End-of-Quarter Report

I'm officially more than 1/4 of the way through this year. It's flying by so fast, it's crazy. Life continues at school. I got 16/20 on a literature essay, which is good for French school. And the teacher used my ideas as examples for the class. I'm understanding the principles of greek a little better with Mme. Crespo's lessons in the library during break on Wednesday. I can now read greek and answer questions in class! I (and my mom) figured that I should give a breakdown of an average day. I'll try to give the norm as best as possible, but all my days are different. Here's my school schedule for Monday:
9:05-10:00 Literature
10:00-10:20 Break (on campus)
10:20-11:15 Literature
11:15-12:10 Greek
12:10-1:00 Italian
1:00-2:35 Lunch Break (off campus)
2:35-3:35 English
3:35-3:50 Break (on campus)
3:50-5:35 Philosophy

Now, here's Wednesday, where I have class only in the morning:
9:05-10:00 Philosophy
10:00-10:20 Break
10:20-11:15 Philosophy
11:15-12:10 Greek
12:10-12:50 Quick lunch...
12:50 Take bus for tennis
1:30-3:00 Tennis
3:00-5:30 Free time!
5:30 Bus for rock climbing...
6:00-8:00 Rock Climbing
8:30 Dinner (This is when we eat dinner every night... a lot later than stateside!)

This last weekend was really fun, so I'll give a breakdown of that, too:
Friday Night: Stay over at friend's house. Meet her family and see all of their ski collection. There's a type of skiing called ski randonée, where you hike up the mountain in these specially designed skis and then ski down alpine-style. This means you can go out in the wilderness where there's no one else!
Saturday Morning: Help rock climbing instructor and two other guys with a rock climbing class for 5-7 year olds.
Saturday Afternoon: Fire in the apartment building just next door, have to evacuate but no damage done! It was just the one apartment that got burned because some lady left her clothes iron on. No injuries or anything, because she had left to go run errands. Here's a link with the video someone took, I live in the pink building shown at the very beginning.
http://www.ledauphine.com/savoie/2010/11/20/incendie-en-ce-moment-au-centre-ville-chambery-savoie

There was never really a risk that the fire would transfer to our building, but Claudie told me to take what I wanted to be better safe than sorry. So, I grab my passport, 50 euros, my ring and my teddy bear. Little do I know that there will be a huge crowd standing around our building to look up at the fire when I walk out clutching my teddy bear. Needless to say, I got some strange looks while we waited for the fire to be put out.
Saturday Night: Go over to friend Claire's house and have dinner with her family and Cassey.
Sunday Morning: Claire's dad takes me to the ski sale....

AND VOILA! It was cheaper to buy at the sale then to rent every time you go skiing. I'm definitely going to go every single weekend possible and there is no doubt about it, this year I am learning how to downhill ski! (And cross-country ski too, because they do a lot of that here. Claire's parents said that they'd invite me.)