Sprachkurs!

Hello all!

I know, I know, it has been a long time, but I have been busy, I promise!!

I have been at a language camp for the past one and a half weeks! And it has been quite fun. The language camp is organized by Rotary to help the exchange students with there german. Because the camp is two weeks long, I miss one week of school to be here. (The other week is part of my fall vacation.)

Here is the layout of a day at the camp. We get up around 6:40..... Then we get up a second time at 7:000 (I am not a morning person) we get ready to go, and then we go downstairs in the hostel and have breakfast. Then we take a bus to the train station. Then a train to a neighboring town: Gemersheim. We then walk 15 to a university.on the first day we were bombarded with questions in German, and our reactions placed us in our respective classes. We have three different level classes.

When we arrive at the camp sego straight to our classes and learn from 9:30 to 11:00. We have a fifteen minute break and then continue until lunch, at 12:45. We eat lunch for forty five minutes and then go to homework time until four or so.

It is a long day.

After classes there are sometimes events planned. For instance, yesterday we went on a tour of the town Speyer, and we received a tour of the Dom in Speyer. It was interesting. Other days we go to museums, or karaoke, and today I think we are going to another museum! It is pretty fun.

The people here are awesome. It is all other exchange students from the area. The thing about exchange students is that there is no awkward getting to know you stage. You are just automatically close. Notice, I don't necessarily say friends. But there is no awkward official questions to ask. :)

I really do like everyone here but I mostly hang out with a girl from the US and a girl from Finland. They are great! It is fun to teach the Finnish girl American slang. :) and to learn about Finland.

By the way, everyone here speaks Spanish and Portuguese. At the language camp that is. And I really want to learn Spanish. So if anyone wants to give me lessons... Haha. :)

But right now I am working on my German. And it is going alright. I really wish I could be learning faster, but It is hard to balance hanging out with people, talking to people back home, and studying German. But I think it will balance out in time. In a way, I think my german has gone backwards from when I got to German camp because we speak so much English here!! Everyone is always speaking English or Spanish or Portuguese and I only understand the English, so of course I speak that. I think I have spoken more English here than I have the past month in German. But I guess I have all year to speak English!:)


I hope that is a good enough update for now. (I am typing on my iPad so please excuse spelling mistakes. :D)

Tschüss!