Monday, May 23, 2011

The Month that has been: April-May 2011


The past month has been such an amazing month full of cities, adventures, emotion and so many memorys. This month has been such a highlight in my life, one of the best months of my life so far.... actually I think maybe THE best month so far in my life.

Ok so the past months highlights for me were going to Spain and Paris. Also this month i changed to my second host family whom are alot different to my last. Ok so let me tell you about some of my adventures this month.

I left on a school trip to Spain on the 11th of April. The first city we set for was called Burgos. It took 14 hours to get there from La Fleche on the bus, we arrived at about 10am and as you probably realised you can’t really get much sleep on a bus filled of 14 year olds so when we arrived we were all very tired. We travelled at night but that really didn’t make any difference.  In Burgos we went  to a huge cathedral which was very pretty  in the morning and then we walked up a big hill to a look out and had lunch looking out over the city and spent the afternoon looking around the city and shopping . In the late afternoon we headed off on the bus again to Salamanca. Salamanca was such a beautiful city full of history and amazing buildings and beautiful and surroundings. We spent 3 nights in Salamanca discovering the city and the Spanish culture. On the last day we headed to Bilbao the last city of our Spain trip there we went to a Museum of modern art and went to a huge football stadium and then heading home in the evening back to La Fleche. It was such an awesome trip. I absolutely loved Spain it is such a beautiful country. I didn’t expect France and Spain to be very different because they are so close but they really are so different to each other. But both as great.


















For the Easter break i went to Bretayne again except with my host family this time (the Sureaus) they have a house there. The pasrt of Bretayne i went to was called ‘Au Pouilguen’ it was so different to part i visited last time. The beach had white sand and hotels/shops ect lining it all the was down the beach. The beach was very long and looked like something off a movie or American tv programmes. I spent the weekend getting brown on the beach in the sunshine. My host brother and sister eve and Paul covered me in sand and we enjoyed our time together before i moved host families. The temperature is very warm for this time of the year. 


The temperature is around 26 degrees everyday and its only the beginning of Spring so i can’t even imagine how hot Summer is going to be. Already looking forward to the Autumn/ Winter to come .. eek





 After returning form my long weekend In the sunshine i came back to La Fleche and i moved host families. My new family are the Guttierez family, it’s just me and the parents as their children are grown up and not living at home.  They are very different from my last family but i think it’ll be ok and they speak no French but i guess that is a good thing, so i’ll learn more French and learn that French faster. But for now it is very difficult.





At the end of the holiday the last weekend from the Friday- Sunday i went to Paris for the first time with my host parents. So Paris.. Where do i begin? Paris was a dream of mine since i was a little girl. And there i was looking at the Eiffel tower through my own two eyes. I couldn’t really believe it. It wasn’t on a picture it was right in front of me. In Paris we went shopping, up the Eiffel tower and arc de triumph also went to the Louvre and the notra dame i walked along the Champs elysees and went to the Moulin Rouge, i really saw most of Paris and its amazingness J Paris was better than i expected, and trust me i had high expectations. Absolutely loved it. I think the best weekend of my life so far J








So yes that was my past month in a nutshell. Saw many new things and experienced so much. Been away nearly four months now. Oh how time has flowen by!!


 Lots Of Love, Esther xoxo

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