We finally arrived at the school at 4h15, an hour and fifteen minutes late. After the initial hugging procession, Michael and I led the way through Lens to the center of town. Once we arrived, however, we had no clue what to do. Randomly, I saw a tent out of the corner of my eye and headed over to it. There I learned that it was National Children's Rights Day. All that means is that the entire street had tents set up with free games and snacks for local children. Since we Rotary exchange students have language skills that compare to those of children's, we felt free to partake in all of the merriment! I never want to grow old.
We returned back to school an hour earlier than we were supposed to due to the cold weather. On the bright side, the sky was bluer than it had been for weeks! Since we were early, the Rotarians were still interviewing the potential candidates for next year's exchange. I asked to help, so Martina (Argentina) and I spent a quarter of an hour convincing some guy that Argentina is a much better country that the U.S. (There are too many students who want to go to America.)
The Rotarians then told us that we were not allowed to eat what we had slaved over all day because there were too many guests. They fed us croque monsieurs (grilled ham and cheese sandwiches) instead. If you had cooked for three hours, you would not have listened to them either! It was all delicious!
We finally left around midnight when we all went to Hugues's house and stayed up until 4h00AM playing Rotary exchange student games.
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