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(8/28-9/8) Orienteering and School

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      Hello again, I definitely shouldn't have waited so long to post again. I think it will be better to post weekly, even if the post is on the shorter side. Email me at akmancub@gmail.com if you want to see/hear more of something or have any questions in case there's a slower week. On Monday we went to Vienna because Julie's exchange flight to Taiwan was at the airport. When we drove to Austria I didn't notice much change in scenery apart from the signs being in German. After we said goodbye to Julie we did some sightseeing and went to an art museum. I like the museums here because Alaska's museum options are extremely limited.     Alan and I mostly just hung around for the rest of the week. He had an orienteering competition coming up on the weekend. The plan was for me to eventually start competing as well, so he introduced me to how to read the map symbols and the "goal cards" that are used in the competitions. We went for a practice run in the town,...

(8/24-8/27) Arrival

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     Hi. I don't really know how to do a blog so there may be some problems with the website. I'll try to fix them. Thanks for reading.     The plane rides felt a little odd because I was not with anyone I knew for the first time, but it was not uncomfortable. I pretty much slept through the whole thing. I was a little scared when they delayed my flight from Paris to Prague because they did not tell us until what felt like the last minute, and there was no formal terminal. We were just loaded onto a bus that drove to the plane on the runway.     I met my first host family. They are a family of four, but Julie, the daughter, will go on exchange to Taiwan tomorrow. Alan, the son, was gone because he was in Manchester as a camp counselor. They are very nice and will help me with my Czech as long as I help them with their English. They like to travel a lot, and also do a lot of biking and competitive orienteering.      We drove to ...