Who are we: pen pals? (Our friends from USA)!!!!!
Who are we: pen pals? (Friends from USA)Some of our pen pals are from the United states of America. They live in a small town St. Helena, California, which is about an hour away from San Francisco. They are 11 years old and they study in the 6th grade.
St.Helena, California
Our pen pals live in a small town in California. It is called St.Helena, 65 miles north of San Francisco. Their hometown is surrounded by vineyards and mountains. It is known for their wine and agriculture. The population is only 6,000 people. In December here winter started and they had the first rains. Saint Helena is located in Northern California, a place which has some of the best weather in the entire world. It is never particularly hot (as it often is in Southern California) and it is never particular cold (as it can be in some of the more mountains regions of the state). The average summer high temperature is about 32 degrees even during the hottest month (which is July). The average winter low temperature stays above zero even during the coldest month (which is January).
School of our pen pals
Our pen pals go to the RLS (Robert Louse Stevenson) Middle School. It is a public school located in Saint Helena, CA. It is called so after a famous writer, who wrote a book treasure Island. There are about 350 students at school. They have eight classes: English, math, Spanish, physical exercises, history, geography, science and Video Tech. Their marks are A- very good, B – good, C – satisfactory, F – failure, bad. In science they are ready for an exciting field trip to the California Academy of Sciences. Their focus will be earthquakes. In history they are making a project about Egypt, Pyramids, mummies, Sphinx, Egyptology and so on. Their next theme will be Greece.
Holidays in the USA
One of the main holidays is Thanksgiving Day. It is the fourth Thursday of November and our pen pals from California have a week off. Thanksgiving Day is when a group of people get together and have a celebration with lots of food. Some of them normally go to their aunts, some go to grandpas, play football and eat dinner which usually includes a turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing salad and gravy, green beans and apple pie.
One more important holiday is Christmas. The Americans celebrate it on December 25.They have Christmas break which starts on the 14th of December and finishes in 2weeks.They also go the relatives, have tasty food, turkey and stuffing, make ginger bread which they eat on Christmas.Cameron.

He moved from New Jersey to California. He has a sister and four cousins. All his family except him, his mom, dad and his sister live in New Jersey. New Jersey is all the way across the country and he only sees them in summer holidays for 2 weeks. He has 6 pets, a turtle, a dog, and 4 cats.
On Christmas he wants to get a new bike.
Tyler.
The members in his family are Jimmy, Becky, his sister Maddy, his dog Daisy and cats Romeo and Puck. His hobbies are soccer, basketball, playing with his toys and driving his golf cart. For fun he draws or plays outside. His favorite subject is English. He prefers reading over computer games. His favorite season is winter. He has lots of friends but some of them don't get along with all the time.
His favorite food is Mexican food and American food. His best friends are Spencer, Kellen, and Francis.
His favorite football player is Robert Griffen III. His favorite baseball player is Sergeo Romo, he plays for the San Francisco Giants. If we came to California he would bring us to Alcatraz, because there are some of the worst criminals.
Francis.
He has one brother named Thomas and one sister named Gemma and a mom named Cecilia and a dad named David. His hobbies are soccer, baseball, swimming and football. He has been at a state cup soccer tournament. It was really fun and awesome because they got to play under the lights and on turf. The games were at 6 o'clock P.M. They didn't get home from the games until 9 o' lock.
He plays those sports all year round. He has two homes one in Australia and one in America. He has one in Australia because his family used to live in Australia but moved to America. They have had their American house for 11 years and still live here. In America he just ended his soccer season that has been going on for some months.
His favorite one is definitely video tech because students always doing a project and the stuff that they do could help in life. He is exited for December because it will be his birthday on the 8th then Christmas on the 25th. On his last birthday he had his last soccer game in Santa Rosa. This year on the day after Christmas his dad, cousin and he are going to drive seven hours to San Diego to pick up a boat for fishing.Gabriel Roché.
His mom's name is Debi, his dad's name is Michael, his sisters areTalia and Camille. He enjoys playing football with his friends, he is also in a school swim team. He has a cat and 3 fishes. He lives on a street called Sunnyside Rd enjoys going to his grandpa’s house who has 9 acres of property. He has sheep and 4 dogs. He also enjoys his family's cabin.
Armando
He really likes basketball, it is one of his favorite sports. Football is that other sport that he likes. His favorite food for sure is pizza! His hobby is to go outside and play. He likes video games, it is one of his hobbies just not a common one. He is a sort of people who likes to read but not much. His favorite color is blue . His favorite holiday is Christmas, he doesn't really have a favorite movie cause he doesn't spend much time watching them.