Apparently I don't speak English

Holy crap. I am so tired....

Hello everyone, today was the most exhausting, confusing, overwhelmingly scary, and stressful day of my entire life. Forget getting lost in JFK. Forget getting on a plane by myself to Istanbul. Forget being in a country where I know no one and nothing. High school in a foreign country trumps it all.  I got up at 5, the bus came at 6, and I am freaking tired. My first day went kind of like this: eh. ugh. wtf. why. wait what. omfg i'm so stupid. Then, I went home. 

The German boy is indeed in my class. He has pale skin, blue eyes, and blonde hair. He looks foreign. Teachers ask him if he speaks Arabic. Apparently, I look Egyptian. People don't ask me if speak Arabic. They just say things really fast until I look scared and confused.

The whole day is was freaking me out and I hated it. I hated how all of these jumbled up syllables made sense to everyone but me. But then, I remembered something. The only classes that need to count are math, science, french, and english. With the exception of French, all the classes I actually need to care about are taught in English. Plus, at the beginning of school and during the beginning of break I was kind of a loner. But once I settled down, and realized that everything will be okay. I was fine. And I made some friends. 

The one thing that's really disappointing is that I have been in advanced math since sixth grade. I was supposed to be taking Pre-Calc this year. Instead, I'm doing Algebra, Geometry, and Trig... again. And when I get back, I will be taking Pre-Calc... Normal math. (Wow, that makes me sound really snotty. I am so sorry.)

Anyway, in English we will be reading Jane Eyre and Oliver Twist and doing grammar. Today, we did grammar. When the teacher called on me to answer a question... I. Got. It. Wrong. WHAT?! What the heck is wrong with me? I am an American exchange student from the land of "Well, why don't they all learn our language?" and I got the dang question wrong. Apparently, the word "fee" and the word "fare" are used in different contexts. And apparently, I don't speak speak English. *self five* Basically, I answered the question and the teacher goes "No." and then the German boy, who has literally said two words to me, turns and laughs at me. That's it. I'm done. I will never forgive myself for this. (You might be reading this like I'm serious and distraught, but know I will be laughing at this for the next hundred years of my life.)

And there's a girl on my bus, who sits next to me in school, so we talk a lot. It's nice. I'm gonna like it here now that I've calmed down. I'm gonna be lazy now.

I'll leave you with two quotes:

"'I like math.

                               'Ew, why?'

'Because it's the same in every country'"

-Mean Girls

"Attempting to care. Loading please wait."

-The shirt I'm wearing right now.

Byeeeee.

Corie.