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So on sunday Daylight savings started, so we now have to get up an hour earlier. I havent felt it yeat cos we started school at 10 this morning so we could sleep in anyway, but yeah we dont have histoire-géo or math all this week cos the teachers are both gone to Italy on a school trip. On wednsday however its gna be so hard : we have to go to a competition in Poitiers for dance ( hahaha how embarrassing im still learning!) and we have to be at school by 7 in the morning, meaning i have to get up at 6, meaning if it wasnt daylight savings it would be 5 in the morning. Génial! But yeah anyway about the competition, the teacher signed us up for it, but its gna be a joke cosim gna just gna be straight up - we suck. there is only one girl who is any good who has one of the main roles. And just to add to the joke, the other girl who had the second biggest part of the dance turns out cant come cos shes part of the group whos going to Italy, so the teacher decides to give her part to ME! LOL soo, on top of everything i had to quickly learn to be included just at the end, i had to learn all the other girls dance in the last practice we had:) i have no idea why the teacher gave it to me i suck at contemporary dance i am so uncoordonated, and so im not looking forward to this stupid competition lol its going to be a disaster.

Anyway what else has been happening, last week on tuesday i went to "Café Linguistique" which is a place where people get together to speak foreign languages together, which i think ive already written about. Anyway it was really cool i really enjoyed it. It was good being able to have proper conversations in english which i havent done in a while. I met some new people, there were two romanians who spoke english, a boy called Tibby and a girl called Michaela and they were both very good looking. and there was also a french girl who wants to improve her english, because nex year she is hoping to go to NZ and maybe study at Waikato Uni which i found pretty cool! The lady who invited me whos name is Nelly was the one who introduced me to all them, and shes really nice, she also lived in NZ for a bit too.

On Friday it was cool too, Fanny and a friend wanted to go to the public pools after school but i didnt really feel like it, so i spent the afternoon with another friend of mine, Chloé. It was real cool, she took me to where she hangs out and introduced me to all of her friends and she has ALOT of friends, so all the names of course just went in one ear and out the other. But they were all really nice and asked me heaps of questions about NZ and the parties and stuff lol it was cool. But yeah by the time everyone was ready to leave, i had managed to remember 2 peoples names. A girl called "Wasi" or something cant spell it, and a boy called "Tibeau" cant spell that either. Oh and another boy called Josuah but hes in my class and i already knew him. Oh yeah and i gave Josuah and Chloé some KORA songs and they loved them, and then they were playing some that afternoon and everyone else loved it too, haha it was cool sitting there and even hearing some of them sing along to the songs.

My weekend was pretty relaxed, the oldest sister Hélène came home from Paris for the weeked, andon saturday we all went to a second hand market, and i bought some really cool stuff all for only 5 euros which is about 10 NZ dollars. I got a little brown woolen hand bag, that hangs on yyour shoulder, another hand bad type thing that is beige and the material is kind of like canvas, and on the top and the inside its brown leather. And i also got a little blue leather Lancaster make up bag thing its quite nice! And after that we went to a friends house and yeah that was my weekend!

This week should hopefully go fast, and then when its finished we are on holidays for 2 weeks again, and im hoping to meet up with Jason and Carrie if shes not busy sometime during, so that should be cool! Right well im off now, but will let everyone know how the bloody dance competition goes haha.

Soirée...

So the other day at school we were in english, and had a little suprise vocab test. The last phrase the teacher wanted us to translate into english was "Je veux que vous ecrivez" which means "i want you to write". A boy in my class however didnt know the answer, so quietly asked the person next to him what the answer was. They told him the answer, and so when he showed the teacher his answers, it turns out he had misheard the right answer and had written "I want you tonight." instead! hahahaha i could not stop laughing and neither could the teacher. And also today in English the teacher was talking about broad sheet newspapers, but because of her accent Fanny had misheard it, and wrote down "Broad Shit" instead lol english is the funnest class for me. On Friday it was the 6 days before all the people in terminale(7th form) have their Bac exams, and in France its tradition oon this day to chuck eggs and flour on all the seconde and premier (6th and 5th form) people, so i was paranoid the whole day. Its banned at our school tho thank god, because last year someone chucked a whole big sack of flour at someone, and they were only in troisième (4th form)! but we still went into town anyway and it was so funny seeing other people covered from head to toe in flour lol. On Saturday we had to go to school in the morning because it was the open day for the school, and it felt so wierd to be at school on a saturday which i have never done in my life. Thank god we dont have to do that everyweek like some schools in France do. On Saturday night, a friend called Amélie had a little soirée at her house to celelbrate her 17th bday, and it was very fun i had a good time. Fanny always does baking and is always really good at it, so we decided to make chocolate eclairs for the party. It was the first time i have helped her bake something and it was a complete disaster haha nothing went right! first the actual pastry didnt work cos it didnt rise, it burnt on the outside, and didnt cook on the inside. Then we made the choch cream for the inside which was the only thing that worked properly, except we made way too much of it. Then they looked real ugly so we decided to melt some choc for the icing, which Fanny let me do. Big mistake. I burnt the chocolate abit. I couldnt even melt choc without stuffing it up hahah! so we iced the "eclairs" anyway but it dried up way too fast and the "eclairs" actually looked like human poo hahahahah. So THEN we decided to put rainbow sprinkles on top to try and make them look better, and because we didnt want anyone to know that we had tried to make choc eclairs but had epicly failed. I left that bit to Fanny seeing as i had stuffed everything else up lol so Fanny starts sprinkling the sprinkles...when the lid falls off and alllll the sprinkles splat right in the middle of the plate hahahahaha so everything was a pretty big mess. So we didnt want anyone to know that we had attempted and failed at laking choc eclairs, so instead decided to say that it was a NZ specialty that was not eclairs. I then decided that i did not want to give NZ a bad name, so we changed it to be an Australian specialty called "Rainbow Cat Fingers" lol. We did not eat any at the party but said that we had already eaten too much at home so coudnt eat anymore hahaha but when people tried them they actually liked them. which made ma and fanny burst into laughter. everyone was wondering what was so funny and we didnt wanna give away our secret so fanny was siting there laughing, and pointing to Victor(friend) saying that it was him who was funny, and you had me sitting there laughing, pointing in the other direction saying it was the birds in the cage that were so funny and everyone was so confused lol but yeah it was a good night full of laughter, drinking, and dancing! Today it was so hot, well hottest its been since ive been here. It was 18 degrees and its supposed to be like this for the rest of the week, yay! Spring is finally coming:)

Weekend

Today is sunday and im so tired. last night me and Fanny stayed the night at a friends house and at about midnight just casually decided to watch "Les Collines a Des Yeux" -ie. "The Hills Have Eyes" in french, and because it was a scary movie we didnt get to sleep till about 3.30 and then woke up at like 9 which was not fun haha but it was a good night. People are also starting to be able to say my name better now like it low key sounds maori but not quite but theyre getting there! its funny cos they all ask me what my brothers and sister names are like wether or not theyre as hard as my name. For example the other day after school we went to town and went to a bar to get a drink (yes we are allowed to buy alcoholic drinks here without id!!!) and one of the girls asked me if my family had hard names to say as well. This is how it went :

Me: "Hinemoana, Arohia,Te Reita,Taunoa, and neice Hineata Te Ope Wairua..."

French: [looking so amazed and shocked and confused all at the same time] "F.ck! and your dads name???"

Me: "...Paul."

then they all burst into laughter and so did i cos i realised how random it was and yeah. had to be there lol.

also this weekend me and Fanny have started to watch Skins(i french of course) on the internet from the first episode and im loving it, even tho its been in NZ for ages ive only ever watched a few episodes every now and then. and i can understand most of whats being said too which is good!

im going to go now as i am really tired, will right again soon.

Monday 1st March - Lundi le premiér mars

Had the first week back at school last week and it was a pretty good week, well most of it anyway. Apart from the infected pimple i was blesseed with, it was good haha. I tought some of my fellow class mates some very usefull words in english hahaha and vice versa, i love hearing them swear or insult each other in english its hilarious with the lil french accents. I also had two tests, one in english which was on the DANCES WITH WOLVES movie which i bullsh*d my way through as i have never seen the movie and arrived after they had watched it, but got the result back today and got 30/30 haha luckily. and the other test was maths, statistics which i think i did okay in except for two questions which i couldnt do, but other than that all the rest i had already done in like year 10 and 11 so it should be sweet! today i showed Fanny some Kora songs and she loved them, so there goes my work for the whanau! haha spreading the word in France. in the weekend i went to the museum of Angoulême with Christophe(dad) and there was lots of stuff there and even found a couple of maori things there too like a patu and cant memba what else. after the museum we went to the place they ived before which is called Villebois-Lavalette, which is about 30 min drive out of Angoulême and it is sooooo pretty its a really old little village with like a ancient market place in the middle of the village from like hundreds of years ago and a place where all the women from the village used to all wash their laundry etc, it was cool. Then we went to Christophe's ULM club where i met some of his fellow ULM friends haha that was ages and i got a little bored while all the adults talked but apart from that it was cool seeing the little planes and everything. Haha i can hear Fanny in the office listening to different Kora songs, see she already loves it! Lately there have been big storms in France only about an hours drive or so from here, and there are already over 51 people dead from it, but its not that bad here luckily just abit of light wind and rain. It was Nathalie's birthday today too, so we had a little bithday lunch for her yesterday, luckily i already had some presents and stuff left over that i bought over with me so i gave her a hing that looks like a pen but isnt a pen, im not sure what it is actually, and it has a twist on the top. Also today a guy at school, who has always just watched me smiling when i walk past since about my 2nd week here, said hello to me for the first time in stead of just staring which was nice for a change lol, but yes he always used to just sit there and smile and stare which was awkward but now that hes said hello its not as awkward haha. oh and i managed to figure out how to change the settings of my keyboard on my laptop from English to French so i can now write with all the little accents and things "comme ça". but i also had to write on my keys with twink just to mark where the different characters all are cos its way diff to english ones . i think thts all i had to say fro now, so will write more next time. oh yeah and my pimples going down:)