Flight/ leaving dates !!

Good news to tell- finally I got my flight details and booked my flight to Adelaide ! *-*

last weekend the travel agency send me two booking options, either the 6th of August or the 29th of July and I booked the one on the 29th because I want to be there as soon as possible.
The 29th is the last day of the school year here in Germany and I'll leave from munich airport in the afternoon, so I'll be able to go to school, get my school report with all my grades and say good bye to all my friends there.
I think it's great to leave immediately after the end of the school year !
firstly I'll fly from Munich to Dubai (which will last almost 6 hours ) alone, and then I'll fly from Dubai to Adelaide, but  luckily together with a girl from northern Germany and also with a French girl, which is good because doing a 12 and a half hours lasting flight on my own would be very boring!

I GOT ONLY 73 DAYS LEFT UNTIL AUSTRALIA !!! THAT'S AWESOME!

can't wait !

I got my invitation for my second orientation ( preparing-weekend) yesterday and I'm looking forward to it so much!! it's in the end of June but time wents by so incredible fast that it won't really  feel like 2 months of waiting. (I hope so :3 )

That's also a bit scary because the first orientation was exactly 100 days( about 3 months) ago and it feels just like it was yesterday even though 3 months sound  like  a very long time ..
In 3 months it's July and I'll probably already be in Australia !!
as I said, it's a bit scary but basically I'm very happy about it because I'm looking forward to going to down under so much !! I really can't wait!

I already got the proof that the Aussies are as friendly and welcoming as I got told. :)
I received a couple of emails from my counsellor , my first host family and even from my school.
And they are all very very friendly and make me already feel very welcome there ! also my school really seems to care about me, that's awesome !! They chose a few girls, who have the same interests as I have, to be my "buddys" during my first weeks, which means that they will show me the school, help me with problems and try to make the beginning easier for me. I think that's a really good idea and it takes away my fears about my first day in school !

I don't know my leaving dates yet but I'm staying in contact with my host family, my counsellor, my school and a lot other people from Australia and I get new informations every few days , that's pretty awesome, because each of those days I receive a new email , turns to be  immediately into a happy and great day ! :D

I'm already so damn excited and getting more and more excited every day, so I can't even imagine how excited I'll be during the last week in Germany ??!:o 

by the way.. I also addet a new section with informations about Australia, my host district and Adelaide, it's named "host country" and I also put a google maps location in, so if you don't know where Adelaide is you can look it up there.

I'll keep you updated,

xoxo mimi 

HOST FAMILY !!

I can't really believe it yet but I already know my first host famlily!
Until last sunday I didn't know more than my host country and now I know everything.
Thats pretty awesome!
I was very tired and in a  bad mood because even it was sunday I had to get up very early for a church thing, but then I saw that I had received an email from my organisation. They told me that I'll live in Adelaide and they also told me which school I'll attend...
AND the most amazing part- also my first host family. After reading the email I wasn't tired anymore I was very happy excited. That definitely made my day!
They are on vacation now but they will be back next week and tell me more about them.

I can't wait to go there!!!!
Adelaide seems to be an amazing city and my school also seems to be very good.

cheers for now,
Mimi 

Adelaide

1. Orientation

Hey,
today I finally have enough time to write about my first orientation. I already  wanted to do this much earlier, but it's going to be a long post and I just hadn't had enough time to do it earlier. But now I have a week off so I can do it.
I hope I won't forget anything important because the orientation was already 2 months ago.

WHAAT ?! 2 months ?! time wents by so incredible fast !!!

I'm sorry for any mistakes in grammar or anything else!

The orientation was in something like a youth hostel in Bad Sulza, that's a little village in Thuringia and all inbounds and outbounds of the rotary district 1950 which contains the north of Bavaria and whole Thuringia had to participate there.
We had to be there about 5 or 6 pm on friday and the great thing was, that Bad Sulza is so far away from my city that I had to leave school three hours earlier ! I had to travel a long time with the train but  it wasn't very boring because I was travelling together with two other boys.
Everyone was very excited when we got there! I was really excited when I came into my room the first time because we were about six girls in every room and we didn't know each other and there were also a few of the inbounds in each room. In my room was an australian and also a finnish girl.
First we had some time to talk and to get known to each other in our room and after that we had dinner.
After dinner we all had to go to a meeting room and they told us the rules for this weekend and a bit about rotary and stuff like that.
Later we made a big camp fire and all of the inbounds had to sing their national anthem. That was very funny! But we (the outbounds) had to sing some German folk songs that was very embarrassing because I'm from Bavaria and a lot of the folk songs were special ones from Thuringia and I had never heard them before but I had to pretend to know them ..after that we were allowed to do basically what we want until we had to go to bed.
On Saturday after breakfast we all went to a special  indoor swimming pool where the water was salty and in one part of the buliding was something like a cave were we had to be quiet because there was music played under water that was awesome !
After lunch the inbounds had to do an German exam and the outbounds hat to go to a meeting room again and we had stay there almost the whole afternoon..that was very long !!
But they told us a lot of important informations and things about our exchange year.
In the evening we played some "group games" that was very funny !

BUT we were all just waiting for sunday because we got told our host countries on that day !
That was very very exciting !
We had to make a queue in front of one room and we had to do it in the order of our family names in the alphabet and everyone had to go into that room alone.
This moment was also very emotional because some of us came out of the room very happy and others started crying because they didn't get the country the wished to get ..

After that there didn't really happen anything important anymore..

We all had an awesome weekend and a lot of fun together with the inbounds!
It made us all even more looking forward to our exchange year..

It's very hard to imagine how it really was if you haven't been there, because it's almost impossible to describe this time even though it was just one weekend ..

                                 
                                       This is a picture of all inbounds and outbounds

money money money :)

Today I have some good news about money ! :)
Even I don't have to pay the familiy and things like that and even the rotary youth exchange is much cheaper than other organisations every exchange is expensive .. :/

BUT there are some possibilities to get enough money to be able to do it !
In Germany you can get money from the state if your parents don't earn enough to  pay everything.
That's really helpful!
My mother sent in the application for that kind of money today and the chances for us to get it are very high :)
That is one of the good news !

The other one is that I got a holiday job for the first week of the Easter holidays!!
That's great, too because I really need a new mobile phone before I'll go to Australia and with this job I can earn the money to buy one.
That's awesome *-*

[an alle deutschen: Falls ihr denkt ihr könnt kein Auslandsjahr machen, weil eure Eltern nicht genug    verdienen erkundigt euch einfach mal über das Auslands-Bafög]  

Mitten in den Vorbereitungen-TAG

Ich hab den TAG hier von Celine und Pati geklaut, weil mir die Fragen gut gefallen haben :

Frage 1

Bist du schon aufgeregt ?

Ja, aber nur positiv, weil ich es einfach nicht erwarten kann endlich loszufliegen.

Also eigentlich nur Vorfreude :)

Frage 2

Hast du schon Bücher zum Thema Austausch gelesen? 

Ja, 2 die wir von meiner Organisation bekommen haben. Aber ich lese auch viele Blogs, vor allem von denen, die auch nach Australien gehen.

Frage 3

Hast du ein Abschiedsbuch? 

nein noch nicht und ich bin mir auch noch nicht sicher ob ich eins machen will..mal schaun :)

Frage 4 

Wann hast du deine VBT? 

Ich hatte  anfang Januar schon ein Vorbereitungswochenende, bei meiner Orga heist das "orientation" und hab Ende Juni nochmal eins. 

 Frage 5

Wie geht es dir gerade? 

Eigentlich ziemlich gut weil ich seit ich mein Land gesagt bekommen hab eigentlich meistens voll gut drauf bin, weil ich mich so darauf freu!

Frage 6

Hast du einen Tipp für alle anderen die auch ins Ausland gehen? 

Eigentlich nicht wirklich, außer vielleicht, dass man die Chance auf jeden Fall nutzen sollte und dass es es auch wert ist, ein Jahr in der Schule zu wiederholen, weil einem das Auslandsjahr auf jeden Fall viel mehr bringt!  

Falls ihr  irgendwelche Fragen an mich habt, fragt einfach !:)
mimi 

what'sgoing on in Venezuela !!

As an outbound in the Rotary exchange program, I also know some pupils, who are  inbounds here in Germany rright now.

- Outbounds = students who are in the prepatation progress of doing the exchange year

- Inbounds = students who are doing there exchange right now

They are all really  awesome people!!
And one of them is from VENEZUELA and is sharing a lot of videos and other links about the protests in her country. She made me realize how bad the situation for the venezuelans really is.
They are suffering under the gouvernment's behaviour for almost 20 years now !
It's really important for her to let the people everywhere know what is happening right now, especially because she isn't there right now to stand up for a better future of Venezuela.

I think as exchange students we all care about other people and also what's happening in the world ..
so please, please watch the following video ! :)