Being a Rotary Exchange Student comes with responsibility. The responsibility to meet the other exchange students during a few Inbound Orientations. The first took place in September in Neuruppin. There 60 some of us at a hostel. Lets just say not very much German was spoken because most people didn't have a good grasp on the language yet, myself included. We went over the basic information, the 4 D's - No Driving, No Dating, No Drugs & No Drinking, the Travel Permission form and a little bit about EuroTour. We also had a lovely city tour. And then later we had to present our countries. There are 16 Americans in my District and our presentation was mainly improv and was far from the best.
In March we were privilege to go to Greifswald for another orientation, this time with another District. We got to tour an old, never used, Unit at the Greifswald Nuclear Power Plant. It was super cool walking around and seeing the interior of a nuclear power plant. Then we had a short orientation for the "newbies," exchange students from New Zealand, Australia and Argentina who come for a year but in January instead of August. Then once again we had to present our countries but this time we requested to speak about our Easter/Spring traditions. And once again the U.S. did not prepare anything... lets just say it was the worst presentation but there were over 20 of us (2 Districts combined) and we couldn't all speak. Afterwards it turned into a dance party. The next day we had another city tour which was fun and then we said good bye to the other District and took our various trains back to our cities.
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List of Countries represented:
Argentina
Australia
Bolivia
Brazil
Canada
Chile
Ecuador
Finland
France
India
Indonesia
Japan
Mexico
New Zealand
South Korea
Taiwan
Thailand
U.S.A
Venezuela
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