Hey everyone. Sorry it has been a while since I have blag-o-blogged... I've been busy with stuff/been feeling lazy... Yeah, sorry about that. So first piece of exciting news is we have gotten snow! It is really exciting, but at the same time, a bit depressing... It means that the winter is here, and isn't going to be leaving for a while... I was so cold last night sleeping, I don't know why... Made me a bit sad... But still, snow is snow! I would have a picture, but I am lazy, and that requires getting out my camera, taking the picture, finding my thing to plug the memory chip into my computer, wrestling with Blogspot to get the picture uploaded, and then wrestling with the formatting to make everything look descent... Yesterday looked something this. (For those of you less tech savy, click the blue this and it will link you to a new page with a picture of snow... facepalm.jpg)
Another problem with the cold, besides it being cold, is it becomes a real difficult decision to open my window when I shower. See, my room was a garage at one point, and so the shower in my room is just a plastic insertable (not a word, but I don't care) shower, without a vent or anything... Normally I would open my window when showering (I would leave the blinds down. Flashing my neighbors was not something on my list of to do's while here) to let the steam out so I didn't turn my room into a sauna or a penicillin farm. But now it is so cold, that doing that is really not a happy prospect. The shower is nice and warm, but as soon as I step out ARCTIC FREEZE! Not fun the first time I tried it... Haven't tried is since...
In other news, the French class project, that I may or may not have mentioned previously, went really well. I worked a lot with my French teacher, and some of the other students (Thanks Nadège!) to get the pronunciation down and to make sure the stuff I wrote was good French (most of it wasn't and had to be changed... sad face) But I got everything fairly well prepared, and presented. And it went amazingly. It turns out the thing was a competition, and 8 or so of the people from each class got to present for the other teachers and students. 5 people were chosen by other students, and 3 or so were chosen by the teacher. I was one of the ones chosen, which was really exciting for me! I wasn't chosen by my class mates, which would have been really satisfying, but when my teacher suggested I move on to the semifinals(I think that is what they are calling this next part), the other students all agreed, so that made me happy. But that also means I have to work that much more to make sure my pronunciation is perfect, or as perfect as can be, for the speech. I have discovered that the French language has a lot more sounds than English. There are the ones I was already familiarly with, the French 'r' and such, but there are also others that I didn't really think about. There are about twice as many vowel sounds in French as there are in English. Makes me sad...
So that is basically what my week has been like. Cold and a bit frustrating, but worth all the work I had put in. I hope everything is going fine state side (or in England...). I missed you all during Thanksgiving. Wish I could have been there to celebrate with my family and see all my friends back home for break. Hope your family time was wonderful.
~Weston Halberstadt
Sunday, November 28, 2010
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Sunday, November 7, 2010
Sorry, but I am feeling a bit down. Going to blog about it...
I guess it is time I did one of these... Sorry to skip a week. I was really busy last weekend, with halloween and all (yeah, they don't really celebrate it here, but we had our own party). I took a train ride 2 1/2 hours away, and basically stayed there all weekend. So I didn't get around to writing a post... sorry.
But that doesn't fully explain the situation, because this past week we had no school. It was our fall break. I did absolutely nothing... So really there is no reason I shouldn't have had a post for you. As messed up as this may sound, I think it is because I am starting to get home sick... Like really bad. And the homesickness makes me want to cut away from all of humanity, so I just shelled up.
I never thought I would get homesick, but that is because I imagined homesickness hitting me differently than it did. I have always thought about homesickness as missing all of the people from home. For me, that isn't it at all. Don't get me wrong, I miss you all, terribly, but that isn't the reason I am so sad all of the sudden. I am feeling homesick not because of what I left behind, but because of what I feel like I am lacking here. I feel less connected to people here than I did in the United States, and that is what saddens me. I don't know if the distinction makes any sense, but there is really no other way I can describe it.
It has alway taken me a long time to get close to people, to make friends. Sure, I can get along with people, but really close friends are hard for me to come by. They are also something that I have come to rely on a lot in the past few years. And suddenly I am here in Belgium, where my only close friends live 2 and a half hours away (other exchange students).
I told one of the girls from school, when she asked why I always looked alone at school, that it was normal for me, in large groups with people I don't know very well, for me to introvert, which is true. But I think I might have been more cheery than I really am feeling... I don't know... The sad thing is it is becoming easier to be cheery around other people.... Ugh, I feel like such a moody teenager, blogging about how no one understands me and how I have no friends... this is pretty sad...
I don't know. Maybe the problem is just the week off. I had nothing to do for the week, and so I just sat at home... Without much human interaction. Maybe I am just getting used to this, and so when people interrupt my solitude I get sad, even though I need more than anything else for my solitude to be interrupted.
I should really stop now. I am sorry if I depressed your day... I just need to write all of this down, and I needed to write a blog. I am still very grateful to be here in Belgium, and I am really looking forward to the next really happy moment. Because that moment with be amazing in comparison to this bitter period I have stumbled upon. Thank you all for reading this. Please don't think me too emo...
~Weston Halberstadt
But that doesn't fully explain the situation, because this past week we had no school. It was our fall break. I did absolutely nothing... So really there is no reason I shouldn't have had a post for you. As messed up as this may sound, I think it is because I am starting to get home sick... Like really bad. And the homesickness makes me want to cut away from all of humanity, so I just shelled up.
I never thought I would get homesick, but that is because I imagined homesickness hitting me differently than it did. I have always thought about homesickness as missing all of the people from home. For me, that isn't it at all. Don't get me wrong, I miss you all, terribly, but that isn't the reason I am so sad all of the sudden. I am feeling homesick not because of what I left behind, but because of what I feel like I am lacking here. I feel less connected to people here than I did in the United States, and that is what saddens me. I don't know if the distinction makes any sense, but there is really no other way I can describe it.
It has alway taken me a long time to get close to people, to make friends. Sure, I can get along with people, but really close friends are hard for me to come by. They are also something that I have come to rely on a lot in the past few years. And suddenly I am here in Belgium, where my only close friends live 2 and a half hours away (other exchange students).
I told one of the girls from school, when she asked why I always looked alone at school, that it was normal for me, in large groups with people I don't know very well, for me to introvert, which is true. But I think I might have been more cheery than I really am feeling... I don't know... The sad thing is it is becoming easier to be cheery around other people.... Ugh, I feel like such a moody teenager, blogging about how no one understands me and how I have no friends... this is pretty sad...
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| I would hug you cactus. |
I don't know. Maybe the problem is just the week off. I had nothing to do for the week, and so I just sat at home... Without much human interaction. Maybe I am just getting used to this, and so when people interrupt my solitude I get sad, even though I need more than anything else for my solitude to be interrupted.
I should really stop now. I am sorry if I depressed your day... I just need to write all of this down, and I needed to write a blog. I am still very grateful to be here in Belgium, and I am really looking forward to the next really happy moment. Because that moment with be amazing in comparison to this bitter period I have stumbled upon. Thank you all for reading this. Please don't think me too emo...
~Weston Halberstadt
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