And here I am at my fourth and last host families house already! this year sure does fly by so quickly!!! The day my parents left from France was the day I switched host families and what a great idea because I think its harder to say goodbye to parents the second time! and so I'm living with two parents who work in the catholic church, 3 host sisters, two who work outside of town and only come a few times per week, and one 17 year old sister, who is awesome! Also I have a host brother who goes to school in another town and one who was in Venezuela for a few years who just came back. So it has been such a change from all my host families and i'm so happy to ... read more

Hey everyone… as always I have been only the busiest person on the planet! Where do I even begin? Well, for starters I swam in the English channel, Easter morning..And just for the record it was freezing! But totally worth it. Next day I started my Euro Trip! First day Paris! About 60 exchange students met up in one of the train stations in Paris and took all of our HUGE suitcases down like 9 sets of stairs and ended up breaking suitcases before we even could get started..just imagine walking down the street in Paris and seeing about 30 kids in a line trying to run through traffic with their suitcases, I’m sure it was a site to see =0 So we make it to the bus and realize just how much fun this trip ... read more

hey everyone.. I know its been a very long time since i have written but no time like the present. Well, as most of you know this past week I met up with 400 exchange students living all over France and had soo much fun! I decided I would just write in here the schedule so everyone knows exactly what the plan was like... From18 au 23 mars : Meeting in Toulouse, France for all the 400 exchange students living currently in France. Wendsday18 mars. Meeting at 6:45 in the morning in LILLE Stop 1: Arras Stop 2: Amiens VERSAILLES visit of the famous gardens! (District 1670/1770) :Meet different exchange students at the Château Every night we stayed in either hotels or youth hostels. TOULOUSE 2009: ORLEANS meal. CHAMBORD visit château CHENONCEAU visit château AMBOISE visite ... read more

So here in France I had vacation for about two weeks, actually right now is my 2ndweek of vacation and I got to do soo many amazing things! Don't worry I have soooo many pictures, in fact my memory card couldnt hold all of them! The start of my vacation is when I switched back with my first host family, we went to see the caps, which are like cliffs over the ocean and it was just beautiful! It's so amazing how you can look in one direction and see country landscapes and turn your head and see out forever into deep blue water. This past weekend I went to Paris (from Friday night to Monday) sooo great! We did so many things its very hard to remember all of them. The first day we actually ... read more

Living with Cindy! Everything is soo much fun! It's crazy how fast the time goes though... I've been doing lots of things and it's always things that I would be doing with my friends back home and i'm just so glad to have a really good French friend. I enjoy having someone to not now how to decide what to color to chose from within the huge pile of nail polish, or someone to make "American" cookies for, or someone to be totally freaked out by the "Sea monkeys" (that are literally a growing piece of the U.S! haha) or someone to have parties with, or someone to show me truly what the French teenage life is all about. I really enjoy my new host mom as well, she is super nice! and how could I ... read more