It's CALLED living in December, gosh!

So... new month, new blog post, new... whatever. DECEMBER! Awesome. Probably my favorite month. But let's see... I've been in France (Europe) for about 154 days, and there are only about 211 left according to my calculations. Then it will be 200 left. Then 190. Then 180. Then 170. Then, you get the point. All the way to 5 left. And then yeah.

7 more months, people. That's approximately 5,064 hours! And about 303,840 minutes. And only 18,230,400 seconds. Which will continue to tick tick tick away.

But enough numbers. 5 months... November was pretty cool I guess. There was Obama (W00t!!!), coming back from London,Thanksgiving, and uh... more French. I actually feel somewhat confident, or at least more confident in the French classes. I.e. it seems like I sort of can sort of actually sort of understand what the hell they are saying. At least, the simple stuff like "skip a line" or "learn this for Wednesday" or "your pronunciation is terrible and you said something wrong" or even "turn to page 194 and answer all the questions" etc etc. I'm not trying to brag, it's just that my brain has decided to let this click. So, perhaps French will.. can... is... cool.

School is eh still. But actually, I've gotten pretty used to it I guess. And life rocks (still). It's getting "cold"er and there is lots of white on them mountains.

What else what else... I'm still really into guitar and trumpet and yeah. I've kinda.. given up on the documentary idea. I probably have mentioned this. I'm just very busy. And it probably wouldn't... turn out... the greatest. But whatevz.

It seems like I haven't talked to my friends in a while. That is no.

Wait a second. Christmas is this month!??! For some reason I just... can't really.. feel the magic here. Perhaps it is the lack of utter gaggy unnecessary decorations. I mean, I've noticed a few lights and stuff that are probably trying to look like a sled, but these guys are pretty shy about it over here it seems. Oh and then there's my birthday. I'm not even going to try to think about that.

Ya ever feel like really inspired and like hyped up about something and all you want to do is get out of there and do it? I need/want/have to write a song. Or something. It's like maddening. Guitar! Guitar! Frets! Strum! Sort of sing! Lyrics! Guitar! Strings! CDs! Music! Yes!

So... Coldplay, along with Julia Nunes. Who I found out about by one of my friends. French hornian. But Julia Nunes.. she is very very cool, you gotta check her out, man. And... um... by "checking her out" I mean, clicking on her YouTube profile and whatnot... pixels...yeahhh:







Why does it seem like something major is missing here (in my life)? It just seems like I haven't talked to people in a while. But argh I want to chat and all but also try waking up early on the weekends. Fo real. Delemna.

Zach knows this one girl who can speak 5 languages. That just like creeped me out.

We have 1000 hits people. That took about... 2 months? Thank you thank you thankkkk you. I hope... well, according to the last poll this blog is "interesting". I try. I really do.

One-ies

Over the weekend we went on this really cool hike and made a snowman. There were some cool pictures; might add 'em later.

In gym we're doing these gymnastics-like "exercises" which are incredibly awkward and ugh.

I think I'll call one of my awesome friends (meaning they are all awesome) tonight, but I guess I won't be able to talk much. I've got an SVT test on volcanoes tomorrow and hockey... which I am not actually looking forward to much. I dunno why. I sort of made some new "friends" in the CERN one. I've established myself as defense, and I talked to my partner a little bit (imagine what Roman says with a slight French accent, which I sort of tried to put in there):

Roman: (that's probably not how you spell it, but it sounds like that sort of): So uh where do you come from?

Me: Uh, Michigan.

Roman: Do you zike it here?

Me: Um, its ok I guess.

Roman (looking almost sympathetic): But uh, I bet you miss your uh friends... and the school is pretty... pretty hard.

Me: Yeah.

Wow. It's like these guys actually know what its like.

Roman: So, zou change uh vith ze tall one- number eight... ate-ee?

Me (clearing up his pronunciation): Yeah, eighty.

I'm learning how to play the Looney Tunes theme thing on trumpet, which is pretty cool. I really really like Coldplay now. And as for algebra, yeah I guess I can do it.. maybe... I can try.

On the way back from Geneva, (we were shopping and stuff) I overheard these two English guys talking. The one guy was ranting about how bad his school, teachers and work was and stuff. He probably said the F-word at least once in every sentence. When we got off, my mom turned to them and said, "Excuse me, but if I was your mother I would ground you for a week for saying so many swear words in public." I didn't look at them. I just continued straight on.

See, to me that was... wow. Embarrassing. My mom's argument was that those guys were (poorly) representing their country over here and that that guy was a spoiled kid. I somehow found myself almost defending the guy, saying its other peoples' fault for judging people like that. I mean, to me, French people (and really anyone) can think whatever they want about Americans. That's not to say I don't care about my/our/whatever so-called "reputation" but I mean, think about it. I'm just another person, and "American" is just a.. label. The world should be more together. That'd be cool. They're being racist, as Zach put in, and that kid should be able to express himself. But then again, the F-word is offensive and.. well I dunno.

Your guyses thoughts?

Talking Ties

News for your ears/eyes... (music-related jarble).

What's this now?

Robert Plant rules, man! Though his lack of shirt is... yeah. Very noticeable.

But here's the video from a comment posted on that link, which is actually not so bad.



And, the Killers seem to have a somewhat newish song out, which is a lot like their "Human". (Though I like Spaceman better.) Check it out- it's pretty sweet.



And hey, I added a new playlist. Thought you guys might have gotten tired of that old one. Hope you like. It's called "Shoelace Communication".