So in the last two weeks my life has been pretty normal.
So yeah I went to a professional hockey game last Friday in Hamburg, it was fun. We lost…bad…. But it was fun to go to; and surprisingly cheap. I don’t really think I’ve done too much that’s all that exciting lately. I went on a couple of bike rides, and I went running. I meet a lot of new people and forget their names instantly. I haven’t taken any pictures since I’ve been here. That really is just an example of how I haven’t done anything exciting or seen anything cool…yet. I’m sure I’ll do some stuff when we have break.
I go to school every day, I’m slowly starting to understand things at school, and I took my first test last week.
Besides school I haven’t really done a whole lot.
I’m still attempting to play soccer. Not really getting all the much better, but it’ll come eventually, I hope.
I was reading “Apologize, Apologize!” by Elizabeth Kelly, which is the best book I’ve ever read I recommend it to everybody, then my host mom suggested I read it in German, so I went online and ordered up a copy, it came a few days later and now I’m reading it in German, “Die Verrückten Flanagan’s”, with a different title of course. It’s good in German too!
I went last weekend to my grandparents’ house; they were having a grilling thing, so I’ve met the entire extended family now. It was weird though because we were playing soccer in the yard and they were sitting on the patio talking, and I’m not sure if they thought I couldn’t hear them or it they thought I couldn’t understand them but they were totally talking about me. I wasn’t really sure what they were saying but I would hear my name every once in a while then I would hear them say something that I knew was about me. I don’t think they were saying bad things, asking questions. Natural curiosity I guess.
The other day I was in town and I bought a watch, I really needed a watch, they don’t have clocks in the classroom so I never had any idea what time it was and it drove me crazy! It’s a nice watch, I felt pretty special when I bought it.
During fall break we, Markus, Andreas, and I, are going on a bike tour for 3 or 4 days through Bavaria, so that should be pretty fun. I guess they go like 70km a day (44 Miles) so well see if I can keep up with them.
Yesterday I went to a mall, and I bought a hoodie, a t-shirt, and some new shoes. It was a pretty good day; I also searched the aisles of a grocery store for some mountain dew, but I had no luck in finding it. It was soo easy to buy in Hessen but here it’s actually hard to find. So if I can find some I will probably buy all of it. Later in the day I went to a fundraiser festival type thing at the church. I played a couple of games, ate some cake, drank some coffee, and rang the church bell, then I hit a wall and wanted to go home; but as we were getting ready to go, my mom saw some people she knew (I’m actually pretty sure she knew every single person there) so we stopped and talked to them for a while. Everybody asks me the same questions, which is nice, I always know how to answer but it gets a little boring, I want them to ask me some exciting questions. Oh and yesterday we were sitting at the table drinking our coffee when this guy that they knew came and sat down and started asking me where I was from. He first asked if I was from Mexico, when I told him no he asked if I was from Brazil or South America, when I told him no I was from Minnesota he asked me if I had ancestors from Mexico. It was really funny. I told him that I come from Norway and he couldn’t believe it. Like he completely thought that I was lying to him. Then he went on telling me how much he hated the United States and how he would never, in his entire life, go to the US. It was very fun for me to sit there and listen to that; especially because I had to be polite.
This was really short, and relatively boring. I’ll have to start writing down what I’ve done again, I forget things like that really fast. Life is going good, however.
