Gap year overview

Hello! I am, in fact, attempting to keep a blog over my gap year in Germany. I came to Germany with the Congress Bundestag Youth Exchange (CBYX) scholarship program and Youth for Understanding (YFU) organization for exchange years. I left the USA on August first and arrived in the Frankfurt airport the morning of the second. I then flew to Hamburg airport and was picked up there by one of my host sisters. In the Spring, I took a language placement exam through YFU that placed me in the Hamburg language camp for the first three weeks. During the language camp weeks, I am staying in Harburg, which I am told is basically the southernmost point of Hamburg. After language camp ends, I am moving to the opposite side of the city, Norderstedt, with another host family. There, I will be attending Lessing Gymnasium for the year. I believe I will be taking two trips with my fellow CBYXers, one at the midyear mark and one towards the end. Although I am still a bit fuzzy on the details, I do know that I will be in my USA home again next July eleventh.