New Year's Ski Hunting!

After Christmas, Quentin and Camille came back to the house, and it's great to get to know them more, because they are awesome people! Quentin and I went skiing, here it's a lot like Eugene in that there's Ski about an hour and a half and 3 hours away. I hadn't gone downhill skiing in a while so I was pretty nervous, and we were skiing with some family that were all super good, and the on the 2nd run we went on a ski path with a big "WARNING NOT FOR BEGINNERS" sign, so I was pretty hesitant. In the end it was really fun, and the view was AMAZING! It's hard to pay attention to what your doing when there's these immense mountains right in front of you! For le Révellion (New Year's Eve) I went with Dylan, Lucca, Imelsy, Rebecca and Danika (Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Canada, Australia) to a party of the host sister of Imelsy which was great! It feels a bit weird now that it's 2013. By the way Christmas was weird, I was really happy to be with a great family and I got some great presents (a watch, some perfume, a polo) I felt kind of bad that I didn't get more presents for my host family, so I'll make sure to get them some more in the future! After New Year's I went to a small town near Mont Blanc called Mègeve (near Switzerland/Italy!) to visit Pierrick my french exchange students that I had in the US for a few weeks last summer and I got to go skiing with him for a few days. The town was very elegant, with a bunch of wooden cabins, but it was REALLY chèr (spendy) because Mègeve is where all of French's most famous go to ski (we're talking like 200 euro scarves) and again the view was great! It was nice to meet Pierrick's family! In school I've finally changed all the classes I wanted, and now I'm taking Italien and Philosophy! Also my uncle Sheridan and I have organized for him to come visit at the end of January for a weekend! I'm excited for that! On a final note I watched a friend from school in hunting and though we didn't see anything I got to eat the meat+fat+skin of la tete de sanglier (hog's head!) Will post again soon!

Stay stellar everyone,
-Clay