Hello from Arkansas

Hey guys. I have been here in Norman, Arkansas for more than one month. For me it is unbelivable and it is awesome here. They people here are so nice and I have a very good time.

 This is my lovely host family: My mum Ginger, my brother Braden (21), my sisters Bailey (left, 20) and Kobie (right, 15). There are a very good family for me. Of course it is different to my family in Switzerland, sometimes that is good and sometimes it is not so good. From Monday to Friday it is just my mother, Kobie and I because the other two are at college. Sometimes they come over on weekend. On the picture we have been on a wedding in Dallas, Texas.

Here in Arkansas it looks simillar to Switzerland. Of course everything is bigger., except my town. Norman is very very small. Here are huge forests, fields or lakes like the Lake Ouachita. It is very pretty. The forests are very important for the people here because their biggest hobby is hunting. Almost every guy is addicted of hunting. It is usual here to have a couple of different guns. There are even some guys at school, they skip some days school to go hunt. For these guys it is also unthinkable that huntig is not very important  in Switzerland.

This is my school. The CHHS: Caddo Hills High School. It is very small. There are just about 250 students from 9th to 12th grade. That is pretty cool because everbody knows everbody and it is like a huge family. Here you can do basketball, and cross country (runn ing). I am in the basketballteam. Although I am almost the worst of the team it is a lot of fun. We have practice evey day after school. Besides me there are ten other exchange students from Brazil, Spain, Mexico, Germany, France, China and South Korea. Sometimes I feel like I am on a International school but we have a lot of fun together. Here you can chose your classes. So I have every day the same eight classes. My classes are English, US-history, International Travel, FACTS (family and consumer sciences), Child Development, Algebra 2, Drama and Basketball. In some classe we do something and some classes are just to hang out. 

This is the fair of the Montgomery county. Here this is a big attraction. You can do some rides with stuff like the ferris wheel. I had a lot of fun because there have been many other students. Today a part of the fair will be the rodeo. 

Last weekend we have been to a football game of the Razorbacks. This is the the footbalteam of the University of Arkansas, a college which is placed three hours away in Fayetteville. The Razorbacks is the famous team here in Arkansas, because they don't have a team in the NFL. 

The game was awesome, because to be live at a game is a highlight. And after my brother told me little bit about the rules of football it was more interesting. We had a  lot of fun. 

I hope I gave you a little impression of my life here and I wish you first a good vario week and then a very nice break.

Love

Nora

Hey guys!!
We hope you're enjoying your exchange! :)
Last week, sadly there weren't as much English lessons as usual. So there was just the test about all tenses and other weird stuff. The class hadn't really a good feeling about it. And our feelings were right: As Miss Nyffenegger told us today, it wasn't really our best test.... So let's move to something else ;)
Tomorrow will be the 5km Marathon, so you guys from the exchange are very, veery lucky that you don't have to run too (especially in this rainy and cold weather -.- )  ;) . But after this marathon and two other exciting tests, we will finally have holidays :D By the way, would you mind to put some pictures of your exchange into this blog? It would be very nice to hear or see something from you :)

Happy Birthday Bianca and Elena D. :) we wish you all the best for the new year of your life!:))

 

Week of the 2. september

On monday we talked about the SoNaFe. We were talking about how our Bar and the Sonatopia went. By the way we had profit. After talking about the SoNaFe we started repeting tenses. But rather then that we didn't do anything else on Monday. On wednesday we talked about how we arn't very active in our Blog and that G2b are way more active and theirs looks better but I bet we can change that :)

Luckily the weather at the sonafe was really great. At the beginning with blue sky and later in the night with a delightful latesummer breeze. At 7 o'clock when the gates opened and the SONAFE officially started our bar was not visited often and we started worrying about our concept. But with time also came the rush on our thai and nachos. World Record suspicious were we taking new orders and filling in thai and nacho cups. But our bar was not the only masterpiece of understanding the needs of the young crowd, an especially unique highlight was the Sonatopia bar wich attracted magically the crowd into its futuristic party paradise. Alltogether this years sonafe had a greater atmosphere and spirit than the previous. And finally we could fortunately gain a big profit out of our first SONAFE bar! But brace yourself for next year!

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 The legendary Aaron & Ben

Have you guys ,while enjoying your exchange, already seen the new english class-chat?