My school week

My school week consists of 32 and a half hours, with three 1 hour lunch breaks so my school subjects take up 29 and a half hours out of my week.
In New Zealand my school week is 30 hours minus five 1 hour lunch breaks so thats 25 and minus five 15 minute intervals, so that makes about 23 hours and 45 mins.
So in France I have 29.5 hours of school and in NZ i have 23.75 hours of school (a week)

Here is what my school timetable looks like
Sorry about the size, blogger automatically scales them down to fit

Ok, on Monday I start at 10:00 and I have EDMUS which is Education Musique (music), which is just recorder then I have FRANC which is obviously Francais (French). French is the most boring class because I can't understand much so it is quite difficult, AGL1 is Anglais (English) this is the easiest class because I speak English (no kiddin) After English I have REPAS which means meal, I think its odd calling the lunch break "meal". So I get an hour for lunch then I have a class which is just as boring (if not more) HIGEO - Histoire et Geographie (History and Geography) that teacher is not that keen on givin out good marks, any way next is LATIN (same in English)
I chose not to be in the "Latin group" because my class (or the part that does Latin) is too advanced for me to just jump in and I need to concentrate on French. Maths is next which is almost as easy as English, it is only a bit harder because some of the questions in the tests are not that easy too decipher. After Maths at 5:00 school will be finished until tomorrow.

Tuesday 1st up is EPS' Education physique (Physical Education - PE) then English, HIGEO, lunch :) Maths then SVT', I don't know what the S the V and the T stand for in French but I know it means (in English) Science of life and earth, the teacher in SVT has a pretty good understanding in English so its not too difficult. Now the last subj' of the day PH-CH -> Physique Chimie -> physics and Chemistry. PH-CH is CHAOS the teacher can't control the students the students take advantage of this by
throwing things across the room (at other people)
not doing work
talking
writing on the blackboard while the teacher is writing on the board
walking round the class
and on one occasion two girls where dancing on a desk listening to an i pod (they both fell off, and it serves them right >:) )

and they do all that while the teacher is trying to teach.

On Wednesday we have two hours of French and on every second week we have Maths as well, and then end of school. In France it is compulsory that all schools let there pupils have the Afternoon off on Wednesday, unless they are serving Detention.

Thursday I have TECHN first (Technology) which is computers and graphics and woodwork, then French then English, HIGEO, lunch and PE. I end Thur at 4:00

Friday I have French, 2 hours of math, Latin (which i don't do), lunch then A-PLA which is art and plastics this class is reasonably easy, it would be better with a better teacher, she sets the work in the first 10-15 minutes then she reads a magazine expecting us to do our work and not interrupt her, I mean what do we do if we need help (ask her and get YELLED at) >:(
Then finally English

thats basically my week at school

REUBEN

The next lot of videos

watch the videos in the post under this one before watching the videos in this one

4th video is going through the door of the apartment and going round the living room


5th video is going around the kitchen and dinning room


6th video is upstairs: bathroom and Seraphines room


7th video Tristans and my room, I say quite often in the vid "my room" but it is more Tristans room than mine



8th video is of Paul and Sybilles room.


Right these are all videos I took of around the apartment, I hope they have all loaded successfully and if they haven't just comment and I'll upload the unsuccessful one again.
If you still have time two watch yet another video, here is a French add I saw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xpt_hHZ6pPs << I would like to do the stuff in that video.

THE ADVENTURER

P.S I recommend broadband to watch these videos.

TOUR THE APARTMENT

I thought I'd put up a bunch of videos (while everyone was out) of the apartment.
There is a total of 8 videos and if some videos don't upload correctly I will upload them again

video 1 is on the private st, but my camera cant zoom out while filming so I had to do a second part.


video 2 is the second part (of the 1st) and goes up to a gate, the video gets glitchy so i cut it slightly short.


the 3rd video is going up the stairs and through the door to the apartment.


I am having problems with uploading the videos so I will upload the rest in another post.

Sorry about the short update last time, I was being ushered into bed as I wrote those last lines.

My Grandmother came over with a friend from New Zealand about a week ago, to tour Italy, France and Singapore, While she was here we went to Claude Monets house and garden. On the way there we saw two macaws

Video above of the Macaws.

Here is one of the many pictures of flowers I took
Claude Monets garden is HUGE

Here is the place where he painted his famous bridge painting (the bridge has been replaced with a safer one) My Granny and her friend are the two ladies on the bridgeOn the right is my Granny :)

I have put a real big effort into learning French this past week or so memorizing Etre (to be), Avoir(to have), Aller(to go), Parler (to speak), Finir (to finish), Faire (to do), Venir(to came), Voir (to see), Prendre (to take), Pouvir(to be able to (can)). Each of those include the I, you, him, her, them, they and all the other forms, they also cover present, Imperfect, Future and Past compose, all in all it is about 300 word that I am trying to memorize

I have memorized another bagpipe tune called "Barbaras jig" its a long and fast tune and I have been given the 1st variation and the 2nd variation on my Piobrached tune.

So...

till next time

Reuben

this past week

My grandmother came round about a week ago, and we went to Claude Monets House and his garden with her a have some photos,I will upload them tommorrow.
Nothing too interesting has happened lately so I cant really tell you much.
My French is coming along I have been trying to learn alot of the French verbs, like to have, to be, to go,to speak,just some basics.
We went to the theatre today, we saw "Indiana Jones the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" This Indiana Jones movie is different because it was about aliens and U.FO's not ancient treasures like the fountain of youth and stuff
gotta go to bed, I will upload pics tommorrow

Reuben

O NO

My bagpipes have split down one of the ivory stocks D:
I hope it wont be too expensive to repair them :(Sorry about photo quality, my camera can't do extreme close ups


The SAD Adventurer

hello

Nothing much too report this week, I have been reading alot of a French learning book and I am trying to learn a minimum of two phrases a day.
My bagpipe lessons are going well I got my first Piobrached (ancient Scottish tune) tune yesterday, geez its hard it will definitely take me a while to memorize.
I thought I could show a few French vids so here is the first







SPIDER COCHON and SPIDER PIG

Any way like I said nothing much to report

THE ADVENTURER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi again

I have spent the last week and a half in the very south of France, because it was the HOLIDAYS :)

Well we packed clothes, enough for a week or so and drove for about 3 hours, then stopped for a bite to eat then another 4 hours of driving. While driving for those seven hours we drove over the Viaduc de Milleau
Here is a pic.
It is definitely BIG. This photo is taken from the south side

We arrived sometime around 9 ish at an American friends in Brissac, this is the place where we slept throughout the week and a bit. We had dinner with Charlie (the American) and went too bed there because we had been since the early hours of the morning.
About this town called Brissac, it is a very small town with only a bakery and a butcher but it had a Castle called Chateau de Brissac ( Castle of Brissac)More big things, and why would such a small town need a castle? maybe it is there for protection for when the English invade (its a joke, your supposed to laugh)
Anyway through out this week we visited a bunch friends, mainly my cousins friends but a few were my uncles friends.
My Aunt and Uncle own a large house just around here ( I mentioned this in another post ) but we could not stay there because it was being rented out but we did visit it they have ALOT of land there, and for my family to get an idea of how big it is, take the 1st paddock and multiply it by 3 or 4. Occupying some of this land was a vineyard which was tended to by my uncle while we where there.
On one of the days where we didn't visit friends we ( meaning my cousin and I ) went kayaking in two person kayaks with about 20 other people, fun but wet very wet, in fact i could say incredibly soakingly completely WET.
While way we ate food, amazing isn't itI take credit for the above dishes except the cucumber circle thingy that was Seraphine (my cousin)
I also ate some artichoke hearts, some french celery salad thing and various other things which I don't know how to spell or pronounce.

We went for a walk through a valley and saw a wild snake flick into the bushes, and behind the chateau I saw two snakes brown and greyI drank a little bit of Chateau Margaux (expensive wine)
http://www.chateau-margaux.com/Website/site/eng_accueil.htm

and thats about it
I can't think of much else so..........

Seeya

THE ADVENTURER!!!!!!!!