The Entire Camp Experience

I love my fellow exchange students!!! It was great to speak unbroken English for two weeks. Our days started at 9:00 for breakfast, then lessons normally started around 9:30. We would learn different things until around 11:30 or so, then have free time until our 12:30 lunch time. The meals were fairly good, but nothing special. I really miss green veggies, but we all fell in love with a kind of bread called Rohlik. It is like a small French baghet, but much better. In the afternoon we had trips or free time. Almost all of our free time was spent in the town, shopping at the little clothing stores, eating in the cafes, or buying fruit and candy at the food stores. Sometimes we had another lesson before dinner, but we ate at 6:00. After dinner was singing or a movie or a talk of some kind. The teachers, Thomas and Mila, loved to teach us songs. By the end of camp we had 4 favorites. Singing wouldn't last long, and we spent the evenings in town enjoying the life of a European teenager. On both Tuesdays we went to a local school to use their computers and talk to the English classes. A few other times we met some students from another town, Tabor, and had sports and free time with them. In Jindrichuv Hradec we saw an old weaving factory, a museum, a tower at the castle, and other things. The museum has the world's largest nativity scene. The tower is older than the U.S.A., and has a great few of the town. The first weekend was laid back, we went on a train ride to the middle of nowhere and saw an old watch tower to warn people if the Austrians invaded. There was a lot of walking through the pine forests, it felt great. That Sunday was a lazy day, we went to the tower in the afternoon and had a pig roast for dinner with the local Rotary club. On the 2nd Wednesday we went to Telc, another town nearby. We toured the old castle and looked around the historic old town. On the last Friday we had a final test over lots of different topics. I got the highest score!!! It was very exciting. The final Saturday was one of my favorite days. We went to Tabor, to the Renaissance festival, and had hours to just wander around and see the sights of the town. At night we were back in our town, and we went to the disco tech. Its not the disco of the 70s, there were colored and strobe lights, with hours of new dance and techno music. I danced for about 2 hours, then had to go back to the hostel where we were staying. To get back to Trutnov yesterday I rod to Tabor with the teachers and my host dad picked me up for the long drive back. PLEASE LOOK AT MY PICTURES ON PHOTOBUCKET!! The link is in a previous post.