Went to Toulouse and met up with Bertille...

I so suck at keeping this up. Sorry!
Yeah, not a whole lot has happened though... I mean, besides the half-day District Conference and the weekend in Toulouse (I met up with Bertille for a bit - we spent about 5 or 10 minutes catching up... pretty much totally in French too so that shows I'm not as French-retarded as I was when I first came) with all the inbounds to France. 400 people. 3 hostels.
We only stuck around the same people though, our district and the Normandy district who we were with at Mt. St. Michel a lot in October. That was a bit of a let-down. And like, I haven't done Eurotour yet and this was perfect for catching up with your Spain trip friends or Eurotour buddies and all...
Ok, you know something is really wrong when Rotarians are admitting the organization was bad. No offense any Rotarians who may be reading - the France Rotary is pretty everywhere though, a lot more so than I thought could be possible...

Well, considering we got lost for 1 hour going to a gala on that weekend with a GPS and nearly hitting 2 people and a dog along the way, and then leaving at 2:30am... instead of 1am like planned, it's kind of hard not to admit the organization wasn't at its best.
As my friend in the Normandy district said, "Rotary doesn't know their asses from their esophaguses" (word for word. I thought it was rather bluntly hilarious).
We went to AIRBUS too... we went to a lecture at a university (even the adults were falling asleep, it was amazing. Our district and the Normandy one was so loud though, it was really rude but no matter how many times we shushed one another it wasn't quiet. One of the French Rotarians called us a pain in the ass at one point. Nous sommes un mal au kuh... or however you really spell that. It was amazingly sad). Tour of the city... me and 3 other girls asked if we could go on a hunt for easter chocolate and we were allowed so after getting it we went shopping and all and that's when I had to buy credit for my mobile and tell Bertille it may not work out because we had 15 minutes left by the time she texted me but then it turned out she was just passing by the store I was at when she got my message. Yea, it was really cool. I ran into her Korean exchange student when I went to the museum of natural history with my group of Rotary exchange students. Out of the 3 groups to enter (at separate times), and running into her before going to far, it was that student.

I switched to my last host family and may I say I think it will be the best one. The first one did not go well at all (I mean, they sent a letter to my YEO listing a bunch of lies and half-truths about me - that pretty much was the cherry on top), the second one wasn't that bad but they treated me like I was an ignorant 4 year old and when something went wrong it was always my fault (once I asked where I had to get off in the afternoon on the bus because my host brother was sick and the other kids who carpool with us and I always followed him off since he knew what was going on, he told me Argenton Les Vallees... I kind of realized it was the 2nd time that week I got off at the wrong stop about 1 and a half hours later when I was sitting in the parking lot. Then my host mom picks me up and yells at me about getting off at the wrong stop and how it's ONLY Monday we get off there. I didn't even know that - that's why I got off at Argenton this time because I was wrong on Monday. She was going on about how they didn't know where I was... why they didn't ask the girl who carpools with us who got off at La Forgereuse I have no idea, she was all confused when I got off at Argenton so... yea, then when I said my host dad told me it was not his fault at ALL because "he didn't understand"). Never anyone else's, always mine. Even if I was part of the problem yet someone else was involved, it was 100% me and they never listened to my side after they told me theirs. They cut me off when I spoke during those "explanations", it was rather irritating. I mean, it's hard enough that you're arguing in a second language but to have them cut you off in the middle of a sentence to throw something else at you? Ugh...

This family seems the most like home in Canada. That and they generally are really nice. Their kids are 18 (he left for his Rotary year to California when 17), and their daughter who is here is almost 19. They're used to older kids here.
Either way my first host family was as well (son turned 19 in Australia and the daughter still there was 18. She's now 19 too) but... yea, that didn't really matter to them I guess. Hard to explain but yea.
Anyways, these people are really nice; always reminding me I can go out of the house for a walk if I want, that they can drive me places, etc. I feel like I can talk to them more so than the other families and that is REALLY important, that's for sure.

Oh yea, District Conference.
All we did was sit in a room where people were giving speeches for 4 hours. Or 3. We lost track of time. We kept getting shushed because all we could do was talk, you know? Yet I saw a couple of Rotarians fall asleep. Boy that brought back memories...
In the end after going out in turn for a break from it and to get some food, we all were outside for the last 10 or 20 minutes. Then there was a break, then we got separated from them and we just hung out in the dining hall as they put out various plates of food on the tables for when Rotarians came in. We took tons of pictures with flags and all, then we did our flag ceremony, got separated into groups again by joining all the people who lived in our department (5-7 people per department) then one person from each group talked a bit. Then we ate. Then we left.
Really, nothing all that special. Nowhere near as awesome as our weekend last May (that feels so ancient, yet it feels like yesterday...). Then again France doesn't have Dennys...

Yea, not a whole ton has happened really.
I'm so lazy with pictures - I haven't put up any since January onto facebook. But I am pretty regular with putting them onto the computer. Of course I haven't uploaded the Toulouse ones yet and I didn't bring a camera to district conference, but I did steal a few. I'll edit this post when I get them up on my computer, I promise! And I have to go to a Rotary meeting in like, a minute, so...
Edit this post later! Figured the text was kind of more important at the moment...