Annoying Blogger and PICS

Stupid Blogger, it wouldn't let me post or upload pictures yesterday but I'm pretty sure its working now.

OK

Pictures of the Lourve

This one is the entrance, yup the glass Pyrimad is the Entrance there are 2 (could be more) levels below ground and about 3 or 4 above you can see the levels above on the left and on the right of the Pyrimad.


Statues outsideLOTS of Greek statues inside LOTS!!!

French paintings exhibition


The Entrance (below the pyrimad)


Greek paintings


The Mona Lisa
I was lucky there wasn't a big crowd like there usually is.


Venus de Milo
The most famous Greek statue.

Thats all the pics for now, I have more but I can't upload them all

and I had a hair cut, ill take a photo as soon as there is space on my camera (too many Louvre photos)

seeya

Reuben

THIS WEEK

I have been to a couple of museums, a war museum and the Louvre the war museum had everything from knights armor to WWII, some of the armor and swords were pretty cool.
The 2nd museum "the Louvre" is the biggest museum in the world s i couldn't see all of it in just 2 hours, I just went to 2 of their exhibitions, a Greek statue one and a Italian painting one.
I saw the Mona Lisa which was a little bigger than i expected and the Venus de Milo which was also bigger than predicted to be.

On both of those occasions I found the French metro system very handy, just one ticket can take you to the other side of Pars in 15 minutes 0.0 <- its a face.
I have bought 8 postcards and I will be posting them to friends and family tomorrow.
I am in good health and I am really enjoying France (obviously)

BTW I have pictures from the museums and I will post them tomorrow.

REUBEN

JUNE THE 5th

These past 4 or 5 days I have been quite ill but I am feeling alot better now.
I have been studying alot more French and I can look at a sentence and get the main meaning out of it (about 75% of the time) and if it is spoken about 50% of the time.
Some of the schooling is getting easier (except HIGEO) and I just remembered the school holidays are here in about a week and they will last about 2 months :) . I have been trying to get hold of a class photo because everyone else in my class got one except me :( if I can get a photo or a photocopy I will post it here.
It is my sisters birthday today (or yesterday if you consider the time difference) she will be 17 years old :D

here is my translation of the above text
Ces 4 ou 5 jours, j'ai été très malade, mais je suis bien maintenant.
J'ai été une étude beaucoup plus français et je peux regarder une phrase et obtenir le sens principal de celle-ci (75% du temps) et si elle est parlée environ 50% du temps.
Certains de la scolarité devient plus facile (l'exception HIGEO) et je viens de rappeler les vacances scolaires sont ici dans environ une semaine et ils dureront environ 2 mois:). J'ai essayé de se procurer une photo de classe parce que tout le monde dans ma classe a obtenu un sauf moi: (si je peux obtenir une photo ou une photocopie, je poste ici.
C'est mon anniversaire aujourd'hui sœurs (ou hier si l'on considère la différence de temps), elle aura 17 ans :D

I have taken the liberty of putting it through a translator to see if I got it correct

These 4 or 5 days, I was very sick but I am good now.
I have been a much larger study French and I can look at a sentence and get the main meaning of it (75% of the time) and if it is spoken about 50% of the time.
Some of schooling becomes easier (except HIGEO) and I just remind the school holidays are here in about a week and they will last approximately 2 months:) . I tried to get a photo class because everyone in my class earned a save me (if I can get a photo or a photocopy, I post here.
It's my birthday today sisters (or yesterday if one considers the time difference), she will be 17 years :D

PS I did use a couple of books and a little of the internet to translate it into French and I used another program to correct my spelling (i.e turning e into é and such)

the adventurer

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