My trip to the United States was an incredible and very rewarding experience. As we say: travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer. First, having to leave my house and my family, just for two weeks, I know, but it’s a lot when you go to another continent, more than 6000 kilometers from home. In a family who didn’t speak my language. I had to speak English, like my classmates who had the same experience as me, and that was the goal. I have beautiful memories of this trip that I will keep all my life, and other memories, less good but which were part of the adventure. Arriving at Asheville Airport, North Carolina, when we were all exhausted from our 25 hour trip, we were greeted by many families who were delighted to meet us, they were holding banners and balloons wishing us welcome. It was the first memory of our trip with our host family.
On the first day at the highschool of my host friend, I was so stressed to be attending classes in English only, and I was afraid of not understanding what they were saying, but the courses were animated, all the students could share there visions about what they were working on. We were placed in a circle and this helped my french friends and I to be more integrated. And, in the afternoon every day in the United States, we had activities to explore the culture and what was interesting to visit, such as the chocolate factory, the Asheville university campus, the UNCA, the Biltmore Estate and other places. Speaking of the Biltmore Estate that I wanted to visit, I did not have a chance to see it because I fell ill during my trip and the only day I stayed in the house was that day, so I was so sad not to visit this amazing place.
I lived a lot of beautiful things during my trip and that was thanks to my host family who were amazing with me. I discovered many things in United States that i thought it was only on movies but no. I was terribly sad to leave this place, these people that I met so nice and interesting, because I knew that I may not come back soon and I will not see these wonderful people again. So, Thank you.
By Amandine Mailet
