Arriving in the middle of nowhere

I’m not joking.

Well maybe a little bit, but the town where my host family lives is called “Middlewich”. If that is not from a fantasy book, I don’t know what is😆.

I really like the modern building style, I think it fits nicely as a college. The entrance is very big and open which I appreciate a lot. I am also going to write an extended campus review, if I have already published the post this button will take you there:

Campus Review

After we arrived, there was no time for a tour, but we got picked up by our host families. This is where I first met my “new family”, we had only talked in Zoom Calls before. They were extremely welcoming and we started doing stuff together that very evening, when we were going to one of my host-brothers – Lennon – football matches. One of the first things I noticed about british people is that they are absolute football-fanatics. Football doesn’t start and end with the blow of a whistle but carries on to watching matches on the TV and showing me the whole collection of football cards (yay). But the people I have met both at the matches and at the training events (mostly parents of the players, since my host-brother plays in the 8-and-under league) were extremely nice and made me feel like a part of it. The first few days were spent getting to know my host-family and setting up my room (the next couple months will be used for gathering various strange looking items and hanging them up on my wall).

The First Days at College

So, college started on a Wednesday after I arrived in Middlewich on Friday. The organisation of our arrival was very uncoordinated, so we spent most of the time on Wednesday to Friday in a room full of other international students. These were mostly Brazilians with the exception of an American girl, a few italians and singular students from Tanzania, Singapore and more. Also, there were 4 German speaking students who (similarily to a comic relief character in a movie) act as my language relief (it is very nice to be able to speak some German after a while…). It took a while for the college system to function properly… I am talking about not having an ID card (which you always have to wear!), faulty or missing lesson timetables and similar system errors. Those were fortunately resolved within a week or so but it was a bumpy start. Lessons started on the following Monday and with that the start of my new routine for the coming year. The subjects that I chose for my gap year are:

• Graphic Design
• Computer Science
• Business
• Music Performance

I was most excited about Business and Music Performance, as I didn’t think that the A-Level Courses I am taking (comparable to the German Abitur) in Graphic Design and Computer Science would be much more difficult than the ones I completed in Berlin. Read if those expectations were true in my Post about my subjects which will be displayed down below when I am done writing it.

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