 Hi
everybody!! I am very late and I feel terrible!! Also I just realized that
we are in December and that half of the year passed! That s horrible! So I
try to take advantage of every day! I remember my first morning here, I
think I stayed two or three hours in my bedroom because I was scary to go
downstairs! Or I couldn't understand anything. I don't know how many times
I said what ??? And since October, lots of things happened again.
On October 31st, it was Halloween. With my host family,
we went to a kind of festival. I don't really know how to call that! But
there were lots of things for the kids and that was fun! And I took a huge
spider in my hand! I don't know why I did that because I hate spider! And
that spider was huge with hairs, big legs and all of that!! Horrible!!
And I also went to a party but this time with some of
the exchange students: Emma, Jane, Ania and Teresa. It was at Ania's
house. We were all disguised and we did some games like bobbing for apples
. I think that Emma really like it! She spent 10 minutes in the water!!
Hein Emma!!!! We had great time!!
School is great too! Last week was the exams week so
that was not so much fun! I think I did ok. I am also in the soccer
varsity team. I have so much fun! I have never played soccer before except
in my backyard with my brothers because in France, soccer is a boy sport!
The girls in the team are great, we have team dinners and we are
undefeated!! I don't play a lot but I have a lots of fun!!
At the end of October I moved in my second family.
Thanks to my first host family again because I had an awesome time with
them! My new family is very nice too. Now I live with 3 boys, Anthony,
Nick and Chris and we do lots of things.
On November 8th, we went to the PET farm (Personal
Energy Transportation ). That's one of the projects of my host Rotary
club. They built wheelchairs for people who have lost the use of their
legs and send them in about 29 countries all other the world. So that
morning, we went there to participate in the building of those
wheelchairs. An other morning, we went helping to built a house. The house
was almost finished but we laid the sod around the house. That was fun and
I was happy to help to do that.
On November 11th, Veteran's Day (in France too) we went
to St Augustine to the light house. That light house is huge! That was
very cool! And another day, we came back and we walked in the center of
St. Augustine. I really liked it because it reminded me of France a little
bit, with the old and smalls streets, the smalls shops, the old
buildings... That's a very nice town .
On November 27th, it was Thanksgiving, a new thing for
me because we don't have that day in France. We went to my host mum's
sister's house. We had a very good meal, turkey, and I tried the ham with
syrup. That s kind of weird when I think about it but that's good!! So we
had a good meal, we watched football and I was happy to meet all their
family. A big family!! They were all very nice to me so I had a very good
time.
The next day, I went to mall with some friends. The
worst day to go there! The mall was crowded! That was crazy!!
On November 29th, we went to Daytona Beach to see a car
show. That was awesome! There were I don't know about 500 cars maybe more!!
Old cars, new cars... cars everywhere! That was another very good day!!
After that, on December 5th, 6th, and 7th it was
Disneyworld. One of the best weekend of my life!! We were about 80
exchange students from all other the world. It was crazy!! And that was
very cool to see all the exchange student from our district. The first
weekend we had together, we were all very shy and now we are like best
friends! That's great!
On Friday morning, we had to get up at 5:30 to be at
Magic Kingdom at 7:00 before the park opened to the public. We did Space
Mountain two times, one time with the lights on and the other time in the
dark. It was awesome! After that, we spent the day in the park and we had
lots of fun. When we came back, we had a pizza party and some of us went
to a club at Pleasure Island. It was a great day!!
On Saturday morning (very tired!) we went to Animal
Kingdom, a very big zoo and the afternoon, we went to EPCOT. It was
freezing!! I never imagined that it could get so cold here!! So we did
Mission Space, and the Test Track and after that, we went to the World
showcase. A place where lots of different countries are represented. There
were France, Germany, China, Japan, Norway, the USA, Canada, Morocco,
Mexico, Italy and the United Kingdom. Every time, we had the impression to
be in the country. That's awesome! And at night, we had a big firework
show over the EPCOT lake. A great day too!
And the last day, Sunday, we went to the Disney MGM
studios. We did the Tower of Terror, the Aerosmith Roller Coaster and we
also went to the place where they show how they do some special effects
and the studios.
After that, we had to leave and that was not very funny!
I'd like to thank Al, all the chaperones and my host
Rotary club for that awesome trip.
Christmas will be here very soon and next months, I am
sure I'll have lots of things to say .
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
Agathou
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Agathe Lamouret
