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  Gmunden, Upper Austria, Austria
Sunday, August 24, 2008

Well hello to everyone again! Where do i start? The last two weeks have been so crazy and fun. Papa, Ma, Mirjam, Olivia, and I drove to Altmünster and had lunch on the lake before they dropped us off at camp. It was delicious food and one of the prettiest views, i would put up all my pictures except that my camera died and the only place that i can get an adaptor for the charger is in Wien and so basically i wont have any pictures up for a good week or so. but anyways after lunch me and Olivia got dropped off at camp where i said goodbye to Mirjam, my host sister who is now somewhere near Sacramento, California, and i met my room mate Savannah and umm i dont remember anything too special about the first night. Our rooms were really nice, at least the girls rooms were, each room had a room for the toliete and then another one with the sink and shower. some of the rooms even had a kitchen too but not ours. So theres 53 newbies and i think theres at least 10 more oldies in our exchange group so theres probably about 70 in all id say. oldies are the ones from australia some from brazil and argentina whose school years are switched. Ok some very memorable parts of camp were the Perchten which are these really scary monster things. ok well the teachers called us all together to announce that some locals were tired of all the tourists around and had decided to dress up as Perchten and beat any tourists that they saw, and they came out at night and beat people up up in the woods where we walked when we were coming back from town. so we're all a little worried and also just like what he hell, because apparently theres like this ledgend about them being the devil or something anyways so after like 2 days of letting us think that there were these huge scary men beating people the teachers came up to our rooms and said that we all need to go downstairs the Perchten are outside and we all need to get to a safe place inside the school. So we're all in our pjs freaking out cause we think that we're going to be beaten by monsters. So all the girls run down to the room that the boys are already in and then we start to here the huge bells that the Perchten have and we're all like ahhhhh and they run in the room and like theres girls crying in the corner and guy from japan has like 10 girls behind him and hes in his like karate stance it was hilarious thinking back on it but ya so it ended up that they werent really there to beat us up the teachers were playing a joke on us but that these guys really do come out on december 5th and scare people but they arent allowed to whip people anymore. scary. i know. anyways that was a fun night and pretty memorable. well we went swimming several times in the freezing lake. class started at 8 and went till 12 when we had lunch, then at 1 we went back to class till 3 so pretty intense i learned a lot but i have a lot to continue studying and i need to practice all the forms still in my speaking and such. So on Sunday we went to Halstadt which is a very famous town in austria. there is a huge salt mine there and the town is on the lake and up the surrounding mountians. Yesterday we went to this church in Altmünster and heard this kids choir. It was so beautiful, it was my first actually like sitting and watching a choir sing and it was just so wonderful, then we went swimming at about 11:30 that night and then ran back the the school freezing so all in all a really fun time and all the exchange kids were so much fun and im really looking forward to the rest of my year!