Friday, August 20th Ursula left lunches for Bea and I. Water was dripping onto the counter from an indeterminable source, so I put a towel on it and made a note to tell Peter. Bea found me at the Postauto station. We talked about relationships and how she had thought her boyfriend was the one and now she was worried because she's "old" and wants
Thursday, August 19th Ursula left me some rolls with a note saying to have a nice day. I slept in until 8:30. It was raining. I ordered school books online (there are 15 I need this semester!), and I hope I got everything. Some are at the library. I ate the rolls-mmm! Two had chocolate chips in them! When I got to the rail station, I got of
Wednesday, August 18th: When I saw the meat Ursula had out for my sandwich this morning (it looked like bacon), I had this feeling it was going in raw. Which it did. I saw so many kids traveling after 10 that I was confused. What about school? It was the kind of morning that lasts all afternoon, just stuck inside the gloom (as John Mayer would sa
Tuesday, August 17th Ursula made me a lunch and we walked to the bus stop (postautohaltestelle). This time, ursula forgot her keys, so Peter quickly brought them up. I met some neighbors. They complimented my German, but I wonder how well I really speak. I found the right train and when I got Zurich, wow, I could really feel the leftovers of c
Monday, August 16th: We awoke at six and had breakfast. Ursula bought me hot chocolate mix. When she and I got into the car, Peter ran around looking for his keys. Then Ursula was telling me about him always losing his keys, and she tahem in the ignition. I helped carry the bread into the school and then Peter took me to the station. May I say again that I love
Sunday, August 15th: Peter and Ursula drove me to church. I was so happy because at church I talked to a lot of people - I undertstood them and they understood me! One of the speakers told that seminary donut story about Brother Christianson, so I could follow very well. I told him afterwards. When I paused in a sentence, he said I could speak English, but I to
Saturday, August 14th: Wow, I slept so well. I love those duvet things. We went to Sue and Bea's godmother and godfather's house, which was very niear, and had huge Swiss breakfast. Dorothea and Werner were very nice and Sue kept asking if I'd like more and what kind of tea (peppermint) and then Ursula saw me staring at the yummmy braided bread, shiny and fresh,
On Friday, August 13th, I heard my host family leave at 4 am and checked to see if the clock stopped - yep, at 1:30. I reset it and couldn't sleep because I was so afraid of missing everything. My legs were so sore from the biking and they were already sore from the horrible charlie horses. I have to walk and not swing my legs all the way back. I packed, ate yogur
Whoa. I had the two biggest charlie horses I've ever had, at the same time, in both legs at 5 am (on Thursday, August 12th). I wanted to scream, but I just bit my tongue. When it finally ended, I stood up, or tried too, but my legs hurt so much! They still hurt when I got up later and packed some and ate some rote grötze and rode the bike to the bus stop with my s
Today is Mike's Birthday. (August 12th). I wrote him a letter and called him. The speaking exam and last written exam went fine. I caught up a bit on my blog. Then I bought a pizza and tried to get 4 milchbrötchen, but the lady didn't understand. Me: I need 4 milchbrötchen. Her: Ja (puts one in a bag) Me: I need 3 more. Her: 3? Me: 3 more. Her: 1,20 (on
There were kids and bikes everywhere! (school started). My quiz was easy and I made one stupid mistake - I wrote that the car was washed by the car, not the mechanic. My speaking exam went well with Liz, and Ulli said we both got A's. Matt and I got pizza from Pizza world and sent some pictures on the internet. I was glad to hear from Mom and Dad. Ulli gave me m
On Monday (August 9th), we had an early wake up call. The guy at the desk offered us an early breakfast, so we ate and then hopped on the taxi. This driver was Speedy Gonzalez. ON the train we sat by these weird dudes from L.A., one of whom looked like that girly singer dude on Wedding Singer. They ate a lot of raisins. I found that funny, so I asked them if Cali
Some dudes were yelling at each other in the street at 5:30 am. It bounced off the buildings, so it was way loud and annoying. Then Matt's alarm didn't go off, so we missed the bus and barely made it to the end of breakfast. Then when we went out to the next bus, Matt waved at the driver, but he didn't stop! So we walked forever and saw the Rathaus (city hall), sa
We got on a little train thing and went to the Viking Ship Museum. The ships were so old and cool. I had Matt take lots of pics for Katie, and I bought her something as well. Then when we got to the Folk House Museum, I was disappointed because I had already bought her something when the things here were cooler and so much more Katie-ish. We saw so many cool old h
We got up and ate the breakfast provided (I had hot chocolate and muesli with yogurt and these little chopped up pieces of hot dog and thick bread that was actually soft with yummy raspberry jam) We slept in some more after that, then set out to the museums. It turned out to be a longer walk than we though, so we waited for bus 30. The bus driver told us to get on
Friday, August 6th Wow, it was hard at first to convince myself it was worth it to have no sleep and go jump on a train, but I knew I could sleep on the train, which I did, for a long time. The train pulled onto a ferry and we got to go up top where there were seats, tables, and ridiculously expensive stores to look at the ocean. Mom - half of my eyebrow is
Thursday, August 5th, 2004 My host Mom's voice is horrible. Poor lady. She says she got her cold from Bettina's competition where it rained so much they had to leave. Ullie forgot that I asked to take the test early, so she didn't have it ready. She kept apologizing, but I was glad because now I can take it on Tuesday. All the passive tenses are confus
Our group decided to combine the stories we read to act out for the closing party. It's going to be so funny. Brad still hasn't given me the music with which I'm supposed to accompany him, and I haven't gotten my music from Mom yet. Yikes and a half since I'll only have Tuesday to practice now. That really is BAD. So I woke up early this morning. I had a horribl
Ich wohne in Kiel. Das Wetter ist sehr schön jetzt.
Wow, so Matt and I got pizza during lunch, but it took forever and I feel like everywhere I've ever gone I ended up with a feeling that I didn't quite understand the salesperson or I didn't say the right thing. Especially when the workers look at each other like that. Yikes. So we ended up with one pizza instead of the two we ordered. It was good! Mmm. Then afte
Monday, August 2 I finished redoing my essay on the way to school. I got an A on my speaking exam! During lunch, Matt and I bought käsebrot and my chocolate milk was way too chocolatey, so I put water in it. I checked my email and was ticked by some rude things written to me, but after I wrote back, I decided not to send it. I didn't want to stoop. Tan
Sunday, August 1st Well, the bus took forever this morning - it turned out we had all been looking at the times from M-F. It only comes once an hour and we missed it by five minutes. Then the bus didn't go as far as Molfsee, so we walked from Rammsee and then my hostdad offered a ride. We got to church at the end of sacrament meeting. My hostdad picked
We arrived in Berlin at 5 in the morning. The guy who was in the compartment talked to us and told us to call him up later and we could go get some food or something. We paid 50 cents each to go to the bathroom. We saw the tower of a church with the top blown off from World War II, so we walked over there and looked at the outside of it. It was the Kaiser Wilhelm
We arrived in Berlin at 5 in the morning. The guy who was in the compartment talked to us and told us to call him up later and we could go get some food or something. We paid 50 cents each to go to the bathroom. We saw the tower of a church with the top blown off from World War II, so we walked over there and looked at the outside of it. It was the Kaiser Wilhelm
Friday, July 30th We both got to the train station on time (luckily) and said good morning to our friend at the desk. Matt got a sandwich and I got cheesebread (I love the taste of crispy cheese). With a eurail pass, you just have to hope there are open seats and sometimes sit between cars unless you reserve. We got to Amsterdam in the afternoon and that is
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