OPERA

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In the Castel Sant' Angelo (the end)

A couple of days ago I went to the opera with my friends of the Language Club. It was fantastic! I have been in more operas before, but I always like them. Here we saw the play Tosca, in Italian (with subtitles in English), and it was great! I finished crying (I always finish crying in operas) because everybody died, but I like sad endings, they are very moving.

Rebecca, me, and Hannah

Everybody was very beautiful with the dresses and high heels. Only three of us went: Rebecca (the President of the Language Club), Hannah and me. Here I am posting one photo of us with our long, pretty dresses. Mrs. Bletso came too, she is the Spanish teacher and the moderator of the Language Club.

Mrs. Bletso and me

Hannah and me

It was a Wednesday, so we could not go out to any place after the opera finished. Anyway, I had a lot of fun. The next day I had a History test, so I had to study that night.

Part of our group!

And now an advice for future exchange students: Try to be involved in as many activities as you can! It is not difficult and you can have a lot of fun! You can go to museums, to fairs, to operas... And some of them have just one or two meetings a month! For example, tomorrow I have a meeting with my Language Club, and it is the first meeting of September! Really, you can have a lot of friends, and be very accepted at your schools.


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MEETING THE OTHER EXCHANGE STUDENTS

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Ke and me

Some days ago I had a dinner with some of the exchange students of CIEE that are living in Louisville or near. I had a lot of fun, and it was really nice talking to other people that are in the same situation that I am. You know, talking about home, about our own countries, about our feelings, about why we are here... In general, all of them were very glad, as I am, for being in the United States. Most of us have been here a month and it continues to seem like a dream.

Most of us in the volleyball field

We had dinner and played volleyball. Volleyball is a very big sport here! Here I am posting a picture in the volleyball field, with some of the exchange students and the host brothers and sisters that had been there. I really liked them! Meredith, my host sister, could not go because she had a lot to study, but she told me that she would love to go to the next, don't worry!

Ke, me, Sofia, Daniela, Zelia and Kathrin

I am waiting for the next meeting of exchange students! We gave each other all our phone numbers and our facebook information, so it will not be difficult to meet. I am very excited to see them again, they are like me. You see their faces and see very brave, adventurous people that do not have doubts in coming to the United States for a full year.


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NHS

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I am in the National Honor Society! The National Honor Society is an organization that recognizes students who have demonstrated excellence in the areas of service to the community, leadership, scholarship and character. It is very important here, and I am really happy to be there. If anybody had said me two weeks ago that I was going to be accepted, I would have said that I cannot make false illusions. Now, it is like a dream.

Being part of the NHS is fantastic; you can have very good friends with similar interests as yours and talk to people concerned with the same things as you. It is compulsory going to all the meetings and doing at least ten hours of service per semester.

Lexie and me

I am sure that being part of the NHS will be an amazing experience, and that I will learn a lot about the way of being a leader in the United States, knowing how to act in the face of bad situations without losing calm.


Here I am posting a photo of Lexie and me with a poster of the NHS. Lexie is the President of the NHS at Pres, she is very nice.




If you want, you can find more information about the NHS in this page: http://www.nhs.us/

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MY FIRST FOOTBALL GAME

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During the match

Last Friday I went to my first football match. But not football the one I am used to in Spain, American football! I was so excited! I saw something that I had only seen in the films before! I was laughing for all, really crazy.

Me and Mere

What did I feel? I felt nervous, like there was something in my stomach when I first arrived to the football field. It was like in the films, I can say that without being wrong. I went there with Meredith and Alex, her boyfriend. It was awesome! (Every teenager here uses this word a lot!) I met a lot of people there, friends of Alex and Mere.



And I started to speak Spanish! To who? You will ask. To Chris, he is an American boy but his parents are from Mexico. Really, I was speaking in Spanish and not with the Skype, to my family! I felt like... I do not know how to describe it, perhaps a bit of enthusiasm for being mean and can talk in front of other people without they know what we were saying. But we did not say anything bad! They were all good things!

Me with the Cougar

Alex goes to a school called DeSales, and their team is the Colts, and we won! The other team name was Cougars, like the animal. The match was long, perhaps two hours and a half, and I was not understanding nearly anything (for the next time I have to print the rules from Wikipedia and go with them to the game) but I had lots of fun, I felt as if I were finally American, I was really happy.

I am just updating the blog with this post because I think it is quite important that I should post this and then, in a couple of days, all the things that I did this week. It was a really busy week!

My dear readers, I will see you in the comments!

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2 BLOGS? NO, ONLY 1!

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Two posts in the same day? No, I am sorry. This post is to explain something:

I have two blogs, one in English and the other in Spanish. It is really a lot of job to update both blogs, so I am going to continue just with the one in English. In one side of the blog there is gadget that can translate the blog to every languages.

Here I leave the link to my Spanish blog, but I am going to stop updating it now:  http://desdeky.blogspot.com

In this blog I have more or less the same posts that I have here before this post.

So, hereafter, I am going to post only here.

Bye Bye!

AFTER TWO WEEKS

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After a while, I am here updating again. I have had two really busy weeks, with a lot of beautiful moments.

Before dinner last Saturday

Last weekend, Paul, Ellie and Lance came to have dinner at home. Who are they? Ellie and Paul are my host siblings, and Lance is Ellie's boyfriend. Here I put a nice photo before dinner.

Morgen and me

Last Monday I went with Morgen, one of my friends at Pres, to downtown Louisville. It was the first time that I have been there! It is impressive, with all the high buildings and the street full of restaurants and cafes.

My "liquid photo"

For Wednesday I had to take a photo of a liquid for my Photography class. Do you like the one I took?

Rebecca and me next to the River

Yesterday, Friday, I went to the World Fest in Louisville with my friends from the Language Club. There were 22 countries represented there, it was nice! It was very very hot, but I have seen the typical Mexican clothes, Indian food and a lot of more things! Do you know what I tried? The Funnel Cake! It is really American, and it is only sold during Fairs! Then, I went to the Ohio River with my friends, and we took a lot of photos.

All the Language Club girls

The Funnel Cake

A Spanish Pres Girl

Here I am posting one of my photos with the Pres uniform, it is nice! Now I can see that I feel like a Pres Girl, and it is a great sensation. Yesterday we had the Pep Rally, where we watched a movie starring some Pres Girls, and a nice spectacle of bees! Why bees? Because of the most important motto of Presentation Academy: BElong, BElieve, BEcome. And they gave us a T-shirt of Pres!





So, my dear readers, I will post another post when I have more interesting things to tell you. Next Monday we do not have school, because it is Labor Day, so I will have a weekend of three days! Wonderful!


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Bye Bye!