Répétez s'il vous plait?

I should mention today I did a fair bit of reading in class simply because I don't understand anything and they don't expect me to do anything. I'm not really going to make a habit of it, except in Spanish because about 70% of the time, she speaks in Spanish, and the rest explaining things in French. Yes, Mum, I do know it is not a holiday and I'm here to learn (and I am, just not from the teachers!!). I'm getting a little better at understanding things now, providing I can hear and it's said slowly.

Anyway...

I am now beginning to understand how my Dad feels all the time! For those who don't know, he has industrial deafness or something; meaning that he can't hear everything we say if it's noisy. So he says 'What? Say it again please!' and we will. Unfortunately, whenever I doesn't hear something I say, it was usually something incoherent and confusing, which I don't even understand after I've said it, so I change the sentence so it makes sense. He gets really annoyed when I do this, because, as he says 'I'm deaf, not stupid!'. He wants us to say it exactly as we said it so he doesn't miss things. He can understand, just not hear well.
I'm finding I'm having a similar problem. For example, today at lunch in the cantine (which is noisy), Sophie's friend Eden asked me something in French that I didn't completely hear the first time. So, I said 'Pardon?' (which means Sorry?), and I wanted her to repeat it. What she ended up doing was saying it in English. Ovbiously I understood it this time, but what I really wanted her to do was say it again in French so that I could get it. I'm finding only parts of a sentence click the first time occasionally and I'll understand it upon hearing it again. So it's not quite the same as Dad's problem, but it is somewhat frustrating. I'm not stupid, I most likely will get it after hearing something two or three times, slowly. Then if they get a blank look, that means I want it in English! Normally it's one or two words I don't understand as opposed to the entire sentence.
I think I need to start saying 'Répétez s'il vous (te) plait?' instead of 'Pardon?'

So anyway, now I understand Dad's predicament a little more!!!

Only other thing that was interesting that happened today was for the extra English class, Bethany came along coz her host sister had a test, so she spent the lesson with Assia's friend Lola instead. We were quite amusing by the fact that we actually had to thing a little to match up the words from the text with their definitions (they made sense, but they were less obvious and some were quite similar). But we got top marks!! :D
Then the had to correct the mistakes in the text summary. The mistakes werre very obvious, but we were not impressed the sheet started a sentence with the word 'but' and this did not qualify as a mistake to be corrected!!!

Anyway, that's about it really! More when something interesting happens!

Bisous,

Liv