Since its been a while since my last post and I can be bothered to give great detail so I'm only posting about significant events because most of the other days it has been just school and soccer.
Mittwoch 29th Feb - This day was one of the worst days I have had here.. In German class the teacher bitched about Roy and myself in German to the students!! It made me feels so small and insignificant, plus it was super rude as I couldn't understand anything she said, thats why she said it in German, what a cow. Next, when I went home the language barrier got me into trouble as I didn't understand/realise showing someone around the house would be bad. But the day got a little better as instead of a normal rotary meeting we underwent something quite adventurous rather than just sitting in a hotel speaking German.. we ventured to the German military base in Rostock. This was wayyyyy better than any other meeting as the Rotarians brought family members with them so Roy and I weren't the only young ones. Majority of the time we hung around with Sandmann's (my favourite German rotary family) as Thea and Carl translated things I didn't understand. The night involved seeing a massive fighter jet, going on a simulator (fricken cool) and looking at other simulators/miliarty stuff. After that we had a nice dinner at the military base and I got a free t-shirt and a like fighter jet plane to put on my rotary blazer :)
Freitag 2nd - Sonntag 4th Mar - INBOUND MEETING IN GREIFSWALD!! This weekend was by far the best weekend I have had in Germany. It involved trekking it to and from Greifswald, meeting other exchange students and making friends, eating, being talked at by Rotarians, randomly going to a nuclear power plant, eating, having a good time with foreign exchange students, dancing, giving a presentation of your country and walking around Greifswald.
(Freitag) In the beginning I knew only Roy.. and since everyone knows Roy he was very preoccupied and had an emotional reunion with almost every person he saw, so that was a bit weird. Also I was put in a cabin with people who were heaps shy and quite awkward so it wasn't the greatest until I saw Will and pretty much tackled him - I think that was the best and most needed hug I have ever received.
After meeting many people the "newbies" (new inbounds) had a little chat with some rotations, who pretty much told us don't do anything stupid otherwise you'll be sent home. Then the "newbies" went to dinner, and Will and I spotted Charlie in the dining hall.. this was such an emotional reunion, all three of us hugged for about 2 minute each - so cute. The rest of the night just involved hanging around with my new Aussie family and some other exchange students who just listened to us speaking in Aussie slang/ acting out Aussie stereotypes, while majority of the people were singing in Spanish..
(Samstag) We went to a Nuclear power plant? So random and quite useless. Though I on the trip I made some nice American friends; Katie, Emma, Nathan Corey who slightly understand Aussie sarcasm. Once we got back to the hotel/youth hostel we had lunch, reminisced on our youth by playing on the playground/the boys played basketball and ran away to get some pizza. At night we all gave presentations on what our countries do for Easter which had to be spoken in German.. since all the Aussies have only been here for bit over a month our German is crap, so we pretty much stood there holding up an Australian flag, dancing and singing to "downunder" by men at work - we got heaps of claps so it was all good. Then after all the presentations most exchange students partied/danced but a small group of us ended up having a nice chat in one of the cabins. By 12 it was "lights out" but that didn't stop Katie and I being ninjas and sneaking down to the other cabins, where we only found Roy and Connor awake.. so lame - but in a way really good as I got to know those 3 really well :)
(Sonntag) We ate breakfast, go on the bus, looked around Greifswald, said goodbye to many new friends, had Doner (most amazing food you will ever eat; its like a kebab but 10000x better) and then trekked it home.
My highlight of the weekend was when I saw Will and Charlie for the first time since coming to Germany. It was sooo good to talk to my fellow Australians and just relax - not having to think about what you say and if it will offend anyone or if they don't understand your sarcasm. Also I meet some really cool Americans, Frenchies and Brazilians who I instantly got along with :) It awesome to have friends over here in the same situation as me and understand what I am going through, plus buddies to travel with!
Mittwoch 7th Mar - I went on a school excursion to Schwerin; where we saw a Shakespearean theatre play "Much ado about nothing". It was in English so I really enjoyed the play as I actually knew what was going on :) Roy and I also found one of our exchange friends from Brazil which was very cute.
Our class also walked around the streets of Schwerin, which are amazing! The streets were all cobblestone with cute lamppost everywhere, and almost every building was beautifully old and some even looked like enchanted castles.
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