Last thursday, all the periods were shorter than usual, only 45 minutes. That was because we had our Veteran's day Assembly. Veteran's day is a day where the whole country thinks about all the men that fight for this nation in wars. Some soldiers came to our school and told us about their stories, some of them were really sad. I think it was really good that we had this assembly because those are really important people that we should honor.
On friday night we didn't do a lot, but on Saturday we went to a birthday party of my hostsisters friend. She turned 14 and they made a party with nachos and brownies & ice cream & stuff. We were jumping out of the window on a trampoline and talked and watched TV and just fun things.
The highlight of the weekend was the EF six flags magic mountain trip on sunday. My IEC (=International Exchange Coordinator) picked 4 of the exchange students in Tehachapi up at about 8 and we got to Valencia at about 9:30. The other exchange students were from Denmark, Sweden & Austria. There, we met exchange students who live in Bakersfield, Lancaster, Palmdale, Santa Maria and other places in the L.A. area of California. Six flags is my favorite amusement park ever. There are only crazy & terrifying rollercoasters, which is amazing if you love this kind of rides. There are different topics like Batman. super man, avengers but also unique things. My favorite roller coaster was called X2 and you're kinda like laying on your back when you're in your seat & then they start making a count down but they just randomly start. Then your head is down and you go threw loops and yeah I don't remember 'cause I hit my head about 30 times I guess, but it was awesome. The batman ride was also really fun.
Another ride that I liked was the free fall tower which is about 120 meters tall. You can see whole Valencia & part of the Mojave desert which takes place in Death valley, that's where I live in too.
In the park I was hanging out with Nadja, she attends my high school but her hometown is in Denmark, and a girl from Switzerland, she lives near Zurich.
After some rides we wanted to get food but it was really expensive in the park, so we asked our IEC (=International Exchange Coordinator) if we can stop at in n out burgers on our way home, so that's what we did.