French (is a) Joke 101

Hey guys, sorry I’ve been MIA but I’ve had a lot going on through my mind and just couldn’t sit down and focus. This past week has been going well but I definitely feel like its crunch time with a lot of the teacher’s who are trying to teach us everything before Finals or SOLs (the Virginia Standards Of Learning). Work has also been draining me of energy since I get to bed so late. Not that I’m complaining or anything, but I do feel quite tired. I’m actually kind of falling asleep writing this right now. BUT I felt the need to update you a little on my life. My French class to be specific.

French…well French 3 is kind of a joke to be honest, I don’t do much and still get excellent grades…on one hand I enjoy having a class where I can unwind and just horse around with my classmates because this is their last year taking French (you need 3 language credits to graduate) and they don’t really care much about the language. But then on the other hand I feel like I’m not learning anything which is terrible since next year I’ll be taking IB French I which is considerably harder. Hopefully next year I’ll be able to buckle down and actually learn the language.

But for now I’ll just stick to goofing around. Here’s just a small taste of what my classmates and I actually do during class.

Ok well this was actually an assignment where we had to talk about a countries environment so we decided to just create our own continent!

This is Abel's country.

and this is my little island! It's an extreme sport resort mainly inhabited by...squirrels!

I SWEAR I did not draw this, I found it in some random desk but what a nice surprise it was!

Such intense concentration.

So that last picture is actually really funny because somewhere, somehow Luke (the bald one) found a giant rubber band and them being the physicist they are decided to use it as a catapult style thing! They launched everything from paper balls to crayons to tissue boxes...the teacher? Oblivious. Another big thing is paper airplanes, they are flying around the class all the time. And that is how I spend most of my french class =]

UYL,

Andre