Family update

So the host family situation is still going well, though a couple moments have really stuck out in the past week as being incredibly amusing.

A) Coming home today to see my 16 year old host brother playing playstation, which isn't unusual, except this time he was playing Grand Theft Auto.  Awesome.

B) Last week when my host mom confronted my 19 year old host brother about how he coughs all the time.  She finally got him to fess up about smoking, but then went even further, saying "I used to have a pack in the desk as reserve, but now they're all gone.  Did you steal them??"  After 5 minutes of back and forth, she finally threw down the "I'd rather have my son be a  thief than a liar".  He then point blank admitted he stole them.  A little awkward since, as they keep making reference to it.  Not sure if she was angry or amused by it, at the time or now.  She goes back and forth sounding pissed, but then laughing about it later.  Confusing and hilarious.

C) Coming home last night and seeing the family captivated by a 60 Minutes style news report about the prostitues of the Bois de Boulogne.  Apparently the park, which is about a 10 minute walk from my house and really nice during the day, becomes the biggest red light district in Paris after dark.  I knew it was sketch at night, but never realized how freaky it actually is!  I ended up watching for 25 minutes with them.  Interesting yet bizarre.  Not sure they would report on something like that in the US.  And I still find it hard to believe that the whole family was immersed in a report about transexual prostitues.  Oh and the report had a 10 minute thing about a dog trainer that works in the park. Super weird.

Time to do work.  I have way too much to do within the next 2 weeks, including plan my spring break to Scandinavia and the UK!

two great weeks, one hard week.

The past two weeks (from last Saturday) were amazing!  While not particullarly immersing or "french", they were incredibly fun.  The first week, my girlfriend Alex came to visit, and from last Sunday until today my family was here to see me.  In these two weeks were visits and dinners with various families, a meeting of my real family and my "famille d'acceuil" and of course, a family trip to Disneyland!  All was very fun and may write about individual parts of it in more detail at a later time.

This week has been back to reality.  Lots of work and even more planning for vacation.  Right now I'm deep in the process of planning a trip to Scandinavia, the homeland!

Going to my host brother's gallery opening tonight.  Should be fun.  Maybe I'll put up pictures or a link when I get back.

Tomorrow I'm heading to Germany!  A bientot! Auf Wiedersehen!

Long time since I last posted

Since then, I've done a trip to Amsterdam, got a bad haircut, and done more school work then I've done all semester.  Hopefully I'll be able to share some of the stories soon, but no time tonight.
One picture though- it's of the courtyard of my house

A bientôt!