In the last week happened very much. On Wednesday 21 September we had our first meeting with the local chapter from AFS. We were 6 exchange students with their hostparents. Every student had to have a short presentation about his home country. And almost in every presentation heard we the sentece "It is easier for me to continue in English then in Norwegian". It is not that difficult to learn Norwegian, if you speak German. The grammar and some words are very similar. But for a Chinese person it have to be very hard.
On the 22th of September began the Ankomstleir 2 (Arrival Camp 2). All people from region 1 had to drive to Mesnali, that's a village near Lillehammer. So I had to drive 5 hours by train, yeah! It's my hobby driving as long as possible with trains ;-) But it was not that boring because after the first 20 minutes came more and more people in the train. The camp was awesome. It is very interesting to hear how the other exchange students experienced the begin of their exchange year. We had all smaller or bigger problems and we tried to solve it together. We got tips like let the door open when you are in your room, because then it is not like you don't want to speak with the other people in the house. I think one of the most difficult "challenges" here is to get friends. My tip was you can be the clown of the class. Sometimes when I'm sitting by some people and they speak very serious about a topic I ask in a silent moment "What did you say?". And it is guaranteed that the people will laugh.