A lifetime experience!

In a few days our grand adventure will start and I am unbelievably excited about that.✈️🇺🇸
First of all I am really looking forward to meeting my host and her family. When I took part in the French exchange in spring, I realized that living in a host family is almost the most important and best thing about an exchange. The opportunity to experience a whole new culture is great and I believe that it's going to be very interesting and also funny to see the differences between Germany and the United States. Furthermore the possibility to share my thoughts and discuss with foreign students of my age is amazing and always something rewarding. Besides I hope that I can build some new friendships.

In general I am really excited to finally experience the “American way of life” by myself : go to an american high school, eat in an american cafeteria, taste american candy, watch a football game… In movies and TV shows we get a pretty clear image of how the everyday life in America looks, but I would like to find out what the reality is like and what just a cliché or stereotype is.

Besides I hope that I will improve my language skills and get more confident and fluently in English. Maybe I'll even get more independent and mature.

Apart from that I am very excited about the trips we are going to make with our group and very glad that we have the opportunity to not only experience so many things, but also visit different places in America. I am pretty sure that our trip to Chicago will be awesome, but I am also very eager to visit the National Park and Mount Rushmore.

In addition I think that it is great to travel with a group because it hopefully allows us to talk about our experiences or problems and share our opinions.

Anyways I am absolutely thrilled to visit the U.S. because I expect it to be an amazing once in a lifetime experience and I am sure that we will make some great memories...

Take-off ✈

I honestly can't believe that our flight already takes off on friday. It hasn't quite sunk in yet and therefore I don't feel that giddy.
But I've never been on a plane for such a long time so that's going to be rather interesting. I hope that I won't get homesick as I've never been away from home for that long.
It's going to be the first time that I'll travel somewhere beyond europe.
I'm really looking forward to meet my host family! On the one hand I'm exited to attend an american school, since a lot of subjects that are taught there, aren't available here but on the other hand I'm thrilled to visit lots of sights, for an example 'Mount Rushmore'.
I'm sure that all of the memorable things that I'm going to experience will leave quite an imprint on me. I hope to become more independent and mature, to improve my language skills and to encounter lots of new people during my stay.

It's started in three days 😍

Only three days left, befor the journey starts.
I am starting to pack my  things and the journey becomes to get real. I am looking forward to see my host family and to spend time with them. I am also looking forward to spend time with new people and to learn in the american school.  Especially I am really excited to see the American Football game, because American Football is very awesome. The trips with our group will be great.
The typical way of life in the USA is an great experience, because I was in Britain in a host family before and I like to learn something from people. Fascinating for me are the American school subjects, the lessons and sport activitys.
The main fact is that I want to improve my english skills, mabey you can read and understand what I write, but I know my english isn´t the best. Maybe it will be better than it is now.
We do things with our groupe, we won´t do again in our life and I am looking forward to enter the plane and the adventure in the  USA starts.
See you soon and the next time I will be writing from the USA!

Just 3 days to go!

Time goes by and the last days passed like in slow-motion. There are only 3 days left till start and we are ready for takeoff! The flights are booked, the presents bought and the months of fundraising are over. We raised so much and after all what we did for this trip I am really excited about it. This is also my first exchange ever and my first time in the USA too. I expect this to be a trip of a whole diffrent kind of what I did before, when seeing our plans for this year and the photos of last year. I think my highlights will be Mount Rushmore and the vast view over the scenery of South Dakota. Also I am looking forward to see my host family in Charles City ( when I say "my host family" I mean both of them, of course!). I was fairly surprised they don't have Milka and HARIBO or Softies,
but my exchange student Kelly mentioned, that HARIBO is the best candy she ever had. Thats quite cool and a bit odd to hear too.

America we are coming🙌💗

Friday morning we are going to fly to America and I'm very ecited because I never was as long in a plane before. We will have lunch up in the air and we will see the landscape from above. ✈🌁
I think when we are landing in America we will be so exited to see what will be going on in the next 4 weeks. Hopefully nobody gets homesick and that we can sleep our jetlack away. Maybe the difficult part is going to be writing with the family there are 7 hours between Germany and America hopefully we can handle this.⏰
I know we all will make fun memories and never leaving experiences and pictures in our heads.📷
The school is diffrent and the culture is a new one, maybe we struggle first with that but I'm not afraid of learning something new.👏
PS: I'm going to bring presents from America like all the candy we don't have here.🍬

The time of our lives

When I was in sixth grade I heard about GAPP the very first time and I immediately wished I could participate one day as well. Now my dream comes true - only four days are left until the journey will finally start! My feelings about that are simply overwhelming.
Of course I want to improve my language skills, but apart from that I hope I will become friends with my exchange student. I already wrote a few e-mails with her and she seems to be such a friendly and open-minded person. Besides I am already looking forward to meeting her friends and family and I am pretty excited which differences I will notice in their daily life.
One of our plans includes watching a football game with the whole group and I mean: How cool is that? I probably won't sleep that good the night before because of excitement, but I guess it will be worth it. Another part I am very curious about is our visit in Chicago with all its sights, interesting people and international atmosphere. Finally I want to add that this thing called "calories" will be a foreign word to me while the exchange because tasting all the American food I will come across plays a very important role on my to-do list for the US.

The biggest adventure so far 😍✈

Months ago I got to know that I'm going to be a participant of the GAPP exchange... And now there are just 5 more days left until we are on our way to the States ✈️ Somehow I still can't believe that one of my dreams is finally coming true 😍
I've never been to the US and I also never participated in an exchange before so this will be a whole new experience for me. Going on this adventure with some of my friends makes everything even better and I’m sure that we will have the best time of our lives so far.

I’m really looking forward to meeting my host family, I've been writing with my host for a few weeks now and I'm thrilled to finally meet her and her family face to face. Added to that I’m super excited to get to know the American culture and experience the everyday life in the States. I’m sure that we will face many differences regarding school, food and culture in comparison to Germany and I can’t wait to experience as much as possible. Furthermore I hope to improve my English skills as well as meeting lots of new people and making friends for a lifetime. This exchange is also a great opportunity to get more self-confident and open-minded.

Next time I’ll be posting from the US!😉