9 More Days!

This has been an amazing summer - camping in Pismo, Lost Canyon Capernaum camp, road trip to SoCal, Disneyland, Markleeville, Cal state fair. I couldn't have asked for a better time. But now I am ready to start my adventures in SWITZERLAND!

I will be boarding a plane at 8:30 AM on Sunday, August 14th and landing in Zurich where my first host family will meet me at 8:25 AM on Sunday, August 15th. Man am I going to be disoriented! The very next day I will be attending language camp in Zurich that goes on for about three weeks.

For those of you that don't know what I am doing or why I am doing it, starting in 9 days I will officially be a Rotary International Exchange Student. I've got my man blazer already and I will be picking up my business cards and my visa in the next couple of days. I applied for this program last fall, when everyone else was applying to colleges. I interviewed in January and was notified of my selection in March. Orientation in April and June, flight in August, and then I am on my own in grand ol' Switzerland. I'll be living in Switzerland and attending high school there until late June 2012.

I will be staying with at least two, most likely three, host families over the course of my stay in Switzerland. And I will be living in St. Gallen, a town in the northeast corner of the country, about 20 miles from the Austrian border and an hour south of Germany. It's got an amazing old cathedral that I can't wait to see for myself and is also home to St. Gallen University. The University has a boys lacrosse team which will be awesome to watch because I will definitely miss being able to play.

And why I am doing it? Just because I can. :)

I'll attempt to keep this blog updated while I am living the dream in Switzerland but I can't make any promises. It could become my new favorite thing though, so make sure to follow it if you want updates.

Love!