Headed to San Francisco!

Our morning started with a quite late wake up because we were heading to San Francisco at 9:30 a.m. After a 3 hour drive, we finally reached our destination: the beautiful downtown area of San Francisco. Our first stop was the De Young Museum, which contained famous sculptures, paintings and photographs from all over the world, such as Picasso, Scully and Modigliani.  We had a great view over the city of San Francisco at the top level of the Museum’s tower.

Once we got back on our bus, we made a quick stop at the Ghirardelli plaza to buy some chocolate for our friends and families.  Some of us went down to the beach and touched the water of the San Francisco Bay.  Before getting dinner at the Bubba Gump Shrimp Restaurant, we stopped at the fantastic Pier 39, which is known for great souvenir shopping, sea lions, and food. Most of us bought some sweaters because of the chilly (lol Floridians) weather. 

Probably the tmost exciting thing that happened at Pier 39 was that we met other rotary exchange students from Texas, Montana, New Mexico and Missouri. They were on their West Coast Trip and just arrived a day before us. For some of us it was a reunion with friends that they have met before their exchange, and for others a chance to meet new people. We said bye to our new or older friends and headed to our dinner place which was at the end of the pier. The food was great and the waiters were funny.  

After dinner we decided to go back to the hotel in which we will room with our favorite exchange friends J  We guess we are right in saying that nobody wants to come to the end of the trip but we can not wait for tomorrow”s adventures and experiences J GOOOO BELOOOOO

~Sophie Prokop & Romane Richez