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03 Maart 2014 | Verenigde Staten, Queen Creek
Where to start?
It is almost 2 months ago since my last one and there is always something going on in my american life!
January, the first month of a new semester in 2014. The girl from south korea moved to her new family after 2 weeks staying with my family. It is always crazy but also a lot of fun when different exchange students are staying with us for a little while because I am learning a lot from all the different cultures. My host mom and dad went to New Orleans for a couple of days to go to an IEC meeting. Our host grandpa, from dad's side, stayed with us and we had a lot of fun! we went to the 'Lost Dutchman mine' and while we were there we went horseback riding in the arizona desert! I felt like a cowgirl doing that :)
I also had a get together at my RC's house, where my Dutch friend Laura lives. But there was a funny surprise waiting for me because our Dutch coordinator was there from the Holland EF office. It was a lot of fun seeing her there but it is so weird to talk in dutch now, I can't imagine going home and talking dutch again it is so crazy.
February, finally a new sports season. I have been waiting for this forever because I did not made the team for soccer in winter season. But now I can do sports again. I was planning on doing Tennis, but I thought it was more fun to try something new because I already played tennis when I was younger. So I tried out for Track! The track group is so big but this makes it a lot of fun because I am meeting a lot of new people in my school. I'm doing the events: throwing and short distance (sprints). We have practice every day after school, which is a lot but I think it is nice to have a work out every day.
In AZ there is one big religion, mormons. The temple that they were building was opened this month and they have a couple of weeks when everyone can come in and look inside the temple even though you are not mormon. I went with my friends, one is mormon and it was beautiful to see the inside. I learned a lot about it and the experience was awesome because there are not a lot of opportunities that you can go inside.
My norwegian brother, who lived with my family last year came to visit again! It was a lot of fun seeing him and we all had a great time spending time with him. He came on the day of the wedding of a good friend from my host mom. The wedding was beautiful and I loved being there because it was the first wedding I have ever been to.
We went to the movie theater and out to eat, we saw That Awkward moment and Frozen.
Also, they have a festival every year around Phoenix that is called: The Renaissance Festival. There are a lot of crazy people that go there but we had fun making fun of them :)
And it was great how they build a little town like you are actually in a renaissance place.
It is just weird to think about going home and receiving emails about flight information. Time is going way too fast and there is only 3 months left. But I love every day I am here and it is truly an amazing year.
In one week I have Spring Break, so that is going to be great as well.
Big American hugs to everyone.
It is almost 2 months ago since my last one and there is always something going on in my american life!
January, the first month of a new semester in 2014. The girl from south korea moved to her new family after 2 weeks staying with my family. It is always crazy but also a lot of fun when different exchange students are staying with us for a little while because I am learning a lot from all the different cultures. My host mom and dad went to New Orleans for a couple of days to go to an IEC meeting. Our host grandpa, from dad's side, stayed with us and we had a lot of fun! we went to the 'Lost Dutchman mine' and while we were there we went horseback riding in the arizona desert! I felt like a cowgirl doing that :)
I also had a get together at my RC's house, where my Dutch friend Laura lives. But there was a funny surprise waiting for me because our Dutch coordinator was there from the Holland EF office. It was a lot of fun seeing her there but it is so weird to talk in dutch now, I can't imagine going home and talking dutch again it is so crazy.
February, finally a new sports season. I have been waiting for this forever because I did not made the team for soccer in winter season. But now I can do sports again. I was planning on doing Tennis, but I thought it was more fun to try something new because I already played tennis when I was younger. So I tried out for Track! The track group is so big but this makes it a lot of fun because I am meeting a lot of new people in my school. I'm doing the events: throwing and short distance (sprints). We have practice every day after school, which is a lot but I think it is nice to have a work out every day.
In AZ there is one big religion, mormons. The temple that they were building was opened this month and they have a couple of weeks when everyone can come in and look inside the temple even though you are not mormon. I went with my friends, one is mormon and it was beautiful to see the inside. I learned a lot about it and the experience was awesome because there are not a lot of opportunities that you can go inside.
My norwegian brother, who lived with my family last year came to visit again! It was a lot of fun seeing him and we all had a great time spending time with him. He came on the day of the wedding of a good friend from my host mom. The wedding was beautiful and I loved being there because it was the first wedding I have ever been to.
We went to the movie theater and out to eat, we saw That Awkward moment and Frozen.
Also, they have a festival every year around Phoenix that is called: The Renaissance Festival. There are a lot of crazy people that go there but we had fun making fun of them :)
And it was great how they build a little town like you are actually in a renaissance place.
It is just weird to think about going home and receiving emails about flight information. Time is going way too fast and there is only 3 months left. But I love every day I am here and it is truly an amazing year.
In one week I have Spring Break, so that is going to be great as well.
Big American hugs to everyone.
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05 Maart 2014 - 23:28
A.Wagemakers:
Lieve Céline,
Leuk om te horen dat het goed met je gaat,en met veel verschillende culturen in contact te komen en ook
leuke dingen te doen.En dat de bruiloft voor jou ook een belevenis was.Maar vergeet niet jou moeders
taal wand dan hebben we van de zomer een probleem ha ha ha.
Opa.
Lieve Céline,
Ook van mij heel veel succes met alles en geniet ook zeker van de leuke dingen.
Met een dikke zoen van Oma en Opa.
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