I will be in District 1850 in Bremen. Oops I forgot to mention what district I will be going to in my last post. I will have two host families. My first host family is the Wichmann family and my second host family is the Meyerhof family. Normally with Rotary most people have 3-4 families, but I will just have two families instead. I only have to move houses once yay!
Each district in Germany has assigned dates of when they will be arriving in Germany, and I should be leaving Arkansas to go to Germany August 15th-22nd. Sometime in that week :-) I am so excited to go and live in a different country for a year and experience their culture.
My German is going so-so. Trust me learning a foreign language is not as easy as it seems. Okay quick German lesson:
- Hallo mein Name ist Lindsey. Wie heißt du? (Hello my name is Lindsey. What is your name?)
- Deutschland (Germany: Woah its not called Germany in German?)
- Woher kommst du? (Where are you from?)
- Ich komme aus den USA (I come from the USA)
- Tschüss (Bye)
In a few weeks I will go to an outbound camp called SCRYE which I went to in January, but it was for the inbounds in America. This camp will be for the people going to all different countries. For this camp we all have to complete a total of 5 research assignments about our host country and prepare a speech to give in front of our small group. The research assignments have various things about our host countries: Geography, Climate, Environment, History, Religion, and more. The speech is about a Rotary topic that we are interested in. The topics come from the Rotary magazines.
All of this is due the day that we get to camp which is June 17th. I am very excited for the camp though. It will be so cool getting to meet all of the outbounds who will be going on exchange just like me. It is honestly becoming so real that I will be leaving Fayetteville, Arkansas and going to Bremen, Germany for a whole year.
