First 10 days in America (Disney FSU Program)

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After a very bumpy and tiring first airplane ride we landed in Tallahassee and began our orientation at FSU. The campus is huge (LOOKS LIKE HOGWARTS!) and the weather is BEAUTIFUL! Lizards run free everywhere you go, their squirrels are tiny and there’s SO many welcoming people. We have a group of peer mentors and course coordinators that hangout with us and show us around the campus. They’re all funny and crazy and we’ve never had a dull moment at FSU.

 

An example of a typical FSU day in our 10-Day stay would be…

7:45am  -  8:25am    Breakfast

8:30am  -  11:30am  Class

11:30am - 1:00pm    Lunch

1:00pm  -  3:30pm    Class

5:45pm  -  7:15pm    Dinner

7:30pm  -  ???           Optional Activities

*All your meals are provided for usually in the Hogwarts Great Hall (it looks just like it even though it’s called the Suwanee Hall.

 

 

The apartment style rooms are spacious – one kitchen area with stove/oven, kettle, fridge & living room; typically 4 bedrooms per apartment room with one bathroom on each side.

Florida State University provides:

- Your meals (breakfast, lunch & dinner)

- Bedding (pillowcase, comforter, sheets and towels that you can take to Disney with you)

- Fruit, water and Snacks in your room upon arrival day

- Kettle for your stove with mugs for all roommates

- Dish soap for the kitchen, soap for the bathroom

- Binder full of paper, pens, keychain, tourist brochures and two postcard

 

So far we have played the name game, learned about different stereotypes and showing respect in different cultures. We're studying the 7 Habits of Highly Effective people (a concept created by the late Stephen Covey.) Together we have been learning more about ourselves and how to get along more effectively with others around us. More specific blogs about Stephen Covey to come..

 

We’ve taken city tours and had karaoke dance parties! We’ve had a fieldtrip to the Golden Eagle Country Club and learned how to putt –I’ve decided to stick to Martial Arts… forever. We also took a fieldtrip to the Sandestin Country Club and Resort.

 

 

Slowly but surely we are showing our new Asian family from Macau how to party hard!

 

In 10 intense days we have become the closest international/intercultural family anyone has ever seen - and I wouldnt have it any other way.

 

I've already adopt 3 new brothers, a godfather for my children and an unimaginable amount of new sisters <3