On Queens's Birthday weekend (31st May-3rd June) we travelled to Wellington for the AFS orientation camp. We went on the plane with two other boys from our chapter, but there was around 60 of us in total at the camp. This was the first year they did the nationwide camp so we were really lucky to get to go to it. It was great because not only did we get to meet everyone going to Italy with us (about 8), we got to meet everyone going to other countries around the same time!
At the camp we did team building activities, games and learnt heaps about our exchanges. They taught us about things like culture shock and communication styles, some of that stuff was kind of boring but we knew it would be useful in the long run. We also did a lot of activities in our host country groups which meant we got to know everyone going to Italy better and talk to a volunteer who came back from Italy a couple of years ago. It was awesome talking to her because she had so much useful advice and interesting stories to tell us about her exchange in Italy.
All in all it was such a fun camp and we met so many amazing people! Watch the video for more about it -->
We're hopefully going to be doing another post soon about visas and everything else that we're doing now in preparation for the exchange, so keep your eye out for that :) 67 days!!!
