Just 17 days

17 days until my departure to Venezuela... 17 days until I find my way into this world. 

I don't really know what to feel, I feel sad, but happy, anxious but with anticipation. 

I'm afraid to leave my old friends and to jump into a complete different world.

Well, my flight will be on the 30th of August, I will start flying in Frankfurt airport. Unfortunately Max and my seats aren't next to each other, but I guess we'll find a way to manage that! ;) 

In my summer holidays, I met Ysabel and I can just say that I don't regret meeting her! She's such a lovely and kind person, and I'm so damn happy, that she'll come to the same city as me! 

In these days I'm very busy with the last vaccinations. I already have 2x rabies, yellow fever, cholera intus, happily those didn't bring any side effects. Yesterday I went for getting double typhus and hepatitis A, and now I can't really move my left arm. But hopefully after few days it'll be gone!
Unfortunately, since last Tuesday my tooth of wisdom is so much pain, so that my doc has to remove them this Thursday! Wish me luck for that, jaja. :D I may look like a hamster when I arrive then in Venezuela, but #yolo.
Since yesterday I've got my Visum aswell. I got it very fast, went their last week and the woman from the embassy told that SC has very nice clima and is an awesome town!

                                                                     Hasta pronto,
                                                                        Emilia

Mi destino

Hola a todos! :)

Well, as you probably read in the headline, the todays topic is: my destination.
As I got the mail from my hostbro (he'll go to Germany!),  first he wrote nothing about his district and his home town. So I guess you know how I felt, I searched him on facebook, and-guess what- at first I had the wrong one! Jaja. :D So in that moment, I looked where the false lives and he lived in district 4370 . I wasn't sad when I found out, that he was the wrong. :D I always wanted to be in 4380 because my best friend Anushkiii is in 4380 aswell.

My host town is San Cristóbal! All past exchangers to whom I spoke said that San Cristóbal is the best town/city for exchangers, and well, I was super happy!

San Cristóbal is the capital of the state Táchira.

It's a city near the Columbian border and it lays in the south Venezuelan Andes, in the valley of the river Río Torbes. 

Inhabitans: ~490.000

San Cristóbal is an university town. It's one of the most lively towns in Venezuela. Party every day!

A lot of young people live in San Cristóbal, and for Rotary Exchange Students we're around 20 in San Cristóbal! Fortunately the Rotex (people who were on exchange and came back) will do something with us once a months! There are a lot sights in San Cristóbal, I guess I'll make photos of them, when I'm there and show them you! :) 

"Pictures tells us more than a thousand words" 

Muchos besos, Emilia

                                                               ❤❤❤

Introduction

Hey guys! :D
Well, as you probably already read, I'll be an exchange student. An exchange student from Rotary to Venezuela. And that's such a big honor for me! If you want to read and get to know more about Rotary read Anushkiiiii s Blog, she explained it pretty good!

First some stuff about me!

My name is Emilia, and I just turned sixteen yesterday! I'm from a town near Berlin, Germany. I've got two sisters. A dog called Max aswell.
I'm very interested in other countries and cultures. And I'm keen on learning new languages, in school I already learn German applause!  , English, French and Latin! Unfortunately my school doesn't offer more languages (except Greek, but well I think one dead language is enough) .  I hope I can speak Spanish fluent after my exchange. And I imagined starting Italian or Swedish afterwards! Well, in my free time I love to listen to music, I just fell in love with the Lumineers, they are awesome! I adore Keane too! I love to read books, while reading you are able to escape in your own world... .

I like to travel, honestly since now, I've only been in Sweden, Austria, Denmark, the Netherlands, France, Spain and Italy-just Europe. I can't wait to explore America!!

My story: 

With Rotary you can name three wishes for countries, but you should be open for every countries! My wishes were South Africa, Sweden and Spain. I was kind of sad, when my conselour (conselour is a person who's able for your home district) said that my district had no place for one of these countries. 

Little digression about districts: Rotary is all over the world! Every country has got several district, so that organizing is easier. My district is 1940 in Germany and we are about 60 outbounds this year (outbounds=people who make an exchange, they are outbounds in their home countries and inbounds in their "exchange" country) . Every district has got some orientations, if you want to know more about Rotary. *click*

Well, in December 2012 I got a mail from my district, sayin' that there were no places, so I had to decide wether take Columbia or Venezuela. And well, my decision was, because a friend of me and me just made a presentation about International conflicts in Columbia, VENEZUELA! 

Meanwhile I was often a bit confused, because, 1st on the orientation for parents they said that I'm planned for Columbia, but when I phoned my conselour she said "Noo, it's Venezuela!". A months later I got a mail from a Columbian district saying "Welcome to Columbia, Emilia!". I was like No, you can't go to Columbia! 

But then finally I got a mail from my Venezuelan host family! And I love them! 

Muchos besos, Emilia 

                                                                             ❤❤❤

                                       “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”