Hello
everyone, it’s been a lot long than I meant since I’ve posted something here.
That just means that my life here on exchange has been going so swimmingly that
I 1) have no time to blog and 2) it feels so natural that I forget to document
and share my time here.
Since I’m
not sure what I’ve done since my last blog (probably a lot, as it’s been a
while) I’ll just put out some catch-up information. I changed to my third and
final host family about a month ago, though I had a lot of trouble leaving my
second family I absolutely adore my third as well.
Last
Saturday my host mom and I went to go see a château, the château which Hergé based Captain Haddock’s mansion off
of in Tintin, which was absolutely wonderful. On Sunday we went for a 6 mile
hike around the country side, which was organized by the local school and went
to see the new Miyazaki movie at the artsy movie theater here in town. A friend
of mine from school came along and after the movie we bumped into her Russian
teacher, who convinced the two of us to stay for the next movie showing, a Russian
movie called ‘Elena’. They were both very good movies, and it was a great day.
This week
is the biggest week of the year for my town, because it is the week that they
put on a nationally known music festival. I am going to two concerts, and
staying at my friend’s house who lives closer to town. She was on exchange last
year and had the idea and generosity to invite six exchange students in our
district to come stay at her house for the festival. If the rain lets up it
should be a pretty amazing week with all the excitement and outdoor stands and
concerts downtown. And if the rain doesn’t let up we’ll still manage to have
fun anyway! This Saturday, after the other girls here head back home, I will be
headed to Orléans with my second host sister to see ‘Dracula’, a French musical
which is touring. It should be spectacular.
Tonight I
have a Rotary dinner and I will be giving my end of the year presentation,
talking about the US and my experience here in France. I’m in the middle of finishing
up the PowerPoint, and going through the photos is already making me nostalgic-
and I haven’t even gotten home yet.
Since I’m
on the subject of pictures, here’s one of me with my second host family. We’re
on the top of the Dune of Pila, which is the largest sand dune in Europe. We
visited it when we were in Bordeaux.
I should also
note that while the Spain trip was canceled due to scheduling conflicts with
the host club in Spain, my host mom was extremely excited to learn that we can
leave that weekend to visit Mont Saint-Michel and the beaches of Normandy. I will also be
going on the Euro-tour with Rotary in June and get to visited an incredible
number countries in an incredibly short amount of time. I guess I’ll be seeing
most of you soon- but hopefully not too soon!
