Post cards

If anybody wants a post card from Germany please comment in the section below. I will let ya'll know which city I am in at a certain time so feel free to ask for a post card for a specific city at that time!

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Sandra

45 days

Yesterday I realized I only have 45 days left before I board my flight. I realized there is still so much to do and my time is waning quickly. Nevertheless, I am over the moon that I will be leaving from O'hare airport on July 31st. I will be arriving in Frankfurt on August 1st.

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Sandra

My New Home

I am super excited to announce my temporary AND year home in Germany! For my temporary residence I will be living in Warendorf, and for my permanent residence I will be living in Dortmund. Both of these cities are in Northwest Germany. They are about an hour away from each other! Dortmund is about a half an hour away from Dusseldorf, Essen, Cologne, and Netherlands! I know this will be an amazing year!

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Sandra

My official acceptance letter

I finally got my official acceptance letter in the mail from Youth for Understanding. It came in a huge packet on Wednesday April 30th, 2014. The packet is about an inch thick. I also got a pretty cool shirt from them as well. Hopefully I will have read the whole packet by the pre-orientation in Chicago!

First post

I am happy and excited to announce that I will be staying in Germany for a year with the Youth for Understanding organization. I can't imagine a better program to go through than the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange with them.

There are tons of other scholarships and programs with them that can take you around the world. You also have the option of hosting internationals in your own home. It's truly an amazing organization. Go check it out!

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Sandra