Farewell Short Termers

 Tom again...This being the end of the fourth week, (even though its Thursday in the fifth week, haven't had access to the internet for 4 days), was the week that the short termers travelled home.
  
On the Wednesday we had first of all the Farewell evening/Impressions project presentation night with all the host families. It was held at a shooting range in a town called Kiefersfelden, near the border to Austria. We had a buffet style dinner then presented our projects, after that we did some traditional dancing with a dance group from Kiefersfelden and then had a chance to try some shooting with air rifles.

For the project I was in a group with Matt and Sam and we presented it in the form of a movie with some short dialogs and some funny bloopers and videos of things that have happened during the exchange both in Aus and in Germany. It went really well, mostly according to plan :) This night was particaularly enjoyable and a great way to finish the trip for the short term travellers. Also cool about the night was the fact that I got to wear a full traditional lederhosen, and I might just add that they are suprisingly comfortable.
  
The next day we had presentations again, this time it was to the Year 8's, the potential candidates for the exchange, both short and long, in 2013/2014. It ran really smoothly again and when asked who was interested, about half of the students' hands went up. So that was good to see. The special thing about that Thursday was it was the last day of German school for the short termers and so lots of pictures were taken and shirts signed. No tears were shed just yet though.
  
The next day was just a normal school day for me and Jazz, apart from the fact that we were without the others. But we both decided to go and see them off at the airport, so we had to leave school an hour earlier. Once everyone had their bags checked in and they were heading for the first security check, the goodbyes started to be said and hugs given. For me and Jazz it wasn't such a big thing because we know that wee will see them again, but for the other Aussies and all the Germans it was emotional and it made me start to think of what it's going to be like when we leave, I'm not looking foward to it.
  
Anyway, so that's it for this week, got some big things to talk about next week (actually just 3 days).
Until then Ciaio.

P.S.  If you want to see pics from the night look at Jazz's last post.