Saturday, April 11, 2009

Today I slept till noon again!! I was exhausted!! Camille woke me up for Lunch and what she didnt tell me was that they had company!! It was there cousins but still i was in my pajamas!!!! So i had to run back up stairs and get dressed really quickly and come back down to eat!!! One of the people could speak english really well so i was able to hold a conversation with them as we ate!! It was fun!! Then Camilles freind Marie who she rides horses with showed up and we went shopping!! After that we went to her house and played the Wii!! When we got back to Camilles house i finally relized that today was my last day in France and I feel so sad now to be leaving!!! I am going to miss it here soooooo much!! I love the people, the culture, the food, everything about france i love!!! I hope that i can return and see camille again!! I mean ive made soooo many freinds here and now im going to leave!!! It just weird because in a way i do want to go home and see my family and the beach but in a way i dont want to leave behind any of what i learned or my freinds here!!! I dont now it kinda a bittersweet feeling!!!

France

On friday i slept in until noon, then Camille had to go ride her horse Fanny. I got to go watch, there was on girl whos horse kept on stopping instead of jumping over the fence!! Once she got thrown off and knocked the entire thing over!! But she was not hurt or anything so it went pretty well in my opinion!! Camille did good, her horse fanny is really a great jumper!! That evening we met Emmas family for dinner!!! We had tart flambee it was delicious!! The whole time we where there (which ended up being three hours) we talked!!! It was kinda funny!! Emma and Camille were trying to teach me and sarah how the do that weird noise with your throat when you speak french and german!!! Sarah could do it the first time and i still to this day cannot do it!! I mean i can do it but not in the middle of a word!! But it was alot of fun trying, Emma and Camille were laughing at me the whole time i even laughed at myself!! It was halarious!!!! I had a blast!!!

France

Thursday... what a day that was!!! First we went to this little potery town. We go to see how they made traditinal pottery in a modern way!! I was kinda cool!! I bought a gift for my mom and nana there. Next we had some free time so we walked around at some shops, ate lunch near a fountin, and relaxed in the park!! Dorothy and Hannah even gave the teachers a new hair style with some flowers!!! The bath house was ..... an interesting experiance...... for me at least! When we got there I put my stuff in my locker and changed into my bathing suit. For the time that we where there i went into the sona, swam a little, got an icecream, and got a tan. It was relaxing i guess but i just had to fall asleep!!! Thats where it turned around!!! I fell asleep right next to the outdoor pool in plain sight, and next thing i know, is that i wake up, and there was no one from our group anywhere! I looked everywhere and could not find anyone, so I finally decided to go to my locker get dressed and figure out what to do next! Then i sall Ms Peoples at the front desk freaking out because they had lost a student... ME!!!!! So i called to her and she asked me where i was , well i told her the story about me just now waking up and not finding anyone. She said that everyone was already on the bus and that i didnt even have time to get dresssed!! so i threw my clothes on over my bathingsuit and hopped onto the bus!!! I didnt acually relize what had just happened untill then!!! I could not belive it!!!! and no one woke me up!! I mean there was plenty on people in the pool, that knew i was there!!! but no!!! I almost got LEFT in a ROMAN BATH HOUSE in GERMANY!!!!
That evening we had like a goodbye party that the french hosted!! I was so much fun!!! There where lights, food, a DJ, freinds, and even a disco ball!!!! It was awsome!!! I even got some videos of the teachers dancing crazy!!! It was a blast!!!!
So that was my weird and freaky thursday!!

Friday, April 10, 2009

France

On Wednesday we went to Europa park which is said to be the biggest amusement park in Europe!! It was in germany!! It was so much fun, and if you know me well then you should know that rollercoasters are not a walk in the park for me!! I get really nervous!! But i went on two and i loved them!! one had a big drop and the other was just super fast!! The were both kinda like space mountin in disney world florida!!! Ecxept one had like skyscrapers connected to it and the other was inside what looked like the big white sphere in epcot in disney!! It was soo much fun!! I also went on two log rides, rafting, a run away train; a haunted house and two pirate ships!! I had a blast!!

France

Sorry I have not written in a while I have been kinda busy!! Anyway The day after we went to Paris we went bowling and to the European Paliment!! Bowling was so much fun!! I got third place, and there bowling alley is so cool! It has neon all over the place. I got lots of pictures and a few videos of coarse!! The pariment on the otherhand was kinda boring!! We only got to see two rooms and the tour guide would not stop talking, he would pretty much say every version of the same sentance over and over again! We got to go into this one room where he just sat us down and talked to us for fourty minutes. Almost everyone was asleep at one point or another!! I fell asleep twice and Ms. Peoples had to wake me up!! I was exhausted!!

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

France

I could not belive it!!!! Paris is amazing!!! Its manificent, there is so much to see, so much to do!!!!! I loved every minute of it!!! I know that it was my Nanas and my Moms dream to take me to Paris and that dream was finally completed!!! I just hope that i can come back with them soon to see more of it!!!! Speaking of that!!!
I sall the Louve, Arc De Triumph, Le Opera, Notre Dame, The Eiffel Tower, and a Bizzilion other famous places and monuments!!!!
The photos that i took of thoughs places are increadible!!!!! I cant even pick a favorite!!!
The Eiffel tower was Gigantic!!! We took the elevator up to the 2nd platform out of three, and got off and explored the scenery!!! You could see everything!!! I only wish that we could of gone to the top, but it was closed!!! I dont know why!!!! Oh well, i will just have to do that with my mom someday!!!!! While we where there i bought a ton of souveniers for my entire family!! I was having a little trouble finding something for my nana but i got her a christmas ornament because i thought she might like seeing it on her tree every year!!! I even found a snowglobe for my friend miranda!! It is cute!! Oh and i almost forgot WE TOOK THE STAIRS DOWN!!!!!!!!! It was craziness!! My legs were shaking the whole time!!! You can see right over the rail to the bottom underneath the tower!!! But i guess that is part of the experiance!! It was So much Fun!!!
Next we went to Notre Dame!! I never acually relized the size of it!! And the funny thing was that it looked just like it did in the movie, with all the gargolals, pillers, ect. Every detail is exact!!! And when we walked inside!! All that i could remember is in the movie when Esmerelda is walking through the cathedral singing !!! It was increadible!! The only thing was that i wish that we could of gone into the bell towers and seen its glory!!!
The Louve I cant forget that!! i sall the MONA LISA, THE VENUS DE MILO,THE SPHYNX, AND WINGED VICTORY( at least thats what i think its called)!!!!! I loved it!! We had a tour guide for half of the 2 hour time period and then people in our group started to complain of being tired so Ms Mcewen, three other girls, and i countinued on!!! I got to see the glass pyrimids, some crown jewels and some more greek sulptures!!! I got sooooooo many pictures!!! It was Amazing!! And the Celings!!!, Is that where that where Leonardo Da Vinci hung upside down to paint it or was that somewhere else? well I dont know but it was Awsome!! My favorite part had to be the celings and the greek sulptures!!! But we did not have time to see all of the louve so maybe i would of had another favorite!!!! I dont know!!
But i LOVE paris!!!! The sight are increadible the food is increadible and the history is increadible!!! I got to see soooo many historical places that not everyone gets to see!!! And the funny thing is, is that i grew up with Paris, I mean Madeline "in the old house in paris that was covered in vines lived twelve little girls in two straight lines and the smallest one was Madeline"!!!! And the Hunchback of Notre Dame, Beauty and the Beast, The Phantom of the Opera, Ect!!! I have known these places and things my whole life and yesterday i got to experiance PARIS!!!!!!!
I cannot wait to return to paris one day with my family!!

Sunday, April 5, 2009

France

Yesterday and today Camille( or Camy as all the french seem to call her) had another horse competition so i got to spend the night at Emmas house!!! Emma is hosting Sarah who i have known sence elementary school!!! It was fun We went shopping and i got lots of cute things, and we got to ride bikes to this magnificent park that had a zoo, bowling alley, and a farm in it !!!! it was huge!!! But i had a blast!!! We also got to go to Kims house!!!! Kim is a french student who is hosting amanda who i also know pretty well!!! We played lots of board games, some card games, and we even got to walk on stilks!!!! It was so much fun!!!!! When Camille had finished her competition she and her mother came and picked me up from Emmas!!! When we got home Camille asked me if i wanted to see the snakes!!! I knew thought she had snakes but i was not sure!!! So we went out on there patio and down to the basement!!! It was amazing Camille dad has around 20 diffrent aquarims in the basement. One holds there two snakes and the others are full of fish!!!!! They even have a pirrana(if i spelled that right)!!!!!!! I am not sure what kinds of snakes they were but it looked to me like a corn snake and some sort of small boa constricter! I was shocked that i didnt already know!!!! But it was sooooo coool!!!!!! Tomarrow we are going to paris!!!!! I am sooo excited!!! But i have to get to bed early which it is already 9:15 so i better go!!
Goodnight!!

Friday, April 3, 2009

France

Wednesday after school Camille and i went shopping I mostly got the usual torist stuff ( t shirts, books, pencil sharpeners, maps, postcards, ect)! It was fun! And today we went to a castle called Haut Koeningsbourg! It was great. I got some really nice photos! and learned alot about the castle!
After the tour we went to the town that Murray ( the man who our school is named after) was said to have single handedly saved! It was such a cute, old, little town on the french countryside. And the weird thing was that it was surrounded by vineyards and mountins! We also got to meet the mayors staff, we were supose to be meeting the mayor but i guess something came up! It was cool to see a new place though!
That kinda reminded me. When i got home I looked up on the computer where in france Johnny Depp was said to live in, and i found out that this town is on the coast of france which is about eight hour and thirty nine minutes away from Strasbourg ! isnt that awsome!!!!

France

On Wednesday we got to go back to the school and go to some classes with the students. I got put in a english class with three other americans! It was a little boring at first. The teacher wanted us to write a full essay in french! It was crazy, because none of us spoke french. Then it got a little better because the teacher let us awnser questions and help out the french with there work. After class we went to the gym to play some sports with the french. I had origanally sighed up for ping pong but instead i got to do volley ball. Our team won 2nd place and a t shirt! It was so much fun!