District 1850
My host district are very organized, just like district 9800 back home. We went to an orientation day in Oldenburg in early February and met all of the other “newbies” and a few of the people who had been here for 5 months or so already. Everyone was very welcoming and don’t you worry they definitely went through the rules again! (we were told about rules for about 3 or so hours…) I traded all of my pins with other inbounds, and received many pins which was great, although I’m an exchange student so I’m not allowed to say I’ve got enough! Afterwards we went into central Oldenburg and found a pub and there I got to know a lot of the other exchange students better, although most of the new arrived kids went home straight after.

There are 6 Australians in this district and many many South Americans/Mexicans and I am led to believe by one of the USA inbounds that there are around 30 Americans here. So far I have met around 10 so I don’t quite know what all of the others do, or if they exist at all!

My host club
My host club, the Rotary Club of Brake (Unterweser) is the only rotary club in the direct area, and has around 30-40 people turning up for every meeting. It is fairly relaxed, the restaurant we are in is very nice and has a view over the river Weser on which a fair few ships travel up and down, some fairly large on their way to Bremen. I had my first meeting on Monday the 6th of February and me and the other recently arrived exchange student from South Africa, Renee, received a great welcome and handed over our sponsor clubs banners. There are three inbounds in my club, Rene, me and Apeksha from India who arrived in September of 05.

The Rotary Club of Brake meets every Monday evening at 7pm in the Linne restaurant in downtown Brake, next to the Shiffartsmuseum.

They also have a new website here and I think there are pics of the 3 exchange students in the club at the moment, including me.
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