Today I have no PE class, since the teachers are busy testing the grade level below me, and I have no Earth Science since the professor is going to be absent. What that means is that I have exactly two classes today: one from 9:00 to 10:00 and another from 2:00 to 3:00. So, like so many other days of unexpected leisure, I now get to decide what I want to do with my free time. I think that during my four lunch break I’ll go into town, mostly because I have to go to the bank, but also because it seems like sudden opportunities like this should not be wasted.
After my school day ends at 3:00, which now to me seems luxuriously early, I’ll have the chance to take the bus home and kick back for a little bit before my Rotary meeting. This is nice because on Tuesdays I usually go straight from school, which ends at 6:00, to the meeting which starts at 7:00. The walk is twenty minutes long and I get there early but that still leaves an awkward 30 minutes which isn’t really enough time to go shopping, but is enough time to walk around. Now that it’s dark after 6:00 I’m going to ask a Rotarian who lives nearby the school if I can hang out at her house until the meetings start.
The thing about these long breaks though, is that I don’t usually try to do anything special during them, because no one else does. If they live nearby, my classmates go home during their break, and if not they stay at school and hang out together either on a bench or in the library. I find that that makes for the perfect opportunity to meet new people and spend time with the people I do know. The social life of French teenagers seems to take place of the weekends and during vacations, but also very much built into their school day. And there’s nothing more convenient for an exchange student’s continuing efforts to build a social network!
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