Schiltach

13/07/14

 Last summer I went to Schiltach, Germany as a volunteer in a retirement home. I'd never been to Germany before then. Not like when I went to the US for work and travel.  (←Click for my story to the US), this time, I had a friend accompanied. Her name is Zoe, a friend I've known since high school.

We will be doing volunteering with other 12 people from other countries for 2 weeks, and then go to Berlin, Paris and London afterwards.

Time table for our trip

If you are going abroad with your friend, the best way to make sure everything will fall into place is to make a time table like we did. It's a very clear and simple way to make sure who is taking care of which part of this trip, who paid the hotel or who need to phone contact someone.

It helps everyone during the whole trip, I've heard so many people complaining about having a trip with their friends. It could be a pain in the arse, so better make sure things and responsibilities are all settled before you go.

My luggage for 40 days

The day before we left, we were literally skyping for 3 hours while packing. Haha. There is about 1/4 of the space in my luggage was for my sleeping bag, I also brought some amazing instant noodles from Taiwan. When I pack my luggage, I really need everything to be absolutely neat and make sure I know where everything is. Therefore, I've got smaller pouches to separate all my stuff, I got those pouches from MUJI.

writing a postcard in the Netherlands.

After 14 hours on the airplane, we've arrived at the Netherlands~~
The story continues~

How's your first trip abroad with your friend? Share your story with me x
I am gonna write articles about travel every Monday (hopefully haha)

Thank you for your reading, will see you guys soon.

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去年的七月我與摯友Zoe 前往席爾塔這個位於德國的小鎮，進行為期兩周的國際志工活動。之前沒去過德國，但是印象德國的治安相對其他的地方不是說太糟糕，所以挺放心的，我們將會跟來自不同地方的其他12個人一起在席爾塔幫忙。

幫助需要被幫助的人很開心~心靈很滿足，更別說那裏的風景超美!!

我跟Zoe在出國前製作了一張行程表，這張行程表註記了所有整趟旅程的細節，誰付了什麼，誰訂了哪間飯店，都記錄得很清楚，一來是我們不管要找什麼，只要翻出這張，馬上一目瞭然，也不會有漏掉的事項，互相分工合作，才能讓整趟旅程順利又美滿。

很常聽到有人說，跟朋友出國容易傷感情，容易吵架，但是我跟Zoe完全不會啊，因為我們提前做了很多功課~

一方面也是給彼此的父母親看一下我們的行程，也讓他們安心，一舉數得，很推薦大家出國的時候這麼做。

我打包行李的時候，會瘋狂地要每一個地方都很整齊，我不喜歡看到東西散掉，所以跑去無印良品買了很多行李專用的分類袋，因為很輕薄所以不會有占空間的問題，今年來英國的時候又買了兩個~哈哈哈

出發前還兩個人一邊視訊，一邊打包行李，邊聊天邊收東西收了三個小時，有夠開心的~

我們是搭荷蘭皇家航空，飛了14小時終於到了，馬上買明信片寫回家~~~


不知道你們和朋友出國的經驗如何呢? 可以跟我分享~~~
以後盡量每個禮拜一都寫一篇旅遊類的文章~~

下一篇就是正式開始兩周的志工生活啦~

感謝你們的閱讀~我們下次見~~xx