Exchange

"We looked! And we saw him! The Cat in the Hat!" I read aloud. Why was I reading Cat in the Hat? I live in France, where I speak only French, but I signed up for a student exchange program and was going to America so I had to learn English. "Well…what would you do if your mother asked you?" "Great job! You got thru the book without one mistake!" said my English tutor, I just smiled. "I'm going to give you a book, it's bigger than you're used to, but I know you can read it all, the book is called Black Beauty. You are learning so fast! You already know how to write and read English and it's only been 2 weeks! You almost have speaking down. In a week or less you'll have it!" The tutor said. "Thank you! Am I finished for today? I have to meet Chantal at the mall." "You can go now, Chaline." "Merci--I mean thank you." I was only allowed to speak in English while with my tutor.

I walked down to the mall. "Oh Chantal, I'm going to miss you so much!" I said. Chantal learned English long ago so I thought I'd practice. "Chaline, you HAVE to call me!! Call me the day you get there, ok?" "Ok" I said and we shopped a little more. When I got home my parents were there and gave me a going away present. Out of everyone, I would miss them the most. We ate and then I went to sleep. The week went by uneventfully and on Saturday, I went to the airport to catch the flight. all I knew was that I was going to Florida. I popped in my Backstreet Boys CD and remembered the conversation with my friend, Chantal, at the mall last week.

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"Just think, you're going to live in the same state as Brian Littrell." "You mean in the same state as Nick Carter!" I said. "Naw…it's Brian's state." "Whatever!" I said.

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I fell asleep while Set Adrift on Memory Bliss was playing. The next thing I know, the plane is on the ground and a flight attendant is waking me up. "Are we here?" "Yes, mam." "Oh ok thank you!" I got off the plane and looked around, I was VERY confused. A lady with blonde hair came over to me. "Are you Chaline?" she asked. "Yes." I said. "Well hello, welcome to America! I'm the person you'll be staying with while you are here, my name is Jane Carter." I started busting up laughing. "What?" she asked me. "You have the same name as Nick Carter's mother. Sorry, I'm a big fan of Backstreet Boys and Nick Carter is one of the members and I love him so much. I'm sorry for being so rude!" "Oh!! No, that's okay, I understand." She took me to a nice looking car, after getting my luggage, and then drove about 15 min. We pulled up to a HUGE house with a security fence around it. "Wow!" I said, expecting nothing like this.

Exchange Part 2