Located in the beautiful region of Sauerland, right beside Lake Sorpesee, is the home of our new International Summer Camp!
After month of looking around and visiting different places we finally are able to offer a wonderful summer camp in Germany. We will be located in the village of the Hachen Sports School, which has the perfect facilities for a fantastic international summer camp with students coming from all over the world! Our activity programme will be delivered in English and the primary language on camp will also be English, in addition to this, for those wanting to learn English more intensively, we offer English lessons as well. As this is an international camp, there will also be the opportunity for those who's first language is already English to participate in learning German!
Activities include:
Baseball, Basketball, Football, Headis, Kin-Ball, Tennis, Ultimate Frisbee, Volleyball, Bridge Building, Cross Boccia, Raft Building, Geo Caching, Kayaking, Climbing, Mountain Biking, Survival Skills, Trust Trail and much more!
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Almost two years ago, I came up with the idea to do an exchange year and to learn Spanish. It was not really hard for me to choose my destiny. When I went to Xplore to get some information about my possible new homes they told me all about Argentina and Latin America. So I enrolled myself and my host family has been picked very fast. I also looked up information on the Internet. Unfortunately I found more bad experiences than good ones. Sincerely, what I read made me become nervous. Then I arrived in Argentina. My worries as well as any doubts caused by the written experiences were gone.
One week I stayed with the group of German exchange students in a hotel in Rio Ceballos – near Córdoba - to get prepared for everything that could happen to me. Then the day came. My host family arrived to pick me up. I was pretty nervous because I wasn´t able to speak enough Spanish. It was not a problem at all because they tried to explain me everything and helped me to express myself.
The best thing about Argentina is that everyone wants to know as much as possible about oneself and the culture you live in. This is how my host family is. They made me become a part of their family really quickly. In my second week I went to school for the first time. I was totally impressed how everyone wanted to talk to me and to be my friend. So I started my high school year pretty well. If you try to speak Spanish and to get in contact, it is almost impossible to not get friends in Argentina.
I made a lot of new friends in my school but during the first month sometimes I was still bored at home. So I started to go out after school and spent more time with my new friends and that was when my exchange year really started. I began to “xplore” a new culture and the Argentinian mentality.
During my time in Argentina I learned a new style of living, other values and the real meaning of the word "family". In Argentina and especially in Córdoba the family is more important than in Germany. Furthermore, I learned to speak Spanish nearly perfectly and I made friends in the whole city of Córdoba. One friend of mine introduced me to the work of an event manager in Córdoba's centre. The result is that I now have a rough idea of what I could do in the future.
I still have 40 days left and I'm already planning my return to Argentina. All in all I think the decision to go on an exchange year in Argentina was the best decision of my life. Both organisations ICC - from Argentina - and Xplore took care of me and made me have an awesome year in Argentina. I am able to say that it is the best year of my life so far. Now I have two homes.
Kersten
