Waiting for Vacation

I really haven’t been keeping up with blogging as well this month as before, so there are a few things which I should probably catch you guys up on. Number one is the holidays (meaning vacation!) are approaching quickly which means that with my general yuletide joys I will also be moving. That’s right, I change house exactly two days after Christmas which is coming quickly. I’m not sure how I feel about it. I’ve been really lucky with my first host family, but I also get a really good feeling from my second host family, as much as I’ve seen them. And this being the second time around, it will certainly be easier learning to fit into a new family. In addition, they have already hosted one exchange student before so I think that it should be easier on both ends to accustom ourselves to each other.

Really I think that from here on out my exchange is just going to get better and better… I don’t want to jinx myself- but the days where I’m homesick are already rarer (though they were never constant before), and once the holidays are over I think most homesickness will be pretty much gone. I also am at a level of language that makes communicating really natural, which is one of the biggest barriers to overcome on an exchange year. I am also finally broadening the group of friends who I also see outside of school. The effort that goes into meeting people really does pay off, even if it just takes patience!

Today after class I spent the afternoon at a volleyball tournament, in which each participant paid a two euro registration fee all of which went to a Restaurants de Coeur, a soup-kitchen organization. My team came in dead last, but I still had a lot of fun and slowly but surely improving. By the end of the year, I’m sure I’ll be able to play volleyball like you wouldn’t believe!

I should really sign off to do my homework. We have a test on Saturday in Literature on an excellent piece of historical fiction called La Princesse de Mantoue  which is set during the Italian Renaissance, so I’m going to see how much of that I can reread tonight.