Our Class Blog

Our names are Enola, Frédérique and Heloïse. We are 15 and 16. We’re in the same class. We are extremely enthusiastic about making this exchange with you. We know that you don’t know anything about our Island. My two friends and I, have never been to Australia. We’ve heart it was a beautiful country and we’ve looked at photos of Adelaide. Here the climate is very, very nice! We’ve got a summer and a winter. Actually it’s the end of summer, so cold is coming, but… Even if it’s winter it’s not really cold! The circumference of the island is about 2512 km2. The landscapes are varied and the green colour is dominant. It has lots of mountains like « Le piton des neiges » and lots of beaches with back and white sand. Even days with no sun, we can swim into our pools and spend weekends and afternoons on the sand at the beach called « Etang-Salé », with friends. We live not far of it. It takes around 10 minutes to go to it. We think that activities are almost the same as in Australia; we can make skysurf, parachute, tan under the sun, surf and everything else. Our houses all have a swimming pool, and Heloïse and I live in Les Avirons, the city of our school, and Enola lives in L’étang salé, a city just next to it.

 

We are in high school in the Réunion Island. Our establishment is in « les Avirons » and it’s a public high school. It’s great, and we’re pretty free lessons. We are in « second » and we learn English for seven years. The classrooms haven’t got air conditioned and when we have sports we walk on foot under the sun. Our class is a class « European » which means that we have in the week, two hours of extra English. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday we go to school for 7:25am at 17:00pm in the afternoon and on Wednesday and Saturday we do half days. We have holidays in December and July but we are tired. We take always the bus. At noon we meet all for a snack, we play cards and eat: we find ourselves!