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Ok so I know I haven't posted in a while, I haven't had a ton of time.  Life has been pretty busy, the language gets easier and easier, I have almost complete comprehension and can speak with something you could call ease.  School is rather boring , seeing as I am in STMG which is one of the easy classes so no one really talks to us.  I do have French friends, they just don't happen to be in my class.  Anyway.....The hardest part of learning a language is training yourself to think in that language, dreams become garbled mess and talking out loud to yourself is kinda weird.  I have gotten the opportunity to go to Paris for a week, I am very excited to pursue my film photography. Today I've been working on Shoofly Pie, traditional Amish recipe. Now lets get down to it.  I have less than 100 days before I return to the good old USA.  Wow.  It's funny looking back on it now, how sad I was at first, while normal with an exchange student, was completely stupid.  I want to come back and at the same time  I don't want to come back.  I know I've changed and I'm sure my network at home has too.  It's going to be a bit weird those first few weeks back.  Returning from a life that you've left for so long is bound to be difficult too.  The main thing is fear of losing your learned language but in todays world you at least can always access media in that language and maybe call back to your host family every now and then.  My host brother says he's going to sneak in my suitcase when I leave, and then he always asks if we can Skype.  It's going to be really hard to leave this family here. I haven't ever had a big family like this, it's been really great having cousins and great grandparents etc. I will not miss going to school until 6:00pm but everything else is going to be super hard to say goodbye to. Though I don't have to think about it for another 98 days, it sits in the back of my mind constantly. Going on an exchange has been the best, hardest, most fun and craziest experiences of my life and I am so grateful that I have had this opportunity.