Ayo, I'm Not Tired of Using Technology

Bonjour!
After 17 years, 6 months, and 27 days, I have finally gotten a cell phone! Super exciting, I know. The best part about it is it has a radio in it, so now I can listen to music. I couldn't before because my iHome exploded (a small explosion, but still) and the computer is refusing to charge my iPod properly. So anyway, it is a good thing that I now have a phone.
Last week, Caroline, one of my friends at school, gave me the bookTwilight in English, so I had something to read last week. I actually liked it a lot.
On Thursday I walked to the bus stop in the morning and rode the bus to school, and when I got off the bus Marcus and Joël were at my school. So I was like, "Ummm, what are you doing here????". Well I guess I was supposed to go to the Guérins' house that morning instead of riding the bus, because Joël had to talk to the 9th graders at my school about Rotary Youth Exchange. Marie-Violaine forgot to tell me, though. So Marcus and I went with Joël to talk to the ninth-graders. After that they left and I went to English. I was sick that day and almost didn't go to school, and then I was going to go home but I didn't know where the nurse's office was and also I didn't know my phone number (they make you call home when you are sick, just like at Bay High). So Thursday was a bad day, but whatever.
After school on Friday I went to dance class again. About half of it was really hard, but it's okay. I was going to go to the post office on Saturday, but then I realized I had no idea how the post office works in France and I wasn't in the mood to try and figure it out, so I didn't go. Instead, I went shopping for a little while and then ate lunch with my host family. After lunch I went with Léonie and Marie-Violaine to the mall in a town called Saint-Marcel which is basically a suburb of Vernon I think. The mall was kind of small but there were a few good stores. I got a long sweaterish type thing and a scarf, and then I went to the supermarket that is in the mall. I wandered around for awhile looking for good snacks. Then it occured to me to look for American peanut butter, but I didn't have much time left before I had to meet Marie-Violaine. So I went down one random aisle which turned out to be where all the pasta and sauce was, so I was walking toward the exit of the supermarket when, out of the corner of my eye, I saw a jar of Skippy peanut butter sitting randomly next to jars of spaghetti sauce. It wasn't supposed to be there; someone just stuck it there randomly. But I thought it was really funny that a jar of Skippy peanut butter appeared out of no where just when I was trying to find it. It was a small jar, like half the size of a normal jar, and it cost 3.50 €, but that's okay.
Later on Saturday I went to the library to pick out a movie, but even though the library is big they don't have a very good collection of movies. However, they had Gone with the Wind, which was good, so I watched half of that in French with English subtitles. The people doing the voices of Scarlett and Prissy were really good, but the guy doing Clark Gable's voice was kind of bad.
On Sunday, I went to Giverny again, but I still didn't go in la maison de Monsieur Monet because there was this huge flea market in the street. And I mean really, really huge. The main street in Giverny (called rue Claude Monet) is very narrow, but the flea market was like over a mile long and also took up this one field. People were selling like everything; clothes, toys, books, art, shoes, movies, records, etc. I got a croissant and cotton candy to eat, and I bought a pink ring that's really cute. I was going to buy Léonie one but they were all way too big for her fingers. As we were leaving Giverny, Philippe and Marie-Violaine ran into some people they knew, and then the lady started talking to me who is a teacher at St. Adjutor. She was talking in French and not talking slowly but I understood everything she said and only had to ask her to repeat once. So that was good because I probably talked to her for five to ten minutes.
On Monday my schedule at school changed; now I help out the Séconde troisiémes (9th graders I think) in English instead of a couple of classes. So here's my schedule; it changes every day but I'll write it all down in case anyone's interested (just skip ahead if you don't want to read it):

Monday:
8:30-10:30 Gym (ping-pong)
10:30-11:45 English with the Sécondes
11:45-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:30 Study Hall
3:30-4:30 History/Geography

Tuesday:
8:30-9:30 English
9:30-10:30 Spanish
10:30-11:45 French
1:45-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:30 Math
3:30-4:30 History/Geo

Wednesday:
8:30-10:30 English with the Sécondes

Thursday:
8:30-9:30 Spanish
9:30-10:30 History in English
10:30-11:45 English
Lunch
Lunch
1:30-2:30 History/Geo
2:30-3:30 French
3:30-4:30 English with the Sécondes

Friday: (I'm tired of writing the times)
English
History/Geo
English with the Terminales or Spanish
Lunch
Study Hall
Study Hall
English with the Sécondes I think
(finish at 4:30)

Okay, yeah, that's my schedule. The English teacher for the Sécondes is from England. We're trying to plan a Thanksgiving lunch for the class on Thanksgiving... we'll see if that happens.
Today (Wednesday), I went to school for two hours, then I went shopping. This afternoon I went to the Guérins because Cathérine had another group of Americans there. There were six from Texas and two from Kentucky. We were all having cider and cookies when all of a sudden there was this really, REALLY loud crashing noise coming from somewhere, and everyone thought that there had been a car crash or something right outside the house. It turned out that Marcus dropped the Guérins' giant dictionary on accident and it fell off the top of a bookshelf in the family room (which is one the second floor) onto this big glass table, completely shattering it. The table is waaaaaay beyond repair; I took a couple of pictures of it all broken. I couldn't stop laughing, but Cathérine was laughing too, she didn't seem mad or anything. It was an accident.
After that they gave me my phone :), and I went to buy more Coke Light.
Oh in case you're wondering about the title of this post, it's a reference to my recent acquirement of a cell phone. And the song Ayo Technology by Milow is popular here right now.
Well, okay, I have to go. More soon!
à bientot!