Hannah Bates, this year's outbound Youth Exchange Student from our Club, sent us a story on her first month or so in Germany.  She's in a little town near Bremen.
 
 
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Deutschland!
October was a busy month, with many different Oktoberfest celebrations going on in nearby towns and cities (even though the real Oktoberfest is in Munich - very far from where I am). Bremen, for example, had a huge Freimarkt set up for the length of October. There were huge rides, games, tons of food booths, many drinking tents, and even multiple - simultaneous - concerts! Some other exchange students and I walked around for about forty-five minutes, thinking we had been through it all, but we had only made it to the opposite side! I also went on the Rotary-organized Germany tour in early October, which was short, but we managed to see many different places, including Wartburg Castle, Cologne, Frankfurt, and Berlin!
 
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