Mi Cumple!!

Well today is my Birthday!! Sweet old 18. Yea. Next year today I'll be turning 19 in France! How exciting!
This past Sunday the district chairman of Normandy e-mailed me!! He introduced himself and all that jazz, and at one point in the e-mail he said he "knows the identity of my first host family", but he didn't tell me... He said he'll let my host counselor tell me. So this means I should be getting an emial from my host counselor too ?? Not too sure.

His E-mail

Welcome to Rotary Youth Exchange Normandy, and congratulations on being accepted for this wonderful opportunity. I know you must be excited and nervous about your upcoming year in FRANCE , and anxious to know where you will be, who you will be hosted by, and everything else about your exchange. So let me provide you with some information.
 My name is Jean-Ronny HUART , and I am the Chairman of Rotary Youth Exchange Normandy.
 I 'll inform you in the beginning of April about your host club
At this time , I will be able to tell you the identity of your first host family (or your host councellor will do it ). I know you will want to start communicating with them as soon as possible, and they will be anxious to hear from you as well
It is obvious that communication is the key to a successful exchange, so the better your knowledge of French when you arrive, the more successful you are likely to be. Spend whatever time you can, between now and your departure, learning and practicing as much of our language as possible. It will help you greatly from the moment you arrive.
Please , note that we authorize laptops only with moderate use during your exchange .
 If you have any questions, I would encourage you to ask me .
You are about to embark on a wonderful journey, an adventure of a lifetime, and we are happy to be part of that. I look forward to meeting you soon after your arrival and officially welcoming you !

With that said, Je suis vraiment enthousiasmé, Ouiii!!!!

Where to..... :D

Readers, today was the day I discovered the long awaiting District number. I will be placed in district 1640, or also know as Normandy ! :DDDDD I'm really happy that I have a better knowledge of where I'm going, and I can research some more on this historic area of France. I can't wait to meet others that are also going to be exchange students, those are the people you can relate more to at the moment.

Where I'm headed to :)

Now, some nice photos of Normandy

Emarld Cliffs

Mont St. Michel

:))

You Should Be There!

According to the president of my YE district. My application should be safe and sound in France tomorrow (Friday)!!

I hope I hear what district I'll be placed in really really soon. :DD Yay!

Happy Hippo (German Chocolate)

2011... This means things should move faster

Yea, I sure do hope things move a whole lot faster than 2010. So far I finished my application in Dec., turned in all 5 copies of it, and the French people involved with my exchange want 2 copies of it. So, I'll be waiting for my RYE president to send them over. After that, I'll hopefully have my district number :DDD !!!
How exciting! Yes indeed. I'll most likely be placed in the north of France, either districts 1650, 1640, or 1520. I think, I could be entirely wrong though. We'll see.

Districts in France

I start school tomorrow :p

P.S. I now have a German sister living with me :)

Me and my German sister :))

Christmas Party

This past Saturday I had a Christmas Party that was sponsored by my local Rotary district. I enjoyed myself very much because there was so many international people there. I met people I hadn't met before, inbounds and future outbounds as well. There was this girl who is doing the New Generations program (ages 19-25) that had just arrived from Brazil on Wednesday. I spoke to her the little Portugese I know and she said I have a Sao Paulo accent. I felf flattered. Hmm, maybe I should try to learn Portugese after French. I'll see how it goes. I spoke a lot with the French exchange student that is here for now, trying to improve my French as much as I can. Not an easy thing to do though, I honestly think I'll leave without knowing enough to get around :p. She was telling me though that her host brother that is living in France left without knowing any French at all and after four months he's really good. So I hope that's my story as well :DD. I also met this other girl who is going to Itay, and we agreed to visit each other. I hope I'm allowed to do that with Rotary.... So I noticed not many boy do exchanges as much as girls do, there was only one boy that was at the Christmas party, and he just recently decided to do it because he was barely being interviewed there... Another reason why girls are more logical than boys. :)) At the party we all did a gift exchange and I recieved Starbucks coffee cups and coffee, very neat :D

On to other news. Well this past summer I went to Germany with a program called GAPP (German American Pertnership Program) and I met many people because I went to school for a while and so on. So my school does exchanges with that school and therefore my school has 2 German exchanges. I met them while I was in Germany. And one of them has been having problems with her host family. I decided to host her because I would want someone to do the same if i was having the same problems if I was abroad. It should be a good experience.

                                            Some of the people i met while in Germany : ))

Plans for the Weekend

Hello, people. Well, this past Saturday I met with the Rotary Youth Exchange Chair, I don't mean the inatimate object chair btw. So I met with him to make half of my payment :DD, $500 cash money to be exact. So that's out of the way now, halfway there. Rotary is really inexpensive compared to other programs out there...AFS... yea, I'm very grateful for the Rotary Exchange Program, they have made all this possible for me. I love you Rotary. :) I also kind of turned in my application, I just need some signatures and the teacher recommendation part. And this Saturday I have the RYE Christmas Party! :) I hope it's fun, but before the party I have to take my ACT :ppp, not what I want, but it's for the benefits of my future...

Well that's about all the Exchange gossip i have. Not all that exciting, but i'm sure it will be once 2011 rolls in... I hope

Alacka Day!

Good Morrow, well today was the annual Renaissance Festival that every senior class organizes and runs. And I believe we did a good job at improvising. I did a booth with a friend of mine and it was a big hit. Apperantly a lot of people would pay to pie their friends in the face. hmm :/ . So that was an all day event and now i'm exhausted.

The famous "Whip It Good" booth, and friend :)

Our booth sign

(Some of my senior class in costume)

Over on to my exchange... I'm going to France!!! Oui! Finally I know what country I'm going to. No more responding to people "Idon't know, but I'm going somewhere ;p" So yess, France it is. I'll know what district I go to once I submit my application and it arrives in France. Until then, I'll finish it up, and learn some much need French. Mind you, I've never taken a legit French class, I've kind of been unlucky to go to schools where French isn't an offered language. I'll figure something out. Oh yea, and I should be in France before August 24 !