New French President

Hollande is elected President against Sarkozy. He won the election with 52%.

Flamenco, Flamenco

Yesterday with all my host family, we went to Honolulu Museum of Art where there was the movie “Flamenco, Flamenco” about Flamenco of course which is a Spanish dance. It was a really beautiful movie, with warm colors, beautiful voices, beautiful paintings, dance…

Fast, too fast

We are already in May, we just have one moth and a few days left. The time gets fast, too fast. I enjoy every minute. I wrote a lot of things to do on my list: to go to International Market of Waikiki, Sandys Beach, Lanikai Beach…

May Day

May Day is famous day all around the world and it’s not a holiday day in Hawaii, we celebrate it at school and also at school. With my dance class and the Polynesian club, we danced Hula which is the traditional Hawaiian dance. We prepared ourselves during more than one month , we were all ready. For the show, we were wearing a Hawaiian skirt and a white shirt. Everything was really good, except that I didn’t really smile.

The first picture belongs to Lucia, the fourth one to Devon and the last one to Sammy.

Prom

It’s a while I didn’t give you any news, so I am sorry. Two weeks ago, I talked to you about the preparation from my prom’s school, do you remember?

So Prom took place in Moana Surfrider Hotel, in Waikiki. Before leaving the house, we took many pictures with my date, André, in the garden. André is Brazilian, he’s also an exchange student of AFS. It’s the teachers who welcomed us in the Hotel in the theme of the 1920’s. Everybody was beautiful!  We all looked different than our daily life. We first ate the dinner which was really fancy, there were sushis… Then, there was music; little by little people began to dance. At the beginning, just a few people were dancing, the teachers were dancing and finally everybody danced. Lucia and I were dancing all night, sometimes we were the only one. I had so much fun, it was awesome. It was a great American experience.

Almost Prom

Last Monday, I with Morgane put make up to prepare for Prom which is coming on Saturday! I am so exited.

Assaggio

Friday evening, Sue who is a volunteer in AFS invited Lucia, Morgane and me to the restaurant. We ate at the restaurant called »Assaggio »which proposed Italian dishes. We ordered different food; pasta, crème brûlée, aspargus, salmon that we shared. It was really good and I had a good time with all of them.

The Artist

The Oscars or Academy Awards are cinematographic rewards awarded to internationals movies every year since 1929 in Los Angeles and destined to greet the excellence of internationals productions of movies.

The awarding of these prices represents jobs of cinematographic creation (realization, interpretation, scenario, and techniques) and it’s organized, managed and controlled by the professional association Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences created by Louis B. Mayer. The movies are voted by more than 6000 members who are producers, scriptwriter, directors, technician and others who have a job in movies.

This year, the famous movie The Artist which is a French movie has been rewarded many times by the Oscars. It tells the story which takes place in 1927 in Hollywood, of George Valentin who is the star of the silent films but the arrival of talking pictures is going to make him sink into oblivion.  Peppy Miller, a young extra, is going to improve in the world of the talking pictures. This movie tells the story of their cross path where the celebrity, pride and money can be obstacles to their love story.

The Artist is a romantic, comedic and dramatic movie. It’s a silent movie and is in black and white. It was written by Michel Hazanavicius. Jean Dujardin plays the character George Valentin and Berenice Bejo, Peppy Miller.

The movie, The Artist pays tribute to the silent films of 1920’s years and the most to Charlie Chaplin.

The movie starts a big international career and wins more than 80 awards, three of them Golden Globes, seven BAFTAs, six Cesars, one Goya and five Oscars (best movie, best realization, best actor, best music and best costumes). Jean Dujardin becomes the first French actor to receive the Oscar of best actor.

Winter ball

Do you know these balls that we see in the americans movie, where the girls are dressed fancy and accompanied by boys. It doesn’t exist just in the movies but in reality too. Friday, it was the winter ball of my schoo. I prepared with Lucia. It’s her who toke care to put my make up on, because she’s a professional. I was waiting for this moment since a while to wear my dress. My guest was Morgane (I know she’s not a boy but a girl.). We were maybe 50 who went to the ball, that was really nice. We danced a lot and toke many pictures.

The young girls from Argentina

The last Monday, I met in my Spanish class five girls coming from Argentinia, Ori, Sofia, Bellu, Sol and Aldana. To celebrate their arrival, we prepared a little party around a breakfast. So, I brought my crepes that I prepapred the last night. The girls speak really good English. They are going to stay for on month by Jordan, Mary and Terill. We talked in Spanish, I mean they were talking in Spanish and I answered In English. At the end of the class, we were dancing, that was really nice.

Now, at lunch, we always eat together with Lucia too. They talk together in Spanish but I can understand. They explain to me when there are some words that I do not understand. I answer them in English. We laugh so much together and share our cultures.