"Sans" a growl

A few things.

Days going by fast-ness. And I actually don't really even dread school completely. Sort of. 

Tuesday night was pretty much the best day so far. I met that other French trumpet player, who yeah does know some English. We played Cantoloupe Island by Herbie Hancock and some other jazz stuff. Which is pretty much the best thing ever. I was counting the rests in French in my head, and me and my teacher again had a conversation or two about the different languages. The phrase "it works" actually doesn't make much sense. (The kind where you say "the computer works", etc) In French they say "it walks". Yeah. Weird. And other things. I guess I'll try out the French band on Friday. It'll be interesting to compare them. According to Mary, (the other trumpet player girl) there's an American trumpet player in the band. Who obviously knows English. So, cool.

I also found out today that one of the new students in our class knows English. She came up to me one time and said, "You speak English?" So apparently she knows a little bit. She didn't even have such a strong French accent when talking. Bonus. So, that's another cool prospect.

On Tuesday I had to work in a gym group with these two French girls that did not know any English. It actually wasn't an epic fail. I could understand most of what they were saying, and they didn't seem to secretly insult me in their foreign languages. Then again, if it was secret it'd be hard to tell. The thing that annoyed me was that the teacher asked some other classmates if they knew English and would translate for me, and the girls said they didn't know English. And I knew they did. Psh. Wtf? But I didn't even need a translation. I wasn't that hopeless to not understand "deux duos et trois trios". Sheesh.

Yeah so, despite the fact that I have been very much out of touch and "behind" with my friends back home, I'm sort of enjoying the French-experience-ness as of late. Gee, never expected to have that sentence in here. Unsarcastically. 

I'm doing hockey tonight I guess. I hadn't played in almost a month. I'm sort of tired though, still have some homework, but I shall survive! I'm too short to jump over the boards though. They are sort of high, though. Growl. (what?) 

I am, however, extremely annoyed at the English math online homework. GAH! They marked me off for forgetting a 0.1 or rounding it weird. It's so messed up. I frickin' KNOW how to find the area and circumference of a circle, but noo my calculator refuses to use the Pi button correctly. 

So yeah. I'm pretty much doing over part of 6th grade, and 7th grade. But this time it's mostly in a different language, I didn't know anyone, and I have a higher risk of second-hand lung cancer.

I know. 

And yet I somehow am getting more out of it than those last two years.

You guys have fun in Montreal. I wonder how that French experience compares.