hi. they may put me into a lycee (its like highschool, but more rigorous and specialized to what you wanna learn). im going thursday and friday to check it out. if i like it, ill go. if not, i wont. they wanna put me there because a) ive been doing really well at the college, and so they think its not challenging. its not challenging... so they ( Read more... )

hi all! just a update. (partly to pull caiti out of her "jack withdral" :-P) everything here is fun. i LOVE my parents. and the daughters are getting a little less shy. school is easy. im at the top of my class so far :-) the french kids dont like that... and i may be going to a friends house later today. thats right: i have friends here! *score!* ( Read more... )

just saying hi from my computer... in france :-) love it here. les guericolas are really nice, and i understand so much more than i thought i would. its exactly what one would imagine france to be like... the food, the old, small village, the people... i love it.
Peace and happinnes to all,
-Jack

I'm sick-to-my-stomach-nervous. ...and so excited :-) It's today.

school registration in about an hour. gagh. yesterday was... ick. we had to put down the cat, unexpectedly,which kinda sucked. whatev. france tomorrow :-)

katie and sarah came over to make me dinner as a goodbye thing. im gonna miss them...

hey people. yesterday was the going away party. I wasnt crying, and neither was mom... until i asked her if it was making it seem real. after that, i couldnt turn it off. water-works for 3 hours straight. rob, vanessa's dad, said that she probably wouldnt let go of me long enough so that i could get onto the airplane. he then suggested i slip a ( Read more... )

surgery today. remember how they had to remove those two bumps from my mouth? well, the small one grew back. now, before y'all jump to conclusions, its not uncommon that they grow back, and it is probably NOT cancerous. my mouth hurts a bit, but im not gonna whine like last time, because thats obnoxious. in other news, I GOT A DIGITAL CAMERA FOR ( Read more... )

hi everyone. i was tagged by mel to do this ( Read more... )

just woke up. had two scary-ass dreams. the first was that TIME magazine had posted pictures of people being tortured and killed in Darfur. Woke up. Was like "Shit." Went to back bed. Had a dream that i was in the middle of the war. More like a movie, because it involved me running and hiding from bad guys, and dodging bullets, and rescuing friends ( Read more... )