Three weeks in German. No English allowed. This will either be fantastic or really rough.
A couple months ago I applied to the Governor's School program-- you can pick an area of study that you are proficient/interested in and apply for it-- I chose to study German for three weeks. Woo!
In order to make it as close to a full immersion experience as possible, they cut all participants off from civilization. Which is, a good and bad thing. It's a great thing, because you get to take advantage of the attempted immersion. AND you don't have a bunch of social media obsessed kids on your hands for three weeks. Instead, you have a bunch of half-insane/deprived kids writing letters home, lol.
Yes, we're allowed to write letters. With paper. And pen. It's been such a long time....
The bad part of it is that mail is slow. And also I'm selfish and want to be able to talk to people (J!!) while I'm there.
Buuuuut I know that it's for the better... And it's cool and exciting and nerve wracking-- I leave tomorrow at 7am to drive 3 hours to Washington and Lee University... and then I'm there. For three weeks away from home. YAY It'll be like college--living in a dorm and eating on campus and taking tours and kadlfj;daklsjf it's gonna be awesome. You can tell I'm not pumped at all...
Speaking of college, I visited JMU for a generic tour this past Thursday. It was fabulous. I reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalllly wanna go there. One thing our tourguide pointed out at us was that there are little circles of stone on the sidewalks on campus. If you stand in the middle of it and clap your hands, in addition to your handclaps you hear a little squeaking noise.
It's the weirdest thing and only the person in the center can hear it. (<-- these people aren't crazy, it's a real thing!)
Not a major reason why I wanna go there, but you know (;
Wish me luck-- I'll be MIA for 3 weeks or more so I'll MISS YOU ALL and reading up on you guys ),: If y'all have a list of basic German phrases that you feel like I shouldn't live without, feel free to comment and/or send them to me!
Aufwiedersehen!
~Steph xoxo
