Everything is still going well. Im now two months into my exchange! That i think is the hardest thing to accept about the trip. It just flies by. I still taking everything in though, it is really awesome to think that i have so much ahead of me in the time i have left.
Im hitting the 3rd month though, and apparantly after two months is the time that the homesickness sets in. I think that would possibly be due to the fact that at this time, everything starts to not be so 'new' and the experiences that were such a buzz at the start seem to mean less and the language starts to get really difficult (dont worry, that already happened at the language camp in the 3rd week!), and you start to miss home. Well anyway, that is what i have heard. I can proudly report, for the moment, that none of that has happened to me, and that im still having an awesome time, really sinking my teeth into the language and getting used to it. I start a language course (another one!) on monday, which sounds really good. It is an Abendkurs (night course) and lasts for 8 weeks with classes for two hours a day on monday through thursday inclusive. I cant wait. The people in my class have stopped speaking english and although at first a shock, it is incredible how much i have improved in a short amount of time.
Im also off to the Opera tonight to see Otello, it was one of my birthday presents from my family, i cant wait, should be awesome! Yesterday was amazingly busy. Good fun, but seriously busy. We finished school at about 12:30 and i went home for some lunch. We then left and went swimming for a couple of hours which was really cool. I was a local hero when i started doing butterfly (which i cant do anyway!), but it was good to get in the water. My teacher for PE at school has told me that he has a friend who coaches a waterpolo team, and they are looking for players in the under-18s squad, and it looks as though im starting that in the next couple of weeks. That is really exciting, playing polo over here will be absolutely awesome! From there we went home, and i waited to get a call from Smiley (Andrew Cahill one of my mates from school) in the UK, which never came, haha, because he topped out his phone bill (not a little homesick are we bud?), but then i went to listen to a rehearsal for a local choir, which i was invited to by a girl from my class. I went home, had some dinner, and went out that night. I think i walked a total of at least 10 km, but it was so good to see so many people and have a good time.
Well thats about all thats going on. I found some notes i had been jotting down, just about impressions and stuff, which i hadnt put up. I will try to include them in the next few entries, possibly make them more interesting than this one! Yeah sorry bout that, im really too excited to write at the moment, im all dress up, and ready to go to the opera. And so on that note (ahh, my dad would be proud, thousands of miles away and still i take his sense of humour with me!), i better be off!
Paz