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Leaving Home to Return Home

While at university, I am fortunate enough to receive a 4 week semester break throughout June and July. This year, I decided to travel back to Flensburg to visit my school friends and host families whom I met while I was a Rotary Youth Exchange student in 2014. Ever since arriving back in Australia, returning… Read More Leaving Home to Return Home

24 June 20163 January 2017 Madeleine Winnett1 Comment

Two Thousand and Fifteen

Two thousand and fifteen was a year of adjustment. Upon returning from my 12 month exchange, I was disorientated and unsure as to how the year would pan out. As I reflect on the past year, I’m pleasantly surprised by all that has occurred. It was a roller coaster which I had never been on before. Returning… Read More Two Thousand and Fifteen

1 February 20163 January 2017 Madeleine WinnettLeave a comment

Documenting a Year

I will never be able to sum up my entire year in a video in just over three minutes, but this is my attempt at doing so. I was pleasantly surprised at how well this video came together, and that I had actually filmed enough footage to last the duration of the background track; particularly,… Read More Documenting a Year

24 January 20153 January 2017 Madeleine Winnett2 Comments

Two Thousand and Fourteen

There are many various adjectives which I could use to describe the past year, but I’m at a loss. There is simply no way that I could begin to accurately describe the year that has been, and all that has taken place and then changed in a thousand different ways. I am speechless. All I… Read More Two Thousand and Fourteen

2 January 20153 January 2017 Madeleine Winnett3 Comments

Hamburg Tag

Last weekend the German rebound exchange students (Rotex) organised a ‘Hamburg Tag’ for all the Inbounds as a way for the newbies to see the city. Hamburg is a stunning city and the second largest city in Germany, after Berlin, and is located just 2 hours south of Flensburg by train. We left Flensburg at 7am… Read More Hamburg Tag

6 November 20143 January 2017 Madeleine WinnettLeave a comment

Kopenhagen

I recently traveled to Copenhagen during the Autumn school holidays and visited a fellow outbound Rotary Youth Exchange student also sponsored by my Rotary District 9710 in Australia. We met each other at both Outbound orientations in Australia and she has been living in Copenhagen as an exchange student since January. I took the opportunity… Read More Kopenhagen

5 November 20145 November 2014 Madeleine WinnettLeave a comment

Oktoberfest!

I was lucky enough during the first weekend of October to visit the world famous Oktoberfest in Munich! The trip was organised by my Rotary District for just a select few exchange students and took place over the German Reunification long weekend. I met with 20 Rotary Youth Exchange students at 6am in southern Hamburg,… Read More Oktoberfest!

6 October 20143 January 2017 Madeleine Winnett1 Comment

München

It’s now the middle of the German summer holidays, which is the peak period for travelling on holiday. My second host family and I have driven for 10 hours from one end of Germany to the other, before arriving in Munich, the third largest city in Germany and capital of Bavaria. Here we are standing… Read More München

8 August 201418 August 2014 Madeleine Winnett3 Comments

Nordic Adventures: Finland

[This is Part 2 of my Nordic Adventures through Sweden and Finland. Part 1 can be found here.] The flight from Stockholm, Sweden to Helsinki, Finland took only an hour. I first stepped onto Finnish soil late in the evening and my Dad’s first host brother came to meet me with his son. I stayed with… Read More Nordic Adventures: Finland

8 August 20141 November 2014 Madeleine Winnett2 Comments

Nordic Adventures: Sweden

[This is Part 1 of my Nordic Adventures through Sweden and Finland. Part 2 can be found here.] It will be the thousandth time that I have mentioned it here on this blog: my Dad was also a Rotary Youth Exchange student in Finland way back in 1989. It was for this very reason that… Read More Nordic Adventures: Sweden

4 August 20141 November 2014 Madeleine Winnett3 Comments

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