It's Only Been a Week??

               Moin!

    I must start by simply saying that time is going by quickly and slowly at the same time. It's the weirdest feeling. But yet, enjoyable and comfortable.

    So in my first week, I think that I have accomplished a lot. I've met all the grandparents, I've helped build a hammock, attended school (and succeeded in getting lost!), been to a local festival that has been happening every year for 400 something years, and completed the corn maze at night. So now each individually!

    The grandparents I've met have been awesome. We sat around a ate icecream. We talked about her cousin who paints a lot and looked at some of her artwork. They were super nice and totally good at speaking clearly enough for my still growing German.

    So my siblings started to build a hammock before I arrived and they've let me help build it. I help with wood staining, drilling, and numbering. It's absolutely crazy that they can just build these things in their free time! The things you learn to do in your freetime on a farm in a dorf of 600 people I suppose! (:

    School has been totally different, I must say. I picked my classes on Tuesday. All except Russian are with 11th graders. So history, English, sport (health and PE), physics, German, philosophy, Politics, and math are with 11th graders. But I think I may go into 10 grade physics and math since they are so over my head in the level I'm in now. English is pretty funny actually. We will be learning a lot about British history and all that fun stuff. Then we will actually have a chapter on America and the American dream. That will be really really interesting to see from their view. I've managed to go to the wrong German class, so I will have to explain to my teacher why I wasn't there Friday (because I'm an exchange student and didn't notice that 0-219 and E-219 were on different floors :D ). 

   Hannah (another American exchange student. Maybe you remember her from camp?) and her host dad invite my host dad and me to go to a festival with them Friday night. It kicked so much butt, I can't even begin to describe the fun, but I'll try anyway! Basically it was like American ones, but more intense. The rides were crazier, the lights were brighter, the food was niftier. Plus, I got to see how hilarious my host dad was when he is having fun. Cracking jokes, dancing, laughing like a maniac. It was super awesome. When we got home, he and I did the corn maze at night. It was so dark, I could hardly see! But the stars were breathtaking.. Imagine a corn field, a windmill, and bright stars. That's how my night was.. (And once I have a working SD card, I can actually show you all my surroundings) When we went to the kitchen for Abendbrot (evening bread, that's quite literally what I have for dinner! :D ), he was telling me so many awesome stories. I really think it was a good bonding moment. He also talked a lot about being a family and how it would start to annoy me as an exchange student to still be a guest after about a week. So that was really comforting. 

    I think I really lucked out with my family. They're totally in love with hosting, they 're funny, they're friendly, and they show me how welcome I am here. It's just been awesome. So, these next months will be so comfortable and so helpful.. 

More to come next week! 

~Katy