIRST WEEK OF SCHOOL IS OVER!!!!! And although it had it's bumps and some classes were way way way boring, I made lots of friends, have lots of funny stories and feel in control and happy and looking forward to going again on Monday morning!!! Yes, I love the French system because I only have half a day of school on Monday, 2 classes on Tuesday, half a day on Wednesday, 4 classes Thursday and 3 classes Friday!! YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!