Orientation camp 24. May - 27. May 2018

A little late but now I'll write a little about the Orientation camp in my home country.

When I sat in the train to 'Kaub' (a really small village in Germany), I was super nervous because I only knew names of the about 30 other exchange students that would be in my camp.

The 'Teamers' (volunteers who guided through the camp) were amazing! They all were an exchange student themselves and they shared a lot about their experiences with us and explained everything we will need to know through the whole exchange!

I am not allowed to give any details about these days but I will tell you the main topics the orientation camp was about!

1. "Who am I?
    Where am I from?
    Where do I go?"
I never really thought about who I am before and what makes me me. Then I got to see what differences there are in the world. There are so many different cultures and maybe the same things mean different stuff in different cultures.

2. "Expect the unexpected!"
I learned that there is always something that you can't know about the future and especially about my exchange year.

In the End I can only say that these few days were the best I could have wished for! I learned so many new things that I will need in my exchange year and the best thing... I met so many new people who I would call friends by now!
I even will fly to my 'Soft Landing Camp' in Copenhagen with one of the people I met there! She will also do an exchange to Finland but there will also be other girls who I met at my orientation camp.

It also helped me to realize that I don't have much time in Germany any more...
43 days from today!

I'm really excited and my friends who live near me do not get how I feel but if I text or talk to the ones who I met in my orientation camp I feel like they do because they go through the exact same!

So if you think about an exchange year look for an organisation who also gives orientation camps because you get to know people who go through the exact same situation as you do and you can stay in touch with them and talk about everything, even when your in your host country and after your exchange year!


Let me know if there is anything you want to know about my experience so far!
See you soon!

Vanessa ^^