Right now, I feel as if I'm sleeping in a field of white plumtree blossoms, but it's really just tissues. But it seems so much nicer when I think of it as blossoms!
Now that I got that random thought out of my system, I will begin my Blog:
On Monday, a friend told me about a program with the Québec Provincial Government that provided exchanges with either other Canadian provinces ... or Germany.
I already know a bit of German and I would love to learn a third language (French, English plus magic number 3!) so I jumped right on. Two days later, I have read every byte of information that there is on the program and here are the main bullet points:
- German courses are every Sunday over 10 Sundays from March to May or June, then 10 days straight in Montréal from the 27th of June to the 7th of July. $470! INEXPENSIVE!!!!
- $200 for the trip. Yeah! $200 for a return-trip to Germany for 3 months: September to December 2010!
- I stay at the German Student's home for that time and he/she will come in either January or February 2011 depending on the region.
It's AWESOME: Not only do I get to live in a different culture and language, but it won't make my parents remortgage the house! :D
So I have talked with teachers and all of them have agreed to give me letters of reference when the time comes and I will be meeting with the Principal on Monday at half past noon to get prepared. My parents and my friends are also supporting me in this, but maybe they just want to get rid of me for 3 months!
So I'm getting all the paperwork done as soon as I can so I can submit my candidacy for this exchange.
Since this will all be going rather slow at the beginning, I might not post anything for weeks on end, but bear with me! This will get more exciting!
In the meantime, I'll let you get back to your lives and I'll get back to emptying this bottle of Advil and lying down in my field of kleenex blossoms.
Cheers,
-Ben, who is sick, but happy.
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