Language Camp Part II

Six months in Rotary organized another Language Camp for us like the one at the beginning in Dabas. This time it was in Szeged for 10 days :)

So about the first thing we did was celebrate the birthday of this wonderful girl. This is Laramie. She is from Canada and she has the most incredibly positive outlook of anyone I have ever met. Somehow she also manages to balance it with realism and practicality making her a very helpful individual. She is a gem. She has changed my life by being in it and I absolutely love her. I wish for everyone to have someone like her in their lives

We had language lessons every day of the week, which were more useful than I would ever have expected, but seeing as they were lessons there are no pictures of those.

So lets skip to the fun parts.

The snow was still on the ground until the final day of language camp. Our first program was sledding on a hill nearby but fourty exchange students, many of whom are new to snow, could not possibly walk the three blocks without becoming engaged in an epic snow battle :D This was my first snowball fight and I am confident most of you have had a snowball fight so I don't need to describe it (I couldn't even if I had to) but just try to imaging one with 40 exchange teenagers. It was a blast!!!

When we actually got there the sledding was a blast too :D

One of our Canadians turned out to be a great engineer of daringly stupid sledding configurations

And we often ended up in a heap of exchangers at the bottom of the hill :)

This is my friend Axel

He is a new Aussie.

We became friends when he used me as a human shield during the previously discussed snowball fight.

And he likes to steal peoples phones and take selfies

A few of which I will post on the internet as revenge

We also went for a creekside walk (this is the same place with the willows that I loved so much in the fall)

Then there were a few store runs , which are adventures on their own.

We got to go up into Dom Tower (my second time) and hear the magnificent organ, which is the third largest in Europe.

Then we got to tour the beautiful synagogue, which was a first for me.

Perhaps the most fun though were our two visits to Aquapolis 

There were two cameras I guess...

Most of all it was amazing to spend 10 days with my family <3 I think the best thing in any exchange must be the companionship of the wonderful people sharing your experience.