Five weeks in France by Jackson Enright, Year 13 During the 2013-2014 summer holidays a group of students and teachers from Mount Albert Grammar School and Westlake Boys High School travelled to France to complete the second part of an exchange with Sainte Croix de Neuilly. The first part saw students from the French school come to New Zealand in June-July 2013 to stay with their exchange student for five weeks. In return, we headed to France on 6 December to spend five weeks with them. For the first two weeks we attended school at Sainte Croix spending about half the day in classes and the other half visiting tourist attractions and going on tours.
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During our third and fourth weeks in France we were on holiday with our exchange families over Christmas and New Year. Some of the MAGS contingent were lucky enough to have their homestays take them skiing in Switzerland, while others enjoyed a winter holiday in Paris. I was lucky enough to be taken to Bruxelles in Belgium, and also to Normandy. We all experienced a traditional French Christmas. For our final week from 3-9 January our French teacher Ms Selaries had marvellously organised a trip around France.
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