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i saw piglets for the first time last night.

i didnt get to take any pictures cause my camera is dead and the adapter i brought with me doesnt fit so i have to wait till we go into town to get one. but anyway…there are about 10 or 15 babies with each mother and about 8 or 9 mothers that i saw. one mother just had her babies yesterday and they were so small…and about 5 didnt make it but the others are all alright.

well i’m back to Fischlham from Traunsee Schloss, which was so beautiful. i’ll try to figure out how to post pictures as soon as possible but i’m clueless right now so sorry.

camp was great! i learned so much but its still really hard to understand anything my family says to be because they speak so fast. but hopefully soon it will get better…but more about camp

this past week at camp went by so fast. i swam in the deepest lake in austria on wednesday and thursday the Traunsee Schloss school choir sang for us and it was beautiful! undescribable actually. the kids range from ages 8 to about 16 and if you closed your eyes you wouldnt know they are kids. thats how talented they are! after they sang we played a game and danced with them…”the circle game” it was so much fun…but very tiring! and then friday the lot of us went into gemunden and danced at a cocktail bar. it was so much fun! and then saturday we had a talent show. and patrick from alabama has a beautiful voice and “room 1 and friends” which consisted of americans did the “fizzle dance” it was quite funny and entertaining. we also played the circle game again and then had a dance party. but i’m very glad to be back with my host family because i get to sleep instead of listen to girls chat and yell all night!

After a travel time of over 24 hours and missed connections, I finally made it to Austria. When I landed in Linz, they had lost one of my suitcases. So after meeting a very nice English speaking Austrian, I finally submitted my complaint. Then I met my host mom. She even came into baggage claim because I was so late! She was very nice…and non-english speaking! After walking out of customs, there stood my host sister, Kathrin and my host cousin. A 20 minute car ride later, we pull up to the house. Well to be honest its not just a house…but a freaking mansion. With a barn attached! I saw the house from over a kilometer away. Its gorgeous! That night they had a going away party for Kathrin…but I was so tired that I almost fell asleep at the kitchen table. Going to bed at 9, I slept for over 12 hours. Saturday morning. I showered! hahaha and then went to my counselors house. She is very nice but doesn’t speak that much English. Sunday. We went to lunch at a restaurant with the whole family. It was very nice…but it is so hard to eat chicken wings with a fork and knife! After lunch, my host mom, sister, and aunt drove me to language camp. In Almünster, language camp is 2 weeks long. There are 45 inbounds from America, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Ecuador, Ukraine, Venezuela, Finland, Sweden, Japan, and Taiwan. We have classes everyday for 6 hours and lunch is the main meal…and always so good! Saturday we went with the rebounds for a cruise around the Traunsee Lake. It was so beautiful! and then Sunday we went to Hallstatt. We took a train and then a bus. We toured the salt mines, the oldest salt mines! They had some pretty sweet slides and the little train at the end was so much fun!

Leaving August 9th for Austria. I can not get my original blog on blogspot.com to work from here. So we did the next best thing, started a new one.

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