I can see you're sad, even when you smile, even when you laugh - I can see it in your eyes, deep inside you want to cry

Hello everyone!
It's been forever since I've written and I sincerely apologize for that. I've been busy but my mood has picked up. I'm on the coasting part of the roller coaster just after the drop. So much has happened since my last post, considering that was a week ago, I think it's only fair.

Okay, well we'll start with my birthday. It started like an almost normal day, except for the huge sign that said Joyeux Anniversaire Lulu! because Lulu is one of my [many] nicknames. Anyway, later that afternoon, Juliette asked me if I wanted to go for a bike ride. I agreed and off we went. When we came back, a short two hours later, the curtains were drawn, a black towel thrown over the glass door and all doors shut, I went right up to my room. Well, since I could do basically nothing on the main floor, I read my book. Later, I was summoned downstairs. Marie was filming with my camera and everyone else was doing some type of song and dance of Happy birthday, in French. The whole room was transformed, it was amazing. I have pictures.

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=1891&l=dcf0a&id=507199787

Well, the next day, two of Juliette's friends came over, Jeanne and Juliette. At the same time, Marie had two friends over. It was crowded and everyone slept over. It was fun and I also have pictures.

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=1916&l=85715&id=507199787

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=1917&l=8e97e&id=507199787

Also, it's a bit late but better because I have Easter pictures!!

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=1908&l=8564d&id=507199787

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=1909&l=ea18e&id=507199787

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=1910&l=10c85&id=507199787

And also late but better late then never! Francoise's birthday. Oh crap, maybe I already posted these, I can't remember but here they are!

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=1892&l=46d56&id=507199787

And of course some random at home

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=1915&l=de621&id=507199787

and soon the pictures of three crazy girls playing with mud... oh yes, you know you want to see those pictures. They'll be up soon. I have to go know but I'll be back, soon I hope!

Love Emma
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Gotta make a move to a town that's right for me

A slight continuation of my last post:

It's the 2 1/2 week holiday that I've pretty much been looking forward since the last holiday and what do I get to spend it doing? Canadian homework. Pretty freaking great huh? I know, you're all just so jealous. That's why I probably wont write much, I have tons of Canadian homework AND French homework. Joy.

Even the best fall down sometimes - Even the wrong words seem to write

I feel like vomiting, and I'm not sick. I feel like screaming at someone, punching someone, and I'm not really sure who or why. I feel disconnected, I cried last night. I feel alone a lot. No one emailed me today. And of course, it's my birthday tomorrow. What exactly am I feeling? Feelings.

Look - If you had one shot - Or one opportunity - To seize everything you ever wanted - Would you capture it - Or just let it slip

Okay, I'll have to start choosing harder lyrics because these are just SO easy! A classic song with so many good memories... Ahh.... *thinking about all the memories*

Anyway, yesterday was Francoise's birthday! Joyeux Anniversaire Chouchou! And we went to Mt. Saint Michel. Unfortunatly, this isn't my picture because it was really foggy yesterday, but this is it, nice eh? As some of you may know, it's an island with high tide and... not an island with low tide. You can have a guide lead you in on foot (to guide you around the quicksand) but when the tide comes in, it comes faster than a galloping horse so watch out. I especially like the sign that said "If you parked in ______ area, please move your car by _____ o'clock because of high tide", fun fun. We drove there (2 hours) and then went for lunch in this crazy famous omelette place. They beat the eggs for like an hour then cook it in a wood stove, I took a video, it's really cool. After we ate, we walked up to the church and got a tour. Juliette and I weren't very interested so we set my camera on timer mode and took a bunch of pictures. :P After the tour, which took a while, we set off back down the hill and hopped into the car. We drove to a cookie factory and bought cookies and stuff (I bought something for Canada!), it was really cool because they have to stuff they don't use on display like the cookie "cutters". These big rolls with imprints for the cookies. After we left, we went to a crepe place and ate dinner. Two and a half hours later, we were home. We ate the lemon cake that Juliette, Emma and I had made the day before. It was good, then we all fell into bed. In 2 days it's my birthday! I'm excited, since last time I wrote, I have gotten a package from my mom and Sara, thanks you guys! I miss you all!

Love Emma

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There's a woman crying out tonight - Her world has changed - She asks God why

Here's some Easter pictures. I say some because it screwed up and the website that I use to share my pictures (Kodakgallery) no longer works on this computer, if I can't get it to work, I'll make a huge album when I get back from France, sorry everyone!

http://www.kodakgallery.com/Slideshow.jsp?&conn_speed=1&collid=51566793108.452607128108.1176319272857&mode=fromsite

Love Emma
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I turned up your TV and stomped on the floor just for fun - I know we don't live here anymore - We bought an old house on the danforth

Please family, try to stay sane without me... just try, for me.

Hello all! It's yours truely, today is Wednesday (my half day as you know if you have taken my quiz) and I'm home with everyone. Well, almost everyone anyway. About that little family insanity thing, don't take it personally, it's meant for my two Toronto-living sisters, if you happen to BE one of my two Toronto-living sisters, take it very personally. :D I say this with love of course...

There are some things that I'll never understand; why the sky is blue,why the grass is green, why my sisters have proceeded to chuck their birth names out the window and be refered to or close an email with the names 'Katinka' and 'Beccalopolis' or whatever. Go figure.

But I've decided not to dwell on that funny business because in exactly 7 days, it's my birthday! (and Beccalopolis' birthday). So far I have received three birthday packages (Granny and Pappy, Gama and Grandpa, Tante Liz) and my mother informed me that she sent hers today! Oh what a happy day today is. Of course I have two tests tomorrow and another one on Friday but I like to live in the moment, does this mean I don't have to study? Will wonders never cease... :P

In 2 days it's officially the vacation and once we start school again after, I only have 2 weeks left. Crap I really have to start buying presents for people... hee hee. Speaking of which... er... not really speaking of which, I'll rephrase that... something totally irrelevant... great, now after that whole irrelevant-speaking-of-which thing I forgot what I was going to say, I hope you had fun reading this totally pointless paragraph.

I've officially hooked the Lancesseur girls on Veronica Mars, it was on TV one day and I said I knew it so we watched it and voila! But we're starting from square one... er... season one anyway.

Well, I'm counting down until the vacation, it's pretty easy, two days. Okay, so you don't need to be super strong in math to count but whatever, I'm proud of me.

As always, guess the lyrics, this one's a 'classic'.

Love Emma
xoxoxoxoxoxox

I tried my best to leave this all on your machine but the persistent beat it sounded thin upon listening

I'm practically GIVING away lyrics here. People please, this once's super-easy. Ready, set... GO!! Good luck to all, who shall win?? Well, today is Easter Sunday and I think I might be sick. My problem is that when I eat chocolate, I never know when I've had enough until I've had too much, I must work on that...
Anyway, I'll start with the beginning of the weekend and work my way to my present position. Okay... So Friday after school...

I got home Friday and did all my homework for the weekend so that I wouldn't have to do any later when I am really not in the mood. So Friday was normal, Juliette had music, Charles came, Emma and I leave school together, etc. Moving on to Saturday.

Saturday morning, Charles and Marie left early because Marie has school (but only gym) Saturday morning and Charles has music. When Charles got back, Juliette, Charles and I went to the train station to go to Rouen. We got there 2 minutes late and it had left so we bought lunch and tickets for the next train, in an hour. When we got to Rouen we shopped a bit. Juliette's bag had broken last week so she needed a new one but she needed a specific colour - Green apple. So, we started our mission, at first we had trouble finding stores that had any type of backpack but we soon found a few. We also found out that every store has EVERY colour except green apple. I found a green but aparently it was puke green and she wanted green apple. In one store, Juliette was looking for so long that Charles and I started fooling around with the other bags that were there. There was one that I simply loved. It was a penguin with little flippers and a beak sticking out. And then, to make it oh so perfect, when you squeezed te beak, it squeaked. Like a dog's toy. Charles couldn't stop laughing. Juliette couldn't find green apple so she settled on chocolate. I though it was funny when Charles suggested a yellow bag and Juliette simply told him that it was piss-yellow. I love their descriptions. Well, after shopping Charles went out to a party, Juliette and I ordered pizza and watched the whole 3rd season of Friends. Fun fun. The morning after we woke up late, ate lightly and caught a train home.

SUNDAY: After the train home, we were picked up and driven home to where we had lunch. The Easter chocolate had started alreay because in every cup was 3 chocolates. Mmm... Well, after lunch, we searched for our chocolate that Marie had hidden, my favourite was when Marie put mine in the lawnmower. Where the grass grows. Yum. Well, it was really amusing an we had lots of pictures, after that we played a bunch of games outside then we went to the beach and invented a game where everyone takes a flip-flop and we keep a rock up, fun but painfull. :P

We came home and ate more chocolate and that's where I am now. Sitting beside the computer, happy that we had no school tomorrow because every Monday, we have 8 hours of school, I counted and I only have 1 full Monday left, I'll explain why next time. Now I should go help with dinner. Bye!!

Love Emma
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You said you fell while holding diamonds in your hand - It's your fault for running holding diamonds, I swear

This is a beautiful picture of all the gum that my Grandparents and my mother have sent me, punched out of the container it came in and put into this cute box that I bought. Yum...

I created a quiz (thanks Emily for the idea) about my time in France and things I have written on my blog so please don't cheat while taking the quiz and stop to re-read things, that's no fun. http://www03.quizyourfriends.com/quizpage.php?quizname=070405123050-268166

Third: Who wrote a comment and then deleted it after? Speak up... I CAN'T HEAR YOU!! I say that with love of course. Always. Well, yesterday my second package from mi mutti came and it bascally contained food. And 2 books and a card. But I loved the food. Oatmeal, because they apparently don't have any in France, peanutbutter, easter eggs with peanut butter in the middle, sour jube bunnies, curly wurly's and I think that's it. It rocked. And I forgot to tell everyone that a few days before that, I recieved a package from my grandparents. It was great. Oh I was just thinking and maybe I did tell you, oh well, if I did you now know again. Super. Well, they are winning the race off relatives-who-are-not-my-mom race in the package giving so step up everyone and start sending! Tuesday I made peanutbutter cookies, yum yum yum.

I got my second French test back today, 1.7 whoopee. 17.5 in math though and 19 in English. We're learning algebra in math now and since I know that already (x+6=10, x=?) it's a breeze.

My birthday is coming up (yay!) so send me birthday (atleast) cards! Gama and Grandpa, you guys are off the hook, thanks for all the stuff!!

I don't have much else to say, I'll write again later, or atleast I'll try. This weekend is Easter weekend sort of) and we're going to Rouen then Belgium!! Yeah.. it rocks. Then once next week of school is over, it's Easter vacation for 2 1/2 weeks!! It's so muh better. We're not doing anything for vacation so I guess I'll be doing Canadian homework. While eating chocoate of course... :P

Love you all and miss you!

Love Emma

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We're all of us stars - We're fading away - Just try not to worry - You'll see us someday

Poisson D'Avril! Otherwise known as April Fool's! Oh my god, are you missing out in Canada. All my memories of April Fool's consist of taping paper fish to peoples backs. BO-RING. Those of you who don't understand that quote please go to www.homestarrunner.com directly after reading this blog post and go to the legal section. Then wait a little while, I promise that something happens.

Well, as you probably know, the fool's day in April fell this year on a Sunday. Perfect. That means that we have all of Saturday to prepare. *Devlish laugh* Emma, Juliette and I stayed up 'till 1 am preparing. It was so much fun. We started by taking all the bowls (an essential part of a French breakfast) and hid them in my closet which we locked with a key. Then we tied all the chairs to the table and locked the door that the parents use every morning to come downstairs, this way they have to go around the long way. We attached the garbagecan so that it wouldn't open and taped down all the lightswitches and the computer mouse. We put that transparent plastic film that stretches over the toilets and tied the door shut. We set up trip wires in front of Marie and Charles' door and pushed a huge wooden chest in front of the door that the parents would need to use the next morning. Then we went to bed.

That morning, the parents had woken up and already left. The two girls and I had decided to meet at 9:15 and proceed with caution. We started downstairs and opened the door to the kitchen, there was a cup of water balanced carefully on the top of the door, fortunatly for us, it didn't fall. In fact, we didn't even notice it until five minutes later. Well, the parents had de-rigged all of our tricks and the water was just the first sign of theirs. They had changed all the clocks, they had hidden our food, taped drawers, filled the milk container with water, etc. Every time you thought that it was over, another thing would prove to be misplaced or rigged or what not. V. v. amusing. Well, we finished eating and set up the parents tricks for Charles and Marie. Charles was the first one to wake.

Emma, Juliette and I were in the dining room when we heard his door open. All we heard was "What the..." before we burst out laughing. He came down and entered the kitchen, this time the water did fall. So, so, so, so funny. He pulled the chairs, searched for the bowls, searched for the milk, the chocolate, the bread, the whole deal. Marie was lucky. Well, once every one was up, the teams were clear: Marie and Charles against Emma, Juliette and me.

Well, Charles locked us downstairs while Marie took apart our rooms and through all our stuff out the window and then Charles changed all the settings on the computer, creating passwords for everything so that we couldn't access anything on the computer. It was Juliette who cracked one of the codes and Marie told me another. For one of the hints, it said "The sentence that is very true" Yeah, it was "Charles is the best".

And then some small stuff like hiding all my toiletries and putting clothespins in my shoes and vinegar in peoples water and nice things like that. We had a lot of fun. I think that the best part was when the water fell on Charles. That was hilarious. Well, I have to go eat now but that's why I didn't write yesterday (the passwords). I miss everyone!

Love Emma
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