Monday August 13 22:39
Today we woke up early and had breakfast together. There are
about 75 students here, 48 from the U.S. and the rest are from other parts of
Europe, Latin America or Asia. We were assigned classes, and when I arrived at
my class I was learning the alphabet and how to say my name, after 2 years of
German this was surprising. At the break I talked to my teacher and I was moved
into the 2nd highest class. The reason was because I was interviewed
in the car on the way to language camp without my knowledge, then I fell asleep
and Ingrid did not hear my German capabilities. We had a 3 hour break between
15 and 18 o’clock and I met up with two kids named Lucas Utley (from Arkansas)
and Julien Berger (from Switzerland) and we went to a town called Gmunden. It
was about a mile to the outskirts of town and we walked all the way through, I
picked up some supplies for school at the store and we checked out the main
squares and streets. Afterwards we walked back to the camp to have dinner. I
went into the main town of Altmünster again after dinner with a big group of
people, and we went to an ice cream café (Café Auszeit) and I found out about
the wifi there, I am going to head over there tomorrow evening to post my
pictures and old blog entries. One interesting thing about Austria is that
pretty much all of the furniture is Ikea brand and everything is modern and
abstract, then on the other side of the spectrum there are houses hundreds of
years old in the classic Austrian style. Also if Sarah is reading this, I met
an exchange student whose host sister is your exchange student, she is 16 and
will be coming to Bozeman soon. So far though I am really enjoying the camp,
there are a lot of cool kids here, and I have already formed some pretty good
friendships. It’s not a lie when people say that you can really connect with
other exchange students, because you are all going through the same things and
being in another country is something that can’t really be described. Tomorrow
I will finally post my entries, and until then wish me luck.
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| Another view of the Traunsee |
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| The main square in Gmunden |
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| A park in Gmunden |
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| Julien (left) and Lucas (right) |
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| Me by the lake |
