Happy Thanksgiving!

I was doing homework... then I decided to write.

I have a song seriously stuck in my head right now. Parachute by Cheryl Cole. It's a really good music video too. I actually had to listen to it about 10 times before bed last night, I just couldn't sleep. So, reader, I think you should definately go listen to that. It's addicting.

The homework thing again. I memorized a poem for a vortrag! I must make a presentation to the class tomorrow where I recite the poem, it is all auf Deutsch (in German) and I am very excited. Mine is shorter than everyone elses, but it is okay because being an exchange student this year I don't get grades and rarely even show up on the attendance list. I wish I did.

Tomorrow we will make apple and pumpkin pies. It will turn out funny though because the pie pan things are not round, so it will look more like..... not pie.
It probably won't taste like pie either. I haven't made it alone before. I always just helped my mom. More like I'd take samples and talk with her while she or my dad cook.

I really don't know how to make any of these foods for Thanksgiving... I have all the recipies though and they are all translated, so we celebrate Saturday and we will see then if everything is edible.

This is the first thanksgiving I have spend away from my family, most people at school didn't even know what it was when I told them. It's been interesting. I miss home, naturally, but things like this usually hit harder. It was an okay day, nothing special happened. So far the most of my day had my mind on waiting for a reply on a text message from someone, but they haven't replied yet. I hate waiting. 
The highlight of my day though will be talking to friends and family over skype before they celebrate thanksgiving. I just hope it doesn't make me homesick. I have only been seriously homesick about 3 times, it was no fun, so I really don't need it again.

School has been about the same as usual. There is a sort of friend that has a crush on me and I'm trying to just ignore it, because I really really don't like him at all like that. Other than that, we went to a Theater showing of 'A Christmas Carol' in Berlin with my class on Tuesday and it was in English. It was really boring. Everyone spoke so slow, but on the bright side I understood every word and the actors were all from USA as well, so their accents were understandable too.

After the play I met up with my friend, Mau (Mauricio, another exchanger from Mexico), and we went to the Christmas Market in Alexanderplatz. Christmas is beautiful here. I know it isn't Christmas time yet, but as it snowed Tuesday for the first time just  little as we walked through the Christmas Market I can tell it is already hitting Winter. It was magical. Christmas here isn't even cheesy, they take it seriously and make everything beautiful, not fake things all over. They also have a 'christmas man' and you put something like insence inside his belly, then the smoke comes out his mouth or pipe. It is really cute and everyone here has them.

This Winter is supposed to hit -20º C. Apparently that's normal. No one here likes snow or ice or cold. I love it.