The life of an exchange student in the USA

Helloooooooooo, I never had a such a christmasy christmas time as I had this year. It became cold, we had snowfall and everything is decorated very nicely. In the school nothing much happened except that we had many tests before the vacation. Outside of school I had events with my swim team, like a team dinner and a christmas party, where everybody brought a present and gave it to somebody else. I was baking a lot of cookies from home during the advent time and I also got a bit more homesick than I was before... I guess it is because the christmas time is at home in Switzerland the family time, where we are more peaceful together and we do more things together. We are spending and enjoying a lot time together. I missed that, but I am having such a good time here, which helps a lot to not be homesick for a long time. I am still 15 years old and I have never been away from home for a such a long time so of course it is hard, but I am so glad and happy to have a very nice host family ...

Hello, it is me again! I am still feeling very comfortable and very happy here! It couldn't be better! Many things happened in the past few weeks and I hope I won't forget anything here :D On November 5th my liaison took me the first time as a tourist to the Cope Cod. We went to a town called Chatham. We went first to eat lunch and then we went to the beach. The beach was beautiful! The setting with the very pretty beach and the lighthouse made me feel like I'm in a movie once again. After a nice walk at the beach we went back to the car and we wondered why the people all are watching something in the sea with their  binoculars. They were watching whales!!!! I've never seen whales in my entire life before and I saw that day about 10 whales as close as many people who were there have never seen them before!! I was so happy and it made me so happy to watch them how they were playing. After the whale watching we went to the center of the town with many pretty...