Day 114. Sunday, November 20, 2011. Weihnachtsmarkt. (Christmas Market.)

7:05 PM |

so i am actually attempting to get this entry done today, sunday... i usually start it on sunday and it gets finished around tuesday or wednesday. my last one didnt get done until late wednesday night which was really unusual. so thursday i went to school and finished my turkey picture (4 days in the making) then we had gym and we had to perform our dance again even though we never actually practiced it all together except for the 15 mins she gave us at the beginning of class. we got a 2- which is pretty good its kinda like a b. when i got home from school i ate lunch and then went for a walk with merlin. then i came home and got around a little later and went to town. i took money out of home account and put in in this account here, then i paid for johns present by asking for help from one of the bank workers and i cant believe how well it went it took a few trys for him to understand what i wanted but it got through then he helped and all is good now. i then went shopping for toiletries and also box a mixed box of chocolates (that are extremely small) that way when i need my chocolate fix i am not eating all that dad brought me from home... theres already a lot gone. then i walked home and peggy had to work late so everyone just ate on their own... peggy didnt get home until like 10:30! i also looked at clips from finding nemo in german on youtube... pretty funny. i had a conversation with one of my friends from school back home in german too... its kinda discouraging when a kid that was at the same level of german when school ended last year as you can now speak at the same level as you... when you have been in germany for almost 4 months and he has 45 minutes of german 5 days a week in school... but never the less i am exploring europe and hes sitting in a classroom so i win lol. friday rolled around and i went to school.... actually did german most of the day. i made a chart of all of the endings and now i am going to focus on memorizing it and applying it to my speaking... i am getting pretty good at learning something and quickly applying it to what i say... the hard part is trying to get your place in a conversation... when you are talking to more than one person you have to try to understand what they are saying then you do and you have something to say but by the time you figure out what they said and work out what it is you want to say they have already moved on to another topic... its like come on give me 3 seconds to think please. friday we also had... you guessed it ... only 5 classes and i had german lessons after the 6 class so i had to stay... again. we had 3 weeks in a row without a 6th period on friday, then last week we had 6 but my german lesson got canceled, and then this week 5 lessons with a german lesson >.> so in the german lesson Frau Thelen brought me a practice test book so i can start to work on some tests to prepare for the one i have to take the 1st weekend in december at the inbound weekend. after the lesson i walked home... as i was leaving the school i saw a group of kids standing in a circle in the entrance to the "schoolyard". there was one guy sitting on a crate of beer and everyone else was passing about 4 bottles of alcohol around the circle... then there was the little compact car with subs in it that probably are bigger than the backseat that was blaring music....... so partying on school property... pretty sure that you would be arrested for that in the US lol. so after i got home i ate lunch that was way too much for me but i finished it because i didnt want to leave just a little that wouldnt be a meal. then i went up stairs... changed into my red pj pants, my reindeer toesocks, and my elf shoe slippers, then went to my computer, turned on MIX95.1 (my home town radio station) online and jammed to the christmas music that they started playing that day and thats how i spent the rest of the night. saturday i got up and ate breakfast then i baked cookies for my host family and for the movie night later that day. then i took a shower and did hair and make up with perfect finishing timing for being picked up by Luisa, Jenny, and Katharina. we left then we drove to koblenz and we walked around there for 3 hours and looked at all the christmas market... its basically a bunch of little hut things that kinda look like cottages or cabins and each one has a different vendor, usually of some sort of christmas stuff but sometimes it had nothing to do with it lol. so we walked around and looked at everything and theres some pretty cool things there and i took pics of almost everything and then we went and got pizza for lunch then we walked around more and went to 2 clothes shops and then we went and bought crepes .. i had nuetella and bananas in mine it was so good lol...then we saw the german santa - "Weihnachtsman". then we went to get hot chocolate/ cappuccino... i got cappuccino to give me energy. then we went to claras for the movie... there was me, jenny, clara, katharina, Luisa, Luise, and Franzi.... and we had homemade doeners and then i almost threw up from eating so much and then we had icecream with a warm raspberry sauce and i almost threw up again.... i fell over and couldnt sit bak up lol...then we went and watched "as good as it gets" with jack nicholson. clara is one of those people that are extremely ticklish so while watching the movie i would poke her side or neck and she would have a spasm on the floor... quite comical. so after all the food i ate that day we then had my cookies, a giant box of sour gummies, a bag of sour gummies, a box of mixed mars chocolates, a bag of other chocolates, chips, popcorn, and other stuff but i just ate the sour gummies to try to give me energy...so then when the movie was over which it was like 3 hours long we talked a while ... this was one of those conversations where i just sat there because i couldnt get a word in ... but when it comes to 6 girls and gossip no one can get a word in so.... then i was the last one to get dropped off... and i really felt like i was going to throw up (there were a million speed bumps on the way home)... i got home and watched tv with my host family for a few hours... started out with a music show then it was 1000 ways to die in german (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) and then it was some movie with a sex scene in it and andreas told me to close my eyes and i didnt know if he was being serious or not so i kinda laughed a little and looked away so i covered all my bases then it was another music show before we decided that midnight was late enough and we went to bed. Sunday (today) i woke up and went and ate breakfast then sat and talked with toby, peggy, and andreas for a little with Merlin sleeping on my lap. then we got around and went to a furniture store... most of this furniture cost more than what it did for me to come to germany! we spent a good 2 and a half hours looking at all 4 floors of this store and contemplating whether or not the entertainment center would match the couch or not... then we walked back home which was all uphill ... even though i am in alot better shape then i used to be the hills still kill me lol... maybe by the end of the year they wont...

sorry no noted of the week ...

PICTURES OF THE WEEK

merlin was helping me write my blog today :)

my finished turkey

my wall of art :) soon there will be santas and snowflakes and gingerbread men and snowmen and reindeer and everything else

MOVIE NIGHT

everyone singing along to the end credits song... i didnt even know it lol

clara trying to hide

claras icecream on the left jennys on the right.... they both asked for a tiny bit... i think claras mom didnt really care what clara had to say lol

ohhh can you tell i was bout to throw up

eating doener

KOBLENZ CHRISTMAS MARKET

the sugar covered donuts are called "Berliners" but are just jelly filled donuts... the sugar covered dough shaped like a man is supposed to be for st. martains day like the pumpkins and the pretzels