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It's been over 2 weeks since I've returned from France and it passed very fast!

Just a recap (I've lost the photos from these events) I spent my last days either with other exchange students, then I went to Paris to Isabelle's sister house and hung out with Timoté, Luca, and their cousins. We went Golfing, went to Gent, Belgium, and had a lot of fun watching Wimbelon and chilling in the pool, playing frisbee, BBQing, it was great!

When I got back my closest friends and Marion, who's my french correspondant, I stayed with her family and she stayed with my were at the airport with my favorite homemade cookies, and an awesome sign! We went to Five Guys, and it was really weird being back and first, but yet we laughed at the same jokes and had a good time. I wasn't super jetlagged but it lasted for like a week.

With Marion we did so many things, went to the country fair, rafting, frisbee, California, Spencer's Butte, too many things to count! It was so fun an was a continuation of my exchange.

She left yesterday, and things just aren't the same anymore, I think a lot of people including me are sad she's gone. I really hope to see her and her family again another day, they're are some amazing people!

Well, thank you to everyone who followed my blog to the end, even though sometimes it would take me ridiculously long to update it.

My exchange is over :( Hope to start some new ones soon!

I woud like to just give a big big thank you to Rotary, and my District here in Oregon 5110, for all the people that put in so much work to help us do this, so go check out your local Rotary club if you want to help some people. Thanks as well to my club in Eugene for all the meetings they invited me to and all the eggs they bought from me, I'm making a video for you guys!

Signing out,

-Clay

9 Jours

Lycée (highschool) finished on the 12th I believe, and after that I was afraid of not having much to do, but I was actually pretty busy. Went camping a few times, and apparently this year in Provence (my region) was really cold and didn't hav good weather, but in comparison to Eugene for me it was great! Now it's just sunny and warm (like 80-90 degrees.) Camping we went to a big beautiful lake, and went canoeing, and I met some wonderful bilingual people.

I'm slowly seeing my exchange life crumble away, as I say adieu to people, first school friends, then exchange students, now host families. My day left are in the single digits, I have 9 days left.

At my host family Isabelle's house, there's a beautiful pool, ping pong table, and a trampoline, so I've been doing a lot of that. Also I taught my host brothers Timoté and Lucas how to throw a frisbee, and Timoté and I go running through these really pretty routes near the house (we're in the country).

By the way, in the beginning of June we had the District Conference, and during that we eat saw all the inbounds and outbounds of the district again, and even got to sing some songs, and all the national anthem in front of hundreds of Rotariens!

Pascale (my 2nd host mom's) friend Christof who's german does this thing called glider, which is basically flying like a giant eagle, in a small plane with no motor. In my little town of 5000, there was actually one of the best air fields for gliding in the world.

Christof has been flying for over 35 years and we flew on one of the best gliders there is, made in Germany ofcourse! It was amazing we were at 2000m, and had a patch put on me not to get nautious. The views were incredible, seeing as we were in the French Alps, the key to keep flying was to find "lifts" which was hot air moving up, then to ride the lift and keep going. Defintely one of the craziest things I did during my exchange.

I also went to this shop with a Rotarien from my club, where her daughter, who went on exchange with my club like in 1980 made these little figurines that are provençal! And she was really nice and gave me a Rotary one.