It’s our 2nd day in CA, LA!!! <3 but it was our technically our first day because yesterday was arrival day. Everyone arrived safely at LAX airport and got to know each other a little bit better at our Welcome dinner.

Today we started out our day all together eating breakfast, all 98 exchange students from 23 amazing counties, the food was amazing with eggs, bacon, muffins etc.

At 9 O'clock, the bus left to go to the Hollywood sign (which was mind blowing to see), we stayed there for about 30 min, got A LOT of pictures, and amazing memories!! It was a really great view. The buses drove us to the Griffith Observatory where we had a great view to the Hollywood sign and downtown LA. 

After that the buses drove us to Universal Studios. We all went together in front of the big Universal Studios ball, where we took a group picture! Our plan was that we should take the Universal Studio Background Tour. It was an amazing tour where we drove in a Tram, we didn't all drive together since we got split up on the way there, because we had to stop and take pictures with the figures. On the tour we saw sets from King Kong, The Mummy, Wisteria Lane from Desperate housewives and so many other cool places where they have recorded movies. You will be surprised about how much is filmed in a warehouse and not in the actually city! We all walk around on our own and tried different roller coasters. 

When it was dinner time we all gathered outside of Universal Studios and went to the Hard Rock Cafe, to get there we walked through the streets in LA, and it’s just like you imagine, everything is big, cool, and with loud music in the background! We had an amazing dinner, were Belo got the whole first floor just for us, and it was SO amazing to eat there! We got free time in LA, so we all went shopping. We went to Abercrombie and Fitch where we bought clothes! Finally, we rode the bus home playing loud music the whole way. Overall, it was an amazing day and we look forward to more fun tomorrow!

--Emma and Maiken, Denmark