Menlo-atherton

Monday we left San Francisco and we were picked up at the hostel by a bus. First we went to Muir woods and to get there we had to drive over the beautiful Golden Gate Bridge, where we of course we stopped to take some pictures. We spend a little time in Muir Woods were we saw at the amazingly tall sequoia trees.

After a while we headed to Salinas, which is located a few hours drive away from San Francisco. In Salinas we visited the National Steinbeck Center. It was a nice museum where you were allowed to touch a lot of the stuff in the exhibition halls. At one of the exhibitions they had a book which the museum thought was a norwegian translation of one of Steinbeck's books. Unfortunately they had not done their research very well because we soon realized that the translation was danish instead of norwegian.

After we finished the visit at the National Steinbeck Center we headed to Menlo Park where we went to a typical american potluck which was very nice. We also met our host families. My host family is very sweet and have a beautiful home.

Tuesday morning we started our first day of school at Menlo-Atherton High School and i had AP biology, Journalism, Calculus, AP English literature, Economics and went to a Technical Assistant class. In the TA(Technical Assisant class)  you usually help the teacher grading their papers. All the teachers at M-A seems very good and funny. When school was over at 3.15 pm me and my host headed to rehearsal at a local theater that she and some of the other students run by themselves. Which was a new experience for me because i have never seen a theater rehearsal before.