former CBYX exchange student in Germany and current computer science undergrad at Cornell
Got my Host Family!
After school on Friday I checked the mail and found an unusually fat envelope from ASSE. The first line said:
Dear Sarah,
Wonderful news! Your ASSE German host family has been found!
A few pages later is my host family placement form, which is filled with pretty basic info (age, occupations, contact info, pets, and activities) about my new family, the Schmidbauers.
Both of my host parents, Thorsten and Heike, are relatively young, and they have a 13 year old daughter named Annika. I’ll get more into all the details later as they’ve already e-mailed me, so for now I’ll entertain you all with some pictures of Haan, the itty bitty town I’ll be living in next year.
stolen from oddtodd‘s travelblog
I love the streets! And the buildings. They look so, well, German! Unlike Frankfurt and some other big cities I’m sure. The following is a side by side comparison of San Jose, CA (where I am now) and Haan, Germany (where I will be next year) from Google maps. If you enlarge them (click), you’ll see that Haan is MUCH greener and had much more open space than San Jose. I don’t know if that means it’s farming country or if there will be many fields to frolic in, but I’m fine with it either way. :-)
9 Comments
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it does look very green O.o. well i guess that means that the experience won’t be bland and boring :D
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omg have fun learning street names xP
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I`m guessing there`ll be fields to frolic through ;)
Have fun! Looks like an awesome little town. -
Yay :D Tell me if Germany smells different XD.
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Very cool! I am going to Berlin, but I am a little jelouse of the tiny town experience you will have : ) When I was very young, my family was in a very, very, VERY small town in Germany with the military. From what my parents tell me, it is very unique, but great. If it is a farming town, it will smell different…especially if there are cows…make your own assumptions
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Hehe what a bucolic/boring/rural/quaint place!
Well, tell me what germany smells like but, of course, I think the smell of smoke is overwhelming. And in the case of Haan, cows.
Ew. Methane smells like a bouquet of flowers doesn’t it.
Do they have high speed internet in Haan? Haha, you know that’s a necessity of life.
Hehe good luck in advance on your trip
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Yeah, and I hope ya know Deutsch, or you’ll get owned. Hahaha