Shout Outs!

Today I was feeling nostalgic. I'm not exactly homesick, I am for my friends and family, but not like, America haha. Okay some American things. For example, among my classmates today we had a funny conversation on our favorite American swear words, and how swearing in French is fun but it's not nearly as satisfying as a swear word in English because they sound so much harsher. American swearing is so creative (we all shared our favorite, most obscure ones of course). You can say just about anything, add the F bomb in there and you've got yourself a brand new insult/swear word haha. I'm not quite sure yet if French works the same way.. And in moments of frustration, sometimes our instinctual American swear words will accidentally slip out, and we all expressed the same feeling of missing our humor/creativity when it comes to swearing because we can't do it quite the same way in French. It might be a silly thing to miss, but try speaking a foreign language 24/7 and you'll understand! We decided, even though we are all committed to speaking French all the time, that one night this semester we should have a party with everyone and speak in English, just for a night, to see what everyone sounds like when they speak in English, cause we're all so curious what personalities will come out that we don't know yet! haha Annnyyywaysss... I thought that due to my nostalgia I would create some shout outs!

First of all, one of my dearest and bestest friends Kendra Barton had her 21st birthday yesterday. I'm so sad I couldn't be there and I'm envious of everyone who got to be! I hope you had a Happy Birthday boo <3
To the rest of my Linfield friends, my Phi Sigs, and my Washougal Women, miss all you guys!!!

Secondly, yesterday I received a bunch of lettres from my high school French teacher's class! Mr. Grable, Merci pour me les avoir envoyées! Ce « shout out » est pour toi et tes étudiants ! (Bonjour tous ! J) C’était un grand plaisir de les lire et je vais bientôt vous répondre. Vous êtes tous très gentils et je suis impressionnée avec vos niveaux de Français ! Bravo ! Mais n’oubliez pas à dire ‘merci’ à votre prof merveilleux ! :) 

Thirdly, to my little brother Michael who is now at the U of W for his first year of college! I'm so proud of you and I know it's probably already hard haha But you'll do great! Miss you!

And to the rest of my family, miss you all! Sometimes I catch myself thinking about December in class and I get all excited! I can't wait to see you all in France, on my turf :P