Since my last entry I have celebrated Halloween, which is of course a big day in America, it was so fun to see all the decorations and events around. My host sister and I carved pumpkins which I had never done before, they looked pretty cool. At school we dressed up and I went as Minnie Mouse, then a group of us went to a late night scary movie, it was so scarey and we ended up sleeping with the lights on, but it was a lot of fun. My November began b...

So after my USA tour I spent a couple days recovering, sleeping in and watching movies! After that my host family and I headed to Wyoming to the Cheyenne Frontier days, the largest rodeo in the USA. We spent the day watching the bull riding, horse riding, steer roping along with a few other events, as well as shopping at stalls. My host family spoilt me with some true Cowgirl boots, all together it was a really good day. The next day we headed to Denver to a W...

On the 16th June I joined in Denver 43 other exchange students living all over America for our month long USA trip. Our first day on the bus was was a 7 hour drive from Denver to Durango, so everyone was chatting away meeting each other, the trip seemed to take forever so we were all happy when we finally arrived. Our first adventure of the trip was white water rafting, it was quite chilly in Durango and the water was freezing, it took 2 seconds in the water...

On the 16th June I joined in Denver 43 other exchange students living all over America for our month long USA trip. Our first day on the bus was was a 7 hour drive from Denver to Durango, so everyone was chatting away meeting each other, the trip seemed to take forever so we were all happy when we finally arrived. Our first adventure of the trip was white water rafting, it was quite chilly in Durango and the water was freezing, it took 2 seconds in the water...

Tlast month has been great, its summer which means holidays and fabulous weather! So my summer started with a early awakening to be at my rotary clubs meeting which starts at 7 to do my presentation from New Zealand and also another one on my time here in the USA so far, It went well considering I had a late night finishing off the new presentation. That afternoon was my host brother from my second family's graduation, he went to a small private school with only...