Email from my host mom

Yesterday I got my first email from my host mom, Karin. She sounds really nice. I also got some pictures of my host family. In a couple of the pictures there is so much snow! So I asked my host mom if it normally snows that much. We'll see what she says. Also, Karin said they live about 5 minutes from Belgium by car and that they go there to buy coffee and go to the vet! I guess coffee is much cheaper there. I also got a couple of letters yesterday from ASSE. One was an official acceptance letter for the program along with a profile of my host family and some papers I need to get signed for my Visa. The other was a generic letter about host families. Both were very exciting to read and I hope I get a couple more letters soon!

I GOT MY HOST FAMILY!

Wow...I am so excited. After a week of seeing kids with CBYX posting that they had received a host family and me getting increasingly jealous, I got an email today from my host sister. She is 14 and I also have a host brother who is 16. They have 2 cats and 3 guinea pigs. My host family lives really close to Aachen, near the Belgium border. It's also pretty close to Holland. Aachen is actually the city where Germany, Belgium, and Holland all converge, and my town is a little to the south east of Aachen. I'll keep updating when I get another email :)

Waiting for my host family

So it's been a couple of months and I'm really anxious to find out about my host family. Everyone keeps asking me where I'm going to live and I always have to tell them "I have no idea!" I got my passport though which is good. I got my first info packet last week from ASSE...lots of reading about Germany and their culture, economics, and history. I have to say I haven't read it yet. So hopefully I get my host family soon...

I GOT ACCEPTED!

I was officially accepted to go to Germany for the 2009-2010 school year as a Congress Bundestag Youth Exchange student! I am so excited and I've been so busy over the last couple of weeks that this is the first chance I've gotten to write a post now that I've been accepted. I have no idea where I am going to be living yet, but i'll post it as soon as I find out.

Interview

So I had my interview yesterday for CBYX. It went pretty well. There were four other kids in my group, but one of the girls left after the individual interview. I think she got nervous. Anyway, we were interviewed individually for about 20 minutes and then after the other kids had been interviewed, the four of us had to come up with some pros and cons about being a German exchange student at an American high school. It was pretty fun. I guess this will be the first start of my exchange blog if I go. I'm planning on keeping this blog if I go to Germany for the year so I can share my experiences with all of you.