My first week was pretty good actually. Saturday my host family took me to the city and showed me the Weser River, which goes through Minden. I have found out that bröchen which is a type of bread is SO GOOD. But My host family doesn't have bread in their house because the host mother is vegan so I have been eating vegan for a week and to be honest I feel... Thinner. Uhm I stayed home until Thursday which was when I had my first day at school. It was so good, I met so many people and there are a lot exchanges (not only Rotary too) in Minden, a majority are from South America and spoke Spanish.
A boy who was leaving Minden to move to Frankfurt had a farewell party that night so they invited me and it was nice to just chat and laugh about funny things. They told me things about exchange in general, gave me warnings about people who go to our school and the town Minden. It is like a family and I am their newborn baby. It is really cute. I got a cheap phone because my iPhone didn't accept the sim which is annoying. The cheap phone works and I love it so much! I made some more German friends on my second day of school and I joined in the French class... So I couldn't understand what people were saying x2. Tried to ride the bike home but then I got lost and ended up on the other side of the town... My host mother loved it! I am learning more and more German everyday and what is cool is that almost no country has a grudge against Australia. They literally love us! So we have an advantage here I guess. I have been told countless times about how cool my accent is despite the fact that I don't know the difference.
My second week in Minden, Germany was quite eventful. Over the weekend I went to Oma’s birthday lunch (oma means grandmother) and I had so much food that I got sick and was vomiting quite a lot. Because of this, I was unable to go to school on Monday or Tuesday. It started to snow and I had a snowball fight with the Quarder family and built a snowman with my host sister, Sophie.
My second weekend in Germany was so fun and I did a lot of things. On Saturday night I went over to another exchanges house and chilled out there with the other exchanges, it is very nice. On Sunday I went to Bremen with my host mother and another exchange girl, my host mother knew some people from Bremen and they acted like our tour guides. Bremen is so beautiful and I enjoyed my time there. On Monday I was invited with three other exchange students to go to Koeln (Cologne) by the train. It was so nice and we had so much fun. We climbed the tower in the Dom - which is a very big cathedral in Koeln. They say that they have started building the church 800 years ago and took them 600 to fully complete it. The building is so big and beautiful, with many intricate designs around the exterior.
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It was a long flight from Brisbane, Australia through Bangkok,
Thailand to Hannover, Germany |
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| My room for the next 6 months! |
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| The steeples in Minden :) |
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The shopping centre of Minden
(You cannot buy much stuff here, normally the
younger people go to Hannover to shop) |
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| A Pedestrian Bridge that goes over the Weser River |
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| The look of outside from my room :) |
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| The family cat "Leo" |
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| Snow selfie |
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| The look of the street where I live |
