End of Stay AFS Camp

AFS camps are one of my favourite parts of exchange student life. We get to meet up and spend days with just exchange students and volunteers (many of whom are returnees themselves) doing activities; talking about our experiences on exchange and our lives in our home countries; making new friends; and deepening our understanding of the Italian culture. As I'm sitting here writing this post so many fond memories spring to mind from our first one back in October '13, to our last now in June '14 - some of my favourite memories will always remain at these camps.

One AFS tradition is to do a talent show at the end of each camp. At this camp my group consisting of Poom (Thailand), Ida (Denmark), Chang (China), Ecmel (Turkey) and Steph (Australia) did a random dance to a mix of Italian songs that were important to us all in some way after this year. That evening there was one of the World Cup soccer games on and we all stayed up to watch it in the bar of our hotel with heaps of local Italians who came by for the game. It's amazing how passionate people are for soccer here! I love the enthusiasm, it's so funny!