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

Late start :)

Hey guys :)
here I am again :D well I am just posting today, cause I'm gonna go down to springfield, Missouri tomorrow to watch my host brother run at a xc meet, so I guess I would forget about today totally.

Well, today we had late start at school which means sleeping in (well till 8:15 hahaha) get up, having break fast for an hour getting ready, going to school at 10:10 ! :) Then every class only 30 minutes long , lunch after 3rd period and then the last 4 classes for 35 / 30 minutes again. It was soo awesome, wished we could have late start every day!

Well, then just home: homework and then I finally got to read a little bit in my book again. Then we watched the show called "Survivor" about people on an Island playing different challenges and so on, till only one person is left. I think the show is kinda weird, just because everybody tells somebody else to vote another person out. It's just confusing, but it's fun though.

Hahahaaa  it was just so funny. My host sister comes in and her boyfriend normally was in front of the house, so when it knocked on the door, we thought it would be him. my host mother is just like " yah come in" and then two guys of the food delivery service "Schwan's" come in hahahaa. AWKWARD :D

Well, I guess that's it for today. Really short, but I decided to post it now instead of forgetting it later.

xoxo, talk to you later

What the heck !? :o Fußfessel!

Hey guys :)
soo ich wollte einfach nur mal schnell nen post machen, weil ich gerade bisschen zeit habe und es dann auch nicht im nächsten vergessen kann :D

Alsoo gestern bin ich erstmal nach der Schule nochn bisschen in der schule geblieben und habe meine cultural foods lehrerin mit 4 anderen Mädels ausgeholfen. Es war einfach nurn Lehreressen ;)
Nachdem dann der größte teil der lehrer fertig war, haben wir sogar auch Essen bekommen :) erstmal Ofenkartoffeln mit sour cream und chili und alles was dazu gehört und dann konnte man sich den nachtisch aussuchen. Ich hab mich für die Pumpkin bars entschieden und Oh my Goddess !!! They were just delicious! Hab mir dann auch mal schnell das recipe geschnappt und das wird dann weiterhin zu Hause selbst gemacht, alsoo an meine Familie: ihr könnt euch schonmal auf Pumpkin bars freuen wenn ich wieder zurück in Germany bin! :D

Naja heute hab ich dann mal kurz nen schock bekommen. Sitze ich meiner ersten Klasse, Cultural Foods. Ich hör nur wie eins der Mädchen mit meiner Lehrerin über irgendwas mit "charge" spricht und dann setzt sie sich an nen anderen Tisch und fängt an ihre Fußfessel aufzuladen ! Und ich dachte mir nur so: What the heck !?  Fußfessel! jaaa richtiges Wort. Ich war mega geschockt, dass man sowas erstens schon in meinem Alter bekommt und zweitens, dass sie so locker damit umgeht. Also auf deutschen Schulen wäre sowas nicht mal erlaubt denke ich.

Morgen habe ich dann late start, was bedeutet, dass ich erst um 10.20 in die Schule muss , wiel vorher irgendein großer Test geschrieben wird und die classes sind dann nur 30 bzw. 35 min lang :D in Deutschland hätte man einfach frei bekommen, schätze ich.

Well, I guess that's it for now.

xoxo

Halloween - Trick or Treat , sick and 86 days :)

Hey guys :)
soo ich weiß garnicht wann ich das letzte mal gepostet hab, aber ich denke diesmal ist es nur ne woche her oder so ;)
also ist soo viel auch garnicht passiert, aber es war Halloween :)
naja also ich hab mir halloween hier ja mit mehr party vorgestellt und so, aber naja, war halt nicht :D
Also du gehst erstmal ganz normal zur schule, manche leute sind verkleidet, aber wirklich nur seeehr seehhr wenige :D und dann gehst du nach hause, machst hausaufgabe, ganz normal eben.
und naajaa ich bin dann abends zu ner Freundin gegangen, wo dann n paar  leute waren ich würde mal schätzen so um die 20 oder so ;) Es war sogar ne mischung aus Deutschen und Amerikanern, weil die letzte woche ja die austauschschüler aus Coburg hier waren :) Mega nette Menschen und es war mal wieder schön n bisschen deutsch mit neuen leuten zu reden, obwohl ich mir erstmal nicht so sicher war ob ich deutsch oder englisch reden soll :D
najaa alsoo dann waren wir auf jeden fall da, haben uns alle erstmal mit cookies und sowas vollgestopft und sind dann durch die Nachbarschaft gegangen. Trick or treat ist zwar an sich ganz lustig, aber wir waren einfach zuu viele Leute in der Gruppe, deswegen haben nur manche richtig vieeel candy bekommen :D was die dann auch mal schön danach im haus alles aufgefuttert haben :D najaa bin dann um halb 10 heim, weil 10 meine curfew war und jaa, das war's dann auch schon für halloween. Am nächsten Tag ganz normal in die Schule und außer ab und zu nem "and what did you do for halloween?" war das thema auch schon wieder vergessen. Naja es war ne neue Erfahrung und das reicht ;)

naja seit dienstag bin ich dann auch mal schön fett erkältet und hör jetzt schon seit 2 tagen so gut wie nur mich selbst reden, weil meine ohren irgendein problem haben und zu sind -.- aber naja das war meine erste RICHTIGE erkältung in den USA :D abgesehn von dem bisschen während der XC season .

naja ich geh dann mal Amazing Race gucken mit meinen Gasteltern ;)
ich meld mich ganz bald wieder, und der post wird dann wieder auf englisch sein ;) ich werde jetzt nämlich abwechseln habe ich beschlosse :D

xoxo