The Egg, Marsburg, and More (Meant to post it last week!)

This is from last week, I forgot to post it.

Camp is still great. So much has happened! On friday, we met up for an activity. A weird one. Basically, we divided into groups of 5 and each group was given an egg. Then we all went down to the village and began trading our egg for the best thing that we could find. My group went to a small shop that sold a lot of home decor items, and the cashier gave us a cup with a jumping pig on it. Then we went next door to a restaurant where we were offered a beer glass, and for some reason we turned it down. We then went to several other places but they wouldn't trade. Then, we went to a bike shop. The man working there told us that if e could bring him a case of beer, we could have a bike. (I'm still not sure if it was to rent or keep) So we took our jumping pig cup and went to a supermarket. No luck. We did, however, finally get rid of the pig cup for 2 bottles of beer next door, and we went back to the bike shop and received a pink bike bell, complete with rainbow flowers. We sort of wanted to keep the bell because it was so great, but ended up making a trade at the camera shop for a really nice camera bag. That was it! The team that won had gotten a lot of various things, including a date. (Yep) On saturday, we all went to Marburg, which was about an hour away by train. We spent the day basically doing whatever we wanted, so I went to H&M and had way too much ice cream. The city was gorgeous, and the architecture was very much the traditional German style.

From this week :)

I can't believe that we only have a week left of camp! It's gone by so fast, and I'm having an amazing time. Last night and the night before that, we went down to the village for the Altstadtfest. There were tons of food carts, bands, and even bumper cars. There was one tent in particular entitled the "Hillbilly Hoedown" that my friends and I loved. There were confederate flags hung up everywhere and the band ("The Henhouse Ramblers") sang country songs in southern accents. It was totally classic. We also had an activity yesterday where we were divided into 7 teams of 7 (A member of our group has left, and I won't go into detail) and we then had to come up with a name, song, flag, and uniform. We also had to complete various activities for points. Our group was first called the 'David Bowies' but then we realized that David Bowie had absolutely nothing to do with anything else we'd done so we changed our name to something german. I was our team's mascot, and even though we didn't win it was still fantastic. Plus, we got some great photos. I meet my host family in 6 days - its crazy!! I can't wait. Until next time!

Katy

Wifi at Last! -In Germany

Finally! So much has happened and then finally wifi started working. Where to begin? Last thursday, I said goodbye to my parents at the Hilton in Washington D.C, and just hours later we met the 50 Germans. It was so cool. We all had German roommates and just in those three days we learned so much about each other's cultures. I was pretty sad to see them leave, and I found out that one was about  20 minutes away from my home in Virginia, and I even knew his host sister. Anyways, we flew over to Germany and landed in Frankfurt on Sunday. After a long bus ride, we arrived at camp. We eat meals in a castle, which is awesome, and I love the food. They serve Nutella at about 4 out of 5 meals. I've been placed in the second to lowest german class, so I was proud. We have daily german classes and activities in the afternoon. Today, I went out to eat with some friends. We also went to the super market and stocked up on German chocolate. I also found a store with passion fruit, and I got really excited. I've also noticed that I'm terrible at acting German. I always get the weirdest stares, but I'm not too surprised. This is such a beautiful country! We're up in the mountains so it's much colder than in other places but I love it. Anyways, I'll post more soon. I love you all!
Katy

my dorm room!

Bad Laasphe

Casual posing

morning mist

the castle, looking misty