Time of my life :D

So I have not wrote in this in a while and I'm sure my dear grandmother will give me a lecture about it when I talk to her next ;) So in the last few weeks I have done alot! In mid October we had 2 weeks off of school and during that time I went to München with my host family and stayed there for a few days and toured the BMW Factory and stuff which was really really cool but sadly they would not allow pictures in there or anything so I can not post anything about that. I have noticed my understanding of the German language is getting better and I am starting to be able to follow the language in a conversation. The speaking part is still a challenge and I'm going to start putting more effort into that. After the two week break I switched from grade 9 to grade 11 so I pretty much had to start all over with making friends but that only took about a week and now I am social withing my grade. Its a strange feeling being so far from my family, I don't feel homesick but its just strange not being able to talk to them in real. Skype is good but its just weird haha. The weather is starting to get a little bit colder, not even as close as it is in Alberta but its about 5 degrees out now and with humidity its kinda cold :p I will be switching into a new host family on Dec. 9, I'm excited but will also miss my current one cause they are soo nice! In my town they have set up the Christmas decorations around town. On the pedestrian street there is a Christmas market during the day that just started up which is similar to a farmers market in canada. There is a ton of people, good food and a huge tree at the center of town that looks soo cool! next weekend i will attend a culture weekend orientation for the outbounds here going to different countries and i have to do a presentation in German about Canada and i am kinda nervous about that but all the inbounds have to do it so we are all in the same boat, but being the only Canadian i will be doing it alone...

hanging with friends in frankfurt

Frankfurt at sunset

my "oldie" exchange friend