Sports and stuff

Hey guys, I got some good news for you! After the first days acclimating myself I experienced a lot. My hostparents took my to Detroit and showed me around in the city! I liked it a lot. In the end we had dinner at the Hard Rock Cafe - good day!

In America there are the highschool-teams for sport, that's different than in Germany. I was able to attend some offseason conditioning for soccer before the tryouts began. It was pretty hard and exhausting Before you can do sports you have to get a physical form which is about your health and fitness!

After I got it we had tryouts. I had to cut off one day of the tryouts because we wanted to go on a trip to Chicago, I still made it into Varsity team. If not, it would be kind of sad for me.

I already mentioned that I went on a trip to Chicago on the weekend. We went there by car, it took us 6 hours to get there! We did a lot of sighseeing and it was simply amazing to see such a big city again, after I had already seen New York!

Back in Clawson, it were only a couple of days to our first game, it will be tomorrow. I will be playing defensive midfielder or center mid. I'm so excited!

Stay tuned guys! See ya!

Erik

New York and Hostfamily

Hey guys,

my exchange year just began! Our flight to Newark was pretty comfortable and safe. The hotel was awesome including a pool and a fitness center. We hadn't much time to use those things but you know it was pretty cool.

We spend two whole days in New York City where we saw the main sights like the Empire State Building, Times Square, 5th Avenue, Broadway, Statue of Liberty and so on!
They also offered us some time for shopping.

I got along well with the other exchange students and we had a great time I will never forget.

Yesterday I arrived at my hostfamily. Clawson is a nice city with a lots of things to see and to explore. Sport-facilities are right around the corner. I'm sure that this year is going to be awesome.
I try my best to keep you updated regularly.

Erik

New information, feelings etc.

Hey guys,


I just got a package from my host-family. They sent me two t-shirts, a music-mix and playing cards. I was really happy about that, the t-shirts fit perfectly, the music is awesome and I like everything a lot. A big thank you to my host-family!


In the last days a new "newsletter" from AIFS arrived. They gave some information which belong to the flight and also some general information about being an exchange student, living in another family etc. 
All in all I think AIFS did a good job in preparing us for our year abroad. If you have questions it does not take long until they give you an answer. 


There is also something about my feelings:


In the last days there is always that strange feeling overcoming me, when I drive by something I'm used to, which is familiar for me.. won't see all these people and places for one year.

I mean there are just 22 days left, then I will take my flight to Frankfurt to meet all the other exchange students from AIFS. From there we will finally go to New York before each of us will go seperated ways.

That's it so far.. I don't know whether it makes sense to write in English, because my relatives might not understand what I write. I will think about that, what about writing a translation next to the English version?

I'll see.. 

Stay tuned, 

your Erik.

Preparation Days

Hey guys,

as I have already announced, every further post will be in English, although my language is not perfect yet. I consider it a good deal to start writing in English now.

On Sunday we had our preperation meeting in Berlin Wannsee. It was pretty informative and was a lot of fun because of the other exchange students who attened the course as well. We laughed a lot and exchanged our experiences we had so far.
AIFS is a really good organization, it was no fault to decide for them. They gave a lot of essential information. The whole thing was from 10-17.

I also already know in which hotel we will be during our stay in New York.

http://embassysuites3.hilton.com/en/hotels/new-jersey/embassy-suites-parsippany-PRNNJES/index.html

It looks AWESOME.

Can't wait.

Erik

Visum

Hallöchen,
gestern bin ich um 5:00 aufgestanden und hab mich auf den Weg zum meinem Termin 8:15 in der amerikanischen Botschaft gemacht. Es ging eigentlich alles unglaublich schnell und ich werde die Bestätigung für mein Visum in 5 Tagen erhalten. Außerdem habe ich mich entschieden ein Abschiedsbuch zu machen, dort können Freunde und Familie etwas reinschreiben und ich habe eine schönere Erinnerung in den USA.
You will hear from me soon. Every further post will be in English because my year is coming closer.

So let’s TELL THE WORLD W.E. ARE COMING! 

Abflugtermin

Und wieder News :)

Ich hab gestern Post von AIFS bekommen, ich werde am 31.07 nach New York fliegen und von dort, direkt zu meiner Gastfamilie nach Michigan, Clawson!!
Anbei hat AIFS zusätzlich weitere Informationen zu meiner Gastfamilie gesendet, aber ich habe ja bereits sehr regelmäßig in Kontakt zu ihnen.

Bald kommt der 3. Infobrief, bis dahin,

euer Erik!

GASTFAMILIE!

Hey Leute,

super Neuigkeiten, ich habe jetzt schon meine Gastfamilie. Das ist sehr toll und vor allem ungewöhnlich für diese Zeit. Aber ich freue mich umso mehr. Ich habe bereits Kontakt zu ihnen und sie sind sehr freundlich. :)
Außerdem bekomme ich noch einen Gastbruder, mit dem ich ebenfalls regen Kontakt habe.
Die Familie wohnt in Michigan, in der Nähe von Detroit. Ich bin so glücklich!

Bald mehr.. :)

Erik