American Football match

Hi, y'all!!

Today we attended  THE FALCONS (OLGC) football game versus BISHOP O'CONELL,  a Virginian Catholic School team:

Large Community

Today we have been introduced to the entire school in a morning assembly (Large Community) by our exchange students.

All the students and faculty members attended the meeting. It started with a prayer and with The Pledge of Allegiance:

I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Later, we have taken some classes with them and at the end of classes some of us have gone to pick some pumpkins so as we can decorate the house for Halloween, and others have gone to buy their Halloween’s costume at the mall. At night, we have gone to Field of screams, which is a place where people go and have scary moments, but it has been fun.
We all are enjoying this great experience!

Paula Granado

Chasing squirrels

Visiting Washington, DC

 Today we had an amazing day because we went to visit Washington DC, the astonishing capital of The United States of America.

 At first, we met at Good Counsel and we were so happy because some of the American girls; Maddie, Marie and Maggie came with us today, so we have improved our English. Then, we caught a school bus in the high school and after that we took the metro to the centre of the city.

When we arrived at the city we went to the National Mall of Washington. We decided to go to two important museums of the Smithsonian Institution and at first, we went to the National Air and Space Museum. It was fantastic and we could see a lot of spacing artifacts and all of their history. The five most important things in this museum are the touchable Moon Rock, the Apolo II Command Module Columbia, the Skylab Orbital Workshop, the Apollo Lunar Module, the Boeing 747 Nose and ,for kids, a gallery called How Things Fly. We took a lot of pictures and we had a good time there.
After that, we went to the National museum of Natural History and we were so excited because it is the museum from the movie " A night at the museum 2". We liked it so much because there were a lot of galleries and different animals to see. We also saw the Hope Diamond, it was so pretty and flashy.
After visiting both museums we ate our bag lunches and some people bought fries because they were more hungry.

To finish the trip, we went to the Washington  Monument that is so tall and awesome. We saw the Lincoln monument and the White house but from far away because we did not have enough time to see the rest of the monuments like Martin Luther King, Jefferson, etc. We returned to the high school and we met our exchange student.
In the afternoon everybody did their extracurricular activities. Lizzy ( my exchange student ) and I went home, we walked around her neighborhood and she showed me her Elementary school and her swimming pool. Then, we came back to the house and we made pizzas for dinner. That was so funny because our pizzas were deformed!
This experience is incredible and we are so lucky to be here, we're having a good time and we don't want the trip to end.

Mariona Estruga

WASHINGTON D.C.

Today we've been in Washington D.C. and this is what we've visited:

We got on the Metro....

And went right straight into the Air and Space Museum...

 We saw The Capitol (US Congress building)

Walking along the National Mall

 We went past the Sculpture garden

And stopped at the National History Museum

 We had lunch

 and continued walking up to the Washington Monument.

 That's the Lincoln Monument

 The White House

And back to school where the rest of host students were waiting for us!