These last few weeks have been crazy, I'm off to a new start yet again!
Long story short- I changed host families. I'm not really going to go into detail as to why, but it just wasn't working out. That explains why I was so hesitant to post photos of everyone! It was a long dragged out process of AFS meetings and phone calls, but eventually an AFS volunteer came and picked me up and I spent a little over a week with their family. I'm lucky I live in a friendly community here in Périgueux, I was told if I couldn't find a host family here in two weeks I would have to change regions, but after spreading the news in my school I was happy to find two amazing teachers and five awesome students were eager to help me stay! Needless to say, I found a great family rather fast.
Now, I live in the city. Ten minute walk to centre ville and fifteen minutes to school. I live with an intelligent boy who is in my French and History class and his single mother. They are very nice and I already feel like I can be open with them. Though the decision to 'adopt' me for 7 months was made in just a week's time, they were very welcoming and acted as if they'd been awaiting my arrival for ages!
I'm looking forward to the rest of my stay here. Though these last few weeks have been super stressful, I feel grateful to have been able to see how four French families live their lives (Marignier welcome family, Grignols family, AFS volunteer's family, and now Périgueux family).
Pictures coming soon-- for real this time :P