Hi guys!
Today, after that everybody was awake, showered and ready, the two buses left the hotel full of excited students for DISNEYLAND!!!
As soon as we arrived, some choose to pay an extra to be able to also go to California Adventure when others just stayed inside the land of Mickey.
Everybody enjoyed the attractions, the food and the sun all day long. At three we all met to take the group picture and watch the parade. Disney is a show that lasts all day long. Most of the people felt like 5 year-old kids back.
The day finished with the incredible fireworks that Disney is famous for.
At 10:30 everybody met and left together to the buses which took us back to the hotel. Tonight nobody is allowed to stay awake any longer after this unforgivable day because we will leave the hotel early in the morning. We're going to leave the exciting L.A. and see the last monument we didn't see : the Hollywood sign.
good night all of you,
Justine, France and Jeremy, Switzerland
Hey there! :)
Today's trip took us back from Disney's wonderland into the real world, back into nature, into probably one of the most beautiful places on this planet: YOSEMITE National Park.
Yosemite National Park is located in the central Sierra Nevada ofCalifornia. It takes approximately 4 hours to drive to the park fromSan Francisco, approximately 6 hours from Los Angeles, and 7 hours from San Bernardino(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosemite_National_Park)
We got off the buses about two hours after we left the hotel in the morning and split up into smaller groups, although a bigger group tried to stay together to go hiking. We had free time until about 6 o'clock which most people spent hiking and biking around the beautiful countryside. We were originally supposed to go rafting as a big group and everyone was really looking forward to it, but unfortunately the rafting got closed down due to too much water in the Colorado River. Since we all learned how to be flexible as exchange students, we just spent some more time hiking up the Mist trail to the top of the amazing Vernal Fall. Everybody who went up there got soaking wet and those who had no sweatshirts or hoodies with them almost froze to death, but we were all of the opinion that it was totally worth it in the end. Some other students also got the chance to go up the Glacier Point and they shared their pictures with the rest of us later on. The ones that wanted to take it a little easier and didn't feel like hiking up the 1.6 miles to the footbridge or even the 3 miles to the top of the Vernal Fall (I personally think they unfortunately missed out on that though...) rented bikes earlier and definitely had fun with that.
Today was a memorable day for all of us and Yosemite National park is totally worth a visit, not only for its beautiful countryside with waterfalls, forests, lakes and so on, but also for its wildlife such as all the squirrels, deer, chipmunks and birds we could see today. I am happy to say that nobody encountered and therefore got attacked and killed by a bear, although it would have been kinda cool to see one :))
Tomorrow we'll all be heading to San Francisco to see some more of California.
Peace
and once again, congrats to Johanna from Germany for winning the picture contest on bus #1 and Sabrina on bus #2!
Nadja from South-West Germany
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