First Day

I have no idea how to accurately describe my first day at my host family. I still have butterflies in my chest, due mostly to uncertainty about the year, but I can say this: I have been assigned one of the nicest host famalies anyone could of hoped for. By my first day I have been set with all of my basics (wifi, cell phone, etc) and I feel like they were very well prepared to take me into their home. My host dad has been extremely kind, he knows a lot of English and so he has helped when I am tripping and falling over my German to get my point across. My host mom is super nice as well, she has made the point of slowing down her German so I can fully understand, instead of still catching the point of a conversation but perhaps missing a few key details. My host brother and sister are great, my brother's English is not so good but he's been doing a lot to help me get settled in and even acting a bit of the part of older brother as well. I didn't really get to know my host sister my first day, we talked a little bit about music on the way when my family picked me up from the Schloss, but she had friends over and I was busy unpacking and/or trying to catch my breath and process what was happening to try to join here and make some new German friends.

I did, however, talk to her friends a little bit, which was a bit intimidating. The result of the conversation is either A) its really geil or cool if you drive a pick up truck or B) my sister's friends are very saracastic and I just couldn't pick up on it. That was a bit rough, but I am going to have a lot of those situations in the next few weeks.

All in all, I would rate my first day a "B+" mostly because I hoped it would lessen my anxiety about the year, and it has a bit, but not to the point I would like it to be.  But, I somehow got invited to go with my sister and her friends to Frankfurt today for (if I understood correctly) a music festival. Score.

Sean from Germany, signing off.