A Long Post

So, I believe that today's post will end up being very long, and there will probably be a few misspellings too, so bear with me...

First, France. It was pretty great,although a little bit tiresome. I didn't like the hours and hours we spent riding on the bus (about six each day). We went to several places, wlthough I barely remember a few due to extreme confusion and bus-lag. The places I specifically remember enjoying are: Mont St. Michal and Normandy. We also visited Paris, but we only spent one day there and it was at the end of the trip so I was pretty much gone. Plus it was raining and my shoes were setting a world record for water-retention.

Mont St. Michal was beautiful, and super mysterious. I kept expecting a freaky old woman to beckon me into a dark corner so that I could travel to amazing and unexpected worlds. Unfortunately, that didn't happen... The place was still gorgeous though. Huge and confusing and gorgeous and awesome. I would totally want to live there, except there was this infestation of mosquitoes that was rather bothersome.

Normandy was great, we went to the town and to Omaha beach, and I was all pysched because it's an important place for America too. The ocean there was this really pretty shade of blue-green and I thoroughly enjoyed putting my feet in.

Paris was really nice, but I am not dreadfully fond of loud bustling places filled with abnormally well-dressed and attractive people, so as you can imagine, Paris was not the place for me. I understand other people's passion for the place, but personally, I found other parts of the trip to be much more interesting for me.

Since returning home from France, my life has continued at a pretty normal pace. My basic schedule for the week is this:

Monday: Czech Tutoring and Rotary Meeting
Tuesday: Dance Lessons
Wednesday: Choir
Thursday: Art Lesson
Friday: Singing/Choir #2

So my week is veyr full of the arts, which is not what I imagined would happen, but it is very nice anyways. We are learning bow to draw the human body in art class so I have been drawing a lot of shirtless and pantsless (AKA naked) men. I don't know why we haven't drawn any women yet...

Yesterday I went bowling with a few people from my class. It was terrible. I think I broke the world record for gutterballs and crashing throws that made everyone wince in sympathy for the floor. I am a terrible bowler, I have no hand eye coordination and a general dislike for round objects that are meant to be thrown (I would have just said balls, but I know my friends read this and they are immature and saying that I don't like balls would make them snicker...)

There is an English style park in Kromeriz that I have decided I want to live in. It's absolutely gorgeous, especially right now because all of the trees are turning and there's a ton of crunchy leaves around. I have been doing a lot of jumping on crunchy leaves lately, and it makes me very happy!

Anyways, I think that pretty much gets everything up to date...

(PS I just tried to do spellcheck, but it's in Czech, so sorry for any misspellings...)