2011-7-15 Friday
As our coursetown is 3 hrs away from Miami
So we're spending the second day here and left Miami @4 to head to the course town Fort Myers:)

In the morning, we woke @ 7 and headed down with all our luggages to the hall to have breakfast.

All the students from 5 countries(Russia, Spain, France, Taiwan, HongKong) gathered in the hall
First we had breakfast .
It was very american, there were bread, jam,cereal,fruit and so on.

And the funny thing is , when i was lining up, chatting with my frds to wait to go get the breakfast.
A guy said"Excuse me" and got a box of jam from the bowl which was just next to me.
When I turned around, I recognized him that he was one of the Spanish coursemates from the last yr course in Los Angeles!
And i screamed::: OMG!!!!   and he recognized me too!( We have each other's facebook!)
and everyone in the hall was staring at us !!
It was so surprised that we met in America again!!

After the breakfast we went through the school and bus rules and Linda(the program leader) introduced the course leaders and bus leaders to us:)

Later, we had the placement test which helps us to know what level we 're in.
and fortunately i got into Level 4 which is the highest:)

Girlssssss:) *You can see from the photo that the hall was PACKED with people!:P
 

After the test, we started our city tour in Miami:)))
First , we went to the South beach which is near to the famous Ocean Drive.

  It was sooooooo awesome<3

The beach is so wide and the weather is definitely the best for a beach day<3

  Girls from HK <3

Sadly we didnt stay long because our next stop is to miami bayside:D:D
It's a very famous tourist spot :D:D So it has got lots of shops
Therefore, its one of the best place in Miami for me hahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahah
When we got there, it was almost 12. We hv got an hr to walk around the market and hv lunch!

Bayside was very beautiful and relaxing. We enjoyed hving lunch by the sea and shopping there :D!

They hv got my fave shops. Victoria's Secret and Bath&Body Works :D

    yaya ! i love MIAMI<3

  After 45 mins shopping, we found a place to sit and hv lunch

We chose a Pizza restaurant because we didnt hv much time left before the boat trip
And in the photo, it is the pepperoni pizzzzzzza with me haha . It was SO good because it was freshly baked.!!<3

After the lunch, we went for the boat trip:)!

  yaya ! boat trip! first time in my life <3

We chatted, relaxed and knew more about Miami when we were on the boat:)
Everyone was nice which makes me feeeel good.(I had been worrying if people wouldnt be nice when i first started the trip)!
and my feeling after the boat trip was: Americans should be thankful because they've got such a nice place to live in:)

After 1.5 hrs of boat trip, we got another hr to shop in Miami!:D Which was cool!

At around 4 o'clock, we all got on seperate bus.
There were all tgt 5 buses(Blue,Orange,Green,Yellow and anthoer color)
and i was in the Blueeeee one:)

Miami was 3 hrs from Fort Myers(the course town)
Almost everyone slept because they all used up the energy
and after we got there, we would hv a welcome party which was organized by the host families:)

after 2.5 hrs of bus , My bus leader Kim asked my French roommate whos Juliette , 16
to sit with me , so we could get to know more abt each other:))
We chatted a little bit. She is a very nice lady and also pretty :D:D

After we arrived, all the people on the bus were SUPER EXCITED :D:D
Juliette said::: OH ! HERE THEY ARE!
and we rushed off to meet them

My host family is compositied by a mum(Michele) , Dad(Eric) and a twin sisters(Rachael and Hanna<3
They 're very welcoming :D:D

Here are the photos of the welcome party:D

afterwards, we went back to family's home to rest and unpack
and ready for the first weekend WOOOHOOO!

and we took a photo of the host family and the exchange students
But i hvnt got the copy so i will upload it later
Stay tuned:P