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May: Prom, Orientation, last full month

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My dear family, friends, and readers, I hope everybody is well. I am doing amazing and I have a lot to tell you about! Because the lacrosse season came to the end in about the middle of this month, I have now more time to do more activities with my friends and family outside of the school and outside of the house. The days also get longer and warmer and much more enjoyable, although we had a lot of rain too. I became very busy and I now realize that there isn't much time left to do all the things I wanted to do, but that is fine. I am lucky and I will be able to come back a couple of times and experience the things then. I try to enjoy the experience now as much as possible and I don't want to waste the little time I have left on too many things that I can't enjoy. Here are some of my highlights of this months:  The Thursday before prom I went on a half day to my sister's house to spend the day with her. We picked up Ziad from school and went together to the ...

Beach, Easter and Vacation

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Happy spring my dear family, friends and readers! The month April started with pretty nice weather. I was able to go a few times for beautiful beach walks, that I am going to miss a lot, when I am back home. April 8th for example I went out for brunch with my good friend Ayesha from Pakistan and afterwards we went for  a 2 hours beach walk from Marshfield to Duxbury all along the beach. It was windy, but that made us almost the only ones on the beach, which made it even better. We had the whole beach only for us and we had a wonderful time. Lea and I in our lacrosse uniforms Not only gets the weather slowly better, but also did the spring sport season started. I joined the freshmen lacrosse team, since I don't have any lacrosse experience from before. I enjoy a lot to learn a new sport, but mostly to be outside again and exercise a little again. Of course I am able to make new friendships on a new team. April is spring break time! Happy Easter to everyb...

March update

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Dear readers, Forgive my delay with my March update! Even though not much happened during the months of March, the end of the month turned out very well. I had a little down during the week that I was sick in and during the grey and rainy days. I reached the point where I know exactly how it is here in my host community and I am not learning and experiencing as much as I used to during the first 5 months, which makes me very excited to go home again and sometimes also a little home sick. At the beginning of March, I had a host family appreciation event from AFS, where all the exchange students from our area team came together to say thank you to our host families.  Towards the end of the month I went on a school trip with 500 other students from Duxbury High School. Almost all the students who were in the school music program went. It was a huge (American) experience. The destination was the Disney World in Orlando, Florida. The first day we spent in ...