Amelia's Travel Blog : A year abroad

Friday, November 18, 2011

A year abroad

Recently I started thinking about possibly going abroad for next year! I'm so excited, but nervous too. It's a whole year away from everyone, in a foreign country, not knowing the language, standing out, absolutely terrified! However at the same time, it is completely thrilling and an unbelievable possibility. I would attend school there while living with three different host families. I am not able to decide where I go, I did however get to list 10 of my top preferences. I have Taiwan, than Finland, than Norway, the rest were second choice options. I'm would really love to go to Taiwan, it would be so exotic and new and I might be able to learn some Mandarin. I would happily go anywhere else though, regardless of the destination it would be an amazing experience. The application process has been, long, hard, and complicated but it is finally over..... now it's on to writing essays, interviews and planning power points. Each month I have rotary meetings where I go and meet kids that are here from other countries, and kids that are planning on going abroad next year like me. Most of them are juniors planning on going their senior year, there are also some sophomores like me that are planning to go their junior year. Next month are interviews with my parents, I'm so nervous! To be able to go you have to be accepted into the program, which I'm told isn't so hard but that makes the process even more jumpy! Now I'm just focusing on schoolwork for the rest of the year, and our trip to Maui in a few weeks! <3

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Notre Dame

Today we visited notre dame. Notre Dame is a gothic cathedral in Paris. Once we got to Notre Dame we had to stand in a large line. it took about 15 minutes until w actually got inside. Right away we started to climb the 400 steps to the top of the church. We climbed and climbed and climbed and pretty soon we got to the first level. it was a pretty good view but the top was much better. Once we got to the top we had a spectacular view. Not as good as the Eiffle tower, which you could see, but still a view of the river and below Notre Dame. Inside the church the priest was preaching and there were candles lit everywhere. We walked around and looked at statues like the sculpture of Joan of arc. Once we left we headed on looking forward to the rest of the day.

The Patisserie

Today after we got back from are big museum walk my brother, sister, and i went to the Patisserie to get dinner and dessert that night. We walked around the corner towards a little shop that was down the street from our apartment. they had decorated treats like pie with the fruit in beautiful designs and they had treats that looked like they were a big glob of whip cream. We ended up getting one tiny pizza and a bunch of little pieces of pizza. For dessert we got to pieces of berry pie and 2 pieces of apircot pie, also an apple pie. The pie looked so pretty you didn't want to eat them to destroy the designs. they tasted just as good as they looked. when we got back we feasted on pie and pizza.