My AFS-adventure in Czech Republic

Hello! Here I am writing this post in the park of Sokolov where the leafs of trees around me are already getting coloured.  Autumn is coming! Yay! I love summer, but after hot weather, wearing skirts and T-shirts, it's always nice to have the cosy seasons back. But I also know that after a month or two,  I wil already be longing after summer again 😊. Because yesterday was a feastday,  there was no school and I don't have to go to school today as well. I just realised that I'm already here for 5 weeks and that this was my fourth week of school. It's a pretty weird feeling: It's insane that I'm already staying here that long, but at the same time, it feels like I am already here for months! Like my family has already hosted 3 girls before me, I find it exciting to sleep in a room where people of different countries have slept,  but with the same intentions as me: going on an exchange with AFS to learn a new culture. I wonder how they were, felt, what they did,...

Hello everyone! Just a short post because my father told me today that some had problems with leaving a reaction on my blog. Well, this is solved now! Everyone should be able now to place a comment! 😄 Also, if you want to receive a mail every time I have written something new, you can too! Just go to 'Follow by Email' (sidebar at the left), give your email adress and you will know it directly if I have something to tell! Thank you and greetings from Czech Republic! 🇨🇿

Ahoj! It's already more than a week ago that I've posted something on my blog. So, here I am again to tell you about my daily life in Sokolov. Every day, school starts at eight o'clock in the morning and ends at 13.30 p.m. So, at that point, I have more free time than in Belgium. Most of the time, I then try to improve Czech language. Yesterday, my host father told me that I had already learned much for the time I have been here 😄. And I must say that I also notice improvement: my family is talking more and more Czech towards me, sometimes I can explain little things in this language and this morning I was looking at a magazine when I realised I understood the first paragraph!  Okay, that's not that much, but it's something to start with. One of the habits here is that you may not wear shoes in the house. Instead, you must wear slippers or sandals. When you're in the house of someone else, you just don't wear any shoes  (or you take your sandals with you...

Hey everyone! The last four days were less 'boring' for me. Friday evening, I received the news that the welcome picnic would unfortunately not take place due to the bad weather conditions. I was quite dissapointed, but they are already looking for a new date. Instead of going to the picnic, I have spent some time with my family. First, we visited Elbow. It's a small, but pretty village where films like James Bond were shoot (that's what my host father told me). It has also an ancient look (like I've already mentioned before in a previous post). Then we made a walk through the forrest where we were looking for mushrooms. First, I didn't know which ones were edable and which ones weren't. But after some time, I was able to find some. That same evening we went to Karlsberg where a light festival was hold. It's touristic, but can also be very cosy. In the evening, it made me think of cities like Rome. The light festival itself was also very well done. ...