MY TRIP IN ENGLAND
FROM THE 24th OF MARCH TO THE 1st OF APRIL

BY PAULINE CUNIN WEDNESDAY, MARCH THE 24th 2010

It’s the beginning of our amazing trip! We were going to see our exchange partner again, or to meet them, in my case! It was 5h45 am, I was waiting for the bus to come in front of the high school with Agathe, Chloé and Lucie. It was 6h00 am when it finally came. We put our suitcases in the luggage compartment and we got in the bus. I listened to music during the whole journey, which took approximately an hour. Indeed, we arrived at Nancy at 7h00 am. We waited for a train in the station for an hour and we took one at 8h15 am. We arrived at the Gare de l’Est at 9h45 am, we walked to the Gare du Nord and took the Eurostar at 10h15 am. We arrived at St Pancras where we were welcomed by M. Simon and Mme Nève. My first steps in England were a fall, because at the end of the escalator, I stopped, but because of the weight of her suitcase, Lucie couldn’t stop and she crashed into me! We took the underground: that was very hard with the suitcases! We entered in the Lycée Charles de Gaulle, we ate sandwiches, and Mme Nève explained us the program. We visited the school, which is really huge! After that we went to Hyde Park. I was sitting in the grass with Agathe, Chloé, Lucie, Jérémy and Bruna, and we played “Time’s up”. Finally we came back to the Lycée, and I met Tess. She was very nice with me; we talked a lot in the bus to her home, in French. Then I met Tess’s parents, and her sisters, Phoebe, aged 11, and Agnes, aged 3 … And the cats, of course! Everybody spoke French, except Tess’s father and Agnes. I just had the time to put my suitcase and to talk a little with the family, and we were in a bus again, because it was Tess’s best friend’s birthday. So we went to a restaurant called “TGI Friday”. The meal was very good, and everybody was