What I'm studying Hi. My name is Bastien, I'm living in France, and I'm twenty three years old. I'm here for learning english, perhaps spanish (because I have to do it for the final exam, but I'm not that motivated to do so). If I'm going well, I think that I will start learning a germanic language, like german or norwegian (or icelandic, I don't know yet). So, I'm in the France's equivalent of High School (called "lycée"), in the scientific section. And because of my section, I'm studying several "hard" sciences : life and earth sciences (biology, geology, medicine, anatomy), mathematics, physics and chemistry. Because of my (probably temporary) health problems, I've "lost" one year, trying to do the work I'm supposed to do. Nonetheless, I've done great things, like learning how to improve my studying habits, how to organize myself, etc., and I've learned a large part of this year's program (especially in life and earth sciences). My goal is to have a good grade at the final exam, in order to go into a "classe préparatoire aux grandes écoles" in maths, physics and engineering science. A "classe prépa" is a special class where, for two or three years, you have a massive amount of things to learn, with the objective to go into a "grande école" (grand school or elite school), like Ecole Polytechnique or Ecole Normale Supérieure, which are really prestigious schools. I want to go to the Ecole Normale Supérieure, for studying mathematics and physics. Wikipedia says that our "classes préparatoires" have one of the highest workload in the world: between 35 and 45 hours of contact per week, including written and oral exams, without the homework. I think that I'm able to succeed in a "classe prépa", because one of my mother's boyfriend daughter [I really don't know how to express this, she's is the daughter of the man who is with my mother, but they are not married] do one of those classes (economics) with fairly good results (she's the fourth in her class, they are twenty four), and I'm better than her in high school: my grades are better, and I'm studying less than what she did in high school. I prefer to say "learning", because "studying" often implies "cramming", and I don't do that: it's not the most efficient way to really learn things.