The Hallifordian - 2016-2017

19 his family. They were really nice and luckily for me the mum was an English teacher and she helped me with my French when I got stuck. Wednesday was our first full day and when we arrived at the collège we were taken for a tour by our exchange partners and then the French headmas- ter greeted us with a French breakfast. It was deli- cious but I was already full from the breakfast I had eaten back at my exchange partner’s house! We then paired up and took part in two les- sons. I was in Geography and a Spanish lesson with Milo’s family made me feel really welcome. Charlie Hughes, Year 9, with his exchange partner, Mael. Sam. It was interesting to listen to the class talking in French and to the teacher and trying to pick up on bits of French even though we couldn’t understand what they were saying most of the time. We then had lunch at the school. There were sausages and mash and sandwiches as well as other options (the bigger you are the more sausages and potato you get). After lunch we had sports. The boys played rugby and the girls played Pelote Basque which is a mixture be- tween tennis and squash. Then we went home after a long day. We had a warm welcome from the students in Bayonne.