By 2L Audrey Kwok Margaret Tse Vania Tse Candy Yam Beryl Ho

Content - Introduction - Daily lives in our host family - School Experience - Performance - Outings - Conclusion

This is a project on our 10-day trip in the US. Now, we are going to tell you more about our life in the US by presenting a project to you all. We have separated it into four sub-topics: our school life, host family, outings and performance. Hope you will enjoy our project!

Host Family - Told us about American Cultures - very friendly and liked to laugh very much - asked us to teach them to speak Cantonese Candy’s host family

Audrey’s and Beryl’s Host Family - came from Hong Kong - the daughter was called Janinie and the son was called Terrance

Mother - A Paulinian - Graduated in Told us a lot about her school life in the secondary school and also the old building of our school

Daily lives - shopping with her daughter every day -they drove us to San Francisco one day - 17 th September, the host brought us ice-skating - they were really nice and kind to us

Margaret’s and Vania’s Host Family - slept very early at night but got up very early in the morning -Italian food -they loved pizzas -They knew how to cook many different kinds of food -they attended dance lessons every Wednesday evening - It is really helpful to stay with local families

Cupertino Middle School - Lessons were not at our level - Students and teachers there were very friendly - On the last day, we took pictures with our US friends in the school

Monta Vista High School - We attended the lesson of Grade 12 - The host’s daughter drove us to school every day - The lessons were not at our level - Lesson which we attended : Mathematics, Accounting, English Literature, Government and Physiology

- The teacher showed us an interesting film -“ The Little Giants” - We have made many friends who were really nice and kind to us - The teachers of other subjects were very nice and they asked us many questions about Hong Kong and our school life - The teacher used to live in Hong Kong

Fremont High School - The lesson lasted for about 90 minutes - Kristina joined the marching band of her school

Performance - Our performance was on 21st - 22nd September - the Chinese Orchestra performed 13 songs in total

-There were five dances from different countries: the Chinese, Korean, Ukrainian, Irish and Israelite Dance. Our class performed the Israelite Dance - At last, all our schoolmates joined in and performed our dance “Our Father” and also “Hope Never Dies”

Outings Great America - We went there on the second day - We played many games, especially the roller coaster

Stanford University - We visited it on the last day of the trip - We only visited a part of it as it was really huge - We could see the whole Stanford University from the Hoover Tower

The Golden Gate Bridge - It was very beautiful - It would be more beautiful if we went there at night The Fisherman’s Wharf - We visited the Ripley’s Believe It Or Not Museum - It was not too scary - We thought that things were impossible

We have learnt so much from this trip. For example, we have learnt to improve our oral English to communicate with others, take care of ourselves and to know more about the American culture through living with the host family and studying at different schools. We all think that the last day of our visit to Stanford University and the Golden Gate Bridge was eye-opening! It was really an unforgettable time! Also, we think that it was our honour to perform at the Moon Festival. It was such a special event and it is hard to have a chance like this. We enjoyed the trip so much and we hope that we can have another chance like this!