MARIANNE AND SHANICE

My Australian penfriend is Shanice and was here from the 13th of June to the 7th of July with her friends. She lives on the Gold Coast and goes to Benowa State High School.
We spoke very much about friends, family and common interests: we love sport. With Isabelle and her billet Domi, we did lots of things. For example, we went to Strasbourg and went up to the Cathedral. We went to the Orangerie (it’s a park in Strasbourg ) and saw kukaburras: it was funny for Shanice and Domi to see Australian animals in France!
One evening we went to Epfig with Isabelle, Domi and Pauline for the Music Festival. They knew lots of music and danced like crazy girls. Once, we did jelly: there were lots of beautiful colours. It was a little bit too sweet but I liked it.
I’m so impatiant to see her and her family in Australia.

By Marianne.

My Australian friend.

Accueil Australien


My penfriend is called Domi, she’s Australian and she goes to Benowa State High School. The 13th of June Domi came to France. She was with me in school.

We did lots of things together. The first day, I showed her the forest next to Epfig.
With my friends we visited Selestat and did shopping. It was very funny because she bought many postcards !

The first Sunday we walked to Mount Saint Odile with my parents.

Domi and I, were invited to Pauline’s Party, it was cool ! We danced and ate mashmallows on the barbecue ! It was very delicious !

One Sunday, we were with my family, Marianne’s family and Shanice to visit the Cathedral in Strasbourg. We went to the Orangerie too, it’s a park in Strasbourg. We saw Kukaburras !

The weather was not very good every day, so we tried to do Anzac biscuits but they became very strange ! Delicious but very strange !

Another Sunday we walked in the forest to two castles.

We visited the Monkey Mountain, that was very funny !

When we were on holiday, Marianne invited us to her birthday, it was funny we had a water battle in the garden !

She went back to Australia on the 7th of July. I was very sad to see her leave France.


By Isabelle

My Australian penfriend.
By Laure Vanderschaeve.

The 13th of June, 8 French children were waiting for 8 Australian children.
I was there, waiting for Chloe, my penfriend.
We became friends very quickly. It was good fun to ride our bikes, go to the swimming-pool, to visit castles or to meet friends with her. When my rabbit died, she was very nice with me.
She brought a lot of presents from Australia or from Paris. Chloe was very polite with my family.
We had fun for one month together and I enjoyed meeting her.

The Australian billet

I had a billet from Australia. His name is Alex. He came to France for 3 weeks ( 13 July/7 August 2007 ).

At 10.30 a.m he arrived at Bernstein High. When we were at home we had lunch, and he went to sleep because he travelled for 21 hours. The first week we went to school and he thought that the school was boring. In the evening he went a bit on the computer and we watched T.V.
Sometimes, it was difficult with him because he was shy. The 2 other weeks we didn’t visit lots of things because it was rainy all the time. We did lots of things with Léonie and her billet Kristina. We went to the cinema, to Strasburg to see the new T.G.V railway station and the cathedral. We visited some villages like Obernai, Barr, Valff…
We went to eat at the restaurant. We did sports like tennis and football. For the meals my mother prepared Alsatian specialities.

Alex was nice but VERY shy. These 3 weeks were an interesting experience.


CARL Jonathan

My Australien billet came to France.


My billet’s name is Kristina Rybishar.
She came on the 13th June 2007 for three and a half weeks. There were 28 Australians but not all went to Bernstein school, some went to Erstein , Matzenheim or Gerstheim.
During her stay in France she visited lots of monuments and she thought French culture was very different from Australian culture because in France everything is smaller than in Australia.
For Kristina Paris is the most beautiful city in the world.
It was very interesting to meet Australian students because I learnt different things about another country.

Léonie.

My Australian penfriend
By Marie

In June some Australians came to France.
My penfriend’s name is Sarah, she comes from the Gold coast.
She was very happy to come and I was very happy to see her.
We got on very well. She was very tired the first day in the aftermoon we walked a bit in the vineyards.
At school she made new friends and I learnt about the Australians. She liked Alsace.
We visited Strasbourg, the cathedral, the “Petite France”. We visited an old castle. She was happy, she liked walking and we rode bikes. She ate some alsacian food and she liked it but not the sauerkraut !
When she left we were sad but I’m very happy to go to Australia and see her again next April.

BEN'S AUSTRALIAN PENFRIEND

My billet was a very nice boy. His name is ZACHAIRY;
He comes from The Gold Coast near Brisbane. He arrived in Dambach on the 13 th June and stayed with me for 3 weeks.
We went to Strasbourg, to do shopping, and to see the cathedral and the European Parliament, and we visited the town by night, on a boat.
One day, Christina, Léonie, Jonathan and Alex came to my house : we swam, played, talked and laughed. That was a very good day!
My family liked Zac. The last day was not very good for me because Zac went back to Australia.

Bye bye my friend !


(I don't have any photos, sorrry !)