I know that a lot of people from all over the world are reading my blog and that´s why I wanna write one of my most important posts in english, not that important, but for a special "event".. 6 MONTH OF DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, 6 month full of adventures, 6 month of new experiences, a time full of surprises, not just good experiences, but experiances that I will keep for my life...
I think the best way to show you all a bit of my time here, is a review with a lot of pictures, so you are able to imagine everything better...
But first I have a video for you.. I hope you like it, even if it is nothing really special.. It is just a bit more personal than pictures..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3Fiw0mIPx4&feature=youtu.be&hd=1
MY FIRST DAYS IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
The AFS-Students on the way to get to the new Familys.. *_*
On the way from our new School to our new homes.. I remember this day like it was a week ago.. I was so happy, nervous and a bit scared at the same time.. It was a Feeling that I can´t decribe, because I never felt it before, you just feel so many things in the same time..
This was very cute when I came into my room there was a big poster were it was written "Wellcome in your home Lua! We love you!"
This was my first hostsister and on the second Picture you can see my sister and my old hostmum..
THE ARRIVAL CAMP!
A really nice thing of this year are the other AFS-students, friends that you find from all over the world.. The other AFS-students know exactly what you feel and how do you think, the Problems that you have and they understand almost all of your situations.. It is not that they are more intelligent, it is just that they are in the same Situation like you are, even if every exchange year is completly diffrent..
So it is really cool to meet that People, to spend time with them, having fun, just being together..
It is really nice to find new friends from AFS, because you know that you can count on them.. Well I know it!
And I am really glad that I found friends like this!!
Even if we are all very ugly on this pictures.. This are my Berlin-Girl.. And I will never Forget the moments with this beautiful Girls...
MY FIRST TIME IN SALCEDO...
My first time in Salcedo was a chaos, a chaos of million feelings.. There were so many things at the same time, everything was new and really nothing was like home.. The comonication between me and my family was kind of difficult, because I really couldn´t say anything in spanish, the new living situation was also really diffrent, not just that I had animals in my bed and that I didn´t had a real shower, also that I could´t go out, chill somewhere with friends, I had to be always really close to my family.. I wasn´t allowed to be 5 minutes alone.. This things where much more difficult to acept, than the house.. I really missed to be sometimes alone for myself, because always when I went to a other room, my mum or sister wher following me...
It was just different, when I was in the situation I was really unhappy with this situation, not the whole time, but always when I had time to think a bit I get really nervous because of that.. Because it feels like they think that I am a baby and I hate it when people trades me like a really stupid kid, that knows nothing...
EXCURSIONS WITH THE COMITE OF SALCEDO...
Our first trip with the comite of Salcedo was to the beach of Rio San Juan.. I remember that I was really happy on this day, because finally we went to the beach, finally we were out of Salcedo.. And I forgot for a moment everything, we were just enjoying the time at the beach.. The time with Tamara, Jonathan, Carttoon,...
Tamara and me enjoying the first bath in the sea in the Dominican Republic...
...In the afternoon we went to Cabarete, thats the surf beach number one of this country, but we weren´t there to surf.. Just to have dinner and I ate the best Pizza that I had in the Dominican Republic...
I know that I had a really bad sunburn, but that wasn´t important, because we all went home really happy.. :D
2. Trip...
The second trip with my comite was just amaizing, we spend the whole weekend in Samana.. On saturday we drove to one of the beaches in Samana and we spend the day there and also the night! Yeah we slept ON THE BEACH!! And it was just beautiful.. I slept outside not in the tent, next to the fire, unter some palms, on the beach and over me a huge sky full of stars and some shooting stars.. It was really like a dream, a wonderful dream..
It was the first night that I felt good, kind of secure...
The next day we went to one of the waterfals of Samana.. It was really cool, because to arrive the waterfal, we had to walk in the middle of the jungle and I love this type of nature, when everything around you are just plants, some birds and nature.. When you are out of the rest, like in a other world..
THE FIRST AFS TRIP- THE PICO DUARTE TOUR
The Pico Duarte Trip was really not what I aspect, it was terrible.. The thing that I will never forget is how fucking cold it was.. In the night it was something like 0° and we had to sleep outside.. I had a sleepingbag for +12° and I didn´t had a real sweatshirt or a good jacket.. So every night was just terrible and the days too, because I got a problem with my knies and I couldn´t really walk.. At the last day everything was over I got cramps and I just wanted to go home, I couldn´t move myself and every part of my body has hurt me.. I am sure that I would regret if I would not have gone, but it was kind of a horror trip.. But the nature was awesome and I am proud that I was there... Even if I couldn´t walk on the top of the mountain, because of my knie...
MY LAST MONTH IN SALCEDO...
After the Pico-trip everything got worse and my only wish was to go.. To get a new start.. I really hated to go to the school in Salcedo, maybe the students of the province are happy with this school, but I was the opposite.. Everyone was younger and I couldn´t find friends out of school, because I spend the whole day in school.. The school was something like a second home for the students and this wasn´t what I aspect from my exchange year.. Well it is really nice if your school-friends are like a family, but not if everyone is younger and totally diffrent...
I wasn´t happy at home, in the family I felt like a visitor and everything was just bad.. I cryed every day and in the night I couldn´t sleep because I felt really bad and I was really, really sad, I couldn´t enjoy my time, MY YEAR.. And so I spoke with AFS and after a time I got the news that I am allowed to change, to leave, that I got the chance to do everything better... The chance to have 6 more month in a better situation.. Of cause I didn´t knew if the situation will get better, but in a way for me it couldn´t get worse...
I wasn´t happy at home, in the family I felt like a visitor and everything was just bad.. I cryed every day and in the night I couldn´t sleep because I felt really bad and I was really, really sad, I couldn´t enjoy my time, MY YEAR.. And so I spoke with AFS and after a time I got the news that I am allowed to change, to leave, that I got the chance to do everything better... The chance to have 6 more month in a better situation.. Of cause I didn´t knew if the situation will get better, but in a way for me it couldn´t get worse...
Of couse I had some nice moments, espeacially from the day when I got the news that I am allowed to change.. I just tryed to do the best with the last time and I think I did...
At least in the vacasiones I had some nice moments with my hostsister, but it didn´t change that I wanted to change.. Because what I had, how I felt was not the sense of a exchange year..
THE FIRST DAYS IN SANTIAGO
FINALLY!!! Out of Salcedo.. FINALLY in the new family.. And I don´t know why, but in the second family I got from the first moment the feeling to be wellcome.. And after a short time the feeling that I am a part of the family.. I am really, really, REALLY happy that I am where I am.. Because I never was so happy.. I couldn´t imagine a better family for me.. I never thought that a hostfamily can be so like a real family!!
I started to enjoy this year, to understand what it means to make an exchange, to have the chance to be a part of a program like that...
In the bus to Santiago, I can remember how happy I was, I just couldn´t wait to get the new start, to see my new family and I don´t know why, but I felt that everything will be better..
TRIPS WITH MY FAMILY
The first trip with my family was a beach-trip for 5 days.. My family have a apartment next to the sea.. It was really nice with my family and the best friend of my sister.. I really enjoyed this days on the beach.. It was like holidays.. *_* We went to diffrent beaches, we ate german bred and a lot of good things, we were relaxing the whole day in the sun on the beach, next to the blue sea...
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2. trip...
The second trip with my family was to the Carneval of La Vega, which is the best of the Dominican Republic... It was really beautiful, because everyone was really happy and the costumes of the peoples were just awesome.. *_* Everything was really colorful, just amaizing!
3. trip...
The third trip was a weekend in Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic.. I really fell in love with this city, because you have everything together.. Culture, shopping, food, the sea,... It is just beautiful how everything encounter!!
It was also just really, really nice!
I have no idea how I could say thank you to them.. They give me so much!! <3
THE AFS MIDSTAY CAMP
This camp was really, really nice, just because I saw all my AFS friends after a long time... And it was so good to find and to talk with people who are in the same situations, to spend time together, to have fun with my AFS friends.. I really enjoyed this weekend! The diffrent between normal friends and AFS-friends is, that the understand exactly your situation and often they are the only ones who really know what you mean, just because they feel the same like you do..
And this is a good feeling, the feeling to be understood!
MOMENTS IN SANTIAGO!
Now I am here in Santiago for less than two month, but I have more moments that in almost five month of Salcedo.. I am really happy here, I love my family, I begin to find good friend, I beginn to live..
This is Ebba, she is in my class and a really good friend of mine.. She is half german and I am glad to have her.. In school she helps me a lot with situation that are totally new for me..
Before saying anything, it was Valentines day and in my school carneval, so we all had to come in costumes, so normally I am not so pink and Gabi is not everyday a Zeus.. :D
The guy next to me is Gabi, he is in my class and I have to say that he is a really good friend.. Even if I am not that long here, he is already really important to me.. I don´t know but he is always there for me.. And he was one of the first persons here in Santiago who cares about me.. I am really happy that I met him..
The girl in the middle is Ashley, the best friend of my sister and she is one of the cutest persons around me..
Here is my awesome sister!!! I can´t say how happy I am that SHE is my hostsister ans NOONE else, even if here are a lot of nice people, she is the best sister and I am more that glad that I am here with her!!! I just love this girl, like a friend, like a sister, just a lot!
That was in a lesson in my class, it is a really normal situation, because everything what is weard, in my class is normal.. They are really lovely, funny and cool.. I am just happy to be in this school, I think I was never so gladly in a school.. Maybe it is also because the school is not that important to me, because I have to repeat this year anyway, but they are one big family and that is what I love...
In this school past no day without laughing..
It is like my oun little place, where I can be like I want...
This was a meeting with the comite of santiago, we all had to cook something from our country and the food was really good.. :P
At least I can say that I am more than happy to be here, that I have all this experiances here, that I am allowed to live this dream!
Now I am here for exactly 6 month and I really don´t wanne leave this life, I don´t wanne go!! I know that a part of me will stay and that I will miss something when I am back in Germany...
I really hope that you all enjoy reading this post and maybe that you had a insight of my "second life".. Of my life in the Dominican Republic!
LOVE YOU!!!
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