I was picked up from the Grünberg train station and shortly after met fifteen other exchange students from around the world. Two from Turkey, one from the Czech Republic, one from Poland, one from Chile, one from Venezuela, one from Honduras, one from Thailand, one from Hong Kong, and six from America.
We played various games, including Princess and Dragon, Ninja, and Duck Duck Goose, and had several seminars regarding host families, school, friends, and free time. It was a fun and informative weekend.
One of the activities we did was to go into town with an apple and a hard boiled egg with the task to get the egg boiled and to trade the apple for something else. We had to keep trading items in hopes of winning a prize. I was teamed up with John and Adriana. First we received four Euros for the apple. Then a woman gave us a free bag of cookies. We then traded the cookies and four Euros for a bottle of wine. After that I bought some ice cream and John and I really wanted to try Döner. While waiting for our Döner, a man gave us a free bottle of wine and kept asking us about our year for a solid thirty minutes. We finally received our Döner and finished our game with two bottles of wine.
Sadly, we did not win the game, but we had some more fun at the talent show. I played flute for about a minute and then drew really awful caricatures to German pop music. Shortly after, we had a dance party with music from each of our countries. Naturally, we danced to Cotton Eye Joe.
We had a barbecue with brats, steak, and potatoes, and it was also Carlos' birthday, so we ate cake and played with sparklers. It was quite an evening.
It was such a great weekend with really awesome people. I'm really excited for our next AFS camp!
Exchange students are great! :)
Liebe,
Meredith
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