HELGOLAND. I spent last weekend at my very first inbound orientation. This is a weekend spent at a touristy location to get you pumped up for the year and meet the other exchange students. We stayed in the town of Heide, but we traveled to the island Helgoland.
It took about 3 hours to get to the island (by bus and boat) and 3 hours to get back. Although the transport seemed like ages, getting there was the most fun. When you put 50+ exchange students in one confined area..you can expect dancing and singing. Of course we got strange looks from the fellow travelers, but thats just all the fun.
Helgoland has 2 parts. One half is more of a beach setting, and the other half is the actual town. We first went to the beach. There were many seals on the beach! You were not aloud to get close to them though because there are laws on possibly disturbing them. They were still so interesting to see.
We continued walking the beach, until all of the sudden there was no longer sand, but what seemed to be millions of rocks. The rocks were beautiful. It was such a challenge to walk along the beach, but every rock had a different blue or grey tone.
The town part of the island was very touristy. They had many stores that sold giant oversized candy, beer, and postcards. I even came across a 30 dollar jar of Nutella that was massive. Even the "tourist trap" type of stores are different in Germany.
After we returned from the island, we had to represent our country through a 5 minute presentation. The rotarians suggested we sing a song or dance. Our group settled on doing the song "oh beautiful". After several debates of doing party in the USA we ended up sticking to an old classic. I played the guitar, and we all sang. But that was not it..we needed to truly represent America. So after we sang our song, we made the kind transfer to doing the dance of the hiphop song "wop". Im sure you can imagine how that went over! DANCE PARTY
Overall, it turned out to be a great weekend! We have a lot of South Americans in our district. I am learning about many cultures! Until next time!
This is all of the exchange students on the beach
The Americans!
The exchange students of Bargteheide in Hamburgs train station
Singing oh beautiful
American Pride
Helgoland!
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