http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/just4kix/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from just4kix en-us Wed, 23 Dec 2009 08:30:35 +0000 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 08:30:35 +0000 Wow il fait deja un an que j'etais en France le temps passe trop viteBon depuis la France il y avait beaucoup des choses qui ont passes. L'ete dernier j'ai travaille en Floride avec mes soeurs dans un lycee prive. Ce lycee a un camp tous les etes car il est juste a cote d'une riviere Indian River donc le camp et un camp des sports aquatiques comme la natation la planche a voile etc. J'i http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Massachusetts/blog-380372.html Ugh so I am sick and you have no idea how hard it is to be sick in a different country In France they don't have health insurance like us Americans. Well they do but it is completely different. I feel like I am pretty much isolated thanks to my sinus infection because just about everybody does not want to be around me. Who can blame them But when you don't have your parents or siblings or who http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Lorraine/Metz/blog-260352.html On Saturday the Galvez's had a big engagement party for their eldest son Matthieu and his fiance Claire. Claire's family arrived late in the afternoon and then her mom came later. She has two siblings whose names I completely forget yeah kinda typical of me and her parents are divorced. We started eating around 930pm and finished at 1am Seriously when people have ANY type of party in Fra http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Lorraine/Metz/blog-254795.html I know that when I return to my home of Boston MA in JuneJuly that I will be obviously different in some ways more than others. I figured I would list some of them now just so you can be prepared for when I come backNew HabitsI eat a load of food at breakfast and lunch but hardly anything at dinner. This is how the French do itI don't snack anymoreI drink MILK... out of a bowl.I eat che http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Lorraine/Metz/blog-252350.html At first when I applied to the WIA exchange program I honestly was not thinking about the long term effects this year would bore on me. I thought Oh hey it's just a year and I don't know French but I don't think that this is really a big problem.Not knowing French was a HUGE problem at the beginning I was just downplaying everything and I am almost glad that I left myself as a blank canvas http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Lorraine/Metz/blog-252343.html I just finished up the first day back to school after 15 days of vacation I was in the Alps for my first week and the second was spent in the Vosges mountains. In the Alps I was with the Gelmetti family and there we were stationed at the Grizzly Hotel in Les Deux Alps. Every morning we would take les oeufs up to the top of the mountain and from there we would choose our paths down. I was wit http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/France/Lorraine/Metz/blog-252333.html