The cold and my progress so far

well today it was freezing!! the temperature was officially in the minuses. We als woke up to a nice fog with only about 20m visibility. There was also a large frost i noticed as i was making my way to the bus stop. And then when i got to the bus stop, i couldnt read the times that the bus was coming because the sign was covered with thick ice! So now is the time when thermals are really coming in handy and also putting a few peart of tights under my jeans!
At the moment, I can understand pretty much all my subjects and the conversations i hear. I am nearly getting to the top of the class for some subjects (not including english!!!!!) and beating almost half the class, so that shows me im not too bad with my french. Also in the mathc test we had the other day, it was 1 point for every correct answer, and -0.5 for every wrong answer. so i was like freaking out when i didnt understand the questions, so i ended up getting a few marks taken off!!! I can also understand all my friends well which is harder because they speak faster and use slang. But what i think is really wierd, is that i can understand every single thing in a sentence someone tells me, but then they ask me to translate it into english and i dont know the meaning in english. So i know words in french that i dont know in english. Wierd!!!
I also think that when i get back home it will take me a while to get back into speaking english, because ummm, im starting to spell some words wrong and not make sense when i am talking. And i also hate it when i get my english tests back and most of my grammer is wrong. like i write 'whose' instead of 'who's', etc. The one thing i cant understand here, is how much swearing they do. There is hardly one sentance goes bye without hearing a swear word.
ive only got about 3 more weeks until the xmas holidays, yay. i cant wait to see how different the french christmasses are to the australian ones.
I only have a couple of months unitil i return back to Australia. I'll write you a list of just some of the things i am willing to see:

• Seeing all my friends, family and scruffy
• i cant wait till i get back to wearing a school uniform
• going to school and finishing school while the sun is still up
• breathing fresher, warmer and smoke free air
• eating cereal and healthy food for brekky
• im looking forward to a nice fruit salad- Thay eat hardly any fruit here
• Vegimite on toast
• A nice big brekky of bacon, sausages, eggs on toast. (i know i did say healthy food, but everyone loves a big hot breakfast like that!!!)
• The BEACH!!!!

GUESS WHAT????? I JUST LOOKED AT THE WEATHER FORECAST, AND WE ARE SCHEDUALED TO HAVE SNOW HERE IN NANTES ON THE WEEKEND. It is not even winter yet and we are in -2 degrees. I do hope that is snows here, what a wonderful surprise!!!!!