Category Archives: outbound
Orientation, as told by my camera
While some parts of the orientation have been repetitive, boring, and (dare I say it) downright unhelpful, there have definitely been parts that were informative and fun. Here are some highlights that I managed to document, despite my failing camera battery Continue reading
“Don’t worry, there’s still plenty of t-”
In the immortal words of Bill Watterson: The Days Are Just Packed. Continue reading
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The Life of an Outbound, Part Two
I have also been working on German more again. I am in the process of becoming a Verbmeister. (Ich werde ein Verbmeister?) Or something. Continue reading
The Life of an Outbound, Part One: Host Family
Can it be that only about 41 days before I am set to arrive in Germany, I am still in denial? Yeah, apparently. Continue reading
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Warum Deutschland?
My interest in Germany is like a crush. We had a brief encounter that left me intrigued, and due to a crazy coincidence, we ran into each other a few years later and dated for a month. We weren’t quite ready to take it any further at that point, but we kept in touch and stayed friends and now we’re about to give it another go, with mutual intentions of something a bit more long-term this time around. Continue reading
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Ich habe eine Gastfamilie!
“Wait, they have nine thousand people in eleven villages. That’s less than a thousand people in each village. So each village would be like one floor of KHS!” Continue reading
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the wait is over…
It’s quite frustrating when all of your friends have heard back from their colleges and people ask you where you’re planning to go and all you can give them is a nebulous “…another country?” I’ve found over the past two days that they respond much more positively to “Germany!” Continue reading
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