I feel like I'm really settled in now. France is now "chez moi" and I'm not at all excited to change that. There are times when I forget that I'm in France, or rather everything has become so routine that it's no big deal to be living in France. Every once in a while, it'll hit me that I'm in France. I'm living my dream. Usually though, I go about my day like any other "french" 17-year-old. I go to school, come home, do my homework, complain about doing homework, chat with with friends in class when we're not supposed to, go out on the weekends and just have teenage fun in general. I'm doing things that I would be doing at home, so just because I'm in France doesn't mean life stops. My hair still grows and I still need to go to the hairdresser, there's still homework that always needs to be done and I still watch the evening news every night. I still do normal people things! To me, this fact is comforting. It means that I'm doing all of these normal people things, but in French. That's a nice feeling.
Next topic of business: "fluentness". So, I feel like I can say that I am officially bilingual. This, however, doesn't mean that I don't make mistakes...I do, all the time. It means that I'm at the point where I understand nearly everything that comes my way, and I can make myself understood with very little effort. I like to think there are different levels of "fluentness"and I'm still pretty low on the scale, but hey, I'm on the scale. It's an awesome feeling (though rather annoying) to have translate phrases from French to English when writing my blog.
I must go, but I'll leave all of you some french scenery.
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| Côte d'Azur |
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| First sign of spring: daffodils! |
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| Marseille sunset |
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