"Come Together" to send me to Belgium!

Hello, my name is Catherine Hall and I will be spending the 2013-2014 school year as an AFS exchange student in Ougreé, Belgium.  I will graduate from high school this June, and then will be spending a gap year in a Belgian high school. I cannot wait to immerse myself in a completely different culture, speak a new language, and make new friends.  Although Belgium is a small country, it is very culturally diverse (they speak Flemish in the north and French in the south) and is an important crossroads for Europe.

I have been studying French for five years, but there is still so much for me to learn!  I have always wanted to be not only competent, but fluent in another language, and going to Belgium with AFS provides me a perfect opportunity to do so.  I am strongly considering minoring in French in college, so having the knowledge ahead of time would help achieve that goal.

As I am wrapping up my senior year, I am very busy with all of my AP classes and activities.  I am very active in my school's music program.  I am a member of the wind ensemble, jazzband, chorale, and show choir.  I also love tap dancing and performing in musicals!  Among all of the chaos it is impossible for me to find time to get a job during the school year.

Here is a clip of The Beatles singing "Come Together."  Each post in my blog will be somehow related to a song that expresses my feelings as I am going through my exchange.