Friday was a pretty normal day in germany. i woke up late (my alarm clock actually went off but i turned it off and went back to sleep), somehow managed to find clean clothes, went down and ate breakfast (cereal in the Nelles family),and then walked 15 minutes to school in the below freezing temperatures. average fall day. at school i did my german work the entire day except for in history... i drew a ghost to go along with my happy halloween sign and spider that are hanging in the window. 3rd period we had chemestry... teacher was stuck in a traffic jam on highway so we stood in the hallway for a while then went and asked a teacher to open our classroom so we could sit down. 6th period was cancelled so i had to sit in the free-period room for an hour until my german lesson. i did more german work. i was alone in the lesson. i dont know where the other three were its weird that all three didnt show up. so we had our lesson... checked out the exchange student section of the school website (http://www.mtg-mt.de/das-mtg/mtg-weltweit.html) and thats bout it. i walked home in the freezing cold weather and noticed that there are still flowers alive.... german flowers must be magical if we had cold days like this in the US everything would be dead... i mean by october everything is already dead... the entire time ive been here there are always flowers and i dont understand how...they must have something in the water... maybe its the same thing that gives the people the energy to walk everywhere...hmmmm.

saturday was spent doing absolutely nothing except talking to mom and john and playing angry birds.mom and dad went shopping and bought me some new clothes to bring me considering im down to like 4 pair of jeans and my new ones just broke.. dumb zipper.  I made Velveta mac and cheese for lunch... it turned out to be one of those things that sounds so good and you make it and eat it and it doesnt taste as good as you remember - the first bowl was good... second not as great.........no one wanted to try it later that night...    I spent some time watching tv with the family after dinner too. during dinner i brought up the topic of halloween and im pretty sure that i am going trick-or-treating with my host siblings and carving pumpkins too. Halloween is on a monday... i have dance class on monday (which started last monday but i think i forgot to mention it in my post so heres a brief overview... since i had gone to a dance practice with laura i dressed the way she did - in jogging pants, a tank top with a hoodie, hair up, sneakers... everyone else wore normal clothes - jeans, shirt, shoes, hair however. my dance partner is really short - my hand is supposed be at the same level as my eyes... its under the level of my heart... but we seem to be ok. we learned basic steps then made them fancier and ended with throwing in the twisty thing... and also how to leave your partner when the song ends. there are several people in the dance class from my class and some from other classes in the 10th grade.), so i think i am going to get some of my friends from my dance class to go trick or treating with me too... probably here in montabaur since this is where the dance studio is. then tuesday is a holiday so that means no school and i can stay out late trick or treating... i wish the day after halloween was a holiday in the US.

today (sunday) i got up early-ish (9:45... it was supposed to be 9 but didnt hear the stupid alarm clock so...) and i went downstairs and looked out the window of the back yard. the yard was half frozen. the area that was in the shade was covered in frost ... thick frost... while the area in the sun was melted... cant wait to see what it looks like at 730 on the way to school tomorrow.  Christel, maurice, and i went to christel's friends house and had brunch ... the normal german bread meat cheese nutella and fruit spread. we stayed there for a few hours. there were 4 other kids there ... 2 girls were 11 and 2 guys a little older than me but still in my school. they have 2 little kittens ... they are both solid gray and have huge brown eyes... we played with them a while until they became antisocial and went to sleep... then we played a game. then we came home and here we are. i am supposed to go back to Peggy's sometime soon i dont exactly know when though.

considering this post contains only 3 days i think i only have one picture but here are the

mac and cheese!

the half frozen back yard