I should have done this a long time ago, it's been more than a year since this all started, so consider this your official catch-up. My name is Holly, and here you'll find all my doings in FRANCE, where I'll be spending five months from September 2013-January 2014.
SO I'm on an LIA (Language Immersion Award) that I received late last year. It's a government scholarship sending me to a foreign country long enough to immerse myself in their culture and language enough to learn all the tricks. I know around enough French to prove that I'm hopelessly foreign.
I've so far been to chapter meetings and a National Camp in Wellington (which was AMAZING, see picture)
I'm the fun one a little to the right :)
and I'll be leaving on September the 5th. I'll post the morning of to let you all know how psyched and freaked and excited I no doubt will be.
I have a host family called the Lebruns. Very difficult to pronounce in French but I'm working on it. I have a Dad, a Mum, a sister my age, a brother a little younger than myself and a younger sister too. Big family, I know but they all seem super nice. I'm living in PAU, also difficult to pronounce in French (I'm idling between PO and POW).
More updates later, this is just to get y'all initiated and say hey.
Stay super,
Holly
