Nach langer, langer zeit...

Hey guys!
Ja, ich weiss, ich habe mich eeeeewig nicht mehr gemeldet oder gepostet. Mein letzter Post war noch zu der Zeit als ich noch in den USA war und noch 61 tage dort übrig hatte. Seit dem hat sich sooo vieles verändert.

Erstens bin ich offensichtlich nicht mehr in den USA, sondern schon seit einem Jahr und 10 Tagen wieder daheim in Deutschland. Und auch in den letzten Wochen USA hat sich viel getan. Doch in der Zeit hatte ich einfach nicht die Zeit zu posten und wollte auch die letzten paar Wochen eher für mich selbst genießen und erleben und jede Sekunde auskosten, die mir dort blieb.
Auch nach den USA brauchte ich erstmal einige Zeit für mich selbst, um mit der Sache zurecht zu kommen und auch heute wissen auch wichtige Menschen in meinem Leben  noch nicht alles über mein Auslandsjahr. Es braucht erstens Zeit bis man darüber reden möchte und seine Erfahrungen mit anderen Leuten teilen möchte und weiterhin denke ich auch, dass es viele Menschen einfach nerven würde, wenn ich ständig davon erzähle, wie toll mein Leben in den USA war.
Vor zehn tagen war ich genau seit einem Jahr wieder in Deutschland und glaubt mir es hat sich sehr viel verändert. Als ich nach Hause kam, wurde ich erstmal direkt mit einem Überraschungs-Willkommens-feier empfangen. Viele meiner Freunde standen in meinem Zimmer als ich die Tür öffnete und meine ersten Worte waren: "Oh shit! Ich wusste es!". Mit diesen Worten bin ich aus meinem Zimmer gelaufen ohne irgendjemandem "hallo" zu sagen und ab ins Wohnzimmer. Kam den anderen vielleicht bisschen böse vor, aber das hat mich in dem Moment einfach überfordert. Als sie jedoch dann alle ins Wohnzimmer kamen und mich begrüßt haben, war ich wirklich glücklich darüber, dass sie alle da waren und mich nicht vergessen haben.
Aber auch das alles ist schon über ein Jahr her. Es bringt nichts jetzt alles hier zu beschreiben. Wenn ihr irgendwelche Fragen habt, oder euch etwas interessiert, dann fragt und ich werde auf jeden Fall antworten, aber ansonsten wäre es bisschen viel hier jetzt alles zu erzählen.

Lasst mich nur eins sagen: Wer nach einem Auslandsjahr nach Hause kommt, muss sich auf vieeeeel Stress gefasst machen und darauf, dass sich vieles verändert hat über das Jahr. Aber keine Angst, es sind nicht zwingender Weise negative Veränderungen. Es können auch positive Veränderungen sein und der Stress kommt auch eher mit den positiven Seiten des Lebens, wie Freunde, Familie und Spaß.

Naja, dies war jetzt erstmal wieder mein erster Post nach dieser eeeewig langen Zeit. Es tut mir sehr leid, aber ich hatte einfach wirklich keine Zeit auch nur in Blogger reinzuschauen. Schule hier, Arbeit da und das noch alles mit Freunden und Familie zu verbinden ist nicht ganz einfach. Da bleiben solche Dinge wie der Blog eben einfach liegen leider.
Aber ich habe mir Vorgenommen ab jetzt wieder öfter zu bloggen. Beispielsweise möchte ich euch von meinen zukünftigen Reiseplänen erzählen, wie es nach dem Auslandsjahr mit der Schule weiterging und lauter solche Dinge. Also, wenn es euch interessiert und ihr mir nicht allzu böse seid, dass ich nicht gebloggt habe, dann schaut einfach mal ab und zu vorbei und stellt Fragen falls ihr welche habt!

Allen die dieses Jahr ins Ausland gehen wünsche ich unendlich viel Spaß und bitte genießt jede Sekunde, die ihr erleben dürft! :)

Bis demnächst! :)
xoxo

Soccer, Concerts and only 61 days left !

Hey guys!

Oh my... I am sooooo sorry that I haven't posted at all for such a long time. I was just really really busy and to be honest: I just want to enjoy my life here and every minute I've got.

I don't even know where to start because there is so much happening every day but well.. I will forget most of it anyway haha.

Okay I am just gonna skip february and start with my Birthday haha.
On my birthday's week end my host mom, sister, Mariah, her grandma and me went to Kansas City from Friday till Monday (we wanted to leave sunday but the high ways were closed because of the snow storm). It was a really fun week end. We mostly just went shopping and on my birthday (saturday) we went to a Scotty McCreery Concert. Seriously guys I have neverbeen into country music until then haha. But this guy is awesome.
Well the week end was awesome and I am really thankful for it :) THANKS guys!

The wednesday after that (it was our week of spring break - yah haha only a week) my sister, host mom and me went to a Taylor Swift concert in Omaha. OMG people out there. Taylor Swift's concert was AMAZING!!! Sami and I were in the pit ( so in between the different parts of the stage) and yah we had soo much fun. Taylor did an awesome job. She did everything. She walked through the seats, she performed 2 songs on another stage, she FLEW over the people haha. It was just perfect and a really really good time :)

Spring break is already over for 3 weeks now but hey we don't have school today or monday so yah a little last break before it goes back to school through the end without any break haha.

So then there is soccer :)
I just wanted to relax the spring without doing any sports besides PE class but hey who cares haha. I decided to try out for soccer just for fun, since I' ve never played before (next to PE classes in Germany) and yah. Surprisingly I was god enough to make the JV (Junior Varsity) team at East :) You don't even know how happy I was when they told me. And Léa  french exchange student at my school who joined us since January, made the team also. And yah soccer is just soooo much fun. Of course I don't have that much free time anymore since we have practice everyday after school from like 3:30 till 5:30 and even saturday mornings, but hey IT IS FUN! I think it is a really good thing to spend your time on haha. We just had our third game today. And well we lost today BUT we won our first two games (5:0 and 3:0) and yah today was just an exception. We will catch up again.
well let's just say I LOVE IT! haha

Oh and I love Nebraskan weather guys. Just putting that out there right now haha.
Yah the winter was pretty cold but at least we had a loot of snow. And there were always times when it was pretty nice outside, you just learn to enjoy those days. And as soon as it got cold again there was snow and most often a snow day with it haha. Well now the spring is finally here and it is as warm as it is in summer in Germany haha. Today we had 24 degrees celsius outside and yah I would say you can call that spring :) The best thing about Nebraskan weather though is that there is really not much rain. we still only had like 7 times rain here since I am in the USA and yah I love to go out of the house without even wondering if it could rain or not. Here you don't need to carry an umbrella with you the whole time haha.

Well yah I think that was pretty much it. I just enjoy my time here and I can't even imagine going back right now. Not at all. Don't take that wrong and don't think I don't miss you guys or I am not thinking about you but my life here is soo close to perfect and I am just afraid of leaving it. I just love my host family so much and my friends here are awesome. Even school is fun here haha. I just love my life here.

Well, I'll try to keep up with blogging for my last few weeks here and pictures will follow sometime ( maybe haha).

xoxo

Hey Guys!
 OMG I can't even believe how long I didn't write a post. Well, but I really didn't have time to do so and WHEN I had time I didn't feel like it haha.

soo well since it has been such a long time I don't even know everything that happened anymore haha.

Did I tell you about the finals ? Or about the Ballett I went to (the Nutcracker) ? I have no idea.

well finals are obviously the final tests in each class before break. So while you guys back in germany already had break since wednesday, we had finals wednesday, thursday and friday and then finally winter break :) I don't even know why I am writing in english cuz all my american friends will know what finals are but yah it just feels normal right now so I'm gonna go on with it haha.

ehhhm yah the first week of winter break was pretty stressful cuz obviously it was christmas :) Christmas day itself wasn't that exciting. My host parents and all my host siblings went out to my oldest host sister's house to celebrate there. When we got there we first had a really good break fast ( with cinnamon rolls ! Enough of a christmas present  for me haha) yah and then we spent whole 3 hours with unwrapping our presents. My host family went a little crazy on me, I never had that many presents since I was like 8 haha. But it was fun :) After that we just hung out, played CLUE and then we all watch a movie. Christmas Carol, of course!

Yah the saturday after that, we went out to Omaha to celebrate Christmas with my host dad's side of the family :) It was really fun especially cuz of the "Secret Santa" game we played. It wasn't really secret santa but it is soo weird that it doesn't have a name haha. You had to answer weird questions and then you get a sheet from another person and you had to buy a present for him/ her without knowing who it was or even if it was a woman or a man. It was really funny to see the presents that came out.

Then the Sunday I went to my Lc's house for a little Christmas party. We ate a lot and played some funny and awkward games. It was the last day I got to spend with Dania and Eike, who both left the USA last week to go back to their old life in germany. I am already so afraid when I think about it. It is so weird to think about that I won't see all the people here everyday anymore and some people I won't even see ever again. I don't want that to happen! I don't want to go back!

Yah then that night we went up to Omaha and spend the night there so we could go to the airport pretty early in the morning.

PHOENIX ! So we went there for a wedding of relatives and we decided to go a week earlier just to havesome fun with them. and yaaah:
 I am gonna move there guys! Seriously. Believe me. It is just the most beautiful place ever. Awesome warm weather (it was the coldest winter for a long time with 70° F / 21 °C :D), awesome mountains to hike (Sami (sister), Greg (brother), Chelsea and I hiked on the Camelback mountain one day and it was just soooo much fun , next to being pretty dangerous though :D) and I guess I don't even have to talk about the palm trees and cacti everywhere.
yah so we hung out there. Shopping, sight seeing and Sami and I spent a lot of our time at the pool and hot tub :) it was awesome. The best part about Phoenix was of course the wedding! (All the best to you, Nate and Madison!) It was just too beautiful to even describe it. I will never forget this day! Thank you all for this experience! :)

yah and then we got back on Sunday night. 10 pm in Omaha! We finally got home at about 12 pm. Then unpacking my stuff and searching my school stuff together  cuz  that was the day before schools started again. yah let's just say I was a little little tiny bit tired on Monday haha.


yah so my new schedule:

1. US History
2. human behavior
3. AP French
4. Theatre
5. TA german (TA means I am assistant)
6. Contemporary Literatur
7. Hip Hop

It is a pretty fun and easy schedule. I don't really have homework anymore and yah. German is probably the funniest class ever :D Since I am assistant I don't do anything in it than talking to my weird friends (yah I hope you read that Jon and Asa :D) and do homework (if I have some) for other classes. In addition to that I have 2nd lunch and since we have 3 lunches since this semester the 2nd lunch is in the middle of 5th period haha. That means We are going to German class for 30 minutes, lunch for 30 minutes and then back to german class again for like 20 minutes haha. yah it is weird :D
oh and of course we can't forget how incredibly cute it is to hear all the people talk in German with their accent! It is just sooo cute :)

yah well and yesterday night, I went to a hypnotize show with my host dad and sister :) it was so interesting and soooo funny :D cuz he told us we can try it out if we want to and so my sister and I were watching at this light and listening to his voice. Fortunately I woke up early enough cuz he came around and took people from the audience onto the stage. and YES my sister went up haha. She did everything and she was soo funny, everybody just watched her, looked at my dad and me and laughed. She rocked the show. Just bad that she doesn't know anything of what she did up there :D But hey we're having a DVD coming , so that she can finally see what weird stuff she did in front of all those people :D
Probably funniest evening in my whole life!



yah I guess that's it for now.
 So yah I am still alive and I am just happy here!

of and by the way: MY LC IS THE BEST! :))

Just putting this out there!


Well, I 'll talk to you later!

 Some people really exagerate with their Christmas decoration and it's not even the whole yard :D But hey it's pretty :)

  uppps... there went something wrong with the cookies!

 Phoenix ! ♥

 Hiking day :)

 Wedding day ! :)

xoxo

Funny story, sick and first snow. Day 108 :)

Hey guys :)

okay I have to tell you something really funny. So yah I went through my old posts today and read my post "Homecoming" again.
Do you remember how I wrote about this guy who asked his Homecoming date in front of everyone at the Pep Ralley and how cute I thought this is?
Yah right, just so that you know. The girl is my new host sister now and the guy is her boyfriend :D  We just laughed about how funny this is. I didn't know her and now she is my new sister! How small the world is!

Well besides that I was sick yesterday. I had a upset stomach. It still feels a little it weird eating something but it's alright now. Well because of that I stayed home today, watched a few movies and when I watched out of the window: SNOW !!!
yah I saw my first american snow falling. It didn't stay on the ground, but on the glass table we have in our yard. I just hope there will be a lot of snow this year. :)

I am here for 108 days now and slowly I recognize that my time here gets less with every day. It just oes too fast. I have only 184 days left :O

Oh and to my german friends: don't think I don't care about you anymore just because I don't write you. I just don't have the time for it. I can't live two lives. But I still love and miss you :)

xoxo

Thanksgiving, Black Friday and incredible happy!

Hey guys :)
did you recognized that I always start like that ? Kind of boring, but it's just the only thing I can think of haha.

First of all: I have a break !!! yah finally I had a break of 4 days haha. Well it's not much but it feels really good to know that I still have a sunday although I already felt like sunday today :)

Well the last to days were pretty busy though.

Thanksgiving was on thursday and it was a really long day haha. We left our house at 7:30 am cause we drove to Omaha. An hour later when we got there first we watched the awesome, big Belgum-American Parade (guys it were only maybe 12 men walking down the street with flags in their hands haha) and then church. And although it was a catholic mess it was still really different to the messes in Germany. The music was cooler and it was a way shorter. After church we went to a hall for breakfast/lunch. There I already got to know most of the family from my host dad's side. Well there was a ton of donuts and beagles and muffins haha I felt like in heaven. Yah well after hanging out with some of my host cousins, we went to my host mom's family for dinner. There were so many people and I had a few problems to remember all the names haha. But it was funny though especially because Sami (my sister) and I just fell asleep on the couch after dinner for 2 hours. Well dinner wasn't really dinner because we already ate at 3 pm haha. But it was sooooo good. Guys Turkey, mashed potatoes, cheesy potatoes, there was a lot of really yummy food.
After Sami's and my nap we even got desserts too. I just ate Apple squares and Pumpkin Pie cause I was soo full but there was a lot of food besides that too.

Well then we went to my dad's side of the family again for even more desserts ( I couldn't eat anything more besides two little cream puffs haha. Yah we just chilled there and talked and played "Pass the Ace" (a card game that only my host family plays I guess). It was just fun.
I LOVE THANKSGIVING!

and well when we are talking about THANKSgiving:

I am sooo thankful for everything right now. I am thankful for my friends back in Germany, my american friends, the opportunity to be here and especially for my family and  my american family. I just love them!

Well then yesterday: Black Friday.
Okay maybe it is really special when you go shopping at night but I was to lazy to get up at 4 am when I had come home at 1 am, just to go shopping and stand in line. So I just went to the mall with a friend yesterday afternoon. I didn't buy anything and yah. For me it wasn't that special haha. But on our way back home from Omaha, we drove by a "best buy store" and we saw the people standing in line. The line was so long, they even stood around the whole building (and it's not a little one :D). I was so glad not to stand in line there.

Well this morning then my host mom and I went out for lunch with a man who she used to work with, because he wanted to get to know me cause he has a german background. It was fun although it was weird talking german again haha. It's normal to talk to my family and german friends in german but with people I don't know it's just weird in the beginning. But it was fun to hear about their connection to Germany and I hope we will meet again. I even got to know about a new band. And guess what, it's a german one haha. I already love their music and I am really glad they told me about them. I am gonna put the link to their website on here, so you can listen to them and read about them.

Well I guess that's it for now again. I am just really really happy here and I don't want the time to go by. Sure I miss my friends and family back in germany but I just love my family here and I get to know so many new people and I make so many new experiences. I am totally happy :)

xoxo

Artig (Band)


            American people really start decorating their houses on Thanksgiving eve! That's America! :)

101 days and totally happy :)

Hey guys :)
Yah there I am again :)
I just can't believe I am already in Nebraska for 101 days now. This just seems like such a long time but it went by soo fast. If I am thinkins about that I only have about 181 days left I am already afraid haha.

Well I am living with my new host family for 1 week now, and I just looove them :) each of them!  I already feel like a part of the family after one week.

and because everybody asks me: yes I still have contact to Sarah ( my old host sister). We both want to stay friends for sure.

Well on Friday I went to the Theatre with Vivian to watch Breaking Dawn 2 :) well first we got to the theatre 10 minutes too late, because we stopped by McDonald's to get some food. Well then we got into the movie, right when the comercials were over and the movie started. The only 2 seats that were free, were in the right corner in the first row - worst seats ever, but well nothing can make this movie bad :D So we sat there in the theatre eating our McDonald's food and at the end we were sooo sad that the Twilight movies are actually over now.

After that Vivian spent the night at my house. It was soo funny cause we fell asleep in the basement and first went up to my room at 5:30 am ! :D 
The next day My host mom, my host sister and her bestfriend, Vivian and I went to the Omaha Zoo. Omg! Guys the Omaha zoo is huuuuuuge :D well I think you can hear that I loved the zoo. Unfortunately I don't have any  photos because - well you all know me - I forgot my camera card in my computer so I couldn't take any pictures :D But when I am going the next time I'm gonna take many many photos !

After the zoo Sami and I hang out with some friends. I learned a new card game called "Spoon" and yah guys it's as weird as it sounds :D But it's fun :)

Another weird experience was on sunday when I went to the grocerie store with my host mom. We had a looot of bags and I mean I am already used to not packing the stuff my self but letting the young people do it who work there, but this time we had so many bags that we not even took it to the car but driving by the drive through and letting them put in our car. It was soo awkward hahaha.

Well today I had kind of a short school day. It was as long as usual, but the last 2 periods my classes went to an assembly. It was soo sad, because it was about a boy who died by a car accident exactly 2 years ago. His mom was there and talked to us and I felt soo sorry for her, she still had tears in her eyes although it's 2 years ago. Well they talked a lot about his life and how he died and about the life of the man who killed him. I just felt soo uncomfortable sitting there and listening to it. So guys I am serious:

DON'T DRINK AND DRIVE !

Well I guess that's it. I am just really really happy here and I hope the next 7 months are gonna go by really really slow.
And I am sooo excited about Thanks giving :) and I am already totally into Christmas. And at New Years Eve and the week after it we will go Phoenix, Arizona to a Wedding and OMG there are soo many awesome things that will happen the next :) I am soo excited :)

xoxo

New family, springfield and 94 days :)

hey guys :)

soo well there was a LOOOOT going on here.

First I went to Springfield, Missouri with my hostfamily to watch my host brother run at the nationals xc meet. It was really muuuuch time we spent in the car. But it was funny at the meet cause Sarah and I totally messed up with the spots to watch the runners so we only saw them like 3 times running by or something like that.

Thenon Saturday I met my new host family for lunch and then I went watching the house :) After that I went to the Mall with Marie and Katharina ( two other germans) to get some christmas present for our families, well especially for our families back in germany :)

 At Saturday night I went to the musical "Crazy for you" at my school, and I have to say: the people know what they are doing! It was really really good :)

Then on Sunday I went to church with my "old" host parents and then I moved to my new host family.  Of course it was kinda sad but I was sooo excited about my new host family:) They are sooo nice and I already love them.

well let me say it short: I LOVE THEM !!! :)

well that was just a really show update, I'm gonna tell you more soon :)

oh maybe host family:

host dad Ron,
host mom Cindy,
oldest host sister Missy with her husband John,
host sister Mandi,
host brother Greg,

and host sister Sami :) Sami is a Senior at my school and the youngest  by far.


well I guess pictures are gonna come later and more text too hahaa,

xoxo