This is actually my second time writing this because the first time, I accidentally deleted it. So I got here at about 7:00 after dropping another student, Dakota Gibbs, off at the Putney school in Vermont. Before my mother and I arrived, we got some dinner at a restaurant called the Baker's oven in a town called Shelburne Falls, which served really good thin-crust pizza. Shelburne falls is a really small town that has a few little restaurants, a couple houses, and a small grocery store. The town is split in two by a river that ends in what they call the potholes, which are a bunch of huge rocks with smooth, rounded holes made by glaciers that are now filled with water from the river. There are two bridges that cross the river and connect the town. One is a plain metal and concrete structure that cars can drive over, and the other one is called the Bridge of Flowers, and is a small walkway with flower beds on the sides.
After we left, we drove about 5 minutes more until we got to my host family's house. It is an old farm house, but the family doesn't own the whole farm around it. I met the family, who were all very warm and inviting, and who did t seem to be strangers to exchange students at all. I introduced myself, in person, to Noah, my host, his sisters, Sophie and Ada, his mom, Liz, and his dad, whose name is Matt. They had set up a bed for me in the dining room, which they never used.
When I had gotten settled, Liz, Noah, and I all sat down in the living room to watch 'The Intouchables', which was a French film about a street rat who needs to help his family out, and starts to work for a rich paralytic and over time, becomes his friend. I had not seen it before, but I thought it was a great movie. After the movie finished, I got ready for bed and went to sleep.
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