Goodbye England and Hello again Germany

So that was it. I said goodbye to my Hostfamily.
Now, me and the other Exchange students were on our way to Winchester where it all began.
After I was able to stop crying I was able to catch up with my friends.
After the long journey I finally saw my friends again which I haven´t seen in the last 10 months because they lived their exchange too far away to visit them. After big hellos and lots of emotions we got ready for our farwell prom. We got given our certificates, listened to a speech and had dinner in the cantine. It was lovely and got even better when we started our party. Good music, a photobooth and a lot of fun! It was a blast and I love remembering then fun we had!

 

 



After a long fun day and some heartbreaking goodbyes it was time to leave the next day. We packed up our bags and get into the bus. It felt weird leaving but it was time to see my family again and my friends.
At the airport we had to wait for five hours, don´t ask me why we´ve been there so early- I´m asking myself that question still! In that time I said goodbye to one of my best friends- Andrea! She was ready to leave for Denmark. We said goodbye and looked at each other, instead of crying like you would usually do when you say goodbye we laughed. We both said that if we could we would cry our eyes out but we both had such an emotional week behind us, we were way too exhausted. But I personally think it was nice. And also, we already knew we would see eachother soon again, so it was all good.

After hours and hours of waiting and one hour delay we finally got our gate. After probably one more hour of checking in and finding our seats we finally sat in our plane. The flight was good actually! We talked a lot with other students about our exchange and had a good laugh together.
After about two hours we finally arrived. Me and my friend Jule (3rd picture above) said one last time how great the last year was and how much we already wanted to go back, got our suitcases and went out of the gate to see our families.
I took one last deep breath and finished the last chapter of my exchange. My family made a banner for me and stood there with balloons. It was nice seeing them but at the same time it was so weird because I was gone for so long.

 

 

I said hello to my family and my best friend and then pretty quick fell asleep on the way home from the airport. Being home was such a weird feeling. I couldn´t even unpack the first week. I didn´t want my exchange to be over and I felt if I unpack my suitcase it would be. Even tho it already was..It took me a pretty long time to realise and get over it but after a while I started to feel better. It is still heartbreaking but I managed to handle it by now. I´m looking forward to go back and see my Hostfamily and friends and just visit a very important place which I can call home. 

Last family holiday and packing up

Two weeks before I had to go home I went on Holiday together with my host Family. So we made our way to FRANCE! We went Camping on the west coast from France for a week in Bretagne.
At midnight we started driving all the way down to France with the car. After 17 Long hours we finally got there and had a lovely week Camping! -and yes, I said Camping. It was lovely, we visited some nice places and had mostly warm and sunny weather. Take a look yourself:

So as we also went with the fairy, we had some pretty early and english breakfast.

 One thing that I noticed over that week me and my family got even closer than we´ve been before. We had such a lovely week together and so much fun!

After we came all the way back to England, I only had one week left of my Exchange...I realised even more how much my time has been running and how soon I´ll be back home.
I spend my last week working in my Placement where they´ve been absolutley adorable, they gave me a `good-bye present´ and made leaving actually pretty hard. I worked there for more than seven months, two days every week and I closed the children into my heart so much as well as some members of staff. I promised when I left to pop around when I´m back in England and I definitley will!
The same week I had to make some pretty hard goodbye´s...
I cried my eyes out saying goodbye to my best friend. He was there for me from the beginning and as more as we stucked around togther the closer we got. I love him to bits and I can´t explain how hard it was saying goodbye to him. After he got onto his bus I had to walk back into college and literllay cried for about 15 minutes in the bathroom...I don´t know what I would have done without him over the year and I am so undlessly thankful for our friendhsip! And as this can`t get any soppier have some picutres ;)

So on the last friday I had in England our IEC (international Exchange coordinator) prepared a farewell meal for us Exchange students from our area. So I went there not expecting actually too much but it turned out to be such a fun time!! It was nice sitting togther with everyone, having some good food and good Music. I enjoyed myself and I am sure everyone else did too! Here are some pictures of me and my forgin girls.

It´s crazy how important all these people got within´ the year and I woulnd`t change those friendships for a single thing in this world! I love them like crazy and I am so happy they´re part of my exchangestorie.
BUT! That wasn´t the last day! Sunday was the big day. The day I feared so so much!
I had to leave my beautiful family....This sounds heartbreaking and I promise you, it was!!
I packed up my last things in the morning and spend as much time as possible with my sisters. I already said goodbye to my hostdad the night before as he sadly had work next day.
So I drank one last cuppa with my sisters and then we left. I got in the car and as we started leaving the base we, well I lived on I started crying. I remembered the first time getting here, walking the way everyday to get to my bus stop and so on....it didn`t feel right leaving.
We went into town to the bus station where all of us were meeting. So arrived there we took one last picture and then burst out into tears. I became a part of this Family, I made such strong bonds and some amazing memories over the year with this Family! I can´t remember the last time I cried so much, it was so heartbreaking, still is just writing about it. I even still cried when we all got on the bus and started driving down to winchester I just couldn´t believe it was over.

A weekend with german family in Brighton

I don't know if I mentioned it before in my blog but maybe some of you know that one of my favourite places in the UK is Brighton! I love the sea and all what it brings with it.
So in the end of April my aunt and uncle finally came to visit me in England like they promised me on Christmas. I got the friday off college and they came to pick me up. It was planned for them to come in the morning but they had a few problems in Germany with their airplane and have been stuck in traffic for quite a while so they arrived around lunch time instead. (I couldn't sleep since six because of excitment!). When they arrived I introduced them to my host Family and some english tea. After that we made our way into town where I showed them where I wént to School and introduced them to my best friend Matt. After that we made our way to Cambridge.
We went for some lovley lunch where my uncle tried to improve his english, which was very amusing for me, (but he did well!) and where even the waitress could improve her german!

 

 

 

 

 

 After spending some good time in Cambridge we made our way down to the south of England, Brighton. Now the beginning from this blog post probably makes more sense haha.

So the next days we spent walking around beautiful Brighton. We had such good weather and such an amazing time! It was well nice to catch up with my Family and my german....;)
I can't really explain why I love this place so much but I just do! I am so happy when I am there and I can't wait to go back there one day and maybe hopefully even live there.
If you ever get the chance to visit England I'd definitley go and see Brighton if I was you, you'll hopefully see what I see.

 

 

 On our last day we went up the Brighton Wheel and had a pretty good view from up there!

 The North Lane is one of the Highlights in Brighton. At least for me personally next to the Brighton Pier obviously. All the Shops are just colourful and full of art!

 

 

 

I hope those few pictures make you a bit curious about this place. And I hope if you go and visit this place that you'll have as much of a good time there like I always do!!

When my Family dropped me off again at my host Family after our weekend in Brighton it was a Little bit weird. I was sad to let them go and to be honest with you I cried, but I always cry when they leave as I don't get to see them much. It's just that I had such an amazing time with them in Brighton I just wanted to stay longer. It made me realise how long I have been without my Family and how long I have been away for. I felt a little bit weird for the rest of the day but my host sisters cheered me up  very well!

London called two swiss and a german

It has been such a while again!! I wanted to write this blog post since weeks now but I just never managed it...But here I am, BACK!!
So after months and months living in England I finally made it to go back to London! I went wih my two lovely Swiss girls and it was such a nice day! The weather was sunny and warm and I haven't been walking so much in ages! We walked through London starting in the oxford street -where I found my language school I went to for two weeks in 2013-, over Picadilly circus, through china town-which I am so happy to be able to tick off my bucket list- over to Hyde Park where we sat at the river eating chinese snacks, and lastly all the way to Buckingham Palace. I totally spamed my phone storage with pictures and myself with such happiness!

This city is so busy, noisy and chaotic but something made me fall in love with it so badly I can't help it. All these different tourists talking so many languages taking pictures, all the traffic and all the shops and sights just got my little german heart.


So we walked through china town, where I always wanted to go to for some reason and I promise you two things: a lot of chinese people and it smells so much like chinese food!! Resturants all over the place. Me and my two swiss girls called Najara and Rebecca went into a sweet shop to buy some chinese sweets and went into a cool looking from the outside chinese cafe to drink something chinese. I had an Oolong tea and I´ve never been so disapointed in tea. The cafe in general smelled very strong and the tea had no taste at all, ignoring the fact that the staff in there was just rude. But it was something to do! :D

After that we went to Hyde Park and sat at the river eating our chinese snacks, enjoying the sun and feeding swans.

 

 

 

We spent the whole day just walking around, getting into random buses to get somewhere. We enjoyed ourselves and London! Our last stop was backingham Palace in the evening before we had to get back home.

 

 

 

 

If you ever get the chance to visit London, I can highly recommend to just walk and adventure. It was so much fun and I wouldn´t change anything from that day!! 



 

I know this post could probably be way more detailed but I feel like leaving it this way is okay and should motivate at least some of you to be willing to go and visit this beautiful City and adventure!