Wow. Last week might as well have been last month for all I remember about it. Lets see... Monday, english lessons, didn't go so well because he was not paying any attention. My french is slowly getting better. I got a 12 on my french paper, which is considered to be pretty decent here, she definitely grades me on a totally different scale. My history teacher didn't even give me a grade, just told me he was glad I tried... I am still mostly hanging out with Charlotte, Sophie, Caroline and Marina... they are super sweet. It is really fun to have Marina as a friend- we explore the city together, Sophie especially reminds me of some of my friends back home although I couldn't tell you why, and all of them have helped me so so much in class. Actually everyone has.
I may need tons of help, and I would have trouble passing my classes, but at the same time I am finding them exceedingly easy. I am reminded how fast-paced LASA really is because they spend so much more time explaining a subject here...so my understanding of everything is pretty good but communicating what I understand... is another matter entirely.
This weekend we went to Paris, which was fun but I am exhausted. I couldn't even tell you all that we did it went so quickly, and for much of it I was falling in and out of sleep (like whenever we got in the car or sat down). We stayed with family/friends (the relation is way too complicated to try and explain) who came from Senegal... either people in France are very welcoming or people that come from french-speaking Africa are very welcoming... because they were all very very kind. Sunday Sara and I met up with one of her old friends from Lyon who had moved to Paris, and we walked around the champs de lise... its really sad that here, their STORES are prettier than anything we have (Galarie Lafayette). We drove back Sunday afternoon/evening/night and got back to the house around 11:30, after which I still had to take a shower and poor Sara had hwk (I just did mine today in-between and during class).

Alright, so I realized the other day that I have been here for a month already. Which is mind-blowing. Of course I havent been here for a month, I've only been here a week or so. Or was it half a year already... anyway, in honor of a month here, just a few things about France:
-Who needs houses? We can fit 3 times as many in half the space of my house... if that.
-Just because they call it a shower doesn't always mean what you think it does.
-Tacos... there are different interpretations of them all around the world.
-Moroccan tea kills French tea
-French breakfasts are good- Moroccan breakfasts are better.
-The farther south you live, the later you eat dinner. In my house it is always by at least 9:30, but apparently in Morocco they often don't eat dinner until midnight, or early in the morning.
-French students kill American students in the language studies department.
-Shorts in PE? Are you crazy? Pants!
-Scarves... they wear them.
-Toilet seats are a luxury, not a necessity, and don't exist in most public bathrooms.
-Door knobs are in the middle of the door, not the side. Esthetics over physics... somehow that is very very French
-That 300 year old church? Oh yea, its ok. There is another just a few blocks away.

So that's it for today! Love and miss all of you.
Bisous.