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Hi everybody!
I know, since October that I don't write a report...I am really sorry
but I did not have time!!.
Let's start with my birthday ..the 4th of November I turned 17...I'm
getting old..
The morning of that day I went to school as every day and I was
supposed to stay there the whole day, but my host father has come at
school earlier to pick me up. He took me to a restaurant where
all the members of my Rotary club were waiting for me to celebrate my
birthday!! I really appreciated the surprise!....I had a long
lunch with them it was almost like the one that I have in Italy where
the whole family comes to eat for hours and hours.. so cool!!!
When finally I got back at home.. after eating so much.. I celebrated
again with my family too, they bought a delicious cake.. I love the
kind of cake that they make here!!!!!!!!maybe it is for this reason
that I gained 7 pounds in the Bahamas!!=),
All of the sudden Halloween came, Agathe (the other exchange from
France that is spending her here at the Bahamas) has come to my house
for that night. We got a costumes and went out in the neighbours
with our friends but for us it was very strange all this because in
Italy and France too we do nothing for Halloween! We had so much fun
it was a very great day!! Going around and asking for candy and all
kinds of sweets.....I loved it!!
December has been a fantastic month!! First of all our trip to Disney
with the Rotary, finally after 4 months we've met all togheter!! I've
spent a very fun week, we visited four beautiful parks we did the
games more than once..because they were really cool!!!!
After this week-end I went with my host family to Nassau and Atlantis
for a week!
I met a part of my mother's family: they were all nice.. but my
fevorite person is the Mum.. she is really lovely!
I've had really fun with them, especially with my little host cousins
they are so cute...I have never met people so friendly as here.. this
is the most important aspect that I recognized immediately when I
came!!! They make me really happy. .they laugh a lot...and they really
treat me as a part of the family...I can feel it!!
During this week we went to see my host cousin's Christmas show at
school and we also went to another small island of the Bahamas,
Atlantis, where there are wonderful hotels.
We saw a huge aquarium! (I sent some pictures to you last week)
incredible!! It was beautiful and also a little scary too because
sometimes was underground with the dark ,with this big sharks looking
us walking there, even my host mom (that I think had already been
there) was so scared!
We took a walk in the hotel around the beautiful shops watching the
small "concerts" across the street!!
There was a fantastic Christmas atmosphere!!!!
I've spent Christmas and the new year in Freeport with all my host
father's huge family (about 30 people.. maybe more) has come to our
home to celebrate it! It was really nice but also a change for me
because in Italy usually I celebrate Christmas with few people, like
ten not 30!!!!!=)the house was full!! I could not neither go in my
room because there were like 10 children playing wii in there!! I
liked all this!
For me Christmas was really different we use to stay sit for hours
eating and talking of things.. here they don't use to celebrate
Christmas eating on the same table...all of us were free to do what he
wanted to do.. so people were watching TV, the kids were playing and
we had to do what we feel like.
On January in the Bahamas there is Carnival.. I enjoyed it ,JUNKANOO,
it was amazing! I've never seen something like that before! !very
strange but very funny too! I took a lots of video and pictures!
Then we went to Key West (Florida \) for the fabulous sea camp!
I think that it has been the best Rotary's trip since now!!! I have
had so much fun and I've also learned something about it!
I enjoyed snorkeling even if I already knew all about it because I
live in a island too and my dad taught it to me since I was 5 years
old! I've had a really fun night at the 'dance party'.
During these months everybody changed family.. but I did not ,I am
still with my first family, Sonia, Peter and Nath.. fortunately they
are really nice and l like stay with them!!
February is finished!!
I had some free days from school!
I even want to say that I like my school so much, and especially the
people....when I came here I thought it would have been so difficult
to stay with guys that have different culture, traditions and used
from me but from the first day of school they were very nice with me!
Sometimes I have problems understanding my teachers from Jamaica ,but
my friends are always ready and happy to translate to me in real
English! ahahhaha....We now are waiting for the graduation....four
more months and then we'll have a very big party.. that will be the
day before I leave!!!!..oh I forgot to say that I still hate my
uniform.. but I can't do anything....is so ugly!!!!! Now I'm used to
it but it was really a big change for me...and still I don't like it
at all...but I love my school!!! |
