Dunkirk Rotary Weekend

Last weekend I was out last Rotary weekend together with everyone! All of the "oldies" (everyone who arrived in France last August) are leaving soon. We had to get up really early Saturday morning to catch the tram to Roubaix to be there at 8AM. I was on time, and we sat in a room for 4 hours waiting for nothing, it wasn't too bad though because there were about 50 exchange students in one room just talking for hours. We then did a Rotary Conference, someone from my district did a speech which was amazing, she made half the audience cry. I just had to hold up the Australian flag and smile. After that we got on a bus to Belgium! After a short bus trip we arrived in the Flemish (Dutch) region of Belgium. We went to a little indoor water park, it was so fun. There were heaps of water slides and pools and spas. After we had dried off and had a bit to eat we headed off back to the north of France to a ville on the beach called Dunkirk. We slept on the floor in a school, (whenever we have a rotary weekend they hire out schools and we sleep on the gym floors). That night a few people did a few songs and stuff which was cool, we then went to the beach for a bit. The next day we went back to the beach to do some "Pêche de crevettes" (shrimp fishing). It was the first time I had ever been shrimp fishing. We put old clothes and gumboots on and took our buckets and nets down to the beach. I was the first one to catch some shrimp, but after that I didn't go so well. I caught heaps of little fish but they were useless to eat. We then put all of the big shrimps in a bowl and went back up to the beach house thing and boiled them for lunch (there was other food there too). It was then time to say goodbye to everyone! It wasn't too bad because we were going to see everyone again on Wednesday which was the last rotary meet up. (I will blog about it). Anyway, I have now finished with school and am officially on summer holidays! I cannot believe how fast time is going by, it's crazy.