4 Months

INTERNET! Oh how I love thee!

Well guys, it’s a fairly emotional time for me at the moment. In about two weeks I will be heading off on my US tour during which almost all (bar one I think) of my fellow exchange students will heading home. So if I see any of them again for a long time it will be within these three weeks. It is also my last week of school and I probably won’t be seeing some of the seniors again.. :(

So the weekend before was the last organised meeting for the exchange students in my district. The Friday afternoon we all travelled to San Antonio for a Rotary Youth Conference where we participated in a flag ceremony and got to hear some very inspiring speeches. The Conference finished up at about 8 after which we all headed to Boerne to stay at a Rotarians house for the evening. It was a really good night. We relaxed in the hot tub, swam in the pool, played pool, hung out, signed each other’s memorabilia and exchanged mementos. We hardly slept, not wanting to waste the little time we all had left together because in the morning we had to say goodbye to some of the group who were going home, there were tears :( However, the rest of us went on to San Marcos to go to one of the exchange students proms that evening. Another really amazing night which was not to be wasted sleeping. But lets not talk about the following morning :(





So this weekend passed was my high school prom which I was actually able to go to thanks to the Swine Flu scare :) It was another great night; it was also my four month marker! I don’t know how I feel about that :P I went with a guy from my Unicorn Time, the prom ritual is to go to dinner before prom and then arrive fashionable late.


Monday was a public holiday for Memorial Day, I guess it’s the equivalent of our ANZAC Day. So we made good use of the fact that we all had the day off and went to Shlitterbahn. Shlitterbahn is a water park in New Braunfels which, along with the river, is a main attraction and brings a lot of visitors in the summer apparently. Thankfully it wasn’t that busy because summer hasn’t quite started so the lines were not too long. A lot of the kids from school work there too and often complain about how annoying it is but I had fun :) Perle was able to come to making it that little bit better :D

Swine Break

On Thursday passed I went skiing with Perle and her brother Jerimie who is visiting from Belgium with some Rotarians from the Downtown club. We were at Lake LBJ in Kingsville which is about an hour’s drive from NB. This was my first time skiing and I was kind of nervous about it and didn’t really expect to be able to get up. But I surprised myself (and the others) by getting up on the first try :)

We also did some tubing which was sooo much fun! It was quite difficult though when the boat would take us around a corner the tube would just shoot out to the side making it so hard to hang on! But you had to hang on because coming off was really quite painful.

That afternoon when we got back to New Braunfels I finished up my packing, said my goodbyes and headed off to my second family. I’m now staying with Tom and Chrissy Clark and my postal address here is 425 Buffalo Springs Spur, New Braunfels, TX, 78132.

On the weekend I went hiking with them for an afternoon. I cannot remember where we went exactly but we walked along these rocks until we got to these pools of water which apparently are not usually flowing, but we have had a bit of rain lately. After that we went swimming in a neighbouring river (as you are not allowed to swim in the pools) to cool off before we headed home.

This week Perle and I are still on Swine Break :) and have been spending it on a ranch just outside of Kerrville called Roddy Tree Ranch. It’s really nice out here. We are here with Betsy Barr (My first host fathers daughter in law) two of her friends and their 7 kids (combined). So we have been passing the time swimming in the two pools, watching movies, feeding horses, playing basketball, canoeing, swimming in the river and catching up with some of the other exchange students who live near here. It has been great and because we are out of town it means I get out of being at school today and tomorrow as they have re-opened the schools earlier than they had said. We have also heard that our district will be exempt from having to extend the school year because it was the health department or something, meaning we only have three weeks left of school! :)