Central States Summer Conference!

Myself, Lexi, and Casey. The Three kids going to France from D6400. Love you guys <3

So this past weekend was the CSYE annual Summer Conference at Calvin College in the states. It was a whole bunch of fun. Even though the whole two days were filled with boring seminars the free time and dancing was fun. There were three dances during the entire weekend, but seeing as I got there on the Friday instead of Thursday night, I only experienced two of them. The dances were really interesting seeing as there were students from all over the place, and everyone dances differently. The Brazilians danced the best though, I think. ANYWAYS, I met so many people from all over the world, but I became much closer friends with the people from my district. Shout out to Mary, Grace, Kristen, and Alex whom I stayed up all night with on Saturday just for shits and giggles, that was fun! All in all it was a great experience and I can't wait to go back next year and see all the Outbounds being scared and nervous and excited like I was this year.

This is Mary, Kristen, Grace, Alex and myself just being weird, this is what happens when you don't sleep...

This is Casey and Zoe, two girls from my district. Casey is also going to France with me! YAY SOMEONE I KNOW.

These are all the Inbounds, Outbounds, and Rebounds from district 6400!

I'm still kind of in shock at the fact that I'll be gone for a whole year next year. Like, my mom started crying at my final orchestra concert of the year cause I was recognized as "graduating" from the orchestra, meaning I'm not coming back, and I just thought, damn. I'm leaving...

Host Family :)

I'm so excited right now, you all have no idea. I got an email last night from who I'm assuming is my first host family! I've been emailing Julie (my "host sister"... i'll explain later) back and forth since 2AM yesterday, and there are SO many questions that I have and so many answers that she's given me. SO I'LL START WITH WHAT ALL OF YOU ARE DYING TO KNOW! I'm going to Rotary district 1790, which is in the North East corner of France, to a city just outside of Metz (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metz), called Jussy. The family is really similar to my family, except the roles are reversed, they've got a young boy named Benjamin, Julie; who's the "me" of their family as she's going on an exchange as well, Elise who's gonna be my older sister, and the mom and dad, Marie-Christine, and Jean-Dominique.

I'm so excited.

http://www.lycee-fabert.com/<-- this is the school I'm going to. It's gorgeous.

So the webmaster posted the new outbound students from district 6400 today, and that just makes everything so real for me. Like this is actually happening. Anyways, y'all can check out all of the people and where we're going at the link below! Just copy and paste it into your browser.
http://www.rotary6400.org/YouthExchange/outbound.htm

France

So, since it's already official I thought I'd start a blog to let all my friends and family in Canada know how I'm doing when I take my journey to France! Once I leave I'm gonna try and post something every day, but we all know that's probably not going to happen, so I'll keep it as regularly updated as I can.