Today there is a webinar for the students who are doing a semester or a year abroad. It is at 8pm Eastern time, so that is 2pm my time. Since I don’t have a PC, I will call in and be able to do audio instead of video. This webinar will tell me about getting a Visa and more about the arrival in Boston. I’m not sure what else will be talked about so I will write more after the call.
~Tara
I just hung up with Marine, my host sister. We were video chatting on Skype. She sounds so nice and told me about my future school and what she does for fun. The school is a private school called St. Joseph. They live in the city called Laillé and they are very family oriented. Marine loves being with her family and friends. She is making me feel so good about going to France. She said I will go with her and her family on all their trips and we will be able to go to Paris, the Eiffel Tower, and Moulin Rouge. I am so excited about all this!!!
The time difference from here, Hawaii, and Laillé is 12 hours. So it is now 9pm here and 9am there. I am getting ready for bed and she just woke up. Marine also said I will Skype with my parents when I am in France because family is a big thing. That also makes me happy!!
Well, I am going to bed now. More soon!
~Tara
I was chatting with my host sister, Marine this morning and I was asking her a few questions about France as well as just talking to her. She told me that I will attend a public school called Anita Conti. It is 10 min away from her house by car. She goes to college close to my future school, so she will either drive me or I will take the bus. She mad me feel so good. She said she will stick to me like chewing gum, meaning she will always be with me, helping me. I will be a part of her family. Marine also told me we will visit Paris and an island in the UK. She is so nice and she is helping me become not worried about going. I sent her some pictures of Hawaii and she is going to send me some of France.
I can’t wait to talk to her some again. Until then, more later.
~Tara
I know I’m not even in France yet, but I have been asked what I am going to do after my year abroad. So here it is…I will either go somewhere else for my Senior year of high school or I will get my GED and go to college. They both sound good to me. I think is I do my Senior year, I want to stay with both of my parents. One option was move back to Hawaii with my mom and finished my Senior year with the class I started high school with. That sounds good because it would be “my” class, I just don’t really want to be away from my dad for so long when we are on the same continent. I would like to do my Senior year wherever my parents go because then I will be with them both for another year before I go off to college.
I already know where I want to go and what I want to study in college, so all I need is the good grades (which I have) and either a GED or a high school diploma with US History. If I do come back to the UNited States for my Senior year, I would need to have US History to get back into a school here. I would take that either in Summer School or be taught it in a different way. I am really excited to see how this all plans out! More later.
~Tara