Happy and Content!

Well I was sick for a few days but have recovered now. That was the first time I got homesick was when I was sick in bed... nobody can comfort you when you sick like your mommy lol My host mom was amazing when I was sick she made me soup and brought me food and such and I am very thankful for that! school this week was rather uneventful, I just show up and go to my classes and Try to understand what is happening but there is a difference from trying to understand and actually understanding haha. Slowly I am being able to understand more and more German but the understanding is not the hard part the hard part is speaking it! I have realized my tongue is totally not made for speaking another language, my pronunciation sucks! but i shall learn eventually! Yesterday I went to Frankfurt and met with the other Austauschschüler friends i have. We went shopping and then chilled by the river and talked and such. Was alot of fun, and I hope to have alot more moments like those :D Today I attended a choir concert of my host mothers and it was very cool! I was only the 3rd time i have ever been in a church and the inside of the church was beautiful!! listening to the choir was amazing too sounded soo nice! but made me tired, it was like listening to a really long lullaby to me but it was really nice to hear at the end of the day! tomorrow i shall attend my first lesson of german class with the other Austauschschülers so i will see how that goes! good bye for now! will write again in another week or so :D

One Month Tomorrow!!!

Ok so it will be one month tomorrow! let me give you a update on what I have done since I last posted. I attended school for one week after I came here and got a feel of the school and made some friends there. Although it was a bit strange being back in grade 9 because I cant move up till my German improves enough to do so. But overall everyone in my class is very nice and only the first 2 days were awkward for me than everyone wanted to talk to me and be my friend etc. After that first week I went to a language camp with all the other exchange students for 2 weeks and during that time we did so much stuff! I started off the two weeks by taking a train with another exchange student from Frankfurt to Fulda which is about a hour and a half ish train ride, when we bought our tickets we got on a later train by accident but the tickets were already paid for so it so happened that we would be 20 min late. when we got there we were the only ones but we found a Rotarian that stayed behind for us and he took us to the hostel and everything was good! When I arrived we started off by a lecture from the Inbound exchange student coordinator. After that we got to know eachother pretty well! During the two weeks we did tons of activities such as a team tower thing where we wore a harness and climbed this 50m high tower that is a vertical obstacle course. for some in our group it presented a challenge but I did it without a problem. Another day we camped out in Native Tipi's for a night and did a bunch of fun stuff at the camp there such as making traditional German Bread, walks, and of course learn German. after one week we switched hostels from being in a small town outside of Fulda then we moved to another one in Wassekuppe which it the highest town in the state of Hesse. there we toured the town and learned more German of course. My favorite part of Wassekuppe was when in the evening we went on a really long scavenger hunt and ended up at a sheep farm where they had these awesome dogs haha I fell in love with the puppy Mozart they had there haha I did not want to leave! one of the following days we went to this amusement park right behind our hostel which we did not notice there the whole week... and they had this cool ride because it is a ski resort in the winter but in the summer its like a down hill rollercoster that you control the speed of and stuff its really cool! i also realized im getting fat cause I never stopped eating junk food there haha. but that is just a short little blurp of what happened in the two weeks. After we said our good byes i headed home with my counsellor and soon i was home :) even though i was sad to leave the other exchange students i was glad to get back into a normal routine. I went back to school this week but to my suprise today they changed my schedual so when i get to school i am in a new class so i have to make new friends and all of that again... but that only took like 2 hours before people started talking to me and stuff so it all turned out good i guess but i still wished i would have stayed but i guess everything happens for a reason. i will try to post weekly but the problem is finding the time so until next week ish i guess! Tschüss!