Month 7

My mom came recently to visit me for just under a week. We went to the TV. tower in Berlin, ate legit pizza (made by Italians), went to the Therme, and she also got to meet a couple of my friends.

The day after I took my mom to the Airport (at 5 in the morning), I went on a weekend trip to Hamburg with my host family for a bakers' convention (we went for the samples!). We ate a lot that day, and then afterwords went on a bus tour and then Shopping. In the shopping mall I ran into an exchange student that was in my district in USA last year and it was completely by chance that we met there. In a city of over 6 million people, its nice to get that small-world feeling again. I also heard that there a good 5,000 millionaires there, and I was considering throwing myself in front of the most expensive cars to see what would happen for to go on a husband-hunt, but unfourtunately I didn't end up doing either of those things.


I started playing soccer with my school's girls' team. It's actually so much fun! I'll be doing that always on Tuesdays, but it's somewhat sad that I didn't go sooner because I only have one more week until Europe Tour and a couple other trips, and won't really be in town for over a month. I can't wait for it :) It will be really weird to just not go to school for over a month though, what if I forgot to tell someone that I'm leaving?

Last night was a friend's 18th Birthday party. We danced all night and went to bed at 5:30 and it was AWESOME. So much fun. I can't even explain it. Germany is amazing. I love it.

aaaaaand here comes March!

My mom comes in 3 days!!
So here are my plans coming up...

March: my mom visits and then go to to Hamburg for a weekend with my host family.

April: Europe Tour! Then I go to the beach of Denmark for a week with my host family.

May: Kayacking trip with my class, Paris with my class which will be over my 18th Birthday!

June: Schools out

July: fly back home!


I wish I could go back in the ski trip :) that would be amazing!
Last weekend I went to Ester and Julians Birthday party, we played Billiards and it was pretty good.
Then Sunday it took me from 11:30  to 15:30  to get back from northern Berlin back home, way to go Deutscher Bahn! The train drivers are on strike all the time, so most of the trains are not working. As a main system of transportation for Germany, it is a serious problem. After I got home from the long day we ate BBQ and sat around the fire for a little. Then I went to sleep reallllly eary. I was unbearably tired. SO tired I could not stay awake as I watched the Simpsons. So I went to bed before 9PM.

 Today was super. Nothing terribly special, but it was an awesome day. All the teachers went to Potsdam today to strike, so we got out after 4th period. I was invited to play Fußball with the girls team at my school, but I forgot my sport clothes, so I watched with a friend and then the 3 of us, Gina, Denise, and I went into the city together.
When I got home I also ate some chocolate (Frauentag!!!) and then went for a nice run. Really good day.

At the bookstore....

Friday I went to my first Fußball game!!!! It was Cottbus vs. Frankfurk 2:1 in Cottbus stadium with Gina. We sat in the 3rd row! Even got a player to wave and wink at me!

it was sooo cold!

This was taken without zooming. We were close.

He waved!

they do a flag dance.

lots of flags.

This weekend I didn't end up going to Reed's Birthday party. That was a dissapointment. I basically just moped about it for a good 20 minutes, then we ate dinner and laughed how my host sister had to cringe each time she swallowed because her throat hurt her so badly. 
Saturday was play practice again after a super long time of not going, then we went out for Chineese.

Monday we had no school and I had Max come over to m house. That was the first time a friend from the school came to my house. I was actually really nervous. What if he doesn't like my host family? What if they don't like him? What if it's awkward or we run out of things to do? It was fine. It was pretty good actually. He is one of the the only friends from school that I really do things out of school with, and I trust him, so I guess I didn't have much to worry about in the first place.
In school though it was weird. My teacher asked me " who was that boy you were with yesterday?"
and I said "Max" and she wanted to know exactly which max it was and then once she and I were on the same page she said"Ah, that one! Then it's good. Have a nice day!" She was even speakig to me in Englisch! I can't figure out why and how she knew I was with him or what! She is friends with my host parents and that  could be why, but it could also be that she saw us walking to the bus stop. I am dying of curiosity!

So at school today I had no want to be there, but after school I went with Rebekah downtown and walked around. We went into the Book store at one point and found some awesome things. One: We found a CD titled " ITCHY POOPZBOY" and another from Mily Cirus, but if you compare it they went in order of skankyness. Little kid with spakles, girl looking happy, then on to the skank with puffy lips and showing off her stomache. Bravo, aren't we impressed. We also ran across an album from Yolanda be cool where it was all the same song "We no speak Americano" but with 4 different versions, and all for the great price of 5,99 Euros!