Sachsen Here I come!!!

So I know my host-family now...


Suffice it to say that I'm very excited.

I mean, I've always known that I'd be going to Germany for the year, and have a vague idea of what I'd do there. But this combined with a great YFU National Orientation (go Green Group) last weekend has finally made it feel really really real.

But I guess it should, after all I only have
22 MORE DAYS!!!!!!!!!!

I've begun packing up my room so my little sister can steal it from me, and I'm setting up my $ and Cell situation for over there.

I'm going to live in Kurort-Hartha, Sachsen (Saxony). It's a small town right on the edge of Tharandter Hochwald (historical foresty place) just outside of the State's capital city Dresden.

My two host parents, Heidi and Jürgen, are retired, and they have three small dogs and a cat, SOUNDS GREAT!!!

Honestly I hadn't formed any expectations about what type of host family I'd get, and now that I know that, I still don't know what they're like. But from their email, and from the fact that they volunteered to host me, I'm very excited to get to know them.

I'm wrapping up now, but just as a future qualifier to readers (THANKS FOR READING BTW), I don't plan on being super detailed with this blog as a rule because I want to avoid making broad cultural assumptions or comparisons, or having readers think that I am. This is the main thing I took away from my orientation. I plan on posting at least every other week, or if something interesting happens.

Thanks for reading, once more in the USA, and then in Deutschland.