Hello my name is Britton I am 11years old and I live in St. Jean de Luz France with my mom Vanette.  I go to College St. Thomas d'Aquin Catholic school in St. Jean de Luz where I finish 5e ( the American 7th Grade) June 2005.  School is fun here in France.  It is a big school and I have lots of friends.  We are studying Latin and Spanish this year for language.  I am really good at math and can speak French and English well, but Spanish just learning in my second year.  I help my mom with French, she is not so good.  I am also very good at Game cube, X box,  Playstation 2, Nintendo 64, Game boy Advance SP and DS. My computer and playing with little Warhammer soldiers.  My Dad just bought me a new computer with outstanding graphics so I can now play any game, watch movies and of course do my homework research.  Thanks Dad.

I also do home school in English.  I still want to be a doctor when I get older like my dad so I have to study languages, math and science.  Sounds like allot of work but I am fast......  School is great and I am very happy at St. Thomas d'Aquin

I play Tennis every chance I get.  I am getting very good.  Maybe someday I will win the French Open or something like that.  I work with the pro Thierry here in St. Jean de Luz two times a week and play with a group of children another time and have just advanced to the level orange tennis ball.  It is really fun.  When I am in Florida I work with a pro Francis at Chavel or Howard at Saddlebrook.  I also like Tai-Kwon-Do and went to a summer camp 2003 where I earned my yellow belt.

I also like to snow ski.  I have gone to Vail when I was 4 years old and just came back from Aspen.  I like the down hill races and can go very fast.  I won GOLD on the NASCAR down hill race on AJAX Mtn in Aspen Colorado on December 24th, 2002 with a time of 23 seconds.........  We are going to try and get an apartment in Cauterets in the Pyrenees Mountains which has great skiing so I can go there on weekends during the winter.  I hope so that would be really fun.

My dog is Fluffy, he is a black cocker spaniel that lives with my Dad in Florida during the week.  He does not like to fly so he is not coming to France it is to long.  He is a good dog but gets sick if you give him any food that is NOT dog food.

I like to travel with my Mom, Dad and Grandma, Grandpa.  We have gone lots of places and my mom says maybe we will get to go around the world before I am 14.  I hope so.  I really don't like terrorist.  They are evil and horrible, scaring people from not wanting to fly. If I was the US president I would certainly take care of that first.

Vanette

Photo on the left Britton and Grandpa Van Vanette in the back. Photo on the right Vanette and Britton in St. Barth.

Hello my name is Vanette I am 48 years young and in addition to being Britton's Mom I am the manager for Villa La Belle Aurore in St. Barthelemy which is a lux villa in Mont Jean.  I retired from my first career after 22 busy years as a Health Care Management Consultant in 1998 and moved full time to St. Barthelemy so that Britton could go to school here and speak French.   I home school Britton in English, Science and Math using the Internet Home School program.  My latest retirement job is to develop 10 acres of land in  the village of Marquet Meymes, French Department of Gers into a country holiday resort.

 I earned two master degrees and MBA and MIB (International Business).  In addition to managing the villa I also design and post the web sites http://stbarths.org , http://stbarth.net for our villa rentals.  My latest project is to write and publish a travel blog designed for St. Barthelemy and Exchanging homes which will be posted on  http://mcglawn.net  The rental web sites are for guest that want to rent one of our properties.  The www.TradeHomes.info site started as a travel exchange site and the www.McGlawn.info site is just so our family can stay in touch with us and see all our pictures.  I also coordinate travel exchanges for friends and do some technical business and travel writing in English and am an English Language Tutor for children in my sons school.  We just moved to St. Jean de Luz so I have been busy with our new apartment and development of our country estate in Marquet Meyems.  I just published a web for www.frenchholidays.us where you can surf through my France projects.