3 Month Update

I've decided to do a monthly update each month until my departure date for Germany (roughly September 10th). Not too much is new, but I did attend an AFS orientation last week, where I met with fellow prospective exchangers as well as people who had gone abroad. It wasn't quite as memorable as the orientation I attended back in January, but then again, that orientation was for both Americans preparing to go abroad, and a midpoint for foreign students here in America, and everything is more interesting when there are 20+ nationalities together. Interesting demographical note; from what I remember, the genders of foreign students I saw at the last orientation were split about 50/50, but of Americans going abroad, out of a sample of of 50 students at the June orientation, only 6 (including myself) were male. I guess most guys aren't as willing as girls to try new things.