Dear exchange diary, in this completive blogpost I shall hand over the microphone to the man himself. I presented him with just one simple question to answer throughout it: “How was it to stay here, in Austria, within my family for one entire year?” Well, it was more like ten months. Quite a surreal and […]
AT06 – Precious Final Days
Category: Hosting and Volunteering in Austria
Dear exchange diary, the river of time has flowed farther and brought my beloved Norwegian brother in crime’s life-in-a-year close to its expiration date. Perhaps for the last time, I sit on this mighty swivel chair of mine, at least when it comes to bringing my very own impressions of being an AFS volunteer and […]
AT05 – Crashing Hallstatt
Category: Hosting and Volunteering in Austria
Dear exchange diary, life’s currents have taken the ship I am on to new shores, and here I am giving you the exclusive sailor’s report. Initially, what happened after our glorious concert crusade was me embracing the toil to go to Vienna for the sake of an AFS school-visit concept workshop. There us aka 10 […]
AT04 – Letter to My Self
Category: Hosting and Volunteering in Austria
Dear exchange diary, today a bit of an experiment. A little more than two years ago, I wrote two letters during the AFS Austria APFP (= future and current exchange students) camp, which was part of my exchange prep: a ‘letter to my self’ and a ‘letter for dark days’. Originally those letters were intended […]
AT03 – Concert Crusade
Category: Hosting and Volunteering in Austria
Servus, many mighty fine stories which occurred since publishing my last post are to be told and hence here I am once again, writing about them. (In reality, what predominantly happened was me getting bankrupt through attending way too many concerts. I guess that’s how things work… This all has quite a chance of growing […]
AT02 – Going Forward
Hello international folks, the past two months have been mighty fine as legend aka an extraordinary Portuguese friend of mine would say. It’s going great here with my human reindeer hailing from the vast Tundras. Next to this glamorous description, there was another AFS camp he attended (actually in pjs… and yes, I am aware […]
AT01 – A New Chapter
Dear exchange diary, as I have already left notice of in my last post, I’ll herewith be starting a new series which will revolve around my experiences as a hostbrother and AFS-volunteer. I hope you will stick around with me gaining experience from a now flipped perspective. So after I had been in Portugal for […]
PT13 – Meditations
Category: Exchange Year in Portugal
Olá a todos, as promised, I will shortly resume my exchange year, mainly talking about my general experience. As many times before, I shall wish you a good and hopefully interesting read! To start off: Initially, I thought I would have an idea of what an exchange year really is — when in reality — […]
PT12 – Last Blast
Category: Exchange Year in Portugal
Hey folks, by now my exchange program has officially ended and I have eventually made my return to Austria but of course I don’t want to let this blog hang and hence still will update you about the rest of what happened. One could say I treated myself to a last blast! Have a decent […]
PT11 – The Real Leal Deal
Category: Exchange Year in Portugal
Hello girls & boys, eventually, I found time to write once again — sorry for having you wait more than six weeks. Ironically, that’s around the amount of time which I got left here. Admittingly, the year has flown by quicker than I ever dared to imagine. Anyway, I hope you’ll have a nice read […]