Our families

   Emily and me weren't accomodated in the same family. Here we propose you a little presentation of both of our two families.

   My family was eventually composed of one only person, named June. She was kind, though she wasn't very talkative with me. In fact, we were three at June's house. Me and the two other girls, named Cloé and Amazone, shared the same room – with only two beds (but one was very big).

   June's house was cool, especially the two bathrooms with open-winged ducks as taps and marble (or false marble) everywhere.

   Our evenings went like this : we arrived at the meeting-place (called Hop Farm) at 7:30 PM, and then our host families came, and drived us to their homes. As we arrived at June's, we went and take a shower, and then we ate in pyjamas. The first day, she gave us pizza and chips, and the other days we had pastas, potatos or... pastas. But it was cool. We had to go to bed at 9:00 PM, but we could stay woken up in our room later, if we did not noise.

   So we spent a great week with June. We were disappointed not to stay longer at her house, and even though she doesn't spoke very much to us, she always answered our questions, and was always very polite and kind with us – so we tried to be as obliging as possible, helping her to clear the table or else.

The Hop Farm, our meeting point.

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As for me, I was in a wonderful family composed of two girls aged 15 and 18/19 and their parents. There was also a little boy named Billy. They welcomed us in a lovely brick house with a cute garden. They were very nice with us and very talkative. One evening, we spoke with them for three hours. We spoke about differences between France and England about school, movies, food… As one of the teenager had our age, we could compare our way of life and it was very interesting. Moreover, her father was an great amateur of music. He could compose his own songs, play the piano and sing. One evening, we asked him to play something and it was a beautiful and unforgettable moment. He was quite proud to show us his talent. Besides, the mother cooked very well and bought puddings (which means dessert there) especially for us because they aren't used to eating that. 

As for the bedroom, it was a comfortable place and the family had left a visitors' book so we left a thank-you letter. I hope I will be able to have the pleasure to see them once again, because those moments were probably the best of the trip, because they were very enriching.

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