A week has passed in Germany, and I'm pleasantly surprised that it feels comfortable already. My host family is lovely and have welcomed me into their home and family. I stay busy playing with Piet, but I also have down time to read and, if I'm feeling ambitious, study German. I'm taking a class right now in the city next to my village. It's a pretty comical experience. The teacher is scary and unamused and I never know what's going on. It doesn't help that I missed the first four classes. The other students speak English pretty well and they've been kind enough to help me a little. I have confidence that it will get better as time goes by. My host family speaks to me in English, but they speak to each other in German, so I hear it all day. Piet is still working on remembering the English he knows, so he talks at me in German a lot. I just nod and say, "okay." He'll probably figure that out and start plotting evil with my approval someday. So, things are lovely.
Thus far I've had small adventures like taking buses from the village to class, driving the car to pick Piet up, and learning to pull him around on a cart behind my bicycle. I'm hoping to meet more people my age and begin bigger adventures on the weekends pretty soon. I was a little lost in Oldenburg yesterday and I asked a girl if she spoke English. She said yes and told me where the bus station was and I was blown away. I asked her where she learned English and she said she spent a year as an exchange student in Texas. Her Texan accent was dead on, it was super weird. She was friendly and even walked me to the station. It warmed my heart to hear a Southern accent and be treated with Southern hospitality.
So, all in all, things are wonderful. I aim to post pictures as soon as I can be bothered to take them. Hope all is well with all of you. Toodles.
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