Day 8 - Off to Minneapolis (Saskia)

The day we have all waited for. Let’s go to Minneapolis!

We woke up at 9 o’clock with the attitude to see our host families. We all were ready to go at 12 o’clock with some big and some small suitcases.

The atmosphere was some kind of happiness and excitement, because there were still people, who hadn’t gotten a message from there hosts yet.

So our trip to the airport was kind of funny, excitement and chaotic at the same time. We had to divide our group, because the airport bus was not big enough for everybody. We as students started to get worried about missing the airplane, we started to run and hurried up to be on time to the airport, however we managed it. Our first group were already at the gate, when the second group had to go through the Security Check. We all love the Security Check; it has become a normal thing for us. Afterwards we drove on the airport train to our gate, feeling the relaxation, when we arrived on time, when we arrived in Minneapolis we all had different feelings like happiness, excitement, nervousness and pleasure.

Besides we had a lot of discussions about how we should greet our host families, how to present ourself and how to show our personality from the best side, so that we represent Germany in a good way, because we as students represent Hamburg/Germany as a whole country.

After some last talks to our friends we saw a lot of people, who held name signs and Balloons!

So probably at home everybody did pretty much the same things like had a big dinner, gave the Hamburg Presents and talked about him or herself and their family. This day showed all of us a lot of feelings and experience that every family was so open and friendly, so that they give us the feeling of being at home.