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The world is a book and those who do not travel
read only one page. - St. Augustine
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• What is the Ponchatoula Cultural Exchange?
• A new summer exchange program for students ages
  16-18
• Allows you to spend two weeks this summer with a
  French teenager and his/her family, host a French
  teenager at your home, or both.
• Learn about another way of life.
• Immerse yourself in the French language.
• Play sports, shop, go on excursions,
• or just enjoy breathing fresh mountain air.
• Do all this and more with the
• Ponchatoula Cultural Exchange.

You will be here
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Where Fontanil, France

• A pretty little town of 3000 people
• 10 minute drive from Grenoble (home to the 1968
  Winter Olympics and a popular ski area)
• 1 hour by train from Lyon (the gastronomy capital
  of France)
• 3 hours by train from Paris
• Nestled in the heart of the French Alps
• Surrounded by mountain landscapes, nearby castles

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• How Does It Work?
• Students are paired based on common interests
  (ex. sports, movies)
• They correspond by email during the time leading
  up to the exchange.

• Costs
• Students traveling to France only pay for their
  airfare, travel insurance, and souvenirs.
• French host family pays for your meals and
  lodging.
• The reason this program is so inexpensive is
  because Fontanil and Ponchatoula are Sister
  Cities.

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Student Travel Options

• Travel alone (with parental consent)
• Unaccompanied minor service
• Student is accompanied by airline stewards from
  first airport, through connections/customs, and
  to the arrival airport (this service costs
  100.00 extra each way)
• Travel with a parent or chaperone
• This person may also be hosted in Fontanil
• Note Exchanges can take place consecutively in
  the same summer (the exchanging students can
  travel together during the middle leg of the
  trip), or separately over two summers.

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• Visit our website at http//ponchatoulaculturalexc
  hange.wordpress.com.
• Email ponchatoulaculturalexchange_at_gmail.com.
• Or call Ashley Herrick at 985-981-1339.

So what are YOUR summer plans?