Arrival

We’re here! After an 11-hour flight, all of Team France met up in Zurich, Switzerland. We were picked up by Matt (our missionary friend/Christina’s brother) and David Leigh (another missionary friend) and we drove through parts of Switzerland, Germany and France to finally end up in Guebwiller at College Daniel. There several families from the school had a warm reception prepared for us. We were able to meet them and find out more about the school and the language. The girls on our team were able to speak with a girl named Astrid who is from Germany and teaches at the school and another girl named Sara who actually lives on the top floor of a Chateau that is part of the school. All of it is absolutely amazing.
After the reception, we went home with our respective host families. This will be an especially valuable part of this trip. Michelle and Kelly are staying in the next town, Soults, with an English and Moroccan family. They thankfully speak English but it’s been amazing to see the way the family all switches back and forth seamlessly from French to English. The couple has four kids and the wife’s mother living in the house. They are very welcoming and have given us a better understanding already of French, English and Moroccan cultures. We look forward to spending more time with them.