Clemens Binninger
The adventure has already started a long time ago… 🙂
Dear family, friends, collegues and guests,
From now on this will be the place where I share all my feeling, thoughts and experience during my year in the States.
I ask you to write coments, follows feelings, and be with me during the time of my stay.
Every journey starts with the first step. I don’t want to bother you with the details of the application, or the interview in Bonn. 😉
I will rather start with a important step for me.
I woke up early in the morning of the 29th of april 2009. It was a Wednesday, the day were got to know my Godfather in the CBYX- (Congress Bundestag Youth Exchange/ PPP- Palamentarisches- Patenschafts-Program) Program.
In this Program all of the participents have a Godfather from the Bundestag. After the the applicant assortment from Inwent (Internationale Weiterbildung und Entwicklung gGmbH Bonn) the Member of the B. chooses the Participent from his area. He is a contact person and a supporter.
Back to the morning when IÂ woke up pretty nervous. We expected visitors. In a few hours I would sit on the table with the person who chose me to go to the United States.- I would get to know my Godfather Clemens Binninger and have a Bavarian veal sausage breakfast with him at home.
(If you ask yourself now why, I’m coming from the swabian area, eat bavarian veal sausage- the simple answer would be that my parents coming from bavaria just brought the bavarian eating habits with them 🙂 )
The time before the meeting started was running. The Mayor from my home town Claus Unger and the spot reporters arrived together with the fotorgaphs. They asked me loads of questions. Then Clemens Binninger arrived. We ate, we talked and we were photographed.
It was a nice and interesting morning and time was passing to0 fast. But at the End of this day IÂ realise that I would go shortly to experience the land of million possibilities…. and honestly I was realy looking forward to… !