Life Down Under
My six weeks down under
By Clemmy de Montjoye
My 6 weeks in Australia were absolutely wonderful, I discovered the way people at the other end of the world live and it turns out it’s quite different!
My exchange partner (Ilsa) has a big family of 6 (she has 3 older brothers), so it was a really nice feeling to come home in the evening and chat along about your day to the person present in the kitchen at that time!
I lived in a big house, about 50 minutes away from Melbourne, in a town called Kangaroo Ground, and I could actually wake up in the morning and eat breakfast with a kangaroo about 15 meters away on the other side of the window staring at me!
She also had 3 horses and 2 cows so I got to see what it was like to live out of town, which was really really nice.
The only disadvantage to this was that I had to wake up at 6 am to go to school, at which time the kangaroos are still asleep...
MLC is very different from Sevres, for a start, it’s a private school, which involves a giant swimming pool, each student having her own laptop, and uniforms...
Uniforms were a great shock, especially having to wear a skirt in winter, which caused me to have a cold for the whole 6 weeks of my trip!
Each student also chooses their own subjects and there are never more than 20 people per class. The laptops have access to internet which leads to students easily wandering away from the lessons to their mails...
I hope that they will all have as much fun as I did when they come over but I would recommend organizing days out, where they don’t have to go to school and can visit Paris all together, because after a week or so, the novelty of sitting in a different classroom wears off and it gets rather boring...
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