T minus 9 days

Well, looks like that is indeed my home for the next 10 months (the other month I'll be living in Göttingen for the language camp when I first arrive). After several emails between the AFS woman and myself it was basically put as "here's where you are, sorry but this is what you're getting."

Le sigh

Oh well, I'm trying to be optomistic about it. I'm looking at a swim team that's about 15-20 miles away. A bit of a commute, but at least that will be another place to go/more people to meet/less time spent in the middle of nowhere. I am excited about going. Packing, on the other hand, is a very stressful task. Oh my. We get a carry on and a suitcase which cannot exceed 44lbs. WTF?! I could understand if this was a Congress of Bundestag (CBYX) limit, but no, it's an AFS limit. The other subgroups were allowed to take the standard international flight limit of 2 suitcases. I find this completely unfair. When I asked the woman on the conference call about it (M. Stotts is her name) she did not address my question but rather stated "Think hard about what you pack!" I now refer to her kindly as "Stottsy the Nazi".

I leave in 9 days. Holy Scheisse. There's so much to do, mainly so many people to see. As much as I absolutely hate this god forsaken town (and I do, I bitch about it quite often), I will miss some of the peoeple. And as for my college applications. hah, I told myself that I would do them all over the summer. Yeah... Not so much. I printed out 3 and sent away for the 4th so I'll take them with me and do them in Germany. Oh well. I'm just trying to make the most of my last week here. This post is becoming pointless and I'm rambling. It's time for bed.

I shall return.

Well, I've got some more information now.
I go to DC on september 4 for orientation Scheisse and then we (the 50 of us) fly to Frankfurt on the 7th. Then I'll be in a language camp for about a month, i don't know where that language camp will be yet though. Then I'll go to my host family, which, I think, I just got today. I'm not really sure yet. It came in a package that said it was my host family but there are some issues. First of all, they requested a girl. Oops. Second of all, they wanted a student for only half a year. This would mean I'd have to move halfway through the year? Third of all, they live in Edenkoben, a tiny town near the border of France. I'm loving the near France part, but anybody that knows me will tell you that I do not belong in a little town. I need a city; I crave a city. So we'll see what transpires from this - if this is my family or not. I'm trying to be optomistic about the small town thing, but it ain't easy. We'll just have to see how it goes...