Day 30. Sunday, August 28, 2011.

1:57 PM |

So i have decide that instead of a daily blog it will now be a weekly blog. I have too much going on throughout the week to do a daily entry... i think if you look on sunday nights from now on you should see the new entries.

this week was very hectic. it was supposed to be the week with the long classes on monday and tuesday. so monday was normal we walked to school (surprisingly when i walked in and saw the people that i had spent 6 days with nonstop i was kinda happy like hey look my friends which i wasnt expecting) and i stayed in the afternoon and walked home by myself. Then i went to Anna Lina's sweet 16 party (she is my host sister at my next family). that was pretty fun. there were about 15 girls there and some of them sat around me and we were talking back and forth in german for a little, then we played a game where you get a word and you have to describe it with other words... that was difficult considering the words were german i had to explain it in english and they had to figure out the german word. we ate sausages and cupcakes. the cupcakes were pretty good i think i had like 5 lol. then i sat there and talked with a girl about rotary and the exchange program... she wants to go to the USA for like 6 weeks but she is looking for a swap where a girl will take her place for 6 weeks in the summer while she is in the US (so if anyone is interested in that let me know). then tuesday came and i thought it was a normal day where i would have to stay late but i found out in 4th period (right after my book punched a hole in the top of my "add hot water for a meal" cup) that the afternoon classes were cancelled and that wednesdays 6th period class was cancelled. so i went home early (laura had late classes) then wednesday i went home even earlier than normal. then Thrustday... ughhh. i had arranged that i would have a german lesson from my school tutor from 130 to 230 and then a german lesson at home at 3. well my 2 hours of gym got cancelled so i went home at like 11 (i stopped at the store on my way home and bought oreos and a monster and some other stuff) and stayed until about 110 then walked back to school for my lesson. this lesson was actually the first lesson that was productive. i learned a few words and began forming sentences that i could use to describe my sailing trip. so after that i had to hurry home for my next lesson and i got there with 5 minutes to spare. so i sat and waited for a half hour and no one showed up so i was like great it was supposed to be at the other girls house or we got the wrong day or something. but it turns out that the teacher called and left a message saying that it was cancelled. then friday was normal at school... later that night i went to kirmes with Sebastian. This brings me to my next point. I hate German weather just so everyone knows. friday it was like 85 degrees all day and then at 7 pm when i started to get ready it started pouring down rain and thundering and lightning (i dont like that word it makes no sense: thunder and lighting ... it is thundering and lightning) and it got like 20 degrees colder. it goes from really warm to cold and raining and back to warm. but i went to kirmes anyway and we had to stay under the tent most the time except when going to the bathroom or when buying fries. hopefully if i go to another kirmes it wont be so blah outside and i wont be sick afterwards like i am now.

this week i also started noticing something kinda weird. i have been thinking to myself in german. i was just walking around and thinking bout what i had to do or what ever and like 3 minutes later i was like OMG i just said that in german in my head! it has happened a few times now. that kinda boosted my spirit this week with the whole learning german thing.

i would also like to go into a little bit more detail about my school. the school has 3 buildings of which i have classes in each. our class that we are in most often is in the newest part so everything is pretty nice. none of the rooms have clocks in them ... so i never know what time it is which bugs me so i need to buy a watch some time soon. all of the rooms have chalk boards... weird chalk boards. the board is on a thing that allows it to move up higher or lower allowing everyone to see the board. then it has 2 front panels that open (almost like cupboard doors) to a larger chalkboard and the panels also have chalkboards on the back. so i dont know if that makes much sense but i will try to take a picture and post for next week. there are a few (like 2) rooms that have smart boards in them but i haven't seen a teacher use one yet. Oh yeah... kids with crutches... they arent the normal crutches that you would have if you broke your leg, they are the crutches a person who has trouble walking would have, that hook around your wrist... i dont understand how you can walk in a cast when you have these. now my next point i brought up to sebastian and he agrees with me. Kids in our school eat a lot. we have a class then 5 minutes break then a class then 15 mins break and that cycle continues 3 times over... every break we have whether it is 5 or 15 minutes kids are eating and drinking and not just like a cookie or something like a sandwich or an apple, and when there is a 15 minute break the Kiosk is open to buy mini pizzas or strudel things or whatever else they have that day. i think that it is because for breakfast people eat bread with meat/cheese/nutella or what ever and it isnt filling. i know it isnt for me. my family eats bread with meat and cheese some times for all 3 meals of the day and it just ugh dont you guys get tired of eating bread so much and its not like they layer on the meat and cheese it just a piece of bread with a piece of meat with a piece of cheese and then all you can taste is bread.

but anyway... oh yeah on friday we went into town and bought me a sim card for cell phone so i finally have a working cell phone. and on the way home we went to mcdonalds for ice cream. at this mcdonalds they had 4 types of McFluries: Kit Kat, Smarties (the german version of M&Ms), and then Magnums which i guess is some type of chocolate and there was a brownie version and a nut version. since i did not know what the magnums were i got the kitkat. i had prepared myself for the moment when i went to mcdonalds... i knew everything was smaller. the lady handed me the McFlury and the cup was the size of a kids cup. we went outside and i took the lid off to start eating it. it looked like they took a single bar from a kitkat pack and crumbled it over the top of a blob of vanilla ice cream. needless to say my preparations were not good enough for what i saw... but it still tasted good so i guess thats all that mattered.

well i think thats about it... so until next week learn from my mistake and never go to kirmes when its cold and rainy.

PICTURES OF THE WEEK