What's worse than not getting mail? Knowing that people have sent you mail, but not having received it yet. Damn you, slow international shipping!
So, the week of October 25th-29th, wasn't a very good week for me. I was pretty down for the entire week, don't really know why but I was, the constant rain probably didn't help any. I didn't really do a lot that week, I did sleep a lot though. Heike was gone from Thursday to Sunday on a spa type weekend, where she walked on the beach. On the 29th I went to see RED, which was good, it was something to get me out of the house, so it was good. On the 30th, I was again all good, I went to a party in town, that was a lot of fun, I got to talk to a lot of people, and whatnot. On the 31st, I didn't celebrate Halloween, becuase the Germans don't celebrate it, which kind of sucks, becuase it's one of ,if not, my favorite Holidays. I did go and watch some soccer in the rain though, which is always fun, then we went to this super duper boring choir concert, which I probably wouldn't have hated so much had they not of kept saying that the next song was going to be the last one for like half an hour. Then I came home and Skyped with my Aunt Cheri and my Parents.
Monday. Went to school. Wasn't really anything special, oh, but on the way to school Johannes was backing out of the garage and he backed into a tree, which was pretty hilarious, especially becuase the car has back up sensors. He didn't think it was as funny. I also noticed that I can now function without using a dictionary, which is nice, becuase it's kind of a hassle to always have to look up words. Monday was also good because my 1st, 2nd, and 7th hours were canceled. On Tuesday I had no first hour. Tuesday was actually just a super awesome day for me, nothing special happened but I was in a really really good mood. Then on Tuesday night we went shopping at the two really big shopping centers in the 'area', I bought nothing. Then we went to Youth Group, which started out good, then we started playing soccer inside, with a bunch of tables turned on their sides in a circle so that they ball wouldn't go all over the place. As I was going over one of the tables to enter the arena(?) my foot caught the edge of the table, causing it to fall, on my foot and scrape the skin off of my heel/Achilles tendon area. It hurt a lot, not just becuase of the cut, but also becuase the table smashed down pretty hard. So I was done with soccer for the night, I sat out and held a kleenex to my foot while it bled. On Wednesday we, my class and the other 10th grade classes, took a trip to a concentration camp. I was actually really excited to go there, until I got there. So most of the buildings that were still there were original, but they had been heavily renovated twice, so you would never know that it was concentration camp. Plus all of the cool buildings that I would've liked to have seen had been torn down. So with these factors combined with my foot that didn't really feel to great with my shoe over it, they day started off not as great as I had expected. We did get to see some original stuff, and a lot of diagrams showing how the camp was originally set up, but a lot of it was super boring, just becuase it was in German and I had to stand the whole time, so at the end of the day I was super worn out, and had no desire to hear anymore German. Thursday, I had school, which wasn't anything special but it's whatever. Friday at school, was pretty normal. Friday however was a super awesome day. Here's the run down:
Woke up. Got ready for school. Didn't have to take the bus to school. I only had 6 hours, and only 4 subjects, of those six hours 3 of them we were working in groups. At the end of the day I saw that on Monday 1st, 3rd, and 4th hour are canceled. I didn't have to ride the bus home. When I got home there was roast beef and rice waiting for me on the table. When the mail came, I had a letter. I then laid down for about 45 minutes. When I got up we went to Zeven where I bought some good 'ol American Oreo's. At about 5:00 Markus, Christoph, and I left for Hamburg. Upon arrival in Hamburg we stopped at McDonald's on the Reeperbahn (pronounced Rape-er-bah-n), we then made our way to where Jimmy Eat World was playing, and proceeded to see Jimmy Eat World play an absolutely amazing show! After the concert Markus and I ran into a random gas station on the way back to the car, and I just about fell over when I saw that they had Mountain Dew Code Red! I bought a 4 pack, of course. So that was my Friday. Pretty great if I do not say so myself.
Saturday. I slept in, and didn't really do a lot the whole day. We went for a walk in the woods, raked some leaves, and I watched a few soccer games. Later in the day Markus and I started playing poker, it started out good for me, I was pretty much winning the whole time, then Christoph wanted to play with us. That was the exact opposite of fun, he played like 10 minutes and in those 10 minutes I lost at least 6 Euro. Then Markus and I made a cake. An American Chocolate cake, with Vanilla frosting. It was interesting. Baking in Europe is a lot different than baking in the US. We haven't eaten the cake yet, so I don't know how it turned out, but the frosting is super good. We then ordered Pizza. After eating Markus and I resumed our game. I was winning for a while, then I was losing a ton. We ended up playing until about 01:00, I had about a 9 Euro loss for the day.
Today, Sunday, is my lazy day. I slept in, ate lunch, and now I'm writing a blog. I'm gonna do my homework here in a few minutes then get a package ready to send off. I then have a night full of skyping with my Grandma, parents, and a friend of mine before me. School again tomorrow, but it's not too bad becuase I have at least 3 hours canceled, and with some luck there will be more canceled when I get there.
That's all I've got at the moment.
