First day of School!

"Nothing grieves a child more than to study the wrong lesson and learn something he wasn't suppose to." - E.C. McKenzie
This didn't exactly happen to me as in the quote, but I was almost in the wrong class!  Here the Premiére (Junior) class starts in the morning the first day, and the Terminale (senior) class starts the afternoon.  So this morning Lou took me to school and we went inside to try to talk to someone about my complete lack of a Spanish level sufficient to be in 3rd year Spanish (what the 1éres do).  It was a mess and we waited for people who weren't coming, but finally we found someone who was able to tell me "No, sorry I can't help you with your 1ére Spanish problem, but it doesn't matter because you're in Terminale!"  So we left.  We did some errands around town and then had to go exchange my 1ére books for my Te books (you have to buy schoolbooks here)  Originally I had been given the list of Te, but we thought it was a mistake and so bought the 1ére books instead.

Anyway, after waiting around a few hours and eating lunch, Lau took me back to school and we still couldn't find a person to talk to, so she left and I sat with some girls I met yesterday in an assembly.  There was a lot of quick French that I got the main idea of, then we went to classrooms by class.  The Te L (litterarie, it's my division of the grade, we mostly study French Litterature, languages and Philosophy) are a class of 30, containing 4 exchange students: me, Mexican and Brazilian boys, and another American girl.  In class we got our schedules of classes (it changes every day) and wrote down some important dates in our calendars.  Maybe an hour or two later, school was over!  I talked to someone about my Spanish class (turns out I don't have to take it), and then..

I walked to Centre Ville (the downtown area) with the other exchange students.  We walked around and looked at stuff and spoke French.  It was overall a good day! 

By the way.. my class schedule is excellent.  No math or science all year, and 3 days I start school at 9.  Wednesday I have 2 hours of class and the day is over.  Monday I have about 2 hours for lunch!  :)

A plus!