Flight + Orientation Day 1

Tuesday was my big day. I flight with more than 50 other exchange students to Newark for the Orientation Days.

After everyone said goodbye to his/her parents we went to the security check. At the Gate we met the students, which already had a flight to Frankfurt. Together with the students, which sat in the same row than me, I went on to the plain.

Overall we flight 8 1/2 hours, which pased by extremely slow. At the end we arrived at Newark Liberty Airport very well.

But bevor we could collect our suitcases, we needed to get through the border control. On hour later everyone made his way to the border control and picked up his luggage. Then we went to our hotel in Parsipanny by a coach.

The employers of AYA, the american organisation, welcome us very friendly and we get a folder with some important information and the t-shirts we were supposed to wear during the Orientation Days.

Directly after the dinner we had a short meeting were we regionized that the majority of the exchange students were form Germany, also my two roommates were from Germany.

So at the next morning we had 4 hours of workshops were we repeated the program rules and talked about our expectations and the obligations of host families and LC´s. After that we went to New York City.🗽

There we did a boat tour to the statue of liberty were we made really cool photos of the NYC Skyline. Subsequently we went to the 9/11 Memorial with a guide. On the way to it we saw the Wall Street and parts of the Broadway. In between we had a little time for go shopping, but I only buied a postcard. At the end we had dinner at a shopping mall. Each of us gets $20 for buying dinner.

When we came back to the hotel we had a little meeting about the second day of orientation.