Blog 2: The Sequel

Hello again and welcome, again. Well loads of things have changed since the last blog, I've graduated, quit Hoggies, got my licence, found a host family, found out the departure date and, no that's about it really. Oh, and schoolies, I went to schoolies. However, since this is a blog about my marvellous French journey, I will stick to the French side of things. I was first told of my host family on the Thursday before I graduated. They live in a small town in the south of France, Saint Quentin La Poterie. We have communicated and exchanged e-mail addresses. I have also learned of my departure date: Boxing Day. The French Consulate have also issued me with a visa, it's valid for 11 months, which means that by early to mid-November 2008 I'll be back in Bris Vegas; or I would have left France at least. Anyway that's about it from me, until next time: Auf Wiedersehen!

FCSK - French Connection (with) Simon Kyme

Bonjour et bienvenue à le premier blog! Hello and welcome to the blog. This the first of (hopefully) many blogs about my epic trek through France. I've been accepted by EF High School Exchange Program, they seem like they know what's going on, which is good because I don't. I've sent my papers in to EF and now I'm just waiting for that phone call that tells me that they've found a family for me. That probably won't happen for another month. ATM, it hasn't really sunk in yet, mostly because I have been so busy with work and school. I am a waiter and a year 12 student (for those of you who have forgotten), both of which are worked too hard. In a couple of months when school finishes, it'll sink in. I can just imagine on graduation day, instead of being overcome by tears of joy for completing school, I will be overcome by tears of joy for leaving my family for a year (yippee, wait... huh?). But seriously, I am the first to admit that there will be many tears during this journey (hopefully tears of triumph). It is with that lovely imagery that this blog comes to a close. I will post again sometime in the near future, stay tuned.

P.S. My blogging skills will increase as time goes on, I think...