School Begins…
This was a very interesting, but confusing day (at least for me)! I'm in the 12th grade (they have a 13th) at Dietrich Bonhoeffer Gymnasium (grades 5 - 13), which is a...
A New Beginning
Now that immersion is over, I've settled in with my permanent host-family in Hilden (still in the province of North Rhine-Westphalia). Coincidentally, there are 6 other kids besides me, however 1...
Now, It Really Begins!
My host-family at the "school."The Karlspreis My exchange classmates--one of the 7 Americans is sick and not present. The month of my immersion training has come to an end. It was...
Phantasia Land
This weekend, Elena, Teresa, Jonas, and I went to Phantasia Land! It's an amusement park with several diverse cultural themes. There's a section of Europe, the USA (mainly featuring the...
My Family in Geilenkirchen
Upper Left: Teresa (16) Upper Middle: Simon (18) Upper Right: Elena (19) Lower Left: Anne (16) Lower Right: Jonas (14) Source link
Die Niederlande
For the majority of the day, my host parents and host brother, Simon, went biking for about fifty miles around Germany and into the Netherlands (no passports for nations in...