Hello frens
I totally
thought those next lines were lost on my old computer. But as it turns out, they were not. So hereś my last blogpost of my exchange year 3 years later. I´m so
sorry. And now letś get to the real post.
I was just
checking out my blog and realized that it´s been nearly a year (now 3 ;) ) since
I´m back, but I haven´t really finished my blog or told you what happened on
the last days and how it is now. I really regret that I didn´t do that earlier
cause now it won´t be as detailed as it would´ve been a year ago, but who cares
:D SO let´s see how good my memory is
;)
I`m not
pretty sure but I think from Thursday to Friday I was camping with my friend,
her family and my host brothers down by the river. It was great because I
really love camping. On Friday I finished packing my whole stuff. It was really
hard to pack all the stuff that you owned during the year in only two bags. I´m
glad that I had my snowboard bag, because I could put a lot of clothes in there
as well. I had to leave a bit of stuff
in Canada, like school stuff. Its still at my host families house down in the
basement and I will decide this year when I´m back if I wanna keep it or throw
it away. On Friday I also said good bye
to the whole farm and visited everything for the last time. Friday evening I told my family that I´d
like to go to the river again and I only expected my family and neighbours to
be there. But guess what. A lot of people from church and other neighbours
showed up as well and that was just so amazing. With all the kids we went down the
river with tubes and it was so much fun! Calvin (a really cool guy from church) build something for his quad
so we could sit in there and he would drive around in the backcountry. Everyone
brought food as well and we really had a blast on this day. I actually thought
that I would be really sad on this day and stuff, but I wasn´t. It´s probably
because I knew that I was going to see them again one year later. So then I
said good bye to everyone and it wasn´t as
weird as I thought it would be. In general I think the fact that I knew
I´d come back made everything easier. I
really think that leaving this time (when I go there this summer) will be way
harder just because after that I don´t know when or if I´ll ever come back and
this feeling sucks. Makes me homesick right away. I mean I sometimes had the feeling to miss my family
after I was back in Germany but it was never that extreme cause I knew that I
was coming back. That´s probably why it wasn´t as hard either to say good bye
to my family in Germany because I knew for sure I´ll see them again. Anyway. On
the day I was leaving it was raining -.-
nice eh? So then we drove to GP
and I ate one last time breakfast at
A&W . My family was praying before every meal and they always wanted me to
pray as well, but I never really wanted. But then during the last days I kinda
wanted , but I never got the chance and I hope that I can change that when I´m
back. I´m also really exited to see everyone again in General ^.^ back to my last day in High Prairie. When we
drove to GP we decided that we wanted to take a nice family picture, which took
afterwards half a year to get to me. My hostdad told me that we really looked
like one family and that he sees me as his own daughter, which I really apprechiated. And just before I forget a fun fact about my
last school days. I had to write an exam , but I wanted to go to lunch with my
friends as well. So I asked the principal if I could come to the exam later and
she was totally okay with it. I also didn´t received my report card until today
:/ I also really wonder if it will be
possible for me to take Dobby back to Germany, cause he is really huge and it´s
probably pretty expensive to bring him back.
Anyway. On my departure day I had the feeling that we nearly came too late
to the airport. When we arrived there I had to check in my luggage, and no one
was watching my hand luggage which made me panicking a little bit. The mashine
who scanned my luggage was broken so the airport lady had to go threw both of
my bags, which were packed really accurately and she just destroyed my whole
order. Then I said to her “Don´t worry.
You don´t have to go threw it. I´m not a terrorist” and she said “Don´t say that! On a big
airport you would´ve had went to the security now!” The funny thing is though
that at our preparation meeting in Germany they told us not to mention words
like terrorists and I thought “How stupid. I would never do that!” but see what
happened. :D My hostdad still had to
write in my book where everybody wrote nice things in and I was really worried
to miss my flight. And then eventually I
had to say good bye to everybody. It was weird. I thought I would cry and I was
really prepared to but I didn´t and that kinda made me feel like a feelingless
exchangestudent which is not true, even though I didn´t really cried during my whole
stay. Then I had to go to the hand luggage security and saw my family for the
last time. I can only say it again it was weird there is no other word for
this! When I got on the plane I could finally read threw all the nice things
everyone wrote for me and this might have made me tear up a little bit. (btw I
had to fly with a propeller plain and I really hate those!) When I arrived in
Calgary it wasn´t even sure if I would get my connected flight, but eventually
it worked out pretty good. I nearly missed the flight because of Tim Hortons
though ;D When I arrived in Vancouver I was really glad that all my luggage
arrived and now I just had to look out for my sister. When she found me the first
thing she noticed was that I gained weight . But well that happens when you´re
on exchange. She wanted to talk German to me and again it was just weird to
talk German. I mean I had no problem with it when I was talking to my mum on
skype. But every time during the year that I had to talk face to face German
with someone I was just not used to it and my German sounded weird and actually sucked. So then we
had to go threw downtown Vancouver with all my luggage which was funny and
exhausting.
I don´t want
this post to be too long so I´ll write about Vancouver another time. And if I´m
motivated I´ll do a review on my exchangeyear as well. Maybe in Video form,
maybe I´ll also write a blog post, who knows.
And maybe it will take me another year to do a post. I´m really not born
to be a blogger. I know that now for sure ;)
Luise
