Fine, fine...new blog!

So I took another video update thingy and then forgot to put it on my computer to put on the blog.

oh well.

i can type it just as well.

Everything's going great here, and my host mom is amazing. The ten-euro straightener surprised me--it works really well. It's not my fifty-dollar awesomeness, but it does its job in less than an hour, which is really all I can ask for.

My host mom is so cute. She has a daughter-in-law named "Catherine" too, so when she says "Catherine" I always think she's talking to me. So she asked me, "What do your friends and family call you in the US?" and I said "Cathy." She said, "Catty?" It's so cute! The french can't make that "th" sound because it doesn't exist in the French language, so it comes out sounding like "Kattee," with the emphasis on the second syllable. It's so adorable, and that's what she calls me all the time now.

My French cell phone dealy is going well, and I'm still trying to figure out the whole number thing. I have a number, but I think it's just for local stuff--I have to find out what the area-code-ish thing is here, so you guys can call me with a calling card to my cell phone. Oh, and my host mom also said that you could call her house (before 9:30) with a calling card and that i could talk to you guys from there. If i get a carte orange (kinda like a french calling card) then i can call you from the house phone too. She's so nice!! I have that number locally also, but I need to figure out the whole international calling deal. I'll post that as soon as I know it. For now i'm pretty much dealing only in Skype, and it's working well for me. I'm done with class at 18h today, 6 my time, noon yours. So I might call some people today around noon--be ready for your calls from France!!

Okay, I'm posting some new pictures on facebook now, from the Carnavale for the kids. It's kind of like Halloween, but like a festival. All the kids dress up in a theme--and, perfectly, the theme this year was the US--and my host mom's grandson went as superman. I'll have some of those pics up on facebook as of today. Hopefully. If it works.

I'll probably post again before the end of the day--hopefully I'll talk to some of you today!

143, me