Tubing at Bogus

This Sunday, Leticia, Luisa, Victor and I went tubing with our host families on the Bogus Mountain!

Laura Tasca

Snow Sculptures

Hey Guys!
Here are some pictures I took yesterday, in our way to the cabin. They're from a small city called McCall. Every year, this city has the Winter Carnival, and artists from all over the West come to participate of the Idaho Snow Sculpting Championship. And this festival happend last weekend, so yesterday we could still see the ice sculptures spread along the streets. Take a look:



(And the frog will become a prince...)



Laura Tasca

Busy saturday!

Well, since yesterday night, I'm staying in my host family's cabin, wich It is in front of a lake, wich right now is completely frozen, so all we can see is a huge white surface. 
Today, my host parents took me to do a lot of things, so I could know everything they have here.
So, in the morning, we drove until the mountains, because I had a class of snowboarding! It was so fun! And difficult too, I think I felt down almost a hundred times.

After lunch, my host parents had a "little surprise", as they sad. We went for a ride in a sleigh pulled by horses. But the cool part was that we went to a field where there was lots of elks, and as there was pasture in the sleigh, they just came and ate really near to us.

Later, we went to the Gold Fork Hot Springs: pools with naturally hot water, surrounded by snow.

Finally, when was almost getting dark, we came back to the cabin and they taught me how to ride the snowmobile. It was awesome!

Laura Tasca

More pictures!

Hi (: it's Leticia here again, the day before yesterday I taught my host family to cook brigadeiro, it's incredible but they have milk condenser and chocolate nesquik  here, so it was exacltly the same brazilian brigadeiro! they loved it and I got so excited! I really won't talk so much about Idaho City because I think evrerybody has already done this, but anyway... it looks like a real ghost city because we almost didn't see people on the streets...but there was a lot of snow so we had so much fun there! snowangels, snowballs...we did everything as possible with snow, I loved it! and yesterday, me and my host sister Alex hang out downtown for a while with some friends of Riverstone, it was really good. Today I had a typical american breakfast: pancakes and bacon! The classes are great, except for chemistry, all the names have an opposite order so it's kind of confusing for me, sometimes my brain stops working :P They have art classes everyday and it's so cool! we also have english classes where all the exchange students play games together to improve our english. Another different thing here is about hugs, they don't hug people very often like we do in Brazil, I miss it but totally respect anyway... and I think that's all. I hope you like of the pictures.

 Me and my youngest host sister Mikayla with our brigadeiros.

 Me and Luisa in Idaho City.

 With Augusto and Luisa in Idaho City again

Lots of snow in Idaho City.

Beautiful mountains

Bowling with some Riverstone friends

Hey,guys ! Today was a very nice day: Me and some Riverstone friends went to the Bowling at night ("20 th Century") and had great time there.Well, in fact this is my second time there.
I scored 2 STRIKES in 1 game> this is my personal record!!! :P
Here I send you some photos...

Me: ready to strike! XD

Me, Freksa and Sarah

              Carol massaging Gaspards

Erik in the lane

Can you get it?

Victor 1(Recife), Stearne, Erik, ME  and Anthony

By Victor Lucas

Idaho City

We went to Idaho city to know a little bit about Idaho's history.

Up to the mountains :D

wonderful landscapes

Look at the snow we got :D

freeeezing there

Leticia enjoying her time

Almost a ghost city

Sun's attempt to heat something

Boise River

Idaho city recorded me the cities of the far west movies.It was a city very impotant to Idaho state because there were found gold, so many people went there to find gold and then, raised their families there. Nowadays It's almost an ghost city. It has 458 inhabitants!!!

Well, folks,we dropped by the way to play with snow. This was our first time playing with snow.Iit was a really special day for us.

We had a great time togheter sliding  and making angels in the snow.

It was snowing, guys!! It was the first time we saw this white rain falling from the skies. Unforgettable. I tried some snowflakes: they are fluffy! haha  ;)

It was AWESOME.

Photos by Victor Lucas

Idaho City and snow!!!

Hi people!!!

So, today the school took all the foreign students to Idaho City, a small city located about 60km from Boise. Nowadays it may seems almost like a ghost town - like that ones we see on the bang bang movies -but back in the days of the gold rush, it was a really important city: due to its gold, it became the biggest town of Idaho.

And, as you can see in the pictures below, there was a lot of snow there! It was the first time we sow it so close, we got so excited!

After walking around the streets and drinking a warmer coffe, we got in the cars again and they drove us to the mountains, where some students from the Elementary School were making Iglus. Everything was white! We had lots of fun playing in the snow - making angels, going down the hill or just taking pictures. Check it out:

Yeah, that was our day. Certainly, a really good one. :]

Laura Tasca