... And That's How the Lebkuchen Crumbles.

To start off, last Wednesday, we had a Travel Orientation meeting.  Everyone in the Anchorage area headed over to the BP Energy Center to listen to "Ed" talk about getting our visas. (For those of you who aren't aware, a visa is a document that allows you to stay in a foreign country for an extended period of time.  In the case of an exchange student, we would have to get student visas).  As it turns out, I am the only one in the group that doesn't have to get a visa.  Instead, I have to get a "Residence Permit"  (The equivilent of a visa) upon my arrival in Germany.  This shouldn't be difficult if I have all the proper paperwork.  The fact that I don't have to do visa paperwork excites me because I will get my departure date as soon as I get my host district information (my guarantee form)-- which could be any day now.   Oddly, even with all this paperwork going internationally back and forth, this whole thing doesn't seem real to me yet.


The next day, I got a message from one of the inbounds about an "exchange student sleepover"  for all the valley exchange students that was happening the next day.  I discussed it with some of the other Outbounds, and we decided to go.  Since it was out a Cheryl Combs house in Palmer, my mom gave Arthur a ride.  Aimiee, Darby, Cha-Aim, Zarina, Said, Arthur, Sara, Kate and I all attended.


The sleepover party was complete with a Bonfire, Sledding, racing (rolling) down hills, chasing each other around the pond, Mario, and Movies.  Since it happened to be Darby's birthday, she got to pick out the movies.   She chose "The Reaping" and "The Excorcist".  Both were extremely creepy, and in my case scary.  Everyone kept telling me to shutup because I was screaming so much.  We also watched "Juno" at midnight because we had nothing better to do.  I think that we have the coolest OB coordinator ever.  Why?  She stayed up the entire night with us!


At about 2am, Arthur and Said decided to play more video games, so we all trooped upstairs to watch them and their Mario skills.  Everyone went to bed at 3am, only to wake up at 8 to start making breakfast.  Kate made eggs, I helped with pancakes, while Darby sliced Melon.


Later, everyone decided to watch a movie, so Cheryl and I went to Lowes, Alaska Wild Berry Products, and Taco Bell.  We brought everyone lunch.  It was awesome.  After, we decided to watch more of "The Exorcist", so we all went downstairs until it was time to leave.  Overall, the party was great.


Sunday, I got an itinerary from Lara, with all the dates she will be staying in Anchorage.  We were really exited because we have enough time to do everything we want to do, and go to my Rotary meeting.  Six days and counting until the Swiss arrives in Anchorage.


I checked back into the German Rotary Austauschdatenbank, and the added new tabs for input of your host families, host district, and club.  Something to get excited over?


This Wednesday, there will be a meeting of all the Valley exchange students.  We are required to answer the Climate, Ecconomy, and Current Events questions on our sheets, and bring a dish of importance from our host country.  I am going to bring Lebkuchen, which is a kind of pepper-gingerbread cookie with icing.  They are primarily made during the Christmas season.  I will post the recepie if they turn out to be good.


I also got my first postcrossing postcard yesterday.  It was from Ottawa, Canada, and it has a picture of the Parliment building on it.  If you are interested in the postcrossing project, you can find it at www.postcrossing.com

 
As always, thank you for for reading.  My real blog, which has a super awesome German atmosphere, can be found at www.sboelter.blogspot.com.  Please visit it, and comment. It means alot to me!

 
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Sarah Elizabeth