Saturday, April 12, 2008

Late Orientation Camp in Wuppertal

HALLO!!!AFTER WEEKsss I DIN UPDATE MY BLOG....NOW I M BACK!!!

a lot of interesting things happen within this two months...walao...i m edi here for two months...times really fliessss...!!!!

i think AFS late orientation camp in wuppertal is really fun n cool!!! i went with liva, ashley, rodrigo n alejandra to wuppertal....they r living near muenster like me...

liva(latvija),rodrigo(brazil),ashley(nz),alejandra(guatamala)(a lil bit hidden XD) n me(msia)

arrive at wuppertal....sky train!!!cool~!

start of camp...start of games...

workshop...to make a typical german...

...n state the good(green) n bad(red) of a typical german...

at night...reading some letters from past years students...i m glad tht i m msian...can read those letters in written in eng,chinese(china students),n msian rojak language of caz..haha

gathering at night...had some snacks n drinks n talk!!while some others were having disco at another place...but i choose to come here...

2nd day...had a tour around wuppertal with a piece of question paper n a map...we hv to find out the answers ourselves by asking passers-by...or any kind of creativity...

on the street in wuppertal!!we had 5 in a group...the 5th is the camera man Jason(aus)

after the question paper section is game section...we played the game "worth an apple or an egg"!!we were given an apple n an egg...then changed items with any ppl we met on the street...this game depends on our creativity...n also luck to meet nice ppl...the man in the pic changed our apple with his banana...haha!!

(in usa a man started this game with a pin n he got a house in the end!!cool huh?!)

the final item we got!!!cool?!guess yes...haha...(the scenery behind is the sky train railway...they built it above the river so to save place...)

going back to hostel...the waving guy is stephano from brazil...see the suitcase on his hand??tht's the final thing their group got!!it's brand new no joking!!damn lucky one..hahaa...

at night we hv talent show...some were singing..


....some were dancing...

wakkaa!!!we msians sang 'rasa sayang'!!!(with stephano n yao as guitar players)....i heard they said every year msian students must sing this song...bet very soon our lovely 'rasa sayang' will be known world wide huh??haha...

we(msians) very glad tht all of u clap your hands with our rhythm!!!

lol...we:me,yao,vui khi,stephano,lee mei played ping pong until wan siao liao in this camp...hahaha...we invented a lot of ways to play with ping pong ball...really hv fun!!XD we played till midnight(n continue the other day)...i think it's better than having disco huh??better for health also...hahaha!!...

after the ping pong we continued to play cards...we msian introduce them 'heart attack' n 'cho dai di'...hahaha....also play dao wan siao liao...especially heart attack...haha...

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we had a lot of workshops in this camp...can be said the whole day were workshops...but i enjoyed it...caz i learn a lot of things...n learn better to 'survive' in a foreign country...n my question marks on cultural shock were solved....this camp energized me...to be tough in everything i will face in the coming days...n i learned tht i m not alone in facing problems...caz the others hv the same obstacles like me too....it's really good to hv LATE orientation camp caz we edi know how is the real situations...not only blah blah blah b4 we experienced anything real...make sense?

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2 comment(s)☜♥☞:

tsunjeck A.K.A papaya boy said...

yea quite a lot of orientations in the camp...and after the camp i became more confident too! " i learned tht i m not alone in facing problems...caz the others hv the same obstacles like me too" its real...haha...and btw,wats ur question mark on cultural shock?

M a n Y a n g said...

i don believe that u don hv cultural shock la?!a lot cultural shock la...hard to say one...like german ppl blow their nose so loud everywhere...n their behaviours something like tht...