Buonjourno di Italia!

Ciao everybody! Hope everyone having a great march, getting ready for Easter, spring break?

Here in Europe I went to Tuscany, Italy to a one Ludovica Re's house for a week.

This was awesome because in just 5 days I picked up enough Italian really to get me by, it comes by so fast with English and french in the bag. There we went to a lot of cool places but sadly didn't do much at the places.

I did get to see the beautiful city of Florence (they call it Firenze) with it's giant dome home to Galileo, Macciavelli and Leonardo di Vinci I think. If I had to say anything about the trip, it's that Italy is a place like France, but with people maybe even more brandy/stylish wearing sunglasses all the time, who are very romantic/good with ladies, and have extremely good / a lot of gelato (ice cream) and pizza and pasta.

I think this trip was a lot better than just a visiting trip, because I could really see the Italian lifestyle a bit more, get to know real students, and go see stuff and shop and eat with them. I had la chance to do it, 'twas awesome!

Then just last week Ludovica and the other 20 Italians came here and we visited stuff! We danced and eat a lot, and had a pleasant soirée. It was sad when she left especially because I couldn't say goodbye because we had these sorties to Univeristys to Aix and Marseille just to see what they're like. Here University is only 400 dollars A YEAR. They didn't even believe me when I sad that ours were so spendy.

I finally got to go back to my old room after like a month of n'importe quoi and that was very nice, and Arthur bought MarioKart so I've been playing that today. Oh and Bobby moved in so we've been climbing trees and playing ping-pong.

I wanted to go see my school Sheldon in Paris because they were doing a trip, the same one I did 2 years ago, but  I couldn't with Rotary and the Italian student.

My mom is coming right after EuroTour and the are going to do a little Tour of France then London, I'm soooo excited!

Still working on those English lessons, but suprisingly no one wants to use their freetime to come see me! Weird right?!

Also in Italy bought a cool chemise and some fancy socks

Till the next time!

-Clay

PARIS BARCELONA!

Bonjour tout le monde long time no see!

I've been busy this bustling month of February, the months seem to speed by at this point. First I went to Venice pour le Carnival! This was very cool because I'd never heard of celebration of such a thing besides Marti Gras, and there were many a people and beautiful sites in Venice! And...gelato, and pizza! Delicioso! That was with my school and was très sympa we went with various kids of Italien classes.

We had quite a bit of snow and so forth my host brother Quentin and I played in the snow and luged with fire and marshmellows!

There was also a day of Carnival at school, and normally no one dresses up, but this year there were a BUNCH of people! I don't really know what I was, a sports guy or something. Anyways I would say it was the best day of school for me.

And now I just returned from a Paris Barcelona trip with around 50 other exchange students from around France, but who were really from all around the world! It was the best week of my exchange, I love Paris more every time I go, I tried macarons, saw the Louvre again, went to the very top of la Tour Eiffel!

After that we had crazy bus rides, went to Carcassone! (look it up) and then Barcelona, where I got to see the Sagrada Familia again and the Park Guil? and then in all just made so many good friends, got post cards, bracelets, clothes, and memories!

Still have another Rotary trip in April and I'm SO EXCITED!!!

Talk to you all later!

P.S. If anyone when I come back wants to see the pictures from my exchange I have all of them on my computer organized and a friend is going to try to make a presentation !

Sincèrement,

-Clay