Well this Saturday I had the first of several orientations for YFU Germany.
-btw I got rejected from University of Chicago's wait-list finally, still need to defer from Macalester though.
But back to the Orientation:
It was really great getting to meet other foreign exchange kids, and meet some students from abroad currently on exchange in the US.
Fortunately my friend Naomi showed up, I had no idea she was going to Uruguay, and it was really nice having someone else in the room that I knew.
We talked about general, non country specific, issues, like culture shock, and dealing with general issues like meeting people, dealing with school, and getting along with different structures of Host families.
I met some really nice people, and this guy Ashi who is going with CBYX (jealous), hopefully a lot of us will all meet up when we're there, but then again I don't want to be that American who only hangs out with other American Exchange students.
I'm also getting interviewed by the Evanstonian, my HS newspaper, about my gap year. Which should be fun.
School Stuff coming up: Prom!!! Final AP test (in German), and two awards for Environmental Science and Calculus.
Overall, I'm getting "excited to be terrified" about the whole thing, I definitely need to spend some time studying German and watching some German TV shows over the summer to help prep my listening.
Right now? Coming down from a contact Caffeine high from work and reading One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Bis Später!!
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