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the last time i posted was 12 days ago (or something like that) ... i know i am behind... so lets do a quick catch up...


Sunday i get up get ready and we head out to grandmas... but stop in koblenz on the way... we ate and walked along the rhine. now its october here... that means its really freaking cold and theres alot of wind. so im walking down the Rhine with a hoodie on and freezing my butt off. plus theres a ton of wind ... we get to grandmas (i slept the whole hour and a half there) and grandma and grandpa arent even there... there's Christel's sister and her husband and baby. so christel and gregor leave (which i didnt know that they were just dropping us off so we could have a babysitter i thought it was a family vacation.... minus Julie because she had to stay home to take care of the horse) and maurice and i are sitting there for 3 hours by ourselves, with no tv or anything. maurice played his DS the whole time and i went through the newspaper looking at the pictures then stared at the wall. grandma and grandpa got home and they didnt even remember that we were coming. so... we were supposed to stay until wednesday and all there was for us to do was play games because they dont like to watch tv (and german tv has nothing good on during the day), which i am ok with playing games i like games. sunday i went to bed rather early for me and i slept until like 10:30 monday... got up ate breakfast, played games, ate lunch took a nap... i wasnt feeling too well (from all the wind ... gave me ear aches). so after nap i get up and we immediately go to the other grandmas house who lives in the next villiage... maurice said we are Driving there... yeah rite ... we drove 5 minutes and then walked a half hour ... if i wouldnt have been sick and the wind wouldnt have been so strong i would have been ok with it but grandma just couldnt seem to understand that i didnt feel well.... and then it was another 30 minute walk back to the car. you've also got to remember that i only brought hoodies with me and i bought a rain coat i dont have these ginormous coats that everyone here has. so the rest of the time i slept pretty much. christel and gregor got back tuesday night... i told christel i had ear aches and so she went all german mom on me and cut up onions, wrapped them in a dish towel and made me hold them over my ears... and to get rid of me head ache i had to sit at the table (alone while everyone else went in the livingroom) and breath in peppermint in hot water for a hour. then she let me stop breathing in the peppermint and go in the living room. now inorder for the onions to work on your ears they have to be warm... so she made me put the hood of my hoodie up and because the is no string in the hood she went and got a scarf and tied it around my neck... i felt like a dog with a cone on. then she wanted me to sleep like that... i attempted to to see if it would actually help but theres no way i could sleep with 2 huge onion lumps on my head... not to mention the smell... my hair spelled disgusting. so the next day i told her it didnt help and she left me alone... other than feeding me medicine... which of course had to be liquid i dont know why they dont have pills it seems like everything they have here is either liquid or a home remedy. so then we didnt leave until thursday around 7 p.m. so i had 3 days left of the my fall vacation and i attempted to make the best of it. i made a day trip to Cologne on saturday and spent the day with several other exchange students. it was just what i needed after the week at grandmas. we just sat there in the grass and talked and had fun. no schedule, no pleasing host parents, no one telling me to this or to do that... just a day to relax and talk to my friends. I even found out that other people have issues in school with the kids not interacting with them too. i think their issues are mare than mine but at least its not just me. thats what i love about being with rotary no matter what you are never the only one that goes through something theres always someone who is or has gone through the same thing. it makes you feel better about yourself kinda like your not a complete screw up and your not alone. all my friends in colonge are just now getting ready to start their fall vacation (they are in a different state so they have a different school schedule) so they were all excited and im like thanks guys im going back to school in 2 days and your all talking about going to france or belgium or where ever... (-.-) but yeah that took up a bit of my allowence (40 euros for the train) but i think it was worth it. but so i went back to school on monday ... ughhh... i hate that its still dark when i walk to school which by the way is completely horrible its soooooo cold... ive worn 2 hoodies and my rain coat and gloves to school everyday this week. also i have one less subject to do now because geography is now in german until after christmas break (it switches every quarter)... so now theres english and art and thats bout it... i attempted to keep up with math put they go too fast... ive already learned the stuff but we did it using graphing calculators (because its graphing functions that form hyperbolas) and they actually do the math for like 20 points and then graph it all ....i looked at it and i was uh no im going back to learning german. i take notes in physics and geography though... geography so i can catch myself back up... physics i have no clue why i just do ... maybe because we draw a lot of pictures... but its nothing like the physics i had last year... last year we learned about the mathematics behind everything... here they are learning how and engine works and now how electricity works to power a light bulb... does that even count as physics... if this was our physics class last yeah i wouldnt have had an issue with physics... so during school i work in my german book... i think by the end of november ill have it done if i dont get bored with it again and start drawing in the middle of class. today we had ate instead of history and no one had there art projects because we took them home to finish them on tuesday and no one knew about the change in the schedule until they got to school... i walked up to clara and in a really kid-likespeed and tone i said " clara! clara! will you pleasssssssssse make halloween decorations with me!?" she just kinda look at me like i was insane and said whaaaaaaaat!? ... but yeah so i made spiders out of paper ( i learned it from "Barney"... where you fold a piece of black paper in half, trace your hand cut it out and cut off the thumbs, open it up and glue on eyes and a mouth... just look at the picture below if you cant understand my description lol) and started on a sign that says happy Halloween. i want to hang it in the class window.



after the vacation i realize that i have no real friends in school and i need to start socializing more... so i went on facebook and added a bunch of people that are from my school.... a few asked me how we knew eachother and i told them i was an exchange student in their school and they're like oh cool... one girl had a conversation with me which was nice. so thats my first attempt we'll see how well it works out. 

spider

spider and sign... i want to hang them in the window at school