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  1. 07-22-2006, 04:08 #1
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    Default I Have A Family!

    Okay, so that may be a bit of a weird thread title without any backstory, but I'll fill you all in now.

    I am heading over to Germany for next year as an exchange student. Until today all I knew was that I was flying out of D.C on September 1st and will be arriving in Frankfurt.

    But, today I got a message on the answering machine from AFS (American Field Service) that they had found me a family and sent me an e-mail with their information.

    So I will be living in a small town in the Altmarkkreis Salzwedel county of Saxony-Anhalt. I don't have an e-mail address to contact them at yet, and unfortunately I don't yet know if I'll have any siblings, but hopefully they'll get me that information soon.

    On the downside I have to come back for a year of High School after my exchange, but it'll be worth it.
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  2. 07-22-2006, 04:10 #2
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    Wow, have fun.
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  3. 07-22-2006, 04:51 #3
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    yes
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  4. 07-22-2006, 06:22 #4
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    Congrats, Uesugi, fly over to Turkey sometime.

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    Um, "yes, you have" or what, Texified Organism?
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  5. 07-22-2006, 06:51 #5
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    oh its a chathing.
    There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford

    My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

    I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.
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  6. 07-22-2006, 13:47 #6
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    Default Re: I Have A Family!

    Congrats.

    Try to find a way to get onto chat though.

    By the way, are you staying there or travelling round Europe in the holidays?

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  7. 07-22-2006, 14:52 #7
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    congrats! bring me something good!
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  8. 07-22-2006, 18:09 #8
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    Congrats Kenshin have fun in Germany. And I'm sure you will.
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  9. 07-22-2006, 18:15 #9
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    Good boy. I'll PM you in September.
    I'm going to Switzerland and Holland in September, maybe we can meet if I pass through Germany.
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    Congrats - this sounds great!!

    Having myself participated in an exchange program with a highschool in the US when I was 16, I hope you have have the same great experience here in Germany as I had in the US (I am still in touch with the family I stayed with at that time).
    If you have any questions about Germany feel free to PM me
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  11. 07-23-2006, 02:15 #11
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    Thanks Ser, I'll make sure I do.

    As a side note we have hosted four students ourselves. A Norwegian in '96, and a Costa Rican the next year, who both worked out really well. Then we hosted a Swede in '98, but he didn't work out at all. And most recently a Turk last year who was okay but didn't really become a part of the family like the other two, and who was often too hung up on all things Turkish being better.
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  12. 07-23-2006, 16:09 #12
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ser Clegane
    Congrats - this sounds great!!

    Having myself participated in an exchange program with a highschool in the US when I was 16, I hope you have have the same great experience here in Germany as I had in the US (I am still in touch with the family I stayed with at that time).
    If you have any questions about Germany feel free to PM me
    You're from Germany, Ser?
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    Quote Originally Posted by edyzmedieval
    You're from Germany, Ser?
    Yep
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    You haven't drinked beer untill you have drinked it in Germany! You know what monty python had to say about american beer right? It is like making love in a kanoo, [censorship] close to water.



    Germany is lovely, I am sure you will have a great time

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    I know several people who have had a great time in the exchange program. One even found his future wife! Congrats and have a blast!
    (hopefully you get a sister who has loads of cute friends )
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    You are the luckiest man alive. You have no idea how much I envy you right now...

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    Try the smokebeer. It's like alcoholised bacon.
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    Congrats mate and have fun!
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