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sorry it has been so long since i've written, everything here
is sooo busy at the moment!
In the last month
-been to the Bregenzerwald (the rural area) and made the most
of the last of the snow - snow fights, snow kangaroos, running
barefoot in snow!
-been to the Handball in Bregenz (Bregenz Vs Hard - two top
teams in Austria - we sat right next to their version of
the Barmy Army, and it was so load, but its an awesome sport
to watch, and talk about rough!.. there was sweat, blood,
ripped clothing, everything!
-one of the first people to put a part of my body into the bodensee after
winter... my leg nearly fell off I think!
-finished physio treatment on my knee finally
-i have been on holiday to Italy for a week, it is an amazing
place, there is so much to see and do there
-Had a big scout weekend where my group catered for a
large group ofscouts completing an easter vigil hike, i have
also started helping out with the younger agegroups and am
really enjoying working with the scouts here, they are a
really great group. (Oh.. and something i am hoping to ask....
i have to opportunity to go to the World Scout Jamboree in
England in the Summer Holidays as part of the Service team and
i would LOVE to go, as it is 100yrs of scouting this year, i
am already in Europe, and it is an absolute dream of mine...
would you as a club please be able to give me permission?)
-spent a day hiking in Liechtenstein with Beccy's family (the
person living with my family at the moment)
-written my first German exam - my language is getting quite
good, i understand everything and can say whatever i like now,
although i wouldn't call myself fluent as yet. I am also
getting a hang of the dialect which is sooo different here.
For example ... ich weiss nicht.... i wos net.... (i don't
know) ... wie heisst du? ... wie hosch da?.... (what's your
name)..... ist das mein Haus oder dein haus?.... ischt da
min hos o din hos?... (is that my house or your house)
kleidung...haas... (clothes) - that one's really different.
The next month is very busy as well, i am off to
Vienna for a school trip from Sunday 22 to Friday
27, and then I am staying the weekend longer with an
exchange student friend from Brazil, and coming back on
Monday 30. I move house on the saturday 5th May after,
and have a scout working bee that weekend and a planning
session for our 100 year celebrations. The Friday 11
after I am off to Salzburg for our District Conference,
coming back on Sunday 13, by which time Kathryn's
parents will have arrived (the parents of the canadian
exchange student that was killed here at the end of last
year while living with my current host family.) So they are
here for a week, and i will be doing lots of different things
with them as a part of the family here and also as a bit of
support for my host sister, as it has been difficult for her.
Then on Friday 18th we have a big Rotary Function with
the orphan children from Vorarlberger Kinderdorf, and
that night i leave for Spittal/Drau for the other District
conference. On Saturday 19th we start straight from Spittal
onto our Eurotour,which is for three weeks! And that
brings me into June (4th).. which is almost unthinkable!!
So that in short is my next month and a bit.
I have not done any presentations or anything at Rotary yet,
although i go to the meetings every week. They are very
different here. It is a social meal, they have a guest
speaker, questions, and then they all go off to work again!.
But i have spoken to many of the rotarians during the last few
weeks and we often have other outings, to places like the art
galleries, military bases, children homes (a big project
here), sailing, lots of different things.
Well, i really must go again, I will attach some photos
that you can put on the website if you would like to!
Talk to you soon,
Liebe Grusse,
Mia in Oesterreich
1. Snow Kangaroo
2. Barefoot in Snow with Julian the other Aussie in Bregenz
(only two people ever crazy enough to do that
3. No Kangaroos in Austria
4. One big cheese - the famous Bergkaese
5. Sitting in an Alpine farming house (where the cheese
was)
6. My own handiwork (faschings hat)
7. At Funken
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