Tuesday, 6 November 2018
Hey
Isabella Here.
I can't believe I am writing this blog after 2 years!
It is crazy.
To think that 2 years ago I would have just arrived in Germany and the excitement that filled me was off the charts!
I am now sitting here two years later about to graduate in under two weeks and my life has truly changed so much.
We now have a German exchange student, she's alright. It has been fun to remember the time I spent in Germany as I tell her all my stories. She leaves soon and I suppose I will be sad.
I was discussing the fact that it has been 2 years since my exchange with a friend who also went on exchange and we were saying that time has gone S O fast. It is crazy. I literally do my last ever exam of high school tomorrow which consequently is German! Fun times. I am so excited to finish!!!!!1
Anyway, lets write some soppy stuff about my exchange.
I still to this day attribute a lot of my learning and experience to my exchange and how I have overcome the difficulties that came along with it. It is funny to think that the hard part was coming home but it truly taught me lessons about myself and who I want to be as well as the fact that I am so grateful for my family's support and love.
This time in my life is very reflective as I move on to the next stage of my life and applying for Uni's etc. It is crazy and I cannot wait for what is to come.
I definitely keep all that I learnt from my exchange with me and as I always say it will be with me forever.
Love from
Bella
Monday, 30 October 2017
One year anniversary
27th of October 2017
Hello,
Yes, you guessed it. It has been 1 year since my exchange.
I can not even begin to explain how this makes me feel.
A year is a very long time but also not so long.
It only felt like yesterday I was sitting in my bed asking myself a trillion and one questions.
"Will I make friends?... What if I do get super homesick?...Will I hate how different it is?"
All of these questions and more. But once I stepped foot on that plane to Germany all of those questions left my head and I knew that I was getting myself into something incredible.
And now, a year after leaving, I sit here writing this blog post.
So many things have happened since I last wrote but I won't get into too much detail.
I would just like to say that although things were definitely extraordinarily hard at the beginning, things have gotten way better. You just need to take each day as it comes. At first it feels like you are an alien. Even though you have lived in this country for your whole life you come back so different and have a whole new outlook on the world and life itself. But really, you are not alone. It just takes some adapting to just like when you went on exchange.
I have had my ups and downs and have also done things I definitely would not have taken the chance to do if it weren't for the bravery and courage I gained from my exchange.
My exchange is and always will be so much to me. So many people still judge me for talking about it but that is only because they do not understand what it is like to experience a whole other life on the other side of the world.
Something important is that just because you come home from your exchange, does not mean that that it is truly the end.
You will carry what you learned and experienced on that exchange with you forever and it will help you to then to shape your life. It may not seem like it is as important as that but I am telling you, whether you realize it or not, it is.
So, here is to a year since I did the unthinkable and to many great years ahead full of travel and fun and just living.
As my newly acquired saying goes, " I am not here for a long time I am here for a goof time."
Love from
Bella. xoxo
Hello,
Yes, you guessed it. It has been 1 year since my exchange.
I can not even begin to explain how this makes me feel.
A year is a very long time but also not so long.
It only felt like yesterday I was sitting in my bed asking myself a trillion and one questions.
"Will I make friends?... What if I do get super homesick?...Will I hate how different it is?"
All of these questions and more. But once I stepped foot on that plane to Germany all of those questions left my head and I knew that I was getting myself into something incredible.
And now, a year after leaving, I sit here writing this blog post.
So many things have happened since I last wrote but I won't get into too much detail.
I would just like to say that although things were definitely extraordinarily hard at the beginning, things have gotten way better. You just need to take each day as it comes. At first it feels like you are an alien. Even though you have lived in this country for your whole life you come back so different and have a whole new outlook on the world and life itself. But really, you are not alone. It just takes some adapting to just like when you went on exchange.
I have had my ups and downs and have also done things I definitely would not have taken the chance to do if it weren't for the bravery and courage I gained from my exchange.
My exchange is and always will be so much to me. So many people still judge me for talking about it but that is only because they do not understand what it is like to experience a whole other life on the other side of the world.
Something important is that just because you come home from your exchange, does not mean that that it is truly the end.
You will carry what you learned and experienced on that exchange with you forever and it will help you to then to shape your life. It may not seem like it is as important as that but I am telling you, whether you realize it or not, it is.
So, here is to a year since I did the unthinkable and to many great years ahead full of travel and fun and just living.
As my newly acquired saying goes, " I am not here for a long time I am here for a goof time."
Love from
Bella. xoxo
Saturday, 17 June 2017
Struggles of coming back
17/06/17
It has been approximately 6 weeks since I have been back in Australia.
It has been a very busy 6 months at that.
I am not going to lie, it has been very very hard for me.
Coming back from exchange is the hardest part of it.
Saying goodbye to so many people who I have grown to love, who were there for one of the most amazing things I could have ever done on the other side of the world is such a heartbreaking thing.
I cried so much even after I said goodbye.
But any advice to people who go through the same thing, it gets better.
It does take a while but it does get better.
I found that surrounding myself with people who help me through it and also trying to distract myself from it also helps.
Anyway enough of the deep stuff :)
A lot has happened within the 6 months of me being home besides me sitting around and having a good old cry about how much I miss Germany.
I have gotten a job at a real estate agency as a receptionist which is quite good actually.
School has been basically everything for me since i have been back.
It really does mean a lot to me.
It is definitely hard but I am doing surprisingly well.
I have some exciting concerts and fun runs coming up which will be super fun and I am looking forward to them.
These holidays will be very exciting because I will be going on a Ski trip with school.
I am mainly excited to be cold again just like in Germany and to see the snow.
I think snow is one of my favourite things.
My friends in Germany always remind me how I always looked at snow as if it was the most remarkable thing in the world.
Anyway, I shall be off to study!
Love from
Bella
It has been approximately 6 weeks since I have been back in Australia.
It has been a very busy 6 months at that.
I am not going to lie, it has been very very hard for me.
Coming back from exchange is the hardest part of it.
Saying goodbye to so many people who I have grown to love, who were there for one of the most amazing things I could have ever done on the other side of the world is such a heartbreaking thing.
I cried so much even after I said goodbye.
But any advice to people who go through the same thing, it gets better.
It does take a while but it does get better.
I found that surrounding myself with people who help me through it and also trying to distract myself from it also helps.
Anyway enough of the deep stuff :)
A lot has happened within the 6 months of me being home besides me sitting around and having a good old cry about how much I miss Germany.
I have gotten a job at a real estate agency as a receptionist which is quite good actually.
School has been basically everything for me since i have been back.
It really does mean a lot to me.
It is definitely hard but I am doing surprisingly well.
I have some exciting concerts and fun runs coming up which will be super fun and I am looking forward to them.
These holidays will be very exciting because I will be going on a Ski trip with school.
I am mainly excited to be cold again just like in Germany and to see the snow.
I think snow is one of my favourite things.
My friends in Germany always remind me how I always looked at snow as if it was the most remarkable thing in the world.
Anyway, I shall be off to study!
Love from
Bella
Saturday, 31 December 2016
Christmas and NYE 2016
31/12/2016
Happy New Years Eve!
It is now officially the last day of 2016!
It has been a crazy year this year.
I have done so much.
Christmas was last week.
I had the absolute best time!
I loved experiencing it so differently especially because here they celebrate it on the 24th at night.
On the 24th my host family and I stayed at home and went to church at night which was super sweet. We then came home and had an amazing dinner and then afterwards we opened presents.
I loved everything i got i was so spoiled.
The day after we went to my host mother's sister's house and met all of her family and had lunch. It was so sweet to be able to meet everybody. I played with all the little kids which was so cute and cool because they were just the sweetest things and they were hilarious. Plus i kind of had to talk to them in German because they have never learned english so this was cool.
The day after we went to my Host Father's family's house and there were a lot of people there. We had a great lunch and talked a lot. We also went for a walk as a family with all the kids and it was a lot of fun. They were all so nice. '
It was so cool and amazing to be able to be a part of the family and to meet everyone. I really loved every moment and it was so sad to say goodbye to them.
A few days after a girl named Riley who is also on exchange from Australia came to stay and she will leave tomorrow.
As i said, today is New Year's Eve!
My host family and a few friends are going to have a party at our house which is super exciting.
They have a few traditions that they do which i am looking forward too so much. Especially the fact that they are allowed to do their own fireworks which is not allowed in Australia. I am so excited for this.
Now that it is New Years that means i have less than 20 days until i leave Germany and i can not tell you how sad that makes me.
I am going to miss everything so much.
but i am excited to go home and see everyone again and start using everything i learned in germany in my normal life in australia.
I am not going to make this a sad and depressing blog post because that can wait for one of my last ones.
Okay.
Well i guess I will see you all in 2017!
I hope it is as good as this year was for you all.
Love from Bella xoxo
Oeltjunbruns SUPER GEIL!!!!!!!!
Happy New Years Eve!
It is now officially the last day of 2016!
It has been a crazy year this year.
I have done so much.
Christmas was last week.
I had the absolute best time!
I loved experiencing it so differently especially because here they celebrate it on the 24th at night.
On the 24th my host family and I stayed at home and went to church at night which was super sweet. We then came home and had an amazing dinner and then afterwards we opened presents.
I loved everything i got i was so spoiled.
The day after we went to my host mother's sister's house and met all of her family and had lunch. It was so sweet to be able to meet everybody. I played with all the little kids which was so cute and cool because they were just the sweetest things and they were hilarious. Plus i kind of had to talk to them in German because they have never learned english so this was cool.
The day after we went to my Host Father's family's house and there were a lot of people there. We had a great lunch and talked a lot. We also went for a walk as a family with all the kids and it was a lot of fun. They were all so nice. '
It was so cool and amazing to be able to be a part of the family and to meet everyone. I really loved every moment and it was so sad to say goodbye to them.
A few days after a girl named Riley who is also on exchange from Australia came to stay and she will leave tomorrow.
As i said, today is New Year's Eve!
My host family and a few friends are going to have a party at our house which is super exciting.
They have a few traditions that they do which i am looking forward too so much. Especially the fact that they are allowed to do their own fireworks which is not allowed in Australia. I am so excited for this.
Now that it is New Years that means i have less than 20 days until i leave Germany and i can not tell you how sad that makes me.
I am going to miss everything so much.
but i am excited to go home and see everyone again and start using everything i learned in germany in my normal life in australia.
I am not going to make this a sad and depressing blog post because that can wait for one of my last ones.
Okay.
Well i guess I will see you all in 2017!
I hope it is as good as this year was for you all.
Love from Bella xoxo
Oeltjunbruns SUPER GEIL!!!!!!!!
Monday, 5 December 2016
It's December! Which means it is nearly Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!
I only have 1 and a half months left :(
I am going to miss this place so much!
But! I have gotten up to some really cool stuff like going to all the christmas markets in my city and my village which was so cool! the christmas markets are so christmassy and cute and i love the food there! Especially Schmalzkuchen.
Today was class day and a few classes at my school went to the cinema and watched a good movie and walked around the christmas markets which was a lot of fun!
I have about 2 and a half weeks until the christmas holidays which is very exciting because then it is closer to christmas and new years and i am so excited for that!
It will be so cool to experience a whole entire different christmas!
It is getting so cold here! But i love the change from the really bad heat in Australia. I hope it snows here!!!!!!
On the weekend i also went to hang out with my friends at their house and i played a lot of cool board games with them and listened to music which was so fun to do! I love them so much :)
I also showed them on google maps where i live and my school and my city which was pretty cool.
It is so weird to think that my home is so far away and is so different to where i am now. Germany kind of feels like my normal home now because i am so used to it and it just feels comfortable.
Showing where i live just made me realise how different my life is and how i often forget it sometimes when i am here.
Crazy stuff :)
This weekend a girl who is also from australia and on exchange will come and stay with me and my host family. I am so excited to show her where i live and talk to her about how things are going. We will also go to the christmas markets in my city so this will be so much fun.
Through this exchange not only have i made so many friends from germany but also with other people who have gone on exchange with the same organisation as me from Australia and i feel so lucky!
Anyway, I am excited for this next month and a half
Love from
Bella xxoo
marburg!
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oeltjenbruns!!!!! SUPER GEIL
Tuesday, 22 November 2016
I am surviving!! 3rd week in Deutschland.
22/11/16
It has now been about a month since i have been here.
That. Is. Crazy.
Time really does fly when you're having fun.
It is so sad to think that i have only 2 months left.
On the weekend my host father took me to my first professional soccer game which was so cool to see! The atmosphere was great and the game was very cool to watch. Unfortunately we did not win but that is okay.
Today was quite a good day.
I laughed a lot with my friends today which was good,
I don't think our KLT teacher thought so but it was funny.
I also went and hung out at the school cafeteria after school with a few people which was a lot of fun.
They were selling waffles and tea and coffee for the parent teacher interviews so i helped a bit and talked a lot with them. it was very fun.
I also joined a new year 9 english class who just asked me lots of questions about australia and myself which was good.
I have begun to make some really good friends. Not just my main ones but others too. Everyone is so nice and friendly and i am always having a good time.
I actually am so torn between Germany and Australia.
I guess they are so different you can not compare them.
I have started to realise how crazy it will be when i come back to Australia.
Some things will be different compared to when i left, i will start my OP and will have to actually start doing things for my future.
I don't want to think about this right now.
I am in Germany so lets not think about it just yet.
Today was one of my best friends birthday and i was very sad that i could not spend it with her.
My sister will also have a birthday when i am here.
OH MY GOSH
i might sound weird and crazy but today i saw and touched a real christmas tree! Like a real one.
In Australia we have plastic ones and not real ones so this was so cool.
Everyone was like looking at me weirdly like i must have come from another planet but it was pretty cool.
I am very excited for my first cold christmas and if i am lucky enough it might snow which would be amazing. It is going to be so cool to go to the christmas markets and just feel what it is like to actually experience this rather than sitting at home in air conditoner in some shorts and watching a christmas movie where it is cold and looks like a typical christmas.
This weekend we will go to my host sisters town where she studies and apparently is is very cute so i am very excited.
Anyway, I am very excited for these next 2 months.
Love from,
Bella xoxoxo
OELTJENBRUNS!!!!!! SUPER GEIL!!!!
It has now been about a month since i have been here.
That. Is. Crazy.
Time really does fly when you're having fun.
It is so sad to think that i have only 2 months left.
On the weekend my host father took me to my first professional soccer game which was so cool to see! The atmosphere was great and the game was very cool to watch. Unfortunately we did not win but that is okay.
Today was quite a good day.
I laughed a lot with my friends today which was good,
I don't think our KLT teacher thought so but it was funny.
I also went and hung out at the school cafeteria after school with a few people which was a lot of fun.
They were selling waffles and tea and coffee for the parent teacher interviews so i helped a bit and talked a lot with them. it was very fun.
I also joined a new year 9 english class who just asked me lots of questions about australia and myself which was good.
I have begun to make some really good friends. Not just my main ones but others too. Everyone is so nice and friendly and i am always having a good time.
I actually am so torn between Germany and Australia.
I guess they are so different you can not compare them.
I have started to realise how crazy it will be when i come back to Australia.
Some things will be different compared to when i left, i will start my OP and will have to actually start doing things for my future.
I don't want to think about this right now.
I am in Germany so lets not think about it just yet.
Today was one of my best friends birthday and i was very sad that i could not spend it with her.
My sister will also have a birthday when i am here.
OH MY GOSH
i might sound weird and crazy but today i saw and touched a real christmas tree! Like a real one.
In Australia we have plastic ones and not real ones so this was so cool.
Everyone was like looking at me weirdly like i must have come from another planet but it was pretty cool.
I am very excited for my first cold christmas and if i am lucky enough it might snow which would be amazing. It is going to be so cool to go to the christmas markets and just feel what it is like to actually experience this rather than sitting at home in air conditoner in some shorts and watching a christmas movie where it is cold and looks like a typical christmas.
This weekend we will go to my host sisters town where she studies and apparently is is very cute so i am very excited.
Anyway, I am very excited for these next 2 months.
Love from,
Bella xoxoxo
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Sunday, 13 November 2016
2nd Week!!!!
13/11/2016
Moin!
I have officially been in Germany for over two weeks!!
I can not believe it still!
My mum came at the beginning of this week which was so cool.
We went into Bremen a lot and ate a lot of good food :)
It was so good to see her.
School has been pretty easy.
I do not do much so like haha
I am just trying to understand what people are saying but it is so hard.
I feel like an alien most of the time
But i am not complaining.
I know other exchange students who are having a hard time with friends and homesickness and I do not have these problems so i am lucky.
Everyone is very nice and pretty funny so yeah.
I really do like it here.
It is so hard to explain.
I really do not want to leave already.
3 months is definitely not enough time.
It is already going so fast
I am just not looking forward to the flight back to be honest.
It is SOOOOO long and exhausting.
But lets not think about that because that's not happening yet.
I think i would really like to try and do some things with the people i have become friends with at school soon.
I just do not want to seem like i am annoying or whatever.
we shall see.
I really love my village.
It is so cute.
and plus it has snowed!!!!
it was so beautiful!
i love it
i made a snowman with an old exchange student who came to Australia.
It was so fun.
in these next few weeks i will go to where my host sister studies with my host family which will be so much fun and i have heard it is very beautiful there.
I am so excited for christmas!
it is going to be so different i am excited.
The christmas markets should start soon too so that will be cool to see.
Hopefully it snows a lot before i leave i would love that.
I am excited to see what happens over these next few months!
from
Isabella
xx
Moin!
I have officially been in Germany for over two weeks!!
I can not believe it still!
My mum came at the beginning of this week which was so cool.
We went into Bremen a lot and ate a lot of good food :)
It was so good to see her.
School has been pretty easy.
I do not do much so like haha
I am just trying to understand what people are saying but it is so hard.
I feel like an alien most of the time
But i am not complaining.
I know other exchange students who are having a hard time with friends and homesickness and I do not have these problems so i am lucky.
Everyone is very nice and pretty funny so yeah.
I really do like it here.
It is so hard to explain.
I really do not want to leave already.
3 months is definitely not enough time.
It is already going so fast
I am just not looking forward to the flight back to be honest.
It is SOOOOO long and exhausting.
But lets not think about that because that's not happening yet.
I think i would really like to try and do some things with the people i have become friends with at school soon.
I just do not want to seem like i am annoying or whatever.
we shall see.
I really love my village.
It is so cute.
and plus it has snowed!!!!
it was so beautiful!
i love it
i made a snowman with an old exchange student who came to Australia.
It was so fun.
in these next few weeks i will go to where my host sister studies with my host family which will be so much fun and i have heard it is very beautiful there.
I am so excited for christmas!
it is going to be so different i am excited.
The christmas markets should start soon too so that will be cool to see.
Hopefully it snows a lot before i leave i would love that.
I am excited to see what happens over these next few months!
from
Isabella
xx
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