onsdag 5. august 2009

Language and culture camp in Vermont

I haven't written in a while now because I have been at camp and didn't want to use the little time I had to write. Here comes the first part and I will write more later.
Madeleine and I said goodbye to our friends and family at the airport in Oslo, July 18. That was really sad. We cried or harts out, but I had not really realized that I'm not going to see this people in 10 months. We went through security and started to really looking forward to our stay.
On the airplane we watched movies, TV series and the time flew bye. We got of the plane and in to security again. I had been a little nervous about this because people had told me that the people that worked there were really grumpy, but they were not. They were actually really nice. When we had picked up our luggage we could see the returnees with EF signs. The first thing we could see when we reached them was a Dunkin Donut. How American! We got on a buss and enjoyed our 3 hour long buss drive form Boston to Vermont. When we finally arrived at Norwich university we where all really tired after 20 hours of traveling. We got our room key and went straight to bed.
We were really lucky that we got there on Saturday because then we could sleep out some of our jet-leg on Sunday. We used the day to play soccer, volleyball and getting to know new people. Monday were supposed to be our first day with classes, but we didn't have “real” classes. First we had a parade where we were divided in by which country we were form. We went down to a big hall where all the teachers presented them selfs and we got together in our classes. We only had homeroom the first day. Monday night we had a dance in the big hall. It was a lot of fun.
Tuesday we had regular classes. At 9 am we had homeroom and English. In homeroom we got to know about everything that was going to happen the next days, and in English we learned about baseball and idioms. After English we had “life in America” where we learned about what kinds of expectations our host families would have to us, about dollars and cents, quarters and dimes, holidays and prom. Then we had “current issues” where we learned about the 10 amendments and issues that is coming up in America now, like gay marriage and abortion. From noon until 2 pm we had lunch and then we had history where we learned about the deceleration of independence. At the end of the day we had homeroom again and then we where done around 3.15 pm.
After classes we had a ton of activities to choose from: American football, soccer, arts and crafts, yoga, cheerleading, movies +++ We had to be in our dorms by 11 pm. Most people where really tired by then so no one complained. TBC

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