School and Such

Hola!!
After I last blogged, my sister and I went to buy school shoes (40 bucks for black leatherish shoes....super cheap!) and then went to a store where her friend works. Most of the stores here are very small in the malls. Like..no room for more than like 3 ppl to shop, and one changeroom. Its super cool, and a lot of the clothes are very unique!! Me gusta! Newho, so we were at the store, and her friend asked me to model for his store and another on saturday. He was very excited to learn that I had modeled before, but I am not going to do it, because it is at the casino, and my host family figures (with good reason) that its not the best idea for me to be up there in front of a group of mostly older men.
My first day of school (yesterday) was good. I´d put up a pic of my uniform, but I am again at the university...
As I said earlier, I am in grade 11...I´ll start with yesterday.
I met some girls from my class in the morning (principals picks, and I´d say he made a good choice, cuz they are awesome ppl!!) and then went to castellano (like our english). I feel bad for the teachers of my classes, because most of the students don´t concentrate on their work, they concentrate on me....kind of cool actually!! haha. Any time I say nething, everyone is quiet so that they can hear what I say in very broken spanish. After castellano, we had historia, again, only one of the people i sat with got any history done, even though I did not say all that much. After that was ....I don´t remember, that tells you how much work I get done in class!!! Then was lunch. I got picked up by my host sister, and then went home for about 2 hours. Back to school, wearing a different uniform, because we had phys. ed. We had to run for 10 minutes around the gym, and I ran.....it was good. Then we did 100 abs (i didn´t stop.....which I was impressed with because I haven´t worked out in awhile..) Next was some soccer exercises, and then soccer with teams of 5. I was one of the starting four to pick teams, so I basically chose randomly cuz I didn´t know the skill level or well, really the girl I know the best in the class was also a team captain person. It was fun....After that was philosophia, where we worked on phobias (fobia en español, and pronounced like fovia). I sat with a girl who speaks english, but she knows I want to learn spanish, so uses it only as a last resort. There was a lot of sign language as we tried to communicate. haha, good times!!
After school, I went downtown with a friend, Gabi, of my sister in Michigan (Karen). We looked in different stores, and then went back to her house where I met another one of their friends. Back home, I went pretty much straight to bed, because I could not sleep the night before. Spanish words and their meanings keep on running through my head. I don´t get why they do that when I sleep, but during the day when I want the meaning...it is not there!
Again, last night I could not sleep. It felt like I had not slept at all when my host mom knocked on my door to get up for school. This morning, I had biology and chemistry. I knew what was going on in bio kind of....we did some stuff with chromosomes, but i had no clue in chemistry. Since it was a different class, there was all new people to talk to :) They asked a lot of the same questions, so I didn´t feel as stupid because I already knew some of the answers. Then, i switched from class 3A to 3C for another class. There is 3A, 3B, and 3C and I have to choose which one I want to be in until december. All the classes tell me that theirs is the best, and I wish i could keep on switching so that I would get to meet everyone!!! Home for lunch, and then back to school, but this afternoon I got to go to the mountains!!! There was hardly any snow, mostly ice, but it was very fun...and mucho frio (very cold). I got picked up from school, and now here I am, updating you on my life. I realize that I write alot..never again can I tease my mom for her long emails, because I inherited the same genes. This is a type of journal for me (don´t worry tho nel...yours is in use!!) I do not have classes tomoro afternoon, so hopefully I can go downtown..and shop!!
missing you lots and lots
xoxo
jode