Okay so my vlog 6 didn't really work it wasn't able to load up. So I have my next one. vlog 7.
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Thursday, November 26, 2009
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
VLOG 5
okay so my last one was muted b/c of the music i had in the beginning so hopefully this one wont get the same fate. vlog uploaded and ready for viewing....^_^
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Saturday, October 31, 2009
Monday, October 5, 2009
No more writing for me.
i'm doing vlogs now. you can find my vlogs here at this link. it's on youtube of course.
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Friday, September 25, 2009
I'm just going to sum up the 2 weeks in Frieburg and than the 1st 2 weeks in Bad Krozingen so I can catch ya'll up to speed on my life.
2nd Week in Freiburg:
I started work in Carol Sharuz Hause. I helped teach the 9th and 10th graders English or well mainly grammer. It was a fun week I loved the kids they weren't to much of a trouble they were really good even though they had trouble with their grammer, but so did I and stil do a little bit, but this grammer was easy.
3rd Week in Freiburg:
This was the last week I was going to be spending with this family. They were really nice to meet and said that I'm welcomed back to their house whenever I like, and that I better come back to visit them when I go into Freiburg during the weekend. Me and Pierre my host brother still keep in touch. Oh Saturday I met my final host family well at least the dad, and the two girls. They brought me back home. Dang the house is HUGE! I have my own room, bathroom, and restroom that I have to keep clean. Oh and guess what they have a maid that cleans up everyday so the house is spotless always, plus I have to clean the places I use, as well as my host mother cleans the house. It's crazy. I start school Sept. 14 but I'll tell you next weekend about how school was
2nd Week in Freiburg:
I started work in Carol Sharuz Hause. I helped teach the 9th and 10th graders English or well mainly grammer. It was a fun week I loved the kids they weren't to much of a trouble they were really good even though they had trouble with their grammer, but so did I and stil do a little bit, but this grammer was easy.
3rd Week in Freiburg:
This was the last week I was going to be spending with this family. They were really nice to meet and said that I'm welcomed back to their house whenever I like, and that I better come back to visit them when I go into Freiburg during the weekend. Me and Pierre my host brother still keep in touch. Oh Saturday I met my final host family well at least the dad, and the two girls. They brought me back home. Dang the house is HUGE! I have my own room, bathroom, and restroom that I have to keep clean. Oh and guess what they have a maid that cleans up everyday so the house is spotless always, plus I have to clean the places I use, as well as my host mother cleans the house. It's crazy. I start school Sept. 14 but I'll tell you next weekend about how school was
1st 2 weeks in Bad Krozingen-Schimdhofen
I've gone to school, and rode a bike everyday almost. okay I'll make it a little longer than just that sentence. I have gone to school, the schools here are strange. Somedays I start at 7:45 others I start at 9:40, and somedays I end at 1pm, 3:30pm or 5pm. The classes I don't understand much at all only a few words here and there. I've made some friends actually going to hang out with them tonight watch some movies eat some food. Oh I made homemade chocolate chip cookies by myself and I didn't burn down the kitchen. I know I'm proud of myself too. lol The cookies actually turned out good and taste good as well. Tomorrow I'm going to make a cake for my host sister since her birthday is this Sunday. Anna is turning 15 years old. I love the family, the house, the pets, and the small villiage I live in. I ride my bike everyday to school it's only 3 km away. I end school in 4 weeks, and then I start working the 1st of November and my work ins 5km away which is great exericse for me. Oh I started volleyball again practice are only on Mon. and Wed. from 7:30-9:30 at night. Yep that's pretty much it. Have fun in college tell me about it.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Entschuldigung für den späten Posten
Heres the last week in Bonn, and the first week in Freiburg.
Okay so I don’t really have internet for 3 weeks and I feel weird using their computer all the time. Especially since it’s in the parent’s bedroom and so is the television, but I’m okay with that. So I’ll tell you what happened or at least try to remember it all. The weeks seem like months here slipping by so fast having fun and can’t remember all of it.
Last week: Monday was the last Monday of being in Bonn and going to school on Monday. We still learned everything like normal I don’t think we went anywhere. It was also the last day that we were going to have our Open Door meeting and got our tickets for the train. The kids going to Freiburg would be the second group to leave at 11:14am. Tuesday after class most of us just stayed at the AIB and chilled for a little bit and then headed off to the Haribo outlet one last time before we left to go to our new gastfamilies. Wednesday let’s see here I just mainly spent my time studying and packing since the following day was the big test day to see how much we learned in the 7 weeks that we’ve been there. Thursday we took the test and finished around noon. I ate my lunch there and then just stayed for a good portion of the day there not wanting to go anywhere as it was a very hot day. Some of us napped on the couchs, others were on the computer, playing the piano, or playing ping-pong. Friday was the last day that we would be at the AIB it was a sad day. We had a breakfast party and just talked to one another. After the party ever one just stayed there and cleaned up our mess also just do what we normal did after class would get out. Around one Arianna gave us papers to evaluate the course, and the teachers once that was over we could do what we want expect for at 7 the fairwell party was to take place. I rode with my gastfamilie to the party that was at the old AIB and ate. A couple of us entertained the gastfamilies by either singing in English/Deutsch, or playing an instrument. Joe played his dudlesack (pipebags) and Ryan Knott played is trumpet. After the party the group just walked around Bonn one last time and then chilled in the Biergarten one last time with each other. When people started to leave we all said our goodbyes and wished them luck with their new gastfamilies.
Saturday I got up early and made sure that all my things were packed and ready to go. I came downstairs and my gastmutter und gastvater had the breakfast out for me. So we ate and after breakfast Nina finally woke up and they presented me with a gift a photo frame with photos Bonn so that I would always remember it and them which was sweet. When I was about to get on the train I told them I had left them a gift and I hoped that they would enjoy it. When I was almost to Freiburg which took around 4 hours; Nina texted me and said that they loved my gifts. I arrived at the station with the others and we found our new gastfamilies. My new host family like the French greet each other with a kiss on each cheek which freaked me out a bit. Mein neu gastmutter und gastshwester picked me up. Mein gastvater und gastbrude wars nach fusssball spiel. We came home and they showed me around, my room the place. My host sister Maria doesn’t speak much English, my mother spoke to me in German and when I gave her the look of confession would tell me in English. Maria asked if I wanted to swim in the pool I said yes of course and we did that after we had some delicious homemade Obst pie. The father came home, and my brother it was nice my brother Pierre showed me around the place again and explained to me in English about what was going on since he spent a year in Utah he could speak very well English. Later that night a family that was a friend of my gastfamilie came over they had a soon Stefen who was Pierre’s friend and Thomas who was Maria’s friend. The dad and mom were nice people of the family that came over. The dad talked in English with me and he seemed like a cool guy. During dinner got interesting. One side of the table spoke in French the other German, and then it would be all French. So I just mainly sat there in silence and ate my food that I couldn’t finish as they piled a lot of it on my plate. Stefen helped by translating a lot of what was going on which was nice as did Pierre. After dinner all of us kids went up to Pierre’s room and just chilled by listening to music and looking at his year book from Utah. A little while later we went swimming again and played some water polo which I never played before.
Sunday I got up early took a shower and had breakfast with the family. The dad would speak to me in Deutsch and expect me to answer in Deutsch. I tried my best, but sometimes I didn’t know the vocabulary, or I had no idea what he was asking or saying to me thankfully Pierre could help me by translating it. Freibrug Deutsch is different than Bonn Deutsch believe me. Around noon me and Pierre took our bikes down to the train station and meet up with Stefen. We headed into the Black Forest to go to this lake with 2 other friends of Pierre’s: Sofie and Max. They spoke French so again I had no idea what they were talking about. But Sofie talked to me in English she’s a cool chick me and her mainly hung out that day while the boys went and did their own thing. That night I went out with the same group of people and we went to a club called 18 months. Since the club allowed kids who were 16 or 17 years old the others could go. If we went to a regular club only me and Pierre would have been able to get in as we’re the only 18 year olds there.
Monday: My first week in my new family and new environment. It’s really wonderful. Love living up in the mountains of Freiburg, but me + bike + mountains = disaster. I don’t have the power to get up the huge hill that there is to get to the house. If I lived in a flatter surface area it would be easier to bike to places. I would rather walk, but the tram cost 2.10 a euro just one way. So I’ll be taking the bike a lot..haha it’s going to be a lot of fun. Hopefully by the end of the 3 weeks I’ll be able to get up the mountain with my bike…..hopefully. Well let’s see what else happened today. Oh yes Pierre and I went down town and he showed me around the place we came back and swam in the pool. After that I read a book outside in the garten which was lovely. A couple of hours later my host mother asked me if I wanted to ride down the organic store I said sure and we rode our bikes done to the store it’s really cool. I found my soy milk and she got some cereal and other things that she need in the house. After we came back I grabbed my book and chilled outside in the nice weather. Of course I watched a movie with my host sister and brother. It was Step Up, but it was in German. Which was okay with me since I already seen the movie and I knew what it was about.
Tuesday well let’s see I got up like normal had breakfast like normal and like always did my own thing. Well until Pierre asked me if I wanted to watch a movie online which of course I did we watched The Proposal. It was a good movie. At first we were watching it in German and then we switched it to English so that I could understand it better. Once that was down we had lunch. I had to eat quickly as it was already 2pm and I had to meet with Duncan at 3pm. Since I was shown the tram way I took the tram. I found my way easily to the building that I needed to get to, and I meet up with Nat who happened to be in a meeting with him before me. Duncan is a cool guy and we talked about what I’ll be doing for the next months coming up and getting settle. He asked how my host family was and if everything was alright. Of course it is the family is great. Once my meeting was done I started to walk to the tram stop, but it started to rain I thought why not wait it out and found a book store to go in. Found some good books that I really wanted to buy. When the rain was starting to let up I walked home. Man does my butt, and legs are sorrow. I get a work out each time I walk up the huge hill or small mountain. But thankfully my final host family doesn’t live on a mountain and I can get to and from their house with a bike easier than if I lived with these one right now. When I got back though my host mom asked if I wanted to look at some kid books so that I can work on my German. I agreed to it and we sat in the kitchen looking at a book going over words slowly for almost an hour. After supper I was asked if I wanted to watch a movie again. This was a German film about the time before WWII and how the Germans were racist and all. It was a good movie I understood some of it, but they also helped by explaining it to me.
Wednesday I’m not all too sure what I’m going to do today. I think I may go after lunch with my host dad and host mom somewhere they want to show me around a bit. I can’t wait for it. I think we are taking bikes and most likely will have to go back up hill….I’m going to make a fool out of myself when we have to go back up the hill. Okay so the good thing is we didn’t have to ride bikes up any mountain we just walked up and down the mountain side of the Black Forest. It was beautiful a wonderful day to go and do it. We left I think around 3pm and we didn’t get done until around 6pm. It was like 3 hours of walking up and down a mountain, but having fun enjoying the time with my host family and seeing the wonderful view that was in front of us. When we finished we drove to this café that was also a hotel and had some Eis. I had Eisschokolade (sp) which was delicious. We arrived at home around 7pm and well be having supper soon.
Thursday well I tried to get a hold of Alex to figure what’s up with my intern. I still have to email my other intern, and I’m still not getting internet on my computer. I have no idea what’s up. I miss talking to you guys even if it’s just through facebook and messages. It’s something that keeps. I can live without the internet, but I mean it get’s lonely even if I am in a different country and in new surroundings. My host family took me up to this nice little restaurant on top of a hill and showed me the place and got ice cream it was very nice. And then I meet the German Oma. This was nice of them. I did check my facebook and email and of course my laptop still isn’t working for some odd reason at this house, but I think my host dad has the wrong passphrase that he gave me. I’ll try at the school that I’ll be interning at for a week and hopefully it’s not my laptop, but the wireless at this family’s place. Friday well let’s see I went shopping with my host mother and sister which was nice bonding time with them. I only have 2 weeks left with host family and I hope that this blog won’t be too long for you to read….Oh and after that had a nice meal with the family. Later that day me and my host mother dropped of Maria at her friend’s house and went up the Black Forest again to meet up with Pierre and Claus. We walked through the Black Forest to this restaurant that they were waiting at. We got something to eat there and then we sort of ran back to the car through the forest as it was getting dark.
Saturday I got a call from Alex Benko the guy who I’ll be interning for a week at the school to help the Germans with their English. I meet up with him at 5:30 that day to go over what we needed to do for the following week. I have to make up a lesson for this coming Monday for the class hopefully I’ll do well because I’ve never taught before, but it’ll look good on my applications. When I came back from meeting with Alex my family took me to the Wine Fest that was going on. We stayed out until 2am and had a lot of fun. I had tasted maybe five different kinds of wines: 1 red, 1 pink, and 3 white…lol they really do love their wine down south more than their beer. Sunday I finally did a load of laundry. Wow I can’t believe I have only 2 weeks left with this family. Also I cleaned my room which is nice to do. Don’t do much on Sunday since it’s supposed to be quiet. I study my German go over my lesson and well clean…lol Can’t forget about the lovely mountain bike ride that I took with my host dad. Four miles up the mountain I had to stop a couple of times, because I’m out of shape I guess. We stopped at a Hotel that was up there and I had the delicious Black Forest Cake. When we were coming down from the mountain I fell twice one on each side of the bike. When I fell on the right side I bruised the muscle in my thigh and got many little thorns in my hand. But I’m okay I’m just a little sore from the bike ride. I took a shower and cleaned up making sure my scrapes were cleaned as well. Supper was good homemade and healthy like always. I went with Pierre, Maria, and my host mom to someone’s house to see the garden that Pierre had to take care of for this week it’s a huge house.
Okay so I don’t really have internet for 3 weeks and I feel weird using their computer all the time. Especially since it’s in the parent’s bedroom and so is the television, but I’m okay with that. So I’ll tell you what happened or at least try to remember it all. The weeks seem like months here slipping by so fast having fun and can’t remember all of it.
Last week: Monday was the last Monday of being in Bonn and going to school on Monday. We still learned everything like normal I don’t think we went anywhere. It was also the last day that we were going to have our Open Door meeting and got our tickets for the train. The kids going to Freiburg would be the second group to leave at 11:14am. Tuesday after class most of us just stayed at the AIB and chilled for a little bit and then headed off to the Haribo outlet one last time before we left to go to our new gastfamilies. Wednesday let’s see here I just mainly spent my time studying and packing since the following day was the big test day to see how much we learned in the 7 weeks that we’ve been there. Thursday we took the test and finished around noon. I ate my lunch there and then just stayed for a good portion of the day there not wanting to go anywhere as it was a very hot day. Some of us napped on the couchs, others were on the computer, playing the piano, or playing ping-pong. Friday was the last day that we would be at the AIB it was a sad day. We had a breakfast party and just talked to one another. After the party ever one just stayed there and cleaned up our mess also just do what we normal did after class would get out. Around one Arianna gave us papers to evaluate the course, and the teachers once that was over we could do what we want expect for at 7 the fairwell party was to take place. I rode with my gastfamilie to the party that was at the old AIB and ate. A couple of us entertained the gastfamilies by either singing in English/Deutsch, or playing an instrument. Joe played his dudlesack (pipebags) and Ryan Knott played is trumpet. After the party the group just walked around Bonn one last time and then chilled in the Biergarten one last time with each other. When people started to leave we all said our goodbyes and wished them luck with their new gastfamilies.
Saturday I got up early and made sure that all my things were packed and ready to go. I came downstairs and my gastmutter und gastvater had the breakfast out for me. So we ate and after breakfast Nina finally woke up and they presented me with a gift a photo frame with photos Bonn so that I would always remember it and them which was sweet. When I was about to get on the train I told them I had left them a gift and I hoped that they would enjoy it. When I was almost to Freiburg which took around 4 hours; Nina texted me and said that they loved my gifts. I arrived at the station with the others and we found our new gastfamilies. My new host family like the French greet each other with a kiss on each cheek which freaked me out a bit. Mein neu gastmutter und gastshwester picked me up. Mein gastvater und gastbrude wars nach fusssball spiel. We came home and they showed me around, my room the place. My host sister Maria doesn’t speak much English, my mother spoke to me in German and when I gave her the look of confession would tell me in English. Maria asked if I wanted to swim in the pool I said yes of course and we did that after we had some delicious homemade Obst pie. The father came home, and my brother it was nice my brother Pierre showed me around the place again and explained to me in English about what was going on since he spent a year in Utah he could speak very well English. Later that night a family that was a friend of my gastfamilie came over they had a soon Stefen who was Pierre’s friend and Thomas who was Maria’s friend. The dad and mom were nice people of the family that came over. The dad talked in English with me and he seemed like a cool guy. During dinner got interesting. One side of the table spoke in French the other German, and then it would be all French. So I just mainly sat there in silence and ate my food that I couldn’t finish as they piled a lot of it on my plate. Stefen helped by translating a lot of what was going on which was nice as did Pierre. After dinner all of us kids went up to Pierre’s room and just chilled by listening to music and looking at his year book from Utah. A little while later we went swimming again and played some water polo which I never played before.
Sunday I got up early took a shower and had breakfast with the family. The dad would speak to me in Deutsch and expect me to answer in Deutsch. I tried my best, but sometimes I didn’t know the vocabulary, or I had no idea what he was asking or saying to me thankfully Pierre could help me by translating it. Freibrug Deutsch is different than Bonn Deutsch believe me. Around noon me and Pierre took our bikes down to the train station and meet up with Stefen. We headed into the Black Forest to go to this lake with 2 other friends of Pierre’s: Sofie and Max. They spoke French so again I had no idea what they were talking about. But Sofie talked to me in English she’s a cool chick me and her mainly hung out that day while the boys went and did their own thing. That night I went out with the same group of people and we went to a club called 18 months. Since the club allowed kids who were 16 or 17 years old the others could go. If we went to a regular club only me and Pierre would have been able to get in as we’re the only 18 year olds there.
Monday: My first week in my new family and new environment. It’s really wonderful. Love living up in the mountains of Freiburg, but me + bike + mountains = disaster. I don’t have the power to get up the huge hill that there is to get to the house. If I lived in a flatter surface area it would be easier to bike to places. I would rather walk, but the tram cost 2.10 a euro just one way. So I’ll be taking the bike a lot..haha it’s going to be a lot of fun. Hopefully by the end of the 3 weeks I’ll be able to get up the mountain with my bike…..hopefully. Well let’s see what else happened today. Oh yes Pierre and I went down town and he showed me around the place we came back and swam in the pool. After that I read a book outside in the garten which was lovely. A couple of hours later my host mother asked me if I wanted to ride down the organic store I said sure and we rode our bikes done to the store it’s really cool. I found my soy milk and she got some cereal and other things that she need in the house. After we came back I grabbed my book and chilled outside in the nice weather. Of course I watched a movie with my host sister and brother. It was Step Up, but it was in German. Which was okay with me since I already seen the movie and I knew what it was about.
Tuesday well let’s see I got up like normal had breakfast like normal and like always did my own thing. Well until Pierre asked me if I wanted to watch a movie online which of course I did we watched The Proposal. It was a good movie. At first we were watching it in German and then we switched it to English so that I could understand it better. Once that was down we had lunch. I had to eat quickly as it was already 2pm and I had to meet with Duncan at 3pm. Since I was shown the tram way I took the tram. I found my way easily to the building that I needed to get to, and I meet up with Nat who happened to be in a meeting with him before me. Duncan is a cool guy and we talked about what I’ll be doing for the next months coming up and getting settle. He asked how my host family was and if everything was alright. Of course it is the family is great. Once my meeting was done I started to walk to the tram stop, but it started to rain I thought why not wait it out and found a book store to go in. Found some good books that I really wanted to buy. When the rain was starting to let up I walked home. Man does my butt, and legs are sorrow. I get a work out each time I walk up the huge hill or small mountain. But thankfully my final host family doesn’t live on a mountain and I can get to and from their house with a bike easier than if I lived with these one right now. When I got back though my host mom asked if I wanted to look at some kid books so that I can work on my German. I agreed to it and we sat in the kitchen looking at a book going over words slowly for almost an hour. After supper I was asked if I wanted to watch a movie again. This was a German film about the time before WWII and how the Germans were racist and all. It was a good movie I understood some of it, but they also helped by explaining it to me.
Wednesday I’m not all too sure what I’m going to do today. I think I may go after lunch with my host dad and host mom somewhere they want to show me around a bit. I can’t wait for it. I think we are taking bikes and most likely will have to go back up hill….I’m going to make a fool out of myself when we have to go back up the hill. Okay so the good thing is we didn’t have to ride bikes up any mountain we just walked up and down the mountain side of the Black Forest. It was beautiful a wonderful day to go and do it. We left I think around 3pm and we didn’t get done until around 6pm. It was like 3 hours of walking up and down a mountain, but having fun enjoying the time with my host family and seeing the wonderful view that was in front of us. When we finished we drove to this café that was also a hotel and had some Eis. I had Eisschokolade (sp) which was delicious. We arrived at home around 7pm and well be having supper soon.
Thursday well I tried to get a hold of Alex to figure what’s up with my intern. I still have to email my other intern, and I’m still not getting internet on my computer. I have no idea what’s up. I miss talking to you guys even if it’s just through facebook and messages. It’s something that keeps. I can live without the internet, but I mean it get’s lonely even if I am in a different country and in new surroundings. My host family took me up to this nice little restaurant on top of a hill and showed me the place and got ice cream it was very nice. And then I meet the German Oma. This was nice of them. I did check my facebook and email and of course my laptop still isn’t working for some odd reason at this house, but I think my host dad has the wrong passphrase that he gave me. I’ll try at the school that I’ll be interning at for a week and hopefully it’s not my laptop, but the wireless at this family’s place. Friday well let’s see I went shopping with my host mother and sister which was nice bonding time with them. I only have 2 weeks left with host family and I hope that this blog won’t be too long for you to read….Oh and after that had a nice meal with the family. Later that day me and my host mother dropped of Maria at her friend’s house and went up the Black Forest again to meet up with Pierre and Claus. We walked through the Black Forest to this restaurant that they were waiting at. We got something to eat there and then we sort of ran back to the car through the forest as it was getting dark.
Saturday I got a call from Alex Benko the guy who I’ll be interning for a week at the school to help the Germans with their English. I meet up with him at 5:30 that day to go over what we needed to do for the following week. I have to make up a lesson for this coming Monday for the class hopefully I’ll do well because I’ve never taught before, but it’ll look good on my applications. When I came back from meeting with Alex my family took me to the Wine Fest that was going on. We stayed out until 2am and had a lot of fun. I had tasted maybe five different kinds of wines: 1 red, 1 pink, and 3 white…lol they really do love their wine down south more than their beer. Sunday I finally did a load of laundry. Wow I can’t believe I have only 2 weeks left with this family. Also I cleaned my room which is nice to do. Don’t do much on Sunday since it’s supposed to be quiet. I study my German go over my lesson and well clean…lol Can’t forget about the lovely mountain bike ride that I took with my host dad. Four miles up the mountain I had to stop a couple of times, because I’m out of shape I guess. We stopped at a Hotel that was up there and I had the delicious Black Forest Cake. When we were coming down from the mountain I fell twice one on each side of the bike. When I fell on the right side I bruised the muscle in my thigh and got many little thorns in my hand. But I’m okay I’m just a little sore from the bike ride. I took a shower and cleaned up making sure my scrapes were cleaned as well. Supper was good homemade and healthy like always. I went with Pierre, Maria, and my host mom to someone’s house to see the garden that Pierre had to take care of for this week it’s a huge house.
Monday, August 17, 2009
Sie sollen eine Chance bekommen.
Hallo so I've realized I've told my mother that I would be updating every Sunday, but that of course isn't going to happen I guess, since I tend to forget about doing that at night. Okay so I have time today and I can update it to tell you what has happened this week. I can't believe that this week is my last week in Bonn.
Monday we didn't do much just g
o to class, and had the meeting about the manul just read it. Some of us just chilled by the Rhine that day. It was a boreing day I guess you could say. Tuesday we didn't go to class that day as it was going to take all day to walk up the incline of the large hill since it isn't techinally a mountain. In english it's called the Dragon Castle. After the nice workout that we had to get up and caught my breathe the view was beautiful. Oh and I got stung by a bee for the first time of course in Germany. Lol I was fine I'm not allergic to it. We walked back down and headed to the Rhine and took a boat back it was nice and relaxing. Later that day me and Nina my host sister went into Cologne and went shopping for some clothes and I found a coat that was a nice deal I just need to go back to buy it before I leave.
o to class, and had the meeting about the manul just read it. Some of us just chilled by the Rhine that day. It was a boreing day I guess you could say. Tuesday we didn't go to class that day as it was going to take all day to walk up the incline of the large hill since it isn't techinally a mountain. In english it's called the Dragon Castle. After the nice workout that we had to get up and caught my breathe the view was beautiful. Oh and I got stung by a bee for the first time of course in Germany. Lol I was fine I'm not allergic to it. We walked back down and headed to the Rhine and took a boat back it was nice and relaxing. Later that day me and Nina my host sister went into Cologne and went shopping for some clothes and I found a coat that was a nice deal I just need to go back to buy it before I leave.Wednesday we had class and later that day we went to this beautiful castle in Bruhl. I 
wished I took pictures inside but I wasn't able to they didn't allow photos to be taken. Afterwards we celebrated Hector's birthday party and got home late. Thursday we didn't do much just had class and went home nothing interesting happened. Friday had class, said goodbye to Martin one of my German friends, and later that night chilled at the old AIB. I didn't get home until late in the morning.
wished I took pictures inside but I wasn't able to they didn't allow photos to be taken. Afterwards we celebrated Hector's birthday party and got home late. Thursday we didn't do much just had class and went home nothing interesting happened. Friday had class, said goodbye to Martin one of my German friends, and later that night chilled at the old AIB. I didn't get home until late in the morning. Saturday Emily, Kayden, Rob, and Lydia came over at around 2pm and once here I showed them the house intro
duce them to my host family and got the pop, oreos, and butterfingers from them. I showed them around Bonn and we were going to the Haribo outlet it was closed so we went back home and had the BBQ with Mario and his family along with my host family it was good. They left around midnight and I went to bed. Sunday they came around 10am and we had breakfast. Once we were all set we headed to Cologne, Nina came with to help show them around. Emily and Lydia climbed up the tower while Rob, Kayden, Nina, and I stayed at the bottom. Once they came back down we ate some potato chips and walked down to the Rhine toward the Chocolate factory. It was interesting, but the buying chocolate area wasn't much. We came home around 6pm and they left soon after. Of course I'm planning on visiting them and them me while I'm in Freiburg. Also we're planning on staying with them during the summer.
duce them to my host family and got the pop, oreos, and butterfingers from them. I showed them around Bonn and we were going to the Haribo outlet it was closed so we went back home and had the BBQ with Mario and his family along with my host family it was good. They left around midnight and I went to bed. Sunday they came around 10am and we had breakfast. Once we were all set we headed to Cologne, Nina came with to help show them around. Emily and Lydia climbed up the tower while Rob, Kayden, Nina, and I stayed at the bottom. Once they came back down we ate some potato chips and walked down to the Rhine toward the Chocolate factory. It was interesting, but the buying chocolate area wasn't much. We came home around 6pm and they left soon after. Of course I'm planning on visiting them and them me while I'm in Freiburg. Also we're planning on staying with them during the summer. Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Wenn es Geschieht
When in Rome.....okay I'm sorry that I didn't update this on Sunday, I was busy and kind of went swimming, but I'll get to that in a moment. It's better late than never I always say.
Monday: Okay let's see if I can remember what exactly happened about a week ago. It seems that only a week is like a month ago and you just can't remember what happened. I don't think much really did happen on Monday just a regular day that we spent going to class, and chilling at the garden. So we had the German political system talk that day it was long, but interesting.
Tuesday: Well this was the fun day. We had a field day. We played games childish g
ames, but still games that we needed to do German in which was learning, but having fun. After that we had to meet up with German students there were about 90 of them this time which was fun, because all we did was chill and have dinner with them some played sports. I chatted with a lot of them and made a couple of friends which was nice. Wednesday: Hmm oh went to classes, but after class instead of going home I went to the beach with 3 other girls in my group and a couple of germans. The beach was cool. The sand was like the sand in Mexico it was soft. The water was cold, but nice and it had been hot tuesday-friday. After the beach us girls chilled in the garden with a couple of kids from our group.
ames, but still games that we needed to do German in which was learning, but having fun. After that we had to meet up with German students there were about 90 of them this time which was fun, because all we did was chill and have dinner with them some played sports. I chatted with a lot of them and made a couple of friends which was nice. Wednesday: Hmm oh went to classes, but after class instead of going home I went to the beach with 3 other girls in my group and a couple of germans. The beach was cool. The sand was like the sand in Mexico it was soft. The water was cold, but nice and it had been hot tuesday-friday. After the beach us girls chilled in the garden with a couple of kids from our group.Thursday: Let's see here oh on Thursday class like usual, but of course after class we had our lovely Cologne tour with the bakery testing, but that day we also had thsi perfume testing that I couldn't do the smell of it was to strong and getting me dizzy. It was cool to walk around Koln, but after that I went home had a homemade doner which is delicious and I'm glad that I came home for supper that night. Friday: Class, but after class I went home straight away and went swimming with my host sister and her 2 friends. The pools are nice but the one in Bruhl I think had to many little ones running around and a lot of families.
Saturday: Well the game was of course on this d
ay it was amazing game Duesdoldorf won 3:0 that's a beating. Scoreing 1 is a normal win, scoring 2 is a kick in the bum, and scoring 3:0 is a beating. After that we walked around Duesdoldorf and went to this place where a lot of free things were going on we stayed there for a couple hours. At night some of us left. Me and 2 other girls decided we wanted to go do something and our german friends said that they were going swimming so we did that went swimming with them at night it was fun actually. Sunday: Well I didn't do much execpet for sleep, eat, read, do homework. And well chatted with Alanna, and Cameron for a good 1hour or so and decided it was a good idea to go to bed.
ay it was amazing game Duesdoldorf won 3:0 that's a beating. Scoreing 1 is a normal win, scoring 2 is a kick in the bum, and scoring 3:0 is a beating. After that we walked around Duesdoldorf and went to this place where a lot of free things were going on we stayed there for a couple hours. At night some of us left. Me and 2 other girls decided we wanted to go do something and our german friends said that they were going swimming so we did that went swimming with them at night it was fun actually. Sunday: Well I didn't do much execpet for sleep, eat, read, do homework. And well chatted with Alanna, and Cameron for a good 1hour or so and decided it was a good idea to go to bed. Sunday, August 2, 2009
Kannst du mir sagen?
There's some bad news. The 2nd week in I forgot to mention that Megan Lee a student that was in the program had to go home because her dad had a heart attack and passed away, and while she was in the States her grandfather had passed away. She hasn't returned and most likely wont. Last week friday we found out that another student left us Lilly. Her reasons were different from the start once she got to D.C. she didn't want to do this. We tried to convince her that it would be great, but she missed her boyfriend who's a junior in high school, and probably other people back home. We are a little upset that she had taken a spot of someone who really wanted to come. So there are only 23 of us now. 8 girls 15 boys.
Monday: I went to class from 9-1 like everyday of the week nothing unusually about that. Expect for that Helid the area rep. for Bonn was our teacher for the day and I felt that I've learned more from her than I have in the weeks we've been in class. Then again I must remind myself that no normal person can learn a language in 7 weeks. It takes a baby a year or two just to figure out how to say a few small phrases. It takes a while for the brain to switch, translate, and communicate in a different language. Anyways on Monday after lunch we had to meet up at the parking spot across the street from the AIB since that day we were going to hang out with some german students all over Germany. It was weird at first talking to Karin and Peter was cool I learned some from them. We had gone to Hurtgenwald it's a WWII site. After that we went back to the castle where they were staying it's a hotel/cafe place. We played american football and chatted with the students. I meet someone from Freiburg and he's going to show me around Freiburg once I get there. He's into dancing and knows how to so I'm going to see if I can get into the dance studio and attempet to dance....lol.
Tuesday/Wednesday: Class like normal and after class we kind of just hang out around the AIB chillin, taking naps, reading, going on the computer, finishing up lunch, and/or doing homework. It's a nice place to be when you don't want to spend money to do something and don't want to go back home right away. Some kids went back to the Haribo factory, and others made a american cheese cake for Hartwig.
Thursday: Class in the morning, then after lunch we went to Koln to meet up with Hartwig. It was Hartwig's birthday and so our group made him a card signed it, and also made him a cheese cake from the US, and put strawberries on it. We toured around Koln and had another pastrie (Sp) testing which is the best part I must add. It was also Sarah's last day with us she was heading back to the states the next day. So most of us stayed out until 10pm with her and then had to go home since we had classes the next day. Sarah remined me of Emily my older sister so much that it was sad for her to leave.
Friday: We listened to Mason give his presentation on electrionic music in german it was really cool. I understood half of it so at least I know that I'm learning something here in germany. After that we had class, but after the second break we came back and played a game it was where we had to put someone's name famous, or someone that we all knew on the forehead of the person next to us and then ask in german questions about the name that was on our forehead. It was a fun game. After lunch at 2pm I and a couple other kids in my class took an extra hour to learn more german. It's mainly learning how to converse. We'll be doing it every Wed. and Fri.
Saturday: I went and got some school supplies and found a tank-top for 3 euros which is a good deal in Bonn. Me and Nathalie hanged out since we both were missing Sarah. Around 7pm we both headed out in search of the place where my host parents were playing that night. It was a big outdoor party, but the problem is my host parents knew the town, but not the stop. There were 5 different stops we could have gotten off. After a half hour me and Nat were stressed and decided to go to Bad Godesberg to chill with a couple of people and told Ralf, that we were sorry taht we couldn't make it. We all left around 1:40 and waited for the night bus that didn't come it was around.....about 2:20 that we decided to walk than to take a taxi. So we all walked from Bad Godesberg to Bonn which took about 3 hours it was nice though you could see the stars. I didn't get home until 5am, and after a shower and checking my facebook I didn't get to bed until 6am.
Sunday: Today well I got up at 2:30pm thinking it was still dark and wondering why it was. Forgetting that these blinds here block out sunlight so good that your room can be dark in the middle of the afternoon which is nice. I opened up my blinds and got blinded by the light not reailzing that it was that bright out. I had my lunch at 3pm and most likely supper will be at 7pm tonight. I'm just relaxing at home and fixing up my notes, reading, and listening to music.
I have 3 more weeks until I go off to Freiburg. I'm getting so comfy here in Bonn and I have friends. It's just like when I left the states going to make new friends.
Monday: I went to class from 9-1 like everyday of the week nothing unusually about that. Expect for that Helid the area rep. for Bonn was our teacher for the day and I felt that I've learned more from her than I have in the weeks we've been in class. Then again I must remind myself that no normal person can learn a language in 7 weeks. It takes a baby a year or two just to figure out how to say a few small phrases. It takes a while for the brain to switch, translate, and communicate in a different language. Anyways on Monday after lunch we had to meet up at the parking spot across the street from the AIB since that day we were going to hang out with some german students all over Germany. It was weird at first talking to Karin and Peter was cool I learned some from them. We had gone to Hurtgenwald it's a WWII site. After that we went back to the castle where they were staying it's a hotel/cafe place. We played american football and chatted with the students. I meet someone from Freiburg and he's going to show me around Freiburg once I get there. He's into dancing and knows how to so I'm going to see if I can get into the dance studio and attempet to dance....lol.
Tuesday/Wednesday: Class like normal and after class we kind of just hang out around the AIB chillin, taking naps, reading, going on the computer, finishing up lunch, and/or doing homework. It's a nice place to be when you don't want to spend money to do something and don't want to go back home right away. Some kids went back to the Haribo factory, and others made a american cheese cake for Hartwig.
Thursday: Class in the morning, then after lunch we went to Koln to meet up with Hartwig. It was Hartwig's birthday and so our group made him a card signed it, and also made him a cheese cake from the US, and put strawberries on it. We toured around Koln and had another pastrie (Sp) testing which is the best part I must add. It was also Sarah's last day with us she was heading back to the states the next day. So most of us stayed out until 10pm with her and then had to go home since we had classes the next day. Sarah remined me of Emily my older sister so much that it was sad for her to leave.
Friday: We listened to Mason give his presentation on electrionic music in german it was really cool. I understood half of it so at least I know that I'm learning something here in germany. After that we had class, but after the second break we came back and played a game it was where we had to put someone's name famous, or someone that we all knew on the forehead of the person next to us and then ask in german questions about the name that was on our forehead. It was a fun game. After lunch at 2pm I and a couple other kids in my class took an extra hour to learn more german. It's mainly learning how to converse. We'll be doing it every Wed. and Fri.
Saturday: I went and got some school supplies and found a tank-top for 3 euros which is a good deal in Bonn. Me and Nathalie hanged out since we both were missing Sarah. Around 7pm we both headed out in search of the place where my host parents were playing that night. It was a big outdoor party, but the problem is my host parents knew the town, but not the stop. There were 5 different stops we could have gotten off. After a half hour me and Nat were stressed and decided to go to Bad Godesberg to chill with a couple of people and told Ralf, that we were sorry taht we couldn't make it. We all left around 1:40 and waited for the night bus that didn't come it was around.....about 2:20 that we decided to walk than to take a taxi. So we all walked from Bad Godesberg to Bonn which took about 3 hours it was nice though you could see the stars. I didn't get home until 5am, and after a shower and checking my facebook I didn't get to bed until 6am.
Sunday: Today well I got up at 2:30pm thinking it was still dark and wondering why it was. Forgetting that these blinds here block out sunlight so good that your room can be dark in the middle of the afternoon which is nice. I opened up my blinds and got blinded by the light not reailzing that it was that bright out. I had my lunch at 3pm and most likely supper will be at 7pm tonight. I'm just relaxing at home and fixing up my notes, reading, and listening to music.
I have 3 more weeks until I go off to Freiburg. I'm getting so comfy here in Bonn and I have friends. It's just like when I left the states going to make new friends.
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Was gehts?
It's been a bit, but I've been busy doing things here in Germany. And as the days go on I may start writing less and less. It's what normal happens here. You forget about keeping in touch as your having a life over here in a different country in a different language. Which is a great experience, so I'm going to apoligize in advance because I know it'll happen. It's slowly happening know.
Ummm let's see I went to school like always had a bbq in Tanning Bush on Friday, hang out with the group on saturday, and sunday went to Nat's house for her birthday party. Yesterday of course we had class and we meet up with 86 german students and really hung out with them the whole day. there were only 21 of us so they trippled our group. it was cool because i've meet someone that lives in freiburg and meet others too. They'll try to hang with us during the week they'll call us, but it'll be hard as we have class and they're kind of on vacation.
i found out today that i'm going to a gymiansime (sp) from 14.9.09 - 31.10.09 so it's really only about 6 weeks and then i'm off to work at the hospital which is cool. my second host family lives in freiburg so i can find my way around and then my long term host family lives outside it. the bus is only funf mintuens away from the house so that isn't bad. and figuring it out i think the bus runs every zwanzig mintuens.....maybe i'm not sure i haven't checked the bus schedule since i'm not over there yet.
Ummm let's see I went to school like always had a bbq in Tanning Bush on Friday, hang out with the group on saturday, and sunday went to Nat's house for her birthday party. Yesterday of course we had class and we meet up with 86 german students and really hung out with them the whole day. there were only 21 of us so they trippled our group. it was cool because i've meet someone that lives in freiburg and meet others too. They'll try to hang with us during the week they'll call us, but it'll be hard as we have class and they're kind of on vacation.
i found out today that i'm going to a gymiansime (sp) from 14.9.09 - 31.10.09 so it's really only about 6 weeks and then i'm off to work at the hospital which is cool. my second host family lives in freiburg so i can find my way around and then my long term host family lives outside it. the bus is only funf mintuens away from the house so that isn't bad. and figuring it out i think the bus runs every zwanzig mintuens.....maybe i'm not sure i haven't checked the bus schedule since i'm not over there yet.
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Wow
So this week went by fast it seemed like the days ended quickly. Monday we went to class and did our thing which was learning German and I don't think we did anything besides that. Tuesday we talked to Hartwig about our cards and how we are now Bonner citizens. Wednesday we had to watch a movie and that was okay, it was all about the Rhen bridge that we were going to visit Friday but the weather was going to be bad so we did our tour today. The bike ride was about zwei uhr long. It was very good. Tomorrow I'm going to get up early do yoga, go to class, after class go to the Haribo factory or the gummy factory and then see HP with the group or whoever wants to go. On saturday Em, Lydia, and Kayden and maybe rob well come visit me for the day and spend the night in the hosue and i'll show them around. and um that's pretty much it.
Tschuss,
Grace
Tschuss,
Grace
Sunday, July 12, 2009
The 1st week
(Thanks for the comment mother....)
Okay so this week I didn't start class until Wed. and it was only 3 hours long. Once class got down we would have about an hour for lunch and then sometimes go on a tour if there wasn't any tour we would just wonder around Bonn chilln with our duners (sp) there like subs and our fanta soad's which are really good over here. Most of the time we spend back in the AIB if it rained. They don't kick us out until like 7pm or sometimes later it all depends on how soon the person that has to lock up wants to leave.
Friday was the welcoming party which had all the people who ran the AIB and the students who were in the program with their host parents to come. It was very croweded and my host parents played there. Some how we ended up playing musical chairs it was mainly my group, nina, and 3 other host siblings. The last 2 people were David and R Kelly. Of course it was extreme and very funny to watch R Kelly end up winning the game.
On Saturday we decided to celebrate Austin's b-day even though he didn't turn 19 until tomorrow. We went to his host parents house and had supper which was really good all veggie meal. While we were waiting for time to pass we told stories of our past; kelesy, lindsay, and myself ended up giving people massages I didn't mind because it's fun when your bored. When 9pm rolled on by we headed off to the train station to head back to Bonn as we were going to go clubbing in our large group and had to split up so it didn't look suspicous that a bunch of americans want to go to the same club. Most of us got in before 11pm and didn't have to worry about paying. They played a lot of american songs, some techno, and german rap. At one point there I think a German drinking song that everyone including us Americans sang even though we had no idea what we were singing it was fun. We left around 2am to head back home.
As we waited for the train, David, Alex, and myself we realized we were on the wrong platform and had to wait another hour for the next train to arrive to bring us home. We all got home safely tired, but safe. I never realized how exhausting dancing for 3 hours long. Of course my legs are getting a good work out from walking every where and at times running to catch a train. The calves are showing some improvment getting strong.
Today I slept in until 1pm and got up to eat lunch with my family. Oma, and the eldest daughter came over to join us. Since it was the eldest birthday a couple days ago. It was interesting to meet them and hear an old person speak german. A couple hours later Ralf took me and Nina out to eat we got pizza. After that Nina and I headed to Bonn to meet up with some people in our group to watch an orchestra. They played The Planet's all of them exculding Mecury, Earth, and Pluto. It was good, because I remember that my band in high school had played Mars and Jupitar at one point of my high school career.
That's pretty much what happened this week/weekend. Oh it did rain every day it was nice at times and other times it was just really annoying. Tomorrow it shouldn't rain it's supposed to be sunny out. Hopefully it will be nice but not to warm as I still don't have my shorts, or capris to wear.
Night,
Grace
[P.S. There's something wrong with my MP3 it doesn't charge, and when it does it says that my music's bad even though it's not.]
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
(FYI: you can leave comments, and/or ask questions....i'll answer them)
Yesterday we walked around Bonn learning where everything is. Which is nice. I'm not the best with directions but I have found out that if you keep turing you'll eventually get back to the middle of the city where the Main Train station is. I do know how to get to the AIB which is good, and I'll always be on time since my train leaves ever hour on the minute...say it was 7:01 the next train would arrive at 8:01 and so on until it says differently on the paper. Since my german class starts at 8:45am I'll be about 35 minutes early...give or take a few minutes depending on how fast I walk to the AIB, and if my train comes on time or comes early.
Today we just talked to one of the minor majors from Bonn and took photos with him. I still have to get yesterday photo's up, and today it'll be a bit. That was cool, and also we signed a bunch of papers for our visa's, a card to get 25% off all transportation tickets we have to buy which by the is amazing. I havn't tried any of their fresh bakery food yets. I plan on doing that sometime, but of course I have all year to do that. Well that's pretty much it...unless you have questions that I hope to answer, or just mention something about the post through comment i don't mind it's good hearing from people i don't get to see for a whole year.
Yesterday we walked around Bonn learning where everything is. Which is nice. I'm not the best with directions but I have found out that if you keep turing you'll eventually get back to the middle of the city where the Main Train station is. I do know how to get to the AIB which is good, and I'll always be on time since my train leaves ever hour on the minute...say it was 7:01 the next train would arrive at 8:01 and so on until it says differently on the paper. Since my german class starts at 8:45am I'll be about 35 minutes early...give or take a few minutes depending on how fast I walk to the AIB, and if my train comes on time or comes early.
Today we just talked to one of the minor majors from Bonn and took photos with him. I still have to get yesterday photo's up, and today it'll be a bit. That was cool, and also we signed a bunch of papers for our visa's, a card to get 25% off all transportation tickets we have to buy which by the is amazing. I havn't tried any of their fresh bakery food yets. I plan on doing that sometime, but of course I have all year to do that. Well that's pretty much it...unless you have questions that I hope to answer, or just mention something about the post through comment i don't mind it's good hearing from people i don't get to see for a whole year.
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Day 3
Okay so today was the Gay Pride Parade it was a very interesting experience. And I had to meet everyone at the fountain today. I didn't get lost this time. Ralf helped me out in finding my way to the train station. Of course I did get turned around a little bit when I was trying to leave the station, but it was alright. The prarade was in Koln and we took THE train there. It wasn't bad at all only about 10 of us went so it was a small group. All the people on the flouts (sp) loved our group. We meet some cool german chicks that wanted the photos that we took and gave us their email we all hope to hang out with them again. I did get back on my own to my host familys there i meet Roger Mario's exchange student for 5 weeks. I must admit he's cute for a United States boy....lol
Since he also has to go to the AIB the newer one at least we both figured why not ride the train together so we have someone just in case either of us get lost. He doesn't speak any german either. We grilled out tonight it was very tasty indeed they keep trying to make me eat food when I'm not hungry. They want to make sure I don't get skinny.....lol I had my frist Italian ice cream das good. Well that's mainly it for today. going to eat. CHEERS!
Grace
Since he also has to go to the AIB the newer one at least we both figured why not ride the train together so we have someone just in case either of us get lost. He doesn't speak any german either. We grilled out tonight it was very tasty indeed they keep trying to make me eat food when I'm not hungry. They want to make sure I don't get skinny.....lol I had my frist Italian ice cream das good. Well that's mainly it for today. going to eat. CHEERS!
Grace
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Airplane/Day1/Day2
The plane ride was good I didn't sleep at all I know it was bad I should have slept but I just couldn't. A couple of others couldn't sleep and we just chatted in the back of the plane where the flight attendents kept their stuff to serive to the people on the plane. We talked to a lot of people about what we were doing in Germany and they thought it was really cool. Sadly I didn't have a window set so I couldn't see my flight into Germany, but I was okay with that I had someone take photos for me.
When we got there we walked down a street and waited for our host family to arrive it was cool because I was in Germany. It didn't sink in that I was in Germany at all. My family was the second to arrive it was cool. We chatted a little had lunch, got unpacked, took a nap, then a shower. After that we had supper. That was around 7pm their time. We had to go to this pub(bar) I didn't mind my first night thought it would be cool. I hung out with my host sister and 2 of her friends. They were all nice to me we played pool for a long time their rules are different than ours. It was very good, we didn't get home until 3am and I had to get up at 7am since I was going on a field trip the following day. It was a great first night I enjpoed my time.
The second day I got up and went to the AIB we're we went off to go explore around Bonn. We went to this village next to the Belgien. So I visited another country on my second day there. The group saw the mustard factory, (mom, dad I'll have a package coming sometime with some good tasting mustard, and jelly, possibly some sweets). After that we went bobb sliding that was fun. Getting back I slept most of the way I was tired the past 2 days I had a total of 6 hours of sleep. I got a mobile phone it's a pre-paid so we can keep in touch with one another in Germany as well as with our host family. We can use it to call home (states), but I don't remember the number to call out I'll find out monday.
The true adventure didn't start until after while we waited for others to come back to go to the Rhane Kultulr Fest (sp) it was a place outdoors with a bunch of bands playing. We got there by walking took about 46mintues. Some how our group of 12 people got split up and had to find one another....good thing we had the mobile phones. We stay there until around 11pm and decided that some people needed to get back. Me and David didn't have to get onto our train until 12:39am but thought best to go. We literally sprinted all the way back to the train station. The bus wouldn't stop for us, and we almost missed the train. We got to the Main station and Lily had enough time to get to her bus. We had to run to catch my train. I tried to get on, but it was to crowded and I had to call Ralf (host father) that I missed it. His friend Mario picked me up. Took a while to find him. I realized that I was on the oppoiste side of the train station. I had to ask the police to help me out good thing they speak english.
Anywho I never was shown the train station because there was nien time to do it. But tomorrow I'll be showed. Since I'm getting back on the train to meet up with the group to go to the Gay Prarade in Koln. Hopefully I wont get to lost, but if I do I have my cell phone to call. There ends my lovely adventure of the 2 days I've been in Germany. Miss ya'll.....^_^
Cheers,
Grace
When we got there we walked down a street and waited for our host family to arrive it was cool because I was in Germany. It didn't sink in that I was in Germany at all. My family was the second to arrive it was cool. We chatted a little had lunch, got unpacked, took a nap, then a shower. After that we had supper. That was around 7pm their time. We had to go to this pub(bar) I didn't mind my first night thought it would be cool. I hung out with my host sister and 2 of her friends. They were all nice to me we played pool for a long time their rules are different than ours. It was very good, we didn't get home until 3am and I had to get up at 7am since I was going on a field trip the following day. It was a great first night I enjpoed my time.
The second day I got up and went to the AIB we're we went off to go explore around Bonn. We went to this village next to the Belgien. So I visited another country on my second day there. The group saw the mustard factory, (mom, dad I'll have a package coming sometime with some good tasting mustard, and jelly, possibly some sweets). After that we went bobb sliding that was fun. Getting back I slept most of the way I was tired the past 2 days I had a total of 6 hours of sleep. I got a mobile phone it's a pre-paid so we can keep in touch with one another in Germany as well as with our host family. We can use it to call home (states), but I don't remember the number to call out I'll find out monday.
The true adventure didn't start until after while we waited for others to come back to go to the Rhane Kultulr Fest (sp) it was a place outdoors with a bunch of bands playing. We got there by walking took about 46mintues. Some how our group of 12 people got split up and had to find one another....good thing we had the mobile phones. We stay there until around 11pm and decided that some people needed to get back. Me and David didn't have to get onto our train until 12:39am but thought best to go. We literally sprinted all the way back to the train station. The bus wouldn't stop for us, and we almost missed the train. We got to the Main station and Lily had enough time to get to her bus. We had to run to catch my train. I tried to get on, but it was to crowded and I had to call Ralf (host father) that I missed it. His friend Mario picked me up. Took a while to find him. I realized that I was on the oppoiste side of the train station. I had to ask the police to help me out good thing they speak english.
Anywho I never was shown the train station because there was nien time to do it. But tomorrow I'll be showed. Since I'm getting back on the train to meet up with the group to go to the Gay Prarade in Koln. Hopefully I wont get to lost, but if I do I have my cell phone to call. There ends my lovely adventure of the 2 days I've been in Germany. Miss ya'll.....^_^
Cheers,
Grace
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
D.C. BABY!!!!
Hey everyone! ^_^ I've made it to D.C. safely. My plane from Lansing to Chicago was actually a good 20 minutes early so that gave me a chance to find my next flight to D.C. I didn't realize that my flight from Chicago to D.C. that there was another person from my group that was on the same plane. Her name is Kelly we found out when we were waiting for our luggage. When we headed to the university it was weird because it seemed like the driver didn't know where to go and tended to forget that stop signs meant STOP! but it was fine we made it safely and meet the others. Everyone is cool it was a little awkward since none of us really know what to say to each other we had some weird ice breakers. There are some "cliques" starting, but there are a couple of us who don't really care and if you can talk to people that's good. I've gotten to know a couple of the students well after we were done being talked to that is because after it had rain it was nice cool weather and we didn't want to go inside an sleep even though it was 10pm...I think I may have went to be around close to possibly midnight, and got up around 6:50am. Not sure why I would get up so early, but I did....not much happened expect chatting about random stuff with these people and hearing about where their going and what their lives were back at home. I'm doing fine it hasn't really been put into my head that I'm actually going to Germany yet. I don't think it'll happen until I get to Germany. Many of the kids feel the same way. Well I'm off to get some breakfast I'm starving......I miss ya'll ^_^
Hugs and kiss,
Grace
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
So I've found out who all my host families are. In Bonn I'll be staying with the Heinen family for the 7 weeks and I've been in contact with the daughter Nina who's 17 and Ralf my host father. I've been invited on July 3rd to go to a concert so right when I get there I'll be having a good time. Also they plan to take me to the Netherlands and other interesting places when it doesn't interfere with my classes at the time. The daughter Nina is planning to take me bowling, and shopping and to hang with her friends.
For my welcoming family I'll be staying with the Michaelis for the 3 weeks and have a short internship work during that time until I go see my long term host family. All my host families sound great and I hope to be able keep in touch with each of my host family after I leave them.
I've already chatted with my long-term host family and the host family in Bonn. I've still haven't got into contact with my welcoming family. Hopefully I will before I leave to Germany. I have 20 days left until I leave. I can't wait to go and I hope to keep in touch with everyone. I have a YouTube set up, but there wont be any vblogs until I head off to Washington dc. ^_^
For my welcoming family I'll be staying with the Michaelis for the 3 weeks and have a short internship work during that time until I go see my long term host family. All my host families sound great and I hope to be able keep in touch with each of my host family after I leave them.
I've already chatted with my long-term host family and the host family in Bonn. I've still haven't got into contact with my welcoming family. Hopefully I will before I leave to Germany. I have 20 days left until I leave. I can't wait to go and I hope to keep in touch with everyone. I have a YouTube set up, but there wont be any vblogs until I head off to Washington dc. ^_^
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Catching the Star
Hey you guys. I just wanted to let you know a little information that I have gotten today from Duncan my area representatives for Open Door International involved in placing the students of the CBYX-Program. He told me a little information that I thought it was cool. And I wish to share it with you guys. When I get more information I'll tell you more all about it. I'll be living in a town called: Freiburg, Germany. It's South West Germany not far from the Swiss and French borders.
The host father is a heart surgeon and will be helping them to find me an internships in the medical field. Bad Krozingen has a heat centre and rehabilitation centre for orthopaedic patients. His wife also worked in the medical field, but is now a housewife. They have two charming daughters who are into music (one plays the flute, the other a piano) and sports: tennis, skiing, horse riding, ice skating…
Since it's recommended I'll be going to spend my first few weeks in Bad Krozingen at a school before I start my internship. I will be having 3 host families. The one in Bonn, for the 7 weeks. Then on August 22nd which is a Saturday I'll be on a train and I'll arrive to Freiburg and then be picked up by my welcoming family I'll stay with for 3 weeks. And they'll be going to France for a week and are welling to take me with them. Unfortunatly this family feels that me being mild lactose intolerant isn't worth it and I have to find a new host family. As my long-term host family will be on their planned cruise the same day I'm coming. On September 12th I'll be going to stay with my long-term host family.
Of course I wont be the only one going. There will be 4 other students in the area. I only know 21 people going. There are 9 girls and 13 boys going. We've all got to know each other a little bit through email thanks to Sue for getting us in contact. And 8 of us have found each other on facebook and made a group.
The host father is a heart surgeon and will be helping them to find me an internships in the medical field. Bad Krozingen has a heat centre and rehabilitation centre for orthopaedic patients. His wife also worked in the medical field, but is now a housewife. They have two charming daughters who are into music (one plays the flute, the other a piano) and sports: tennis, skiing, horse riding, ice skating…
Since it's recommended I'll be going to spend my first few weeks in Bad Krozingen at a school before I start my internship. I will be having 3 host families. The one in Bonn, for the 7 weeks. Then on August 22nd which is a Saturday I'll be on a train and I'll arrive to Freiburg and then be picked up by my welcoming family I'll stay with for 3 weeks. And they'll be going to France for a week and are welling to take me with them. Unfortunatly this family feels that me being mild lactose intolerant isn't worth it and I have to find a new host family. As my long-term host family will be on their planned cruise the same day I'm coming. On September 12th I'll be going to stay with my long-term host family.
Of course I wont be the only one going. There will be 4 other students in the area. I only know 21 people going. There are 9 girls and 13 boys going. We've all got to know each other a little bit through email thanks to Sue for getting us in contact. And 8 of us have found each other on facebook and made a group.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Nice my first post. So this blog will mainly deal with me telling you lucky folks all about what I'm doing or planning on doing or did in Germany this coming year. Instead of heading off to college like a normal 18 year old senior would be doing I'm heading to Germany to work.
Besides this blog if I can get a web cam I'll be leaving live blogs about what's happening on YouTube. I have an account made and if I happen I'll leave a URL for you guys to check that out. I'll try to keep in touch as much as possible while I'm over there.
The reason of me going to Germany for a year instead of college is because I choose to take a chance and try for this scholarship that only 25 people in the United States are allowed to go between the ages of 18-19 year old. It's a great opportunity to learn about Germany and it's culture, history, economics, etc. I'll be leaving June 30th and flying out from Washington D.C. From there I'll head to Germany where I'll have intense 7 weeks of learning German, and staying with a host family. Once that is done I'll be put into another host family and start working right away. So in other words I don't get a fun relaxing summer like most of my friends will before they head off.
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