ok ok ok this is going to be really short, but I forgot to write something yesterday, which is actually pretty interesting: You may know that EF offered several different countries to choose from in the past, like Hongkong, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Costa Rica, France, Denmark, and so on. BUT NOW after I found out a while ago that the EF offices in almost all countries except the USA, UK and Ireland closed you can't go anywhere else than those countries! It's os weird and pretty sad because especially Australia and France went pretty good, but when the offices in those countries close down nobody can go there either. That's it.
And also the prices for the remaining countries increased so badly! I mean when I went the USA was the cheapest option, even cheaper than Ireland and UK! And now it's he mpst expensive country you can book with EF! CRAZY!!
But since my exchange is already over I'm not too concerned about ll that anymore. It's sill really weird.
Good night!!
Montag, 22. Oktober 2012
Sonntag, 21. Oktober 2012
Orientation Meeting- it gets better every time :)
Alright guys!!
Here i am back from my long writing break. It's not that i forgot it or something but it's simply that nothing really exciting (what actually matters, and what has something to do with my exchange) happened. Well but here i am again ready to tell you a new story.
A few weeks ago (not sure if I already told you guys, probably not) I wrote an E-mail to EF regarding the ways you can earn points (because when you have 7000 points you can get a flight back to your hostcountry! Unfortunately I only have like 100 or something cause I'm waaay too lazy to do presentations at schools, or stuff like that but i really wanna earn points. So the EF lady wrote back and asked me if I wanted to participate in the next EF Orientation meeting and i was like "Hey, yeah could be fun!" so I agreed. i was pretty excited about that, so many memories came back and it was so nice- before the journey is after the journey.
Alright today then (on a SUNDAY!!!!) I had to get up at half past 7 already, because I had to be in Linz at 9:15 (45 before it started I have no clue why i had to be there so early but anyways). In the end I ended up getting there half an hour too early so i had to wait. But not long the EF staff came and the other Returnees. We were 5 Returnees including myself, four had been in the USA and one in Ireland. Yeah the EF stuff told us what was going on, what our job would be in the whole thing but I actually knew it already from my last Orientation Meeting last year. WU I was so excited back then.
Anyways then we Returnees had time to chat for a little while and it was really great to talk to people who understand you and who experienced similar things and who never get tired of your stories and awkward situations. They're great guys. I already chatted with one of them on the Internet and it was nice to meet her in real life.
When the actual students came in it finally began with some delay and I remembered how felt the year before. Was so exciting!! We had almost the same procedure this year one of the EF ladies talked about some general things, about how the students were going to be placed and then about what they can expect. Where the Returnees were asked about their experience and from then on it was just us Returnees talking about our experience, to what school we went about our hostfamilies and so on. Wui I felt so wise, when parents asked stuff and we I could answer and knew more than them and WOW! And I can remember that I really envied the Returnees last year, because they had such an awesome experience I just had been sitting there getting really excited. Now I envy the students going in a few wees because their experience has not even started yet. That's weird.
Well the rest of the meeting was a workshop , which was new, and basically consisted of more talking of the Returnees, this time in smaller groups. It was pretty awesome it was like I lived through my exchange again remembering more and more details :)
Then the meeting was pretty much over, the Returnees stayed a little after talking about how we all miss our hostcountries, it was so good talking to people who feel the same!! We exchanged cellphone numbers and yeah, it was good, and i hope we gonna meet again. Just to talk :)
The Ef lady i also talked to said she had been in Australia once, for a few months and MAN what she told me sounded so cool. I really wanna go to Australia. Like badly. :D
Yeah now I'm spending my evening writing THIS, listening to music which reminds me of the USA and i really dont feel like school tomorrow. urgs.
Well anyways gotta go now it's getting pretty late for a school night already :/
Here i am back from my long writing break. It's not that i forgot it or something but it's simply that nothing really exciting (what actually matters, and what has something to do with my exchange) happened. Well but here i am again ready to tell you a new story.
A few weeks ago (not sure if I already told you guys, probably not) I wrote an E-mail to EF regarding the ways you can earn points (because when you have 7000 points you can get a flight back to your hostcountry! Unfortunately I only have like 100 or something cause I'm waaay too lazy to do presentations at schools, or stuff like that but i really wanna earn points. So the EF lady wrote back and asked me if I wanted to participate in the next EF Orientation meeting and i was like "Hey, yeah could be fun!" so I agreed. i was pretty excited about that, so many memories came back and it was so nice- before the journey is after the journey.
Alright today then (on a SUNDAY!!!!) I had to get up at half past 7 already, because I had to be in Linz at 9:15 (45 before it started I have no clue why i had to be there so early but anyways). In the end I ended up getting there half an hour too early so i had to wait. But not long the EF staff came and the other Returnees. We were 5 Returnees including myself, four had been in the USA and one in Ireland. Yeah the EF stuff told us what was going on, what our job would be in the whole thing but I actually knew it already from my last Orientation Meeting last year. WU I was so excited back then.
Anyways then we Returnees had time to chat for a little while and it was really great to talk to people who understand you and who experienced similar things and who never get tired of your stories and awkward situations. They're great guys. I already chatted with one of them on the Internet and it was nice to meet her in real life.
When the actual students came in it finally began with some delay and I remembered how felt the year before. Was so exciting!! We had almost the same procedure this year one of the EF ladies talked about some general things, about how the students were going to be placed and then about what they can expect. Where the Returnees were asked about their experience and from then on it was just us Returnees talking about our experience, to what school we went about our hostfamilies and so on. Wui I felt so wise, when parents asked stuff and we I could answer and knew more than them and WOW! And I can remember that I really envied the Returnees last year, because they had such an awesome experience I just had been sitting there getting really excited. Now I envy the students going in a few wees because their experience has not even started yet. That's weird.
Well the rest of the meeting was a workshop , which was new, and basically consisted of more talking of the Returnees, this time in smaller groups. It was pretty awesome it was like I lived through my exchange again remembering more and more details :)
Then the meeting was pretty much over, the Returnees stayed a little after talking about how we all miss our hostcountries, it was so good talking to people who feel the same!! We exchanged cellphone numbers and yeah, it was good, and i hope we gonna meet again. Just to talk :)
The Ef lady i also talked to said she had been in Australia once, for a few months and MAN what she told me sounded so cool. I really wanna go to Australia. Like badly. :D
Yeah now I'm spending my evening writing THIS, listening to music which reminds me of the USA and i really dont feel like school tomorrow. urgs.
Well anyways gotta go now it's getting pretty late for a school night already :/
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