March Conference
This weekend was amazing, I did not want to come home and well I guess I will just say what happened.
Friday
I left at about eight thirty and got their (in Wisconsin) at about nine thirty. The place we were staying at was in the middle of nowhere, but the hotel/resort was very nice and we had it all to ourselves! My room was not ready so I wandered about following some rotexs trying to find somewhere to dump my stuff until I ran into Maria and just left my studd in her room. We went down to the lobby to mingle with others and I just talked aboiut where I am going and whats up with others lifes. My room mate, Jenifer from South Africa was amazing she and I just talked and talked and she had the coolest accent (it sounded just like a british accent) She said cool things like lift instead of elevator. The activities on friday were very boring and mostly just information on what to do and not do and general information on rotary exchange. The eveining was amazing, the dinner was mardi gra themed and we were all wearing masks. The speaker was from Zimbabwe and so cool. He talked about how we was asked if people lived in trees in Africa, which he would reply that they did live in trees and his next door neighboor the American ambassdor lived in a even bigger tree. My table included Jenifer and David from South Korea who was awesome. That evening we hung out and went swimming. I think we went to bed around 1 or 2, so I did not stay up too late.
Saturday
This day was the best. In the mrning we played a cool game with tinker toys, but in the afternoon we got to hangout with the people specific to our countrys. I found out so much about Zambia. I will leave in THE END OF JULY! I am going to fly from Chicago to Amsterdam and then to SOuth Africa and up to Zambia. The food there will be so good with fruits and lots of meat. I will go to school all year long and wear a uniform. In school we will have several month long breaks. The weather will be incredably hot and houses don't having heating so if we have a cold winter you just have to bundle up. I am going to have 3 to 5 host families and thankfuly people will be very welcoming to Americans. I am most likely going to travel around my district that includes, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabewe and we will propboly go to South Africa. I will be in the Southern Hempshire so I am arving during there winter where it will be a freezing 60 degrees outside. There is so much more stuff I found out as well. We had a talent show that night which was kinda boring, but afterwards we just partied. I hung out at the pool and the sauna was great we were shoving 8 or 10 people into a tiny sauna and just having an amazing party we stayed at the pool till about one thirty in the mourning and went upstairs to dance unttil 2. At this time the rotexs (the ones who were supposed to watch us) left to go party themselves and many people stayed up all night. My room was tired so we just went to bed at two thirty (it was actually three thirty because of daylight savings time)
Sunday
I woke up at eight and just went to breakfast, got my blazer, collected some pins, bpought a t-shirt and said my goodbyes. Finally I went back home to Marquette.
Friday
I left at about eight thirty and got their (in Wisconsin) at about nine thirty. The place we were staying at was in the middle of nowhere, but the hotel/resort was very nice and we had it all to ourselves! My room was not ready so I wandered about following some rotexs trying to find somewhere to dump my stuff until I ran into Maria and just left my studd in her room. We went down to the lobby to mingle with others and I just talked aboiut where I am going and whats up with others lifes. My room mate, Jenifer from South Africa was amazing she and I just talked and talked and she had the coolest accent (it sounded just like a british accent) She said cool things like lift instead of elevator. The activities on friday were very boring and mostly just information on what to do and not do and general information on rotary exchange. The eveining was amazing, the dinner was mardi gra themed and we were all wearing masks. The speaker was from Zimbabwe and so cool. He talked about how we was asked if people lived in trees in Africa, which he would reply that they did live in trees and his next door neighboor the American ambassdor lived in a even bigger tree. My table included Jenifer and David from South Korea who was awesome. That evening we hung out and went swimming. I think we went to bed around 1 or 2, so I did not stay up too late.
Saturday
This day was the best. In the mrning we played a cool game with tinker toys, but in the afternoon we got to hangout with the people specific to our countrys. I found out so much about Zambia. I will leave in THE END OF JULY! I am going to fly from Chicago to Amsterdam and then to SOuth Africa and up to Zambia. The food there will be so good with fruits and lots of meat. I will go to school all year long and wear a uniform. In school we will have several month long breaks. The weather will be incredably hot and houses don't having heating so if we have a cold winter you just have to bundle up. I am going to have 3 to 5 host families and thankfuly people will be very welcoming to Americans. I am most likely going to travel around my district that includes, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabewe and we will propboly go to South Africa. I will be in the Southern Hempshire so I am arving during there winter where it will be a freezing 60 degrees outside. There is so much more stuff I found out as well. We had a talent show that night which was kinda boring, but afterwards we just partied. I hung out at the pool and the sauna was great we were shoving 8 or 10 people into a tiny sauna and just having an amazing party we stayed at the pool till about one thirty in the mourning and went upstairs to dance unttil 2. At this time the rotexs (the ones who were supposed to watch us) left to go party themselves and many people stayed up all night. My room was tired so we just went to bed at two thirty (it was actually three thirty because of daylight savings time)
Sunday
I woke up at eight and just went to breakfast, got my blazer, collected some pins, bpought a t-shirt and said my goodbyes. Finally I went back home to Marquette.