the past 4 weeks

Hey everyone, sorry that it's been ages since i last wrote! not much has really been happening.

School is back and Summer has come to an end.

the past few weeks i have been back at school..... not the greatest especially after my awesome summer holidays!! I am now officially alone in a fleche since Ellie, Humberto and Lycia have left and i never expected it to be this hard. I miss them so so much and i am now officially really lonely without them... its sucky now:(

School has put me down a grade. i'm not really sure why so now i'm with kids that are younger then me and i have a lot more classes each day starting school at 8am and finishing at 6pm so as you can imagine by Friday i'm really tired!i'm pretty lonely at school and in La Fleche. I never really realised just how small La Fleche is until now that i have no one to be here with.... i hate being lonely but ohwell.

I officially got my first haircut in France a few weeks ago... it was really needing it. The hair dresser cut a little to much off but oh well. okay... What else is new. a couple weeks ago itr was my host dads Birthday and we had a birthday party for him at the house.

On the weekend of the 17th and 18th of September i visited The very famous Military school in La Fleche. It is the most famous miitary school in France and has very beautiful buildings and gardens.

last weekend we had a rotary weekend in La Baule. We didn't do much except attend a conference but it was still really good to see all the other exchange students especially Ellie. There are 30 new exchange students from the Northern hemisphere in our district that we got to meet  which was awesome too. I ove exchange students, they are such fun people to be around. i have another Rotary weekend this weekend in Mt St Michel so i will do another post about that after the weekend.

 And then i move host family at the start of November again. scary how fast the time with the lovely Vallee family is flying by.

i also Applied for AUT next year to do a certificate if introdustion to early childhood. I guess i take after my mother :)

i am really really looking forward to Eurotour which is in 24 days and my family are going to be here in 51 days...... then finally i will be home in 101 days. its scary how fast time is flying by!! Loveing and missing you all as usual.  xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

the Adventures of the three musketeers! missing you guys heaps! La Fleche isn't the same without you here ..............

The past 2 weeks i was finally reunited with someone from home

Auntys visit to France. PARIS, LYON, AVIGNON, UZES

 in total we spent 4 nights in Paris.... heres a few things we got up to......

so i think i will start right from the beginning... For our first dinner together aunty and i decided to fully embrace the fact that we were in France so we ordered snails for an entree. let me tell you this now snails are disgusting  they taste like grass. it was my first time trying them.

we visited the arc de triomph

 we also visited galleria Lafayette. It is such a magnificent building with a stain glass window roof and huge beautiful balcony's  You can also walk to the top of the building where there is a huge deck overlooking Paris.

   the Sacre Coeur and Moulin rouge

 and also the art Markets...

 we actually ended up doing quite alot in paris. Here's aunty and i by the eiffel tower

 and on the open roofed bus

 we also caught the tuk tuk taxi. it was pretty funny

On our last day in Paris we went and visited Line, the lady whom once many years ago my mother looked after. She took us to a very fancy restaurant. we also ment and visited the very famous road with all the original Brands such as Dior, Louis Vuitton ect and all the stores had building attached where the clothes were designed and made in. on this street we saw lots of women with botox. it was funny to look at.

- Lyon-

we were only in Lyon for one night so we didn't really do much. We just went shopping and went on the open bus tour of the town. The bus tours are great though because they really show you alot!

 -Uzes-

Uzes is a town in Provence in the south of France. In Uzes we rented a cottage out. In Uzes we vitied the town, the Haribo Museum/Factory and just relaxed for a few days. My Friend Ellie the Australian also came to the south of France for a few nights.

 ps.... don't you worry those lollies werent just mine... Aunty brought 3kgs of lollies. She's crazy!

-Avignon-

we stayed in Avignon for 3 nights.

we visited the palace of Popes, which is the place that the popes used to live.

 we went on a train tour of the town

And we also went on a boat tour on the river

So that concludes my Time with aunty. I said goodbye to her yesterday at the train station in Paris. She cried  which was expected. Loved seeing new sights and being with a familiar face.

school starts monday. so i'm not looking forward to that...

I'm meeting the new exchange student in la Fleche Tomorrow, her name is Nicole and she is from Oregon, USA. She'll will be at the same school as me.

Now 75 only days til My family arrives
and only......
127 days til i'm home

Love you all. I'll write soon
Esther xxxx