Later on today I will go with Norma to meet their first exchange student from France, thus I shall be translator. I'm almost eccessively excited to talk french. The canadian french is very differnet from the french french, if french french was swedish, the canadian french would be gotländska. On the rare occasionw when I speak french with Lisa through skype, we both laugh at each other. Her french is of course the "real" french, but I've gotten so used to this one so I find her french cute and almost silly, compared to this englified and harsch french. 

 

Since school started again after christmas we've had a load of homework. It seemed liked the teachers were trying to make up for everything we didn't do this fall. Because this is exam week. I hade my first, dance, this friday and so tomorrow, tuesday and wednesday it's the other subjects. I'm quite looking forward to starting my new subjects, but I am gonna missmy art class. It was the calm time of the day, and my art teacher is just so good. I think that's the subject I've learned the most in this semester. Madame helps us in a way that makes us better whitout even knowing we're improving kinda. We've also talked a lot about the difference between voir et percevoir. I see things differently, notice things I would never have noticed before. Details, the way the light creates shadows. It has it's backside too I guess; I can't watch a tree without analyzing it's structure... 

 

I've also learnt the entire lyrics to Oh Canada and in french you actually only sing oh canada once, even though I at first thought you sing it like four times. 

 

Yesterday me and Ann went with STS on a tour in the Parliament in Ottawa, organised by a host dad working there. There we learned amongst other things the the workd parliament comes from the french verb parler (to speak), since that's mainly what you do in a parliament. Also, they had the prettiest library I've ever seen. All around the walls, everywhere, there were these flowers carved into the tree. Not one identic to another. 

 

We also saw the house of commons, of senators and the peace tower. In the house of commons there were some students having a debate, so we couldn't go in there, we did go into the senators. In the peace tower the ceiling was super cool, it was like golden yellow plastic pieces all over the place creating a glow. There was a nice view from up there too.