Got home yesterday after a long trip, happy for being able to come home and see my loved ones, happy because I had a wonderful trip with the most amazing exchange students, happy because I was sad it was over. I will miss you all.
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See some day,

Fred

The new world!!

San Diego – JUN/24th 

Today we stated our day with the Midway Aircraft Museum in the San Diego harbor, which was used during the war in 1945. We got to see how the crew lived there while fighting in the sea, how it was operated, and the most interesting point was seeing the jail used as a punishment for those who were gambling or breaking the rules. Also, we were able to experience the feeling of flying and shooting other planes in simulators.

After 2 hours in the museum we left to go to lunch at a "beefe" which was pretty good by the way. Later we drove to the world famous San Diego Zoo to spend the rest of our afternoon. In the zoo we took a bus tour to get to know more details about the zoo and it was neat to see the polar bears. The pandas' exhibition had a long line because everybody wanted to see them. Even though some of us thought it was going to be like the rest of the zoos when we first got there, we all thought at the end that it is a really special and cool zoo to visit.

Unfortunately we went to Denny's for dinner again. It's really hard to think that almost 2 weeks have flown by so fast, but remember: "This is not a goodbye, it's just a see you later."

Tomorrow we're going to head out to L.A. again and stop at Laguna Beach to enjoy some time at the beach. 

You know you love us,

Xoxo – Jessica Zarzar, Mayara Taglietta and Anni Hagenah.

10th Day - Grand Canyon

Friday, July 22nd

Grand Canyon

Today we saw one of the seven natural wonders of the world, the Grand Canyon in Arizona.
That was probably the most exciting and interesting day of our tour. We got on the bus at 8.30 A.M., it took one hour to get to the national park of the Grand Canyon. Everybody were super prepared, we had sun glasses, sunscreen, since it was 103 degrees... And of course LOTS OF WATER.
We took a shuttle to get to the hike and as soon as the shuttle stopped everybody was amazed by the the beauty of the HUGE Canyon. Everyone, or almost, brought their own flag to take lots of awesome pictures. Some of us made it all the way to the bottom of the hike, some other just stopped to the first rest area (weak teenagers). The whole hike was around 1.5 miles each way; without a doubt the hardest part was definitley the way back up. For some people was harder, for some easier... but we all made it at the end. The beauty of the Canyon is hard to describe in just a little paragraph, but it was for sure a breathtaking experience. Everyone was ready for luch,we were ”strangely” hungry and exhausted. After lunch we watched the Grand Canyon movie in I max.
We took more pictures at the bright angel spot, once again it was amaizing. In the evening we all got to the ranch to get all the red dust and dirt off our pretty faces. For supper we went DOWNTOWN Williams, a huge cowboy village of maybe 3 thousand souls. We watched a cowboy show in the middle of the road. We then enjoyed an awesome bbq at Route 66. We all sang old country songs with a country singer from the village afterwards.
Now we swim in the pool, play basketball or just hang out, because our corfure got extented until 12:30, the latest one ever as a gift for our good behavior.


Stefano, Laura and Nico

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West Coast 2012 From Robert:

4th Day - Venice Beach, Santa Monica and Santa Barbara

Saturday 16th

The day didn’t start out good because we had 3 students that got sent home.
Fortunately the day got better and the first thing we did was going to Venice beach. The
most impressing things were cute stores, some of them selling marijuana for medical
purposes, a skate park and of course the beautiful ocean. Another amazing thing was the
street artists, who performed different talents. One of the groups danced and involved the
people around it. Everybody was impressed by them doing stunts like jumping over people
or spinning on their heads.
After we took tons of pictures on the beach, we continued to our second stop – Santa
Monica. Santa Monica was beautiful the atmosphere was just amazing! The water was
freezing cold but we got our feet wet anyways. Time past by and it was almost noon when
we stopped at Denny’s. We had to wait a long time to get our lunch, but the food was
delicious. During this long time, a few people went to a machine where we won a small
stuffed pig. We were really excited about it and named it Ihana.
Doesn’t Santa Barbara sound amazing? It did to us and the pier filled our expectations. It
was just gorgeous. We walked all the way to the end, where all the souvenir shops were
located. As we entered the bus, we got ready for a longer drive to our hotel. On the way, we
stopped for dinner – in our favorite place - Buffet or a Beefay. Jumpei started a little food
fight by throwing pudding at David.

8th Day - Drive to Las Vegas

Early in the morning we left the Yosemite national park and went on a long ride through the desert with
our destination LAS VEGAS!!

From California we switch the states to Nevada. After a 5 hour drive we reached Sizzlers, where
everybody was very excited for the lunch. Once again everybody loved “Biffet”! With stuffed bellies we
finally got after an other 2 hours to our hotel close to Las Vegas. From the hotel we went to a souvenir
shop, and then to the famous Hard Rock Café Las Vegas. Afterwards we went to the Bellagio hotel,
where we didn’t miss the fountain show of course. Under those circumstances we just miss a wedding,
but in the end we even had those. (: Congratulation to our two Chaperons!

After an exciting day full of joy we drove back in the already dark Las Vegas. A moment nobody should
miss in his life. After a promise that we will all come back here again, as soon as we turn 21 years old we
enjoyed the pool in our hotel instead of the numerous strip clubs downtown.