The funny thing is, I’d be in a boring class (like math, or history, or econ… hell, everything except biology and English, really), and I’d think up post titles to pass the time. Like ‘French penguins’ which stuck with me- it goes way back to when I still had trouble telling people apart because they all dress so similarly (it’s not really that amusing, I just liked it for some inexplicable reason). It’s been a month since my last update, and a lot has happened, which is a good thing, I suppose.
My French is much better, I am pleased to say; I can actually hold up my end of a conversation now. Sure, the only topics I can reliably discuss are university applications and how much I hate math class, but still, that’s an improvement on where I was in September, so I’m not complaining. And thesun has decided to come out these past few days (is it just me, or does the whether get worse when your mood tanks? Maybe it’s just me, but I could have sworn that it rained the entire week I had the sniffles…), so it’s warm again, and I’m not shivering like an epileptic anymore. That, and I got my winter coats from my parents a few days back- figures that the weather would improve once I got some heavy-duty jackets 
A word to the wise: never, everagree to go on a study abroad program and try to study for final high school exams (I mostly mean the Polish bac and AP tests, but the SAT and ACT could also be included in that statement, although to a lesser extent). I actually got called ‘reserved’ the other day, and my host mom told me to speak up more (supposedly so I learn the language faster, but probably also because a silent guest tends to take the fun out of everything. I’m really good at watching movies, though…), which is really because I spend all my time studying. Honestly, if you had to relearn everything about the literature of a country whose history goes back almost to the birth of Christ, you’d be pretty darn panicky, too! But I moved my laptop to the dining room for a while, and talked to the family a bit more, so I’m hoping that’s enough 
If you’d like to see some pictures, I’d suggest looking at my facebook- I update it much more regularly, and I can post more of them there (I have a 1GB limit on wordpress ). Here are a few of the more memorable ones, though
