I know I haven't blogged in more than a month, but I haven't really had much to update you guys on!
Since my last update, we had the JRJ (Journées Rotariens de la Jeunesse) in Annecy. This is where every Rotary Youth Exchange student in France - all 430 of us - come together for a weekend of several events organized by the 4 clubs in Annecy. Although, with the amount of us, half of these activities didn't happen simply because us students were too caught up in our own little world, meeting people from other countries, and the 50 rotarians could not keep up with us for the LIFE of them… Frenchies are possibly the worst organisers around. In total, there were about 40 Australians, a fairly strong cohort for a non-americas country! It was nice to see Australians after two months of seeing only one, and so so good to have people understand the Australian idioms that even other anglophones don't understand.. All in all, it was a pretty awesome weekend, and now I'll be continuing my 'poor exchange student life' for a few years POST exchange because I've got so many people to visit!
The weekend after the JRJ I went and stayed with an Australian (Sam) and her host family in Lyon over the easter long-weekend. I was suffering a bit of post-Annecy depression (a disease coined by the exchange students,) so it was good to be able to be with an Australian for a bit more! And to be in Lyon for a bit too. That city is seriously amazing. A mini Paris (replica eiffel tower and all) just 2 hours away from Annecy. And it's also the gastronomical capital of France. It's safe to say that if I lived there, I'd be rolling off the plane when I arrive home…
Last weekend, I changed host families for the first time! It's a very big change! This family is a lot more academic than my last family, who were just rugby, rugby, rugby and some more rugby. I was dreading changing families, I love my first host family too much, so it was supere hard to leave them. But eh, that's the deal! My new family is extremely nice though, they have 101 new questions for me every day; about Australia, about school, about my life here, about anything you could imagine really, so my French is getting a MUCH needed workout! I've been speaking way too much English lately...
I'm sorry I didn't have that much to tell you guys, it's hard to remember everything I've done in over a month. I'll update you all sometime before I go on bus trip in June (hopefully multiple times, but don't count on it!)
Tschüss ! (The Frenchies don't have enough ways to say goodbye so they steal off other countries.)
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