tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57403584359369152822024-03-13T19:57:56.922-07:00Pop Goes My Heart (inside joke sorry)Marthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16517941527672040669noreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5740358435936915282.post-9736716531893311872009-07-07T13:36:00.000-07:002009-07-07T13:43:46.081-07:00Winding downSo my time here is drawing rather quickly to an end.I've been meaning to write for a while, but somehow just haven't found the time. Lot's of things have happened since I last wrote. My class threw me a surprise going away party, I've been to three other going away parties, I've had my own going away party, I've seen my rowing "family" here for the last time, there have been lots of tears and laughs, and one of the girls in my class here has even come back from her exchange year in the U.S.<br />As I think about the fact that I'll be flying back in three days it doesn't seem real. Ith's funny though becausse in a way my mind is preparing me for going back to the U.S. Sometimes I think of a word in German and then it just comes out of my mouth in English (ok so this does happen vice versa as well).<br />As I think back on this year and that it will soon be over, an overwhelming sense of thankfulness sweeps over me. I am so thankful to have had this chance. It has been and continues to be an amazingly rewarding experience.<br />My advice to any new exchange students or exchange students to be is just to put your all into it. You'll get even more back.Marthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16517941527672040669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5740358435936915282.post-14993775255910696722009-07-07T13:20:00.000-07:002009-07-07T13:35:52.282-07:00The 25 things I've learned in Germany1. I'm more of a child than some people ever have been.<br />2. I'm more of an adult than some people ever will be.<br />3. A new life <span style="font-style: italic;">can </span>be built in less than a year.<br />4. Rowing is my constant and the people I row with will always be family to me.<br />5. Riding is still important and makes me just plain happy.<br />6. I can ski.<br />7. Skiing is fun.<br />8. To be a "normal" and "abnormal" teenager.<br />9. Life isn't always about the big turning points. A lot of time it's the little things that make the difference.<br />10. I'm lucky.<br />11. The thing I find most in my <span style="font-style: italic;">good </span>friends is support.<br />12. I may be one of the least cooridinated people on this earth, but I can finally scull!<br />13. There is a point where nothing is embarrassing anymore.<br />14. German stubbornness has new meaning.<br />15. The more you have to say goodbye the harder it gets.<br />16. It's not saying goodbye that's hard, it's going on living normally without those people afterwards. Sometimes just knowing that you can and will live without them.<br />17. I am religious.<br />18. In order to find yourself you might have to temporarily lose yourself (or part of yourself) first.<br />19. I'm not a "<span style="font-style: italic;">typical"</span> American in German terms.<br />20. I have a <span style="font-weight: bold;">very </span>German family in the U.S.<br />21.American's are <span style="font-weight: bold;">not </span>as concentrated on outward appearance as our soceity thinks. Germans are (generally) much worse in this sense.<br />22. Handwashing and disinfecting wounds are not normal healthcare or everyday procedures in all "modern" countries.<br />23. I'm sorry that I've lost contact with so many people, and I won't let it happen again.<br />24. I'm happy in Germany and in the U.S.<br />25. The more you put into something the more you'll get out of it.Marthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16517941527672040669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5740358435936915282.post-89095683552651118382009-06-12T06:18:00.000-07:002009-06-12T13:10:42.966-07:004 weeksSo, it's finally that point.<br />I fly back to the U.S. in exactly 4 weeks.<br />It feels like an eternity since I've seen my room, my school, and my friends.<br />Yet at the same time it feels like yesterday that I stepped off that plane, and came into my school knowing hardly any German.<br />Neither of them are exactly true, but I feel as though both of them are reality. They are <span style="font-style: italic;">my</span> reality.<br />It's hard to think that I'll have to leave. I really have a second life here. My own life.<br />I've had a good time the whole time I've been here (with the exclusion of the whole biking accident).<br />I've felt like I've been a part of my family here and an integrated friend in school, at rowing, and with the other exchange students for a long long time.<br />There is something about this last month, however, where everything has just seemed to be going so perfectly. I don't even have to think twice when I do something. A new sense of belonging.<br />I can finally scull here for example. I'm getting used as an example for the younger kids on proper rowing form. I get comments now from my coach like "You can <span style="font-weight: bold;">really</span> scull now" and "I'm pleasantly surprised by how much you've improved!"<br />I can finally ride European style. I get comments from my trainer there too like "You ride correctly now" [correctly European that is ;) ]<br />Today one of my friends at rowing told me that it's a shame I have to go so soon.<br />I don't know how I can just pack up and leave, how I can give all this up. I've truelly built my life here and to have it seemingly deminish over night is a terrifying thought.<br />I know that I'll still have contact with my friends here and the other exchange students, but it's just horrifying knowing I worked so hard for all this and then just having to give it up.<br />Yes, I can come back and visit, but will I have the same relationship with my friends here?<br />I know that when I come back to the U.S. I'll be happy to see my friends, to be back in a school I like, but at the moment the thought of coming back is crushing.<br />I know, however, that going back to the U.S. is inevitable. All I have left to do is live up every moment I have left here, and that is just exactly what I intend to do.Marthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16517941527672040669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5740358435936915282.post-57546243438859990152009-06-07T06:11:00.001-07:002009-06-07T08:59:06.304-07:00RomaSo to put it shortly I took over 400 pictures of Rome although I only spent 3 nights there............<br />I'm not uploading <span style="font-style: italic;">all </span>of them to the blog, but I'm planning on a pretty big number.<br />I'm also not going to be making captions for all of them.<br />I will, however, just start out by giving you all list of all the stuff we did/saw there:<br />-->Colosseum<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY8HSqvit-P7T9Z5in5j0AtUDDd4HqRn3VOPBmFTpXPpE0PClU58_RNTtUqRmeYIJo-EB3CGoU2IECvtx1rnLEAgD39MPuqEzE_tJ86zWWfUZB9ypgHWjYNzHdd5PpjGxdGyrMeJwSzVE/s1600-h/Roma+031.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0qOXEVuCUtoCnTK6BAb7COPx3daxcuYu5U3dHAE22sAO33XxiYwby12JLFtpTUgoxZVSj6NzD4CWI4z1Q0O-xIDYXhhcOl5veG2khQwb8yOt_syPA17G85WpRGmCS1AKwqoRfMor-Gns/s320/Roma+323.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344609925551657858" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcEvrCtAQ6bpdrBrlwifXZp7goQ3M89IsSEbSF8OpwoydCnYb7USLldvlog51ddmZ5YY6_gtxD2mamQ2tuq2DMDaDJUJF4WvokJO85O4FOblJVnBHAPkjgAYA7OGStIxO-5qXsZZYAW5o/s1600-h/Roma+325.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcEvrCtAQ6bpdrBrlwifXZp7goQ3M89IsSEbSF8OpwoydCnYb7USLldvlog51ddmZ5YY6_gtxD2mamQ2tuq2DMDaDJUJF4WvokJO85O4FOblJVnBHAPkjgAYA7OGStIxO-5qXsZZYAW5o/s320/Roma+325.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344609930029578674" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmjz4HQ4OaGQ9lx8M6jo6S5TGdc326XsY0WYmjDFItTL-T8ZzK0OdfrvFibtoYaeTqg-TrQdNNg0hosgorVfHZYelLjNaiXo5VUJqErrheFmLGKPSNbIxG65CBx2jizyjM50OWlkC5q_Y/s1600-h/Roma+327.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmjz4HQ4OaGQ9lx8M6jo6S5TGdc326XsY0WYmjDFItTL-T8ZzK0OdfrvFibtoYaeTqg-TrQdNNg0hosgorVfHZYelLjNaiXo5VUJqErrheFmLGKPSNbIxG65CBx2jizyjM50OWlkC5q_Y/s320/Roma+327.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344612751190768114" border="0" /></a>Marthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16517941527672040669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5740358435936915282.post-55936495229158907842009-05-31T11:43:00.000-07:002009-05-31T13:49:15.924-07:00Ok so the moral of this story is I'm way too tired to write a full Berlin report. We did way too much to write it all down so I'm just gonna summarize the photos and then a couple sentences at the end :)<br />Secondly these are totally backwards, but oh well.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPsSMiusgiNwuvVbtJaHY5F9V4OovTEgS8qw-mp15XykwnZDUw8bFLTCGgUoLweshs1T9yfz63MDKINkqdYiRQbeIcScyXAkzLKDdboVgvOc99jO6CM-RJ5NsM6HVKIddnpTNfH-ICmVM/s1600-h/Berlin!!!+097.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPsSMiusgiNwuvVbtJaHY5F9V4OovTEgS8qw-mp15XykwnZDUw8bFLTCGgUoLweshs1T9yfz63MDKINkqdYiRQbeIcScyXAkzLKDdboVgvOc99jO6CM-RJ5NsM6HVKIddnpTNfH-ICmVM/s320/Berlin!!!+097.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342067809108412914" border="0" /></a>We totally started this dance party at culture fest in Berlin :)<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_U7ux1vqUfzlRJmnbf_EZolsTayFeoHIMAzKXnF7nEUjUMdHu0FzgGY_mjC4dT3-9JIql-ioECM7WghJwuKbqrSOjjzfsRZzTbasvE6FTnaZACHs1tHTycZ5syd-3kDL6e21OPoTECPE/s1600-h/Berlin!!!+082.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_U7ux1vqUfzlRJmnbf_EZolsTayFeoHIMAzKXnF7nEUjUMdHu0FzgGY_mjC4dT3-9JIql-ioECM7WghJwuKbqrSOjjzfsRZzTbasvE6FTnaZACHs1tHTycZ5syd-3kDL6e21OPoTECPE/s320/Berlin!!!+082.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342066906515330786" border="0" /></a>Susan starting the dancing with this crazy old guy.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmNGC-PIVbBz70TcPojf772NRYAeMH-c0KvmMMnx2X4W_jQ8zgg_We2CVSJh6iSVKvjc8qo9GnVT-JSXVyJds4SE0n5Imod9WGHHILxU5cy_pYJGBEig1lbA7kC4vjWidueKOpYBg1-kU/s1600-h/Berlin!!!+079.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmNGC-PIVbBz70TcPojf772NRYAeMH-c0KvmMMnx2X4W_jQ8zgg_We2CVSJh6iSVKvjc8qo9GnVT-JSXVyJds4SE0n5Imod9WGHHILxU5cy_pYJGBEig1lbA7kC4vjWidueKOpYBg1-kU/s320/Berlin!!!+079.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342066901744153938" border="0" /></a>The awsome Swiss drumming group we were rocking out to.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6k7McNCso19aGdZcBXAMe872Sp2cKWHfEnXvPPWIv8bhBG1oJm4aSGuOUoL5Fj4x1KLl6sIhcB1oUtKVd6CIz-mYy9S0g1WRJs7fsCr0hR17KXrFsUDd4qwAq9ifd4kFGES4GajeMjbU/s1600-h/Berlin!!!+055.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6k7McNCso19aGdZcBXAMe872Sp2cKWHfEnXvPPWIv8bhBG1oJm4aSGuOUoL5Fj4x1KLl6sIhcB1oUtKVd6CIz-mYy9S0g1WRJs7fsCr0hR17KXrFsUDd4qwAq9ifd4kFGES4GajeMjbU/s320/Berlin!!!+055.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342066899533009954" border="0" /></a>Brandenburger Tor (Brandenburg Gate)<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF9PcxrkCTn7GtnPIc6llg2JRlUMsq1rb6mnrMNfXVj266f84nVKgVOUuYuo9vzxBMTaSLgronpuH9dRctO8krscmpDA_7TW0yBBysJxpSVSCz_DRWtlbhTwSIFKLH0yYZ45u06aSqhQI/s1600-h/Berlin!!!+050.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF9PcxrkCTn7GtnPIc6llg2JRlUMsq1rb6mnrMNfXVj266f84nVKgVOUuYuo9vzxBMTaSLgronpuH9dRctO8krscmpDA_7TW0yBBysJxpSVSCz_DRWtlbhTwSIFKLH0yYZ45u06aSqhQI/s320/Berlin!!!+050.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342066890637386930" border="0" /></a>Hillary Clinton made a video for us CBYXers to tell us how important we are.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-YwxImmhK6eEXDQZeFxmKH5Z7H7Ajxn_cKNfFRn3zhzmu1Ex090Kv_vkTb7spxAGwaTcXL2XPEeNzIHcdfwV9DCIlSIZ8SvNDFD_y5YehoXkHT8mma6eaWVG1pYsFvCeeYdnuXG8QrYE/s1600-h/Berlin!!!+046.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-YwxImmhK6eEXDQZeFxmKH5Z7H7Ajxn_cKNfFRn3zhzmu1Ex090Kv_vkTb7spxAGwaTcXL2XPEeNzIHcdfwV9DCIlSIZ8SvNDFD_y5YehoXkHT8mma6eaWVG1pYsFvCeeYdnuXG8QrYE/s320/Berlin!!!+046.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342066887605967874" border="0" /></a>Roughly translated the sign reads: This synagouge is 100 years old.<br />And was on the Kristallnacht (night of broken glass) set on fire by the Nazis.<br />During World War II in the year 1943 it was destroyed by bombs.<br />This house of God should for all time stand as a place of warning and rememberance.<br />NEVER FORGET IT.<br />The board of the Jewish community of Berlin.<br />September 1966<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrNHI0jcv2WhnNJjLGx7boae-rV24a-erThifJ3Joh0W-KbAZHDendxocIWP40hufIBtNpBSgqvvHWXzzcATLsKaSZY2qGzjcuxJMKFUaZ4bmw3LiIRXIXMvKhYhaS2Ih8XlYC8apWAIc/s1600-h/Berlin!!!+045.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrNHI0jcv2WhnNJjLGx7boae-rV24a-erThifJ3Joh0W-KbAZHDendxocIWP40hufIBtNpBSgqvvHWXzzcATLsKaSZY2qGzjcuxJMKFUaZ4bmw3LiIRXIXMvKhYhaS2Ih8XlYC8apWAIc/s320/Berlin!!!+045.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342064589075459474" border="0" /></a>Berlin Wall sinking.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTBgmpyd8MKoICrWOVwqyBOQaK90CRKL2rGsnGH60zq6yQr-jqox7dWOyGHcUe0eENEN8ZDvs7rfXowc5sPMp9qJd3jGQmopDgPz9Q1dWCOpoZVzn48QOtbJMdav4qCmshd87hVScu2QY/s1600-h/Berlin!!!+043.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTBgmpyd8MKoICrWOVwqyBOQaK90CRKL2rGsnGH60zq6yQr-jqox7dWOyGHcUe0eENEN8ZDvs7rfXowc5sPMp9qJd3jGQmopDgPz9Q1dWCOpoZVzn48QOtbJMdav4qCmshd87hVScu2QY/s320/Berlin!!!+043.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342064582272259410" border="0" /></a>The Berlin bears!!!!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl_3M96lUqbWOFf0CPeCLRswdSnvd2C4-6Lfe_5Y7K5AhJVOsAOtqKeuTfKRycETjfiutVakax7e70_15cI_WzDDk6aYFcG4uIovH3Vl1Vg-L8KnVrIdToXT2Iie8pgShsQ68km3_niJs/s1600-h/Berlin!!!+034.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl_3M96lUqbWOFf0CPeCLRswdSnvd2C4-6Lfe_5Y7K5AhJVOsAOtqKeuTfKRycETjfiutVakax7e70_15cI_WzDDk6aYFcG4uIovH3Vl1Vg-L8KnVrIdToXT2Iie8pgShsQ68km3_niJs/s320/Berlin!!!+034.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342064578634522114" border="0" /></a>Model of Berlin, everything built in the last 20 years is in white.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwgGLZJ9HKO9whEG5LbWjDCveDUBGaSWuTdExknMD_j5w7Z7Aamv-DItoZNesRNKrpu6PptTNLgsYypM_-H9odnCwvoDoMWG-44dN7bO8IC8FcghYLWBdFmNpmvfZb_eyckq9iGFbMFds/s1600-h/Berlin!!!+033.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwgGLZJ9HKO9whEG5LbWjDCveDUBGaSWuTdExknMD_j5w7Z7Aamv-DItoZNesRNKrpu6PptTNLgsYypM_-H9odnCwvoDoMWG-44dN7bO8IC8FcghYLWBdFmNpmvfZb_eyckq9iGFbMFds/s320/Berlin!!!+033.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342064574769000626" border="0" /></a>The Berlin Wall.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtuUzwhfS6j3Ukzg-clEQd5esDjggD-KnRSPhR0ij45MPU1N-XFAWrZB6j7CRY8EwWENh-QILsbmFqWeRTzvavK-xsvcaBEsnqkaNbZsIRO8QYwZPil_jJNpC67aiXIRVrluJpHuGoQEY/s1600-h/Berlin!!!+028.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtuUzwhfS6j3Ukzg-clEQd5esDjggD-KnRSPhR0ij45MPU1N-XFAWrZB6j7CRY8EwWENh-QILsbmFqWeRTzvavK-xsvcaBEsnqkaNbZsIRO8QYwZPil_jJNpC67aiXIRVrluJpHuGoQEY/s320/Berlin!!!+028.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342064571362421314" border="0" /></a>Amis hanging at<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhJJIQIRixr8fL6jBo3uc6bL4TMDc9ZTJObmFnYUN3dzTFJ5z6EL1P36qBNLZO1ZBrbiAXAdpnbuT7OAGKldQE4xfm6kt88jkOS_1_C8WI_2fWyrWsVjXLds7vN4IbGtxua5AEhLKr1GA/s1600-h/Berlin!!!+021.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhJJIQIRixr8fL6jBo3uc6bL4TMDc9ZTJObmFnYUN3dzTFJ5z6EL1P36qBNLZO1ZBrbiAXAdpnbuT7OAGKldQE4xfm6kt88jkOS_1_C8WI_2fWyrWsVjXLds7vN4IbGtxua5AEhLKr1GA/s320/Berlin!!!+021.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342062531987563266" border="0" /></a>Brandenburger Tor at night.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBOt4vxscQ_zrtJHfVQ4EsjfrSkj3lAyWnOui5VB7iEfTI7T0beicwaAiYr4-A05dMCSc92Z8MRokcuos6n0IpcRAgJyzNJDtflHjNQCIpZM89Hr7bOj_UNw8VURP48ByxnwHdDfFSVdI/s1600-h/Berlin!!!+012.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBOt4vxscQ_zrtJHfVQ4EsjfrSkj3lAyWnOui5VB7iEfTI7T0beicwaAiYr4-A05dMCSc92Z8MRokcuos6n0IpcRAgJyzNJDtflHjNQCIpZM89Hr7bOj_UNw8VURP48ByxnwHdDfFSVdI/s320/Berlin!!!+012.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342062527945004994" border="0" /></a>Looking down from the top of the Reichstag (German Congress Buliding). I think it's awesome because it's made so that the people literally walk on top of where Congress is held. And it's made so that the Congress can constantly see them.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHQBBogXlQdjzaVgbscgV-P4HYSW0s7UNP78Ws0cFv2StqrwqRGEYltZysEegrGcXEbaBZPsHquHI047BUaYRnJoCz3Kycem6ODLDgE-9KL3NweOXfSJmPRWgoaYwUl9bCeGtIYib79ow/s1600-h/Berlin!!!+009.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHQBBogXlQdjzaVgbscgV-P4HYSW0s7UNP78Ws0cFv2StqrwqRGEYltZysEegrGcXEbaBZPsHquHI047BUaYRnJoCz3Kycem6ODLDgE-9KL3NweOXfSJmPRWgoaYwUl9bCeGtIYib79ow/s320/Berlin!!!+009.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342062517202904786" border="0" /></a>Again from the Reichstag.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX1RRMY3WFCsxo1_TOfMPF8pV4kA-h9hqG-MtZK0OhE6Uq-BpvgGIEer9gKyl3502PtsoVwIRNEMBXTtxD3RkKo7POrhKIPuQJX51XR6bR-Irb63rH35-W1eUJI7l3jIp56enYCi4WhrY/s1600-h/Berlin!!!+004.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX1RRMY3WFCsxo1_TOfMPF8pV4kA-h9hqG-MtZK0OhE6Uq-BpvgGIEer9gKyl3502PtsoVwIRNEMBXTtxD3RkKo7POrhKIPuQJX51XR6bR-Irb63rH35-W1eUJI7l3jIp56enYCi4WhrY/s320/Berlin!!!+004.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342092449520850882" border="0" /></a>Reichstag.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY3q5LxAyMP474hT_TfNSci55d63B6rZQjc-xuPNYjSJLMmrvX2ZQssQzaf5X-X7Aam7B_6aTDvXRXRqB8ZrkhqGvc6ejjUZozkEAf98P6f_bO5SieoRDhemp6Yvw1F2FeSoouDJUEpYY/s1600-h/Berlin!!!+003.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY3q5LxAyMP474hT_TfNSci55d63B6rZQjc-xuPNYjSJLMmrvX2ZQssQzaf5X-X7Aam7B_6aTDvXRXRqB8ZrkhqGvc6ejjUZozkEAf98P6f_bO5SieoRDhemp6Yvw1F2FeSoouDJUEpYY/s320/Berlin!!!+003.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342062509629905906" border="0" /></a>"The Washing Machine"/Kanzleramt<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPdkRtyD4VQ6JGLklDkvgrv8TLdCDPySejA2LRQtMUCeC7eiNxNs2IQz87O_qCzOAO9_puHNCgDLHofKUlLXEne0oMqa7XYNQbIPPo7ctWHioVDbUcmSCc9LVvbG09daeGGcyaOMgbubw/s1600-h/Berlin!!!+101.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPdkRtyD4VQ6JGLklDkvgrv8TLdCDPySejA2LRQtMUCeC7eiNxNs2IQz87O_qCzOAO9_puHNCgDLHofKUlLXEne0oMqa7XYNQbIPPo7ctWHioVDbUcmSCc9LVvbG09daeGGcyaOMgbubw/s320/Berlin!!!+101.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342067815555232034" border="0" /></a>The wierd horse thing in front of the train station. Like the one in Heidelberg!!!<br /><br />So I got to hear part of a sitting in German Congress (Bundestag). I also got to see Angela Merkel, which was cool. I really came to appreciate her as a person. She came late to the session, and then proceeded to chew gum and talk with other members (while someone else was giving a speech). Some might find this offensive, but I find it very human and I like that.<br />I also got to go in the Kanzleramt, which is where Angela Merkel's office is.<br />I got to do a lot in Berlin it was all really fun. I thoroughly enjoyed it. We also went to a culture fest which was fun (as shown in the pictures).<br />I just had a really, really good time and although I'd love to write it all out. I'm exhausted and leaving for Rome tomorrow. Wish me luck!!Marthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16517941527672040669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5740358435936915282.post-60727753796085953842009-05-25T12:48:00.000-07:002009-05-25T13:28:55.572-07:00Stuttgart and TübingenIn the past two days I was in Stuttgart and then Tübingen.<br />I visited Chiara and Maridalys in Stuttgart yesterday. 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Took pictures, played volleyball and tag, and just talked. It was fun!!!<br />Then today I was in Tübingen (a small city near Stuttgart) with Oda and Tabea. We visited Herbert's oldest brother there. We went to the castle and then walked around the city, which I find very cute. 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW1eyOMHL5wcbi2yTiSkya58kjLrj1BVw_FkwlEAO88pUTfkrE8VzdGH7W32Rvyc7i7T3nakofkG2xBl_MhMeEpbXDM-KBqeJcZ50kjRE8owFVZ_p_cod3Gvwzf3AptKxX19txVYAF4hM/s320/Stuttgart+etc+086.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339860212421756738" border="0" /></a>Again, very good time.<br />Wednesday I leave for Berlin, very excited!!!!!!!!!Marthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16517941527672040669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5740358435936915282.post-78454080321050961242009-05-25T11:51:00.000-07:002009-05-25T12:45:29.821-07:00Between the whole bike thing and JachenauSo I actually did stuff in between my biking accident and going to Jachenau. I just didn't manage to write a post about it. Although a little delayed here it is:<br />First off, the first of May is a holiday in Germany. It's the day almost every family goes out for a hike or bike tour or something outdoorsy<br />I went on a "hike" with my host family in the Pflaz. It was really nice weather. Hikes here in Germany are not what I would call a hike in the U.S. I know I've probably mentioned this before, but I just don't know what we would even call them in the U.S. Probably something along the lines of nature walk. Anyways it's a walk (maybe with hills) from restaurant to restaurant. On this particular day it was to four different restaurants. Where we stopped each time and had something to eat or drink. At one of these stops the adults took it apon themselves to say how strange it is in the U.S. that when we go hiking there are never any restaurants along the way. They all agreed (those that have been to the U.S. included) that they have no idea how we Americans can hike that way. 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It even had a redwood!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieazDcDhMfhDLOvfDvuEfoDNlJDIPyhociEV8WBfRg8NlwgPI6E1PgyPJXneXzZqGpIQ1OBO9onsONf2RCEKX9pk3fgc7duUbwWaHAfCdVXStzdcHC4_fRNIKjbBFwqMC0gDXR9veC_C0/s1600-h/1+Mai+etc+004.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieazDcDhMfhDLOvfDvuEfoDNlJDIPyhociEV8WBfRg8NlwgPI6E1PgyPJXneXzZqGpIQ1OBO9onsONf2RCEKX9pk3fgc7duUbwWaHAfCdVXStzdcHC4_fRNIKjbBFwqMC0gDXR9veC_C0/s320/1+Mai+etc+004.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339843001351963746" border="0" /></a>We even met a horse along the way. 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbjrgrDE0m2SCntIRjASPuegS5VJeg8uVpf46cg5opg-UwD7RxZIF4LqTe2ZG89Lhf8IKObm9zltKDp3ZScKmrD9FtNkkVoVvAJMBb6_19S7KO9iEpKe1K1YSXYzO0LvOb8BgzZ86u_P8/s320/1+Mai+etc+014.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339843012147700338" border="0" /></a>It was soooooooo much fun to see all the exchange students again, because we hadn't seen each other in a while actually.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWBw3v-h0KBEffjMqfwwYKd4p0IM8OoMGMolXI4DdyyiDz8sBfexUVVUrIdATcPHKL4BbiWWtQtzpzrIPeLEoaq_HgVyYFcmmbx1x619Z2uapyNtnqqspgCkIR4Cl16uCL__83-8QBtCY/s1600-h/1+Mai+etc+024.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWBw3v-h0KBEffjMqfwwYKd4p0IM8OoMGMolXI4DdyyiDz8sBfexUVVUrIdATcPHKL4BbiWWtQtzpzrIPeLEoaq_HgVyYFcmmbx1x619Z2uapyNtnqqspgCkIR4Cl16uCL__83-8QBtCY/s320/1+Mai+etc+024.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339844952889714258" border="0" /></a>The pastry shops were, needless to say, amazing.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjParPDNndEzt6gkGMAVH9kR45nFk-IDkhO2n9rNYTPuNuUGOciH0tQF_HhSo6AkUAh8jrTnEu3u0Rz10mM7NXQqBceGgRK4kQZoXiUq2r7c0SqH43mkAmiqpvXpl5IC1qhBPV2xhcYMo8/s1600-h/1+Mai+etc+030.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjParPDNndEzt6gkGMAVH9kR45nFk-IDkhO2n9rNYTPuNuUGOciH0tQF_HhSo6AkUAh8jrTnEu3u0Rz10mM7NXQqBceGgRK4kQZoXiUq2r7c0SqH43mkAmiqpvXpl5IC1qhBPV2xhcYMo8/s320/1+Mai+etc+030.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339846316376705426" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-jzbYnshC2VbAIDmVPxQQyt2hTEzl9LHzpZiZRYnc8WRwXQS8XDwJubKiiUT3hcASEMEYUAB0B9e5nLsD12upThFHnO8UqOcTDPemL04dWbwYOIJ8dPdtx7GKZSmom18qEDnbVpCeSbg/s1600-h/1+Mai+etc+031.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-jzbYnshC2VbAIDmVPxQQyt2hTEzl9LHzpZiZRYnc8WRwXQS8XDwJubKiiUT3hcASEMEYUAB0B9e5nLsD12upThFHnO8UqOcTDPemL04dWbwYOIJ8dPdtx7GKZSmom18qEDnbVpCeSbg/s320/1+Mai+etc+031.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339846320757085874" border="0" /></a>Europa-Parliment was really cool. We got to see the last session before the new officials are elected this June. We also got to see a couple of new bills passed.<br />Long story short it was a good time.<br />Oh and I of course went to visit (with other friends) my good friend the castle gardens :)<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIHJ9ijVvzlbG_P1R6sPW8pVNNGTP8LEln6E9YYb8-7IEyWUJyaWz-FuI2p5sX4UXfhX-4Z_ybKdashPFPjdowuODthGRuM5plt6MhWoA_hCzLMHD7IVQIWYYFD0l7xR_wWStaiHTOgns/s1600-h/1+Mai+etc+037.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIHJ9ijVvzlbG_P1R6sPW8pVNNGTP8LEln6E9YYb8-7IEyWUJyaWz-FuI2p5sX4UXfhX-4Z_ybKdashPFPjdowuODthGRuM5plt6MhWoA_hCzLMHD7IVQIWYYFD0l7xR_wWStaiHTOgns/s320/1+Mai+etc+037.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339846328186128738" border="0" /></a>Marthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16517941527672040669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5740358435936915282.post-54358771064278284952009-05-19T04:58:00.001-07:002009-05-20T04:50:14.865-07:00JachenauSo last weekend we were in Jachenau.<br />Jachenau is a village of about 700 people....<br />It's in OberBayern (Bavaria below Munich).<br />It's in the Alps, with lots of lakes.<br />To put it shortly it's gorgeous!!!!!!!!<br />We were there to celebrate my Host Grandmother's birthday. Her birthday was actually in February, but she wanted to come back to Jachenau with her family. Oda's family vacationed there every summer when she was a kid.<br />We drove down Friday after school. When we got there the weather was a little iffy but it still looked really cool. The first thing we did after unpacking was to go down to the lake. Quickly followed by hitting up the trampoline. :)<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0LE0k_D1hONHiKu4H9Vxl4-q_m4SocZMPulOqTisKOoBHoq6yvKyRzDufhSOTcXt_r2CAtjfMlN_RrlVycxgXkQ-2DHclKCzfQWT-1Z2_6-cUnEgQ0tacj4f0_8oIlLT_lYk54m1JWUI/s1600-h/Jachenau+002.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0LE0k_D1hONHiKu4H9Vxl4-q_m4SocZMPulOqTisKOoBHoq6yvKyRzDufhSOTcXt_r2CAtjfMlN_RrlVycxgXkQ-2DHclKCzfQWT-1Z2_6-cUnEgQ0tacj4f0_8oIlLT_lYk54m1JWUI/s320/Jachenau+002.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337506454954026834" border="0" /></a>This is Tabea and Thea by the lake, you can't see the mountains in the background very well.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimeJ_0bc9zMDn16ZRM3D-ASYtbVKgma1iHYyrhwixfIFXPl34MflFCIAKbk2MRmNKuRMsME8I6NOeCzoFlkzLxQxkgTaD491TZJpfHebqlcPrt1BXsu0qpIa3drnFRGYfhuC1TqTEnLmM/s1600-h/Jachenau+036.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimeJ_0bc9zMDn16ZRM3D-ASYtbVKgma1iHYyrhwixfIFXPl34MflFCIAKbk2MRmNKuRMsME8I6NOeCzoFlkzLxQxkgTaD491TZJpfHebqlcPrt1BXsu0qpIa3drnFRGYfhuC1TqTEnLmM/s320/Jachenau+036.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337508612249530402" border="0" /></a>My youngest cousin here, Valentin, he's 3.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWsG5hn3_k2HqztFtLzFbfICwWEgUaBFm-tCguvxpCXQa0B1AR0RkbZ-o8wx2IhbE64BPVDQCNy4QiFcrQ8mohe05KtHbWZNlC6QUZeRk8pP2GmeU-3kqu0JEFNLX01tV1Tz5-jNMEVTU/s1600-h/Jachenau+084.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWsG5hn3_k2HqztFtLzFbfICwWEgUaBFm-tCguvxpCXQa0B1AR0RkbZ-o8wx2IhbE64BPVDQCNy4QiFcrQ8mohe05KtHbWZNlC6QUZeRk8pP2GmeU-3kqu0JEFNLX01tV1Tz5-jNMEVTU/s320/Jachenau+084.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337870178473443266" border="0" /></a>Thea, 9<br />Before too long it was dark. We (oh and by the way by we I mean myself, Tabea, and her cousin Thea) went down to the lake again with Meekah.<br />The next day we woke up and found the adorable puppy Rex. He belonged to the owner's of the farm we were staying at. He's a swiss mountain dog, and sooooooooooooooo ubelievabley cute!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCD56ArwNC24lfvZXV9cu0DFtOaGX3uOMS0DPhytnzrgCTctu8I6XvIS1GoBEFM89Nhh4dClLPqCyURJqueX_07jttQFBLIF3aXtXbHI8FWc9PBWLGmJzTeqV7lwO6-zvpq0uXVwvYhsQ/s1600-h/Jachenau+012.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCD56ArwNC24lfvZXV9cu0DFtOaGX3uOMS0DPhytnzrgCTctu8I6XvIS1GoBEFM89Nhh4dClLPqCyURJqueX_07jttQFBLIF3aXtXbHI8FWc9PBWLGmJzTeqV7lwO6-zvpq0uXVwvYhsQ/s320/Jachenau+012.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337506461102510546" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKQniehhMQn0n72Lm4j3nsFtI8Fo-Z40e6U1OXb2NLWcBP2ry6oCBxXvdh8LNJyQddK60C7RMV2z2cHiZTvq-XsrW7UA-w2uLLABT8_k0JpRhhgDQmy0xyM3qt2g43zBsXj-kwLJa4niM/s1600-h/Jachenau+014.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKQniehhMQn0n72Lm4j3nsFtI8Fo-Z40e6U1OXb2NLWcBP2ry6oCBxXvdh8LNJyQddK60C7RMV2z2cHiZTvq-XsrW7UA-w2uLLABT8_k0JpRhhgDQmy0xyM3qt2g43zBsXj-kwLJa4niM/s320/Jachenau+014.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337506462182016130" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPFHXNQFawz_uc4wb3i3GS2dHTCT68HvvETcdVZEDFoWewoKFSNqlIFYfIYQ6TXKiNFVe1Y3aP8PmNUNP6ejNEMHTzHmCdEiO-7zaoU19r8GwHdd2TRUKmrj8VA8QOuxl6tMptWiwI8Xg/s1600-h/Jachenau+017.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPFHXNQFawz_uc4wb3i3GS2dHTCT68HvvETcdVZEDFoWewoKFSNqlIFYfIYQ6TXKiNFVe1Y3aP8PmNUNP6ejNEMHTzHmCdEiO-7zaoU19r8GwHdd2TRUKmrj8VA8QOuxl6tMptWiwI8Xg/s320/Jachenau+017.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337506467858265442" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgen-POk-QlS3phaYftlXBaQE2DS6s0tLGzOX5TZHzAfsXt7BpiPa5FiWXt1L1cIy2anPi-s8J5wsascEkhMciwfeOe_ExaojD7f5RhZ37CrKWZ4T5m0PoJlMSy-l-7CRT_iQsf85SNZqw/s1600-h/Jachenau+026.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgen-POk-QlS3phaYftlXBaQE2DS6s0tLGzOX5TZHzAfsXt7BpiPa5FiWXt1L1cIy2anPi-s8J5wsascEkhMciwfeOe_ExaojD7f5RhZ37CrKWZ4T5m0PoJlMSy-l-7CRT_iQsf85SNZqw/s320/Jachenau+026.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337506471943129682" border="0" /></a><br />We then went "rowing" which was actually one of those fishing boats with oars and without skulls. I do not have pictures of this due to the fact I didn't want to risk my camera going in the water.<br />When we got back Nonna and Großvatti had all ready arrived with Janus, my oldest host cousin, who I hadn't met before.<br />We had lunch, which was really just cake.<br />The boys (oh just for a perspective all my host cousins are boys except for Thea) then decided it would be a good idea to go swimming. I went but decided not to go in. It was very entertaining.... I stuck my feet in and it was freezing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQgShz7myLR0Y4Xp3KZz1tJpcNiZtLiq7UgiuieM0bIM0rqGnX3AsFwBUb-tzaSoo1xW3fI-RoPrD-Ak25tVOLGwItZlXPvc05WADD82-6-vxMK6uMhwdykn7avCykxUA5JWLAErCnV0k/s1600-h/Jachenau+030.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQgShz7myLR0Y4Xp3KZz1tJpcNiZtLiq7UgiuieM0bIM0rqGnX3AsFwBUb-tzaSoo1xW3fI-RoPrD-Ak25tVOLGwItZlXPvc05WADD82-6-vxMK6uMhwdykn7avCykxUA5JWLAErCnV0k/s320/Jachenau+030.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337508606736354658" border="0" /></a>Some of the boys swimming.<br />On our way back we met up with Herbert, my host dad. I told him he should go swimming too. He then replied "I'll get in when you get in."<br />Being me, I replied "ok, no problem."<br />To which he replied "uh oh I shouldn't have said that."<br />Shortly after the swim we walked to a restaurant and the old farm house that Oda and her family used to stay at.<br />We then had dinner at the restaurant. Some people played different musical pieces. After the others were finished with the keyboard Valentin decided he wanted to play as well :)<br />After dinner we had a "Nachtwanderung" back to the farm. It was beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The stars were amazing!!!!!!! It smelled like Lake Placid. It was so dark at some points you couldn't see who was walking in front of you. At one point some of my cousins decided it would be a good idea just to stop. One of my other cousins and I then proceeded to run into them (literally, okay well walk) in the dark, which was quite amusing.<br />The next day was gorgeous!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<br />After I woke up I went down to the lake and just took pictures.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ98o4T5vFCcY_fpvpfYkmZvnlxBP5IEXqulchFUgfVJ_ikaRrJNWu8CIm4mOzpqZQmVQpdUFZYsgwtju0q1tv9pIfGZqaMth3wxmNeHZhen4vtwKY2MXVAbIRaPKd-2tZNGJwBEhbJsU/s1600-h/Jachenau+049.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ98o4T5vFCcY_fpvpfYkmZvnlxBP5IEXqulchFUgfVJ_ikaRrJNWu8CIm4mOzpqZQmVQpdUFZYsgwtju0q1tv9pIfGZqaMth3wxmNeHZhen4vtwKY2MXVAbIRaPKd-2tZNGJwBEhbJsU/s320/Jachenau+049.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337619458006860930" border="0" /></a>The water was such a pretty turquoise.<br />After breakfast we went on a walk around part of the lake.<br />To do this you literally had to walk through the cows and their fields...<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8air8sa9vBOGe9D0XQ_xYJo8o0Mlx9D_0e9gAUQEkGOdjDJ89kATS4Hn_Lb9S148medANfdHL6pZW2J68SP9nSIOYfxhfaET6G7FELbFyjIEZjzwaSwt87YxffVHY8bg4EOOpEkKJl7U/s1600-h/Jachenau+053.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8air8sa9vBOGe9D0XQ_xYJo8o0Mlx9D_0e9gAUQEkGOdjDJ89kATS4Hn_Lb9S148medANfdHL6pZW2J68SP9nSIOYfxhfaET6G7FELbFyjIEZjzwaSwt87YxffVHY8bg4EOOpEkKJl7U/s320/Jachenau+053.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337619463344537010" border="0" /></a>We also found one horse, which quite intrigued Valentin.<br />We stopped at one point and tried to get Meekah to swim....<br />It didn't work very well.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjHpxP1yeIG7Loozd8djD-0I38vvH1bvXOUL2Jwef8VFt2g3Nm8a3hAl_-bnpytkv7CqypBA2FVd3vFzhBm_W0JSkjuJothtLZHQARJt93lWNRdiRdK0ot56y4M9wI-b3KgQmFM2s7JJ8/s1600-h/Jachenau+061.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjHpxP1yeIG7Loozd8djD-0I38vvH1bvXOUL2Jwef8VFt2g3Nm8a3hAl_-bnpytkv7CqypBA2FVd3vFzhBm_W0JSkjuJothtLZHQARJt93lWNRdiRdK0ot56y4M9wI-b3KgQmFM2s7JJ8/s320/Jachenau+061.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337619467026624114" border="0" /></a>You can't tell in this picture but she's trying to go in as little as possible and extending her whole body to keep her feet on solid ground..... She's no Xander....<br />We then proceeded to go to our swimming spot from the previous day<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5vrFJnNNsVWddgOFbLSnT9TdCoMVXb-Vb5HWbEsA0ReywK6ff6qt1_iQ22PNDA_c2y_hyO2lhEXqvXC4k-1o3vgO8xzIXL61Cb0PUIbFs7MiK2nw55pYruBheCqcrXHnjdJnAm2BnURo/s1600-h/Jachenau+063.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5vrFJnNNsVWddgOFbLSnT9TdCoMVXb-Vb5HWbEsA0ReywK6ff6qt1_iQ22PNDA_c2y_hyO2lhEXqvXC4k-1o3vgO8xzIXL61Cb0PUIbFs7MiK2nw55pYruBheCqcrXHnjdJnAm2BnURo/s320/Jachenau+063.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337619478520349394" border="0" /></a>Yes this is indeed the view you get from there......<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVsuJ-ro0T3Mtuu7t4L-KJzNCE3ZYUdn2DZFTTLz67f2dsV1EFDQM6ib-UMdAKzG4ZSmU6L4_sZlGMURepTTVg4p3ZkgZbwoOcb6siuVNk0d4Gj52alnRxjiDvwIzgF4jWDOcnTh1V1gs/s1600-h/Jachenau+066.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVsuJ-ro0T3Mtuu7t4L-KJzNCE3ZYUdn2DZFTTLz67f2dsV1EFDQM6ib-UMdAKzG4ZSmU6L4_sZlGMURepTTVg4p3ZkgZbwoOcb6siuVNk0d4Gj52alnRxjiDvwIzgF4jWDOcnTh1V1gs/s320/Jachenau+066.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337623248255956674" border="0" /></a>After the first time........<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtL4x7ZA1jZosAs-aSdGi33Xhvh3lS9SqkRazUMSeRrzgTj93TMWWgkTn9tisaIR4NN2mZtUHkIUnI4MG7KgNIOuX8MN_0BzmHBfU2nFKKQReOGEBPhLRwK44PtGKL-5tyjQv7qda8wlQ/s1600-h/Jachenau+068.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtL4x7ZA1jZosAs-aSdGi33Xhvh3lS9SqkRazUMSeRrzgTj93TMWWgkTn9tisaIR4NN2mZtUHkIUnI4MG7KgNIOuX8MN_0BzmHBfU2nFKKQReOGEBPhLRwK44PtGKL-5tyjQv7qda8wlQ/s320/Jachenau+068.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337871456075079922" border="0" /></a>Preparing for the second jump in.....<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL4PudjtLgTRabouHoZtSsRnk0wMZnclKsP_OeNzCg9A4SLLujRSp6UO8yQnSo_WSq0MOsHnFi4g7NWcWQXthA6hZLpUQKN5HoR0od_xaV_ksMx0t1nsn6QusdrWsM0DtUC-ByOcbfGdk/s1600-h/Jachenau+069.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL4PudjtLgTRabouHoZtSsRnk0wMZnclKsP_OeNzCg9A4SLLujRSp6UO8yQnSo_WSq0MOsHnFi4g7NWcWQXthA6hZLpUQKN5HoR0od_xaV_ksMx0t1nsn6QusdrWsM0DtUC-ByOcbfGdk/s320/Jachenau+069.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337623264957435202" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTmXZjxOawx3F0QKdAA-G47OWBP2eUTk5AF6cGKhPIMYY0Lt6ueaJW5ULiDCn44Z_6XVLpwdvu9mPgu7yQjP29zmA5jxD9x-IveS1ryWmmyXafBrnCn9Vr-_u-Nz6kj_95YmvTq25EgUg/s1600-h/Jachenau+070.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTmXZjxOawx3F0QKdAA-G47OWBP2eUTk5AF6cGKhPIMYY0Lt6ueaJW5ULiDCn44Z_6XVLpwdvu9mPgu7yQjP29zmA5jxD9x-IveS1ryWmmyXafBrnCn9Vr-_u-Nz6kj_95YmvTq25EgUg/s320/Jachenau+070.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337623270136123058" border="0" /></a><br />The second time...........<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPv5I21biP49H4ajGVnbAq4Dc2xTDCFwMVIOTjBrlXAs1iyJ50NtFEwj-eaKjtt9481izjvcVE-bB0Xt84Fa84TpaipM_YAEYSmev8s4BuE82iDnHIssrnKNt-LXU4GQGNreLNovE9sY4/s1600-h/Jachenau+072.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPv5I21biP49H4ajGVnbAq4Dc2xTDCFwMVIOTjBrlXAs1iyJ50NtFEwj-eaKjtt9481izjvcVE-bB0Xt84Fa84TpaipM_YAEYSmev8s4BuE82iDnHIssrnKNt-LXU4GQGNreLNovE9sY4/s320/Jachenau+072.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337623278811582802" border="0" /></a>After the FOURTH time in the water.........<br />We then went back to the house<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjomNdgCrmc2uVJNfs28DNeBxKvfUgghoRGv9VV_IERRURaqvcbMYRl8vi0iMyowCU5NfxMgRXOLJO9ePmcyZFxblwCOkm-XF0oK1aiY5ch3ymUKQgvFape9iWckQxIfYSFB2E_i5A_SUU/s1600-h/Jachenau+073.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjomNdgCrmc2uVJNfs28DNeBxKvfUgghoRGv9VV_IERRURaqvcbMYRl8vi0iMyowCU5NfxMgRXOLJO9ePmcyZFxblwCOkm-XF0oK1aiY5ch3ymUKQgvFape9iWckQxIfYSFB2E_i5A_SUU/s320/Jachenau+073.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337870160756476946" border="0" /></a>And had lunch<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuYTjfyKQl9nhb-a0Ax9rEt_s-EYr3IS6Ur-VKZfsWLf-9Gjx0iO4gkioSSs5Rfeds_xCvNVgbRNkADsZ9xBeUrRdnzqNaFZEjfqyrXtTE5zXka7skmCr7U6AQhjqISUC3oRt1RaojKjQ/s1600-h/Jachenau+076.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuYTjfyKQl9nhb-a0Ax9rEt_s-EYr3IS6Ur-VKZfsWLf-9Gjx0iO4gkioSSs5Rfeds_xCvNVgbRNkADsZ9xBeUrRdnzqNaFZEjfqyrXtTE5zXka7skmCr7U6AQhjqISUC3oRt1RaojKjQ/s320/Jachenau+076.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337870166421866674" border="0" /></a><br />After some last minute pictures.........<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiS8rwZoq0tDybYunJXUa8nWtwaQ6O7rJgkIljz0P_3hRtTA5x4lA9ZKuarRxb7vcE7ynYgNUDODkFU2W1vESf5Huh7wLyrcPSHUfUXiVVcVdHKDmsAULCeMslppKjq08g43s00CWgj7A/s1600-h/Jachenau+077.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiS8rwZoq0tDybYunJXUa8nWtwaQ6O7rJgkIljz0P_3hRtTA5x4lA9ZKuarRxb7vcE7ynYgNUDODkFU2W1vESf5Huh7wLyrcPSHUfUXiVVcVdHKDmsAULCeMslppKjq08g43s00CWgj7A/s320/Jachenau+077.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337870169355126434" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsgqUN8VrGY4AIfG-WgOgXyExflbwBFkcmjMZZpCHk3tpb2OXMXlh9Vto8ok8sOVv204zYo1N5dZuDyVrmqlikRHG5nH_ZSHoLC3YWaW2HMP3QAxPwhQElfvS9UXLBAV1ZvyRb_LRplMo/s1600-h/Jachenau+081.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsgqUN8VrGY4AIfG-WgOgXyExflbwBFkcmjMZZpCHk3tpb2OXMXlh9Vto8ok8sOVv204zYo1N5dZuDyVrmqlikRHG5nH_ZSHoLC3YWaW2HMP3QAxPwhQElfvS9UXLBAV1ZvyRb_LRplMo/s320/Jachenau+081.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337870173475481666" border="0" /></a>It was time to go...... :(<br />Jannis was exhausted on the way back..........<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1V534dHFEmW6xnYqeOIB7echsGSNqBHn2C8ItD4o36ydDtwJr05Hqv-_O2NJoOdh5OD2XZXVNeIdPm7Pg2GluSquAgHBV4PBqCNzCNf0_P4N0ifEALO3ZWIy2rs_o0L1Shh7mdejTWdU/s1600-h/Jachenau+090.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1V534dHFEmW6xnYqeOIB7echsGSNqBHn2C8ItD4o36ydDtwJr05Hqv-_O2NJoOdh5OD2XZXVNeIdPm7Pg2GluSquAgHBV4PBqCNzCNf0_P4N0ifEALO3ZWIy2rs_o0L1Shh7mdejTWdU/s320/Jachenau+090.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337871444094595714" border="0" /></a>But Tabea and I were awake enough to take pictures<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHH0UNrBsrrO0Vlp5PCX-Z2a4EEWqjft1RcGuvrYxLoqqlSEDkEAa-uKWgD2A9J_hyphenhyphen7Sd5FM2a4uZ02gd97rK64vgffNcO0q-e7yeuJhIi0b5LlmwxrdD4ZfqTSFiS2cXgEak4yUI9Ois/s1600-h/Jachenau+093.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHH0UNrBsrrO0Vlp5PCX-Z2a4EEWqjft1RcGuvrYxLoqqlSEDkEAa-uKWgD2A9J_hyphenhyphen7Sd5FM2a4uZ02gd97rK64vgffNcO0q-e7yeuJhIi0b5LlmwxrdD4ZfqTSFiS2cXgEak4yUI9Ois/s320/Jachenau+093.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337871450239865234" border="0" /></a>So I'm doing very well and after this last weekend don't really feel like coming back to the U.S.<br />I'm now on vacation again :)<br />And will be going to Berlin and Rome :)Marthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16517941527672040669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5740358435936915282.post-90688329840046623822009-05-14T05:20:00.000-07:002009-05-14T09:57:48.433-07:00And this is what happen when you give me a bike.......<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTVAlr1byjw5W3l09abE5SYSUZuGOneXJfRllMk_o8Vgn6Rjh0a9sKxhVGDVoGaG6UIBMmg5l8R8PkzBx1eFHGJxQvKegYl6ajBCmvsJ8bvxL1iepCNoVLtORm_B_dk4MGthe5N5f6tbE/s1600-h/Accident+001.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTVAlr1byjw5W3l09abE5SYSUZuGOneXJfRllMk_o8Vgn6Rjh0a9sKxhVGDVoGaG6UIBMmg5l8R8PkzBx1eFHGJxQvKegYl6ajBCmvsJ8bvxL1iepCNoVLtORm_B_dk4MGthe5N5f6tbE/s320/Accident+001.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5335655153089397746" border="0" /></a><br />So this is the day of.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-QEEZLAipdx0Tf5qK4aJW_kkpQkVQqwsFmLxWjBUO1L1VNWCiOExeR35NW65F8r-kDf-vsvWQFqV9bGB3IvR7xkqOJWLl0t-H1yYZXMFy5rvsNEqeM5M38yHu1zcGq7-R33JnklS-awY/s1600-h/Accident+002.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-QEEZLAipdx0Tf5qK4aJW_kkpQkVQqwsFmLxWjBUO1L1VNWCiOExeR35NW65F8r-kDf-vsvWQFqV9bGB3IvR7xkqOJWLl0t-H1yYZXMFy5rvsNEqeM5M38yHu1zcGq7-R33JnklS-awY/s320/Accident+002.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5335654534488598594" border="0" /></a><br />This is the day after.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilg31J88dcT2BY4jvIuQkV3Sd-ygXBTxUXw33DT2zpXjFpa6hEdCcRyyxLbTsmVRYHlQXB0ee1fL_P4cZkKI6B3moTRmgA92vMgXQSkO_f3VKwOruOvwB4m5e3ka7R6T7kOMGb-OVRPjU/s1600-h/Accident+005.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilg31J88dcT2BY4jvIuQkV3Sd-ygXBTxUXw33DT2zpXjFpa6hEdCcRyyxLbTsmVRYHlQXB0ee1fL_P4cZkKI6B3moTRmgA92vMgXQSkO_f3VKwOruOvwB4m5e3ka7R6T7kOMGb-OVRPjU/s320/Accident+005.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5335654534174168594" border="0" /></a><br />This is a couple days later.....<br />Long story short I fell of my bike...... and onto my legs and face...<br />As a result broke my nose....<br />But as you can see things are healing well<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQbo6g8ssSGaxXtJKbFtv9nmkPbkdDqBToL811X266go4ClkOZVPETx1MbfhYe6pqrOcwOgMO7QrS_N6-knJyc5V0ZArVKPjmL7PcyTXPJAdj-hKEw7rNKI4drbF6bQ2SOK94HDgsF2Ho/s1600-h/1+Mai+etc+009.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQbo6g8ssSGaxXtJKbFtv9nmkPbkdDqBToL811X266go4ClkOZVPETx1MbfhYe6pqrOcwOgMO7QrS_N6-knJyc5V0ZArVKPjmL7PcyTXPJAdj-hKEw7rNKI4drbF6bQ2SOK94HDgsF2Ho/s320/1+Mai+etc+009.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5335722095789501042" border="0" /></a><br />One week later<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnl7t2LrGuERU0L2R6IR1RPjBaXID8_kJYxKpRAkInUKold43TXuXeT7zEmoCxoogedO-UPOWcp0RXb86UgHzJYMFriXiBG2J3jVJPYVttpZCWFz4SWBBdA4h0TLKmh42NtiNpoBqNzMM/s1600-h/1+Mai+etc+012.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnl7t2LrGuERU0L2R6IR1RPjBaXID8_kJYxKpRAkInUKold43TXuXeT7zEmoCxoogedO-UPOWcp0RXb86UgHzJYMFriXiBG2J3jVJPYVttpZCWFz4SWBBdA4h0TLKmh42NtiNpoBqNzMM/s320/1+Mai+etc+012.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5335722102423409442" border="0" /></a><br />And my lovely knee<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRSLtz02pPg9Kq3csMgxIsJ0EwGfMH9ZYVGCGdC3RKur_BwLgmoXVJDeIk3ntzDA-RV4CpyfFDGbwFs0E4SY8aqFAH5SJjTYLVC0mtr_LmmNBf-cvUDRXatWwkzj00WNLNu5oy325G7zU/s1600-h/1+Mai+etc+039.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRSLtz02pPg9Kq3csMgxIsJ0EwGfMH9ZYVGCGdC3RKur_BwLgmoXVJDeIk3ntzDA-RV4CpyfFDGbwFs0E4SY8aqFAH5SJjTYLVC0mtr_LmmNBf-cvUDRXatWwkzj00WNLNu5oy325G7zU/s320/1+Mai+etc+039.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5335722106019228226" border="0" /></a><br />Two weeks later<br />So things are pretty much all healed. Everyone here keeps asking how it's healed and I keep saying my nose isn't fully healed, it's still broken. Everyone seems surprised by this despite that it's been less then 3 weeks since the accident. I find this quite amusing....<br />But I'm back to rowing and riding so I'm happy :)Marthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16517941527672040669noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5740358435936915282.post-42544119866234942102009-04-14T08:07:00.000-07:002009-04-19T13:49:55.358-07:00"I know how you like sheep......and creamier cream cheese"So now I'm on Easter vacation.<br />Everything is going just swimmingly here :)<br />My brother and his girlfriend (Ryan and Rachel) came to visit over Easter. It was really really good to see both of them again!<br />We had a lot of fun and now both of them understand exactly what I mean when I say that my parents here are exactly like my parents in the U.S.<br />They also brought me Clorox Wipes and Purell, both of which I am extremely grateful for. In Germany it is still thought (by almost everyone as far as I can tell) that you get sick from things like it being cold outside, hair being wet, sudden changes in temperature or air conditioning. Most of the people who I know have actually laughed at me when I suggest that using hand sanitizer or anti-bacterial wipes decrease the likely hood of spreading germs, and therefore getting sick.<br />Anyways, the first night they got here we went to see the castle in Karlsruhe. It was in the dark, which I found very cool, because normally I'm there in the day, or when I see it at night it's from a distance.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhta1HOhyU7F88Gr07VsGQQF_ONwS-nI35_3sHlcdz6IrN8m1VFSSnx79E4127VIuH1gyXxN4_xa0oc1JdrWXeUL35NFhwpdrItsWPn6csh13y_aGXcHShAG29-1dP8fP0wcCTIGrHftgo/s1600-h/R&R+015.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhta1HOhyU7F88Gr07VsGQQF_ONwS-nI35_3sHlcdz6IrN8m1VFSSnx79E4127VIuH1gyXxN4_xa0oc1JdrWXeUL35NFhwpdrItsWPn6csh13y_aGXcHShAG29-1dP8fP0wcCTIGrHftgo/s320/R&R+015.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326347225316518626" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIralU3mABmhF842jtROUHG6sOw-oCgvD35cmxFq1VPHrFpFV19TpD1i7Vda491974jxvzDk0zwdg00dBMtW133N_pCSMSya8h1zQZLWfP9OD2hGYXTmTWrie6Gxen_YZsn4fxvfbinzI/s1600-h/R&R+010.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIralU3mABmhF842jtROUHG6sOw-oCgvD35cmxFq1VPHrFpFV19TpD1i7Vda491974jxvzDk0zwdg00dBMtW133N_pCSMSya8h1zQZLWfP9OD2hGYXTmTWrie6Gxen_YZsn4fxvfbinzI/s320/R&R+010.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326347229527950498" border="0" /></a>I don't feel this is a very good pic, but I love the "ghost people"<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN_LuDgLtRxkbZevc2fhUYIbzrYpiTT0OCIaR5QnX7aB6C5TE2W6RdGN2G9OLd30M9NubzdLR-j13EnWlaVT9L1epeAS8LuGt8fKejM0QEi8IvaazoKMonWcz59RK3pMbpbEGTzeM8lX8/s1600-h/R&R+020.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN_LuDgLtRxkbZevc2fhUYIbzrYpiTT0OCIaR5QnX7aB6C5TE2W6RdGN2G9OLd30M9NubzdLR-j13EnWlaVT9L1epeAS8LuGt8fKejM0QEi8IvaazoKMonWcz59RK3pMbpbEGTzeM8lX8/s320/R&R+020.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326347231740039282" border="0" /></a><br />We went to visit Heidelberg on Friday and saw the castle which was really quite amazing.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7PeyNM0yqYFd3mk3Xwkm-bsD0vHdi997b9Y8XefpAyKZX9HJHk1Yy57frZUigW6NAI02jTvK5O5Mm53D6usn_xEQ_ch07qiIxGFu_iZNDrABP842qHp1erTE4UhtPRM6D6ySRYn5pfhw/s1600-h/R&R+023.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs-YMESyPluwnYay5ECwMOpWtVcmbOJwNPkJhqW8nDYx6uZNFU2mlbi5jdSoWTNvTlNYgTHjU46UCFP2sSkbddQpEXCnUeK53r3gJ4bqmjQt8N1ZZfHJCin5e5-hOjU1q4JVkNbx1k_t4/s320/R&R+025.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326349247393546850" border="0" /></a>With "flat Austin" and Ryan<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlVoZELE2eTGHW4qQijKWUI01whfhEagy-ec17nBOor_TrepOYNfonKGNkr3HqVVrWbciqeZrsWX97Ld5Xc1X7MJdOgq-MAuLqNw3AX3DpQUdXttWNDMxvXq_e5Jd0HDqWoixLjFP9dVI/s1600-h/R&R+026.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlVoZELE2eTGHW4qQijKWUI01whfhEagy-ec17nBOor_TrepOYNfonKGNkr3HqVVrWbciqeZrsWX97Ld5Xc1X7MJdOgq-MAuLqNw3AX3DpQUdXttWNDMxvXq_e5Jd0HDqWoixLjFP9dVI/s320/R&R+026.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326349249265486450" border="0" /></a>With Oda and Tabea<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuzuU8UVTCa8ws2eTQHyYrlzeeuBClkgaKQogLTpn-_wH69A3Shkhu977O9RklsWELsQi-VFIpnyImIqKNmNA_2GF3SLyvVQsl7eRL9kTAo27L69f5a04gvDPprOWvKjQzZIq2DSmFWRc/s1600-h/R&R+028.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuzuU8UVTCa8ws2eTQHyYrlzeeuBClkgaKQogLTpn-_wH69A3Shkhu977O9RklsWELsQi-VFIpnyImIqKNmNA_2GF3SLyvVQsl7eRL9kTAo27L69f5a04gvDPprOWvKjQzZIq2DSmFWRc/s320/R&R+028.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326349255627625410" border="0" /></a>Keg<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDyPHJJ7hFzdR1-qphkYwvr06F6xMfQq3t3CtmP6XH-U6t6-YAPoTMjDfAkhxrLPCuWtFqiUZoz1hgJb1tMqRmIkwBDF_5f-h9_QpQ1YvYcRYSrTqSAqIroyKSglxKBTi_f2MVZgEATrw/s1600-h/R&R+027.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDyPHJJ7hFzdR1-qphkYwvr06F6xMfQq3t3CtmP6XH-U6t6-YAPoTMjDfAkhxrLPCuWtFqiUZoz1hgJb1tMqRmIkwBDF_5f-h9_QpQ1YvYcRYSrTqSAqIroyKSglxKBTi_f2MVZgEATrw/s320/R&R+027.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326349250813362914" border="0" /></a>HUGE Keg<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj846QTtRWp4nXfwtwn_kBSH_M81-xCEDEXQN5mvne3nAImpI_tzIFNuZuBweVWQ38o3I1BARuSpy1GkCq-o8iPFgj21ibkePCNndrjCl7Y20_sGdtNjsSM_VLQMKqMlythPe02UeEPyx8/s1600-h/R&R+029.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj846QTtRWp4nXfwtwn_kBSH_M81-xCEDEXQN5mvne3nAImpI_tzIFNuZuBweVWQ38o3I1BARuSpy1GkCq-o8iPFgj21ibkePCNndrjCl7Y20_sGdtNjsSM_VLQMKqMlythPe02UeEPyx8/s320/R&R+029.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326349260821272930" border="0" /></a>MONSTER Keg<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiazyh_O8VJKoqEP2teM-LOfuchFbmI-x2WTZ_St9yqTpfDsBOe9PskP1HbNvi8DgQ50U1fcsHQbQAQ3EIXeNaqmgVlO9sRUbURnA53lGth4JhuCfV2n4DU218ApAaLKOcJM5zzHBrZqdw/s1600-h/R&R+031.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiazyh_O8VJKoqEP2teM-LOfuchFbmI-x2WTZ_St9yqTpfDsBOe9PskP1HbNvi8DgQ50U1fcsHQbQAQ3EIXeNaqmgVlO9sRUbURnA53lGth4JhuCfV2n4DU218ApAaLKOcJM5zzHBrZqdw/s320/R&R+031.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326351453620430770" border="0" /></a>Again not a very good pic, but Ry and Rachel on top of the Monster Keg, because it had a deck.....<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAaHz8gGP9-Qeax9liqXHf8HPV6cRAQd3DC2SSHrFIU23y4ZMk64V1rMBr1dCZ-lQBLtERiKRSSBhq3Vp-xIXoJ3SgJKZL1CmtfPeRN-xLpRyEXBLjgCERYOCq_ObRqhWZKrItiv4ncR4/s1600-h/R&R+032.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSTMBO9b2yF88aVCkjR0aSzWXTQHpn_-VKkRTx49RKMDyGC6XTSIZMik4Y0BO4xFKEp5oQjOIdbIqDYvQSxISbWF0wzAYgiQXn0GiPXP78crsbi_an9BGMGmP9b5ISBz2VGxzjQyWIYQ8/s320/R&R+043.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326474807405247538" border="0" /></a><br />Saturday we went for a walk in Ittersbach, a town at the foot of the Black Forest. Then Ryan, Rachel and I went into Karlsruhe and back to the Palace to see it in the day light. We climbed the tower and looked through the museum. Then we did a little shopping and went to a Cafe.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEe5Y0Mlx-pEoxaMxx2cwyZhbfvzY3y1NIk1kvIJjc_yjdz8uYXwlXaMtNlHMmpg5nu1vc9lXWpAACL2ChxnF-hbbeeJ5o3OnUGItSOFYYUPBU-o3vTvNZOyDX0Uqa_-rudBV4O7oE5Vk/s1600-h/R&R+045.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEe5Y0Mlx-pEoxaMxx2cwyZhbfvzY3y1NIk1kvIJjc_yjdz8uYXwlXaMtNlHMmpg5nu1vc9lXWpAACL2ChxnF-hbbeeJ5o3OnUGItSOFYYUPBU-o3vTvNZOyDX0Uqa_-rudBV4O7oE5Vk/s320/R&R+045.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326474809277426866" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZZif_ookn3OPpOWbtNsEVz__G8vYqfAl51a5Hgp-Hlrejr3VrsMCp6i253_3B66Q6UWNg4vhfuPJHo5jp701bX25JAz0CHNHQ5psKrY7JRlbbfw46KtEpKp4kyJwdgq8nwgCrVeGCcqk/s1600-h/R&R+046.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZZif_ookn3OPpOWbtNsEVz__G8vYqfAl51a5Hgp-Hlrejr3VrsMCp6i253_3B66Q6UWNg4vhfuPJHo5jp701bX25JAz0CHNHQ5psKrY7JRlbbfw46KtEpKp4kyJwdgq8nwgCrVeGCcqk/s320/R&R+046.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326474816722622642" border="0" /></a>The fam...<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGwYIR4qVcQ3HdCnJ4Q-ZOEBawlWIhbC4uEnamjLn_HT-8nduZ59XsIbuDnsZ1P7PSsky1bLKwHFmtxomdAk9P2UkVIMR8iMGT-jaeWQNLEnYkQOY1VP7A-PHbATC6qZRrpb7QA5yhmZY/s1600-h/R&R+048.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGwYIR4qVcQ3HdCnJ4Q-ZOEBawlWIhbC4uEnamjLn_HT-8nduZ59XsIbuDnsZ1P7PSsky1bLKwHFmtxomdAk9P2UkVIMR8iMGT-jaeWQNLEnYkQOY1VP7A-PHbATC6qZRrpb7QA5yhmZY/s320/R&R+048.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326476571751698514" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKWjgG3cc5lTwolInnfSfZzh1lglCwSSdoBmcsX1lTgQn3mcu_frd8DuGemlqc7RE2t4wgjKyvs5xnXdN19bvipwcxS-T5CPw2hK2vdxFmT5_bGWRG19R9pDSrMjiBaTJe-UFVhFYVM1U/s1600-h/R&R+049.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKWjgG3cc5lTwolInnfSfZzh1lglCwSSdoBmcsX1lTgQn3mcu_frd8DuGemlqc7RE2t4wgjKyvs5xnXdN19bvipwcxS-T5CPw2hK2vdxFmT5_bGWRG19R9pDSrMjiBaTJe-UFVhFYVM1U/s320/R&R+049.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326476575495885730" border="0" /></a>Ry and Rachel<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPiqQO9oRGYEBoP7Dk7A9cwPotazrTFKGNi0AM7LUdXqoBo7oosl_WS5mnWDmfYZQpKFtRA0sNHj9gXdv-_JLqBrIx5QpVwGecHxr4r9K4eomrgAD01XSfimxIhw0OBoyzerJFA3fFXb0/s1600-h/R&R+051.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPiqQO9oRGYEBoP7Dk7A9cwPotazrTFKGNi0AM7LUdXqoBo7oosl_WS5mnWDmfYZQpKFtRA0sNHj9gXdv-_JLqBrIx5QpVwGecHxr4r9K4eomrgAD01XSfimxIhw0OBoyzerJFA3fFXb0/s320/R&R+051.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326476580333157778" border="0" /></a><br />On our way back we stopped at my favorite playgorund. I LOVE the playgrounds in Germany, just fyi :p<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1vq8BJl3ezhweBV-OOB5svZLFw0usraqTJ8J6x-yLJVc1Wp4Upy1zf0Eqkl1E3_Rr0CLGXZwnw-OKVdrxU9FT_z6ZqtPN8F3yFjRNGYXicpIZPYZbf6eNW-sGDJWKr3Skk0nAyNzlehA/s1600-h/R&R+052.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1vq8BJl3ezhweBV-OOB5svZLFw0usraqTJ8J6x-yLJVc1Wp4Upy1zf0Eqkl1E3_Rr0CLGXZwnw-OKVdrxU9FT_z6ZqtPN8F3yFjRNGYXicpIZPYZbf6eNW-sGDJWKr3Skk0nAyNzlehA/s320/R&R+052.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326476584101317906" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhFuMSVgAfrJT61qGAU2rDFMLfXJN8n2MzVKU_EJnHBhU0SAkyK9nSkMyoku46a4KzYSmyzctD3ZKdFuE56HDn5bBh2_6iOUjs19hHdtywYnxqFKpLzKOk3TNfpIPt0qEWGLdY8YNYOz8/s1600-h/R&R+054.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhFuMSVgAfrJT61qGAU2rDFMLfXJN8n2MzVKU_EJnHBhU0SAkyK9nSkMyoku46a4KzYSmyzctD3ZKdFuE56HDn5bBh2_6iOUjs19hHdtywYnxqFKpLzKOk3TNfpIPt0qEWGLdY8YNYOz8/s320/R&R+054.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326476588235792386" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQVOOCt1CZOEZy64PYojkCmO2YNT7VmkmISVlgwObFWLkfS77pt9chKwNjsA_ykLgDjidkcdqfzv4-zLxuVROH_j5krwu6vFeuIgyyDratg3E4ZyoDwItrJzNHkZqXCjwnkxiaH3-6rjg/s1600-h/R&R+055.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQVOOCt1CZOEZy64PYojkCmO2YNT7VmkmISVlgwObFWLkfS77pt9chKwNjsA_ykLgDjidkcdqfzv4-zLxuVROH_j5krwu6vFeuIgyyDratg3E4ZyoDwItrJzNHkZqXCjwnkxiaH3-6rjg/s320/R&R+055.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326478445435497106" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4dZoKN3rYmS26uyOCeW8EkWkOlN101vu0X_-u4ZRSJgtI-6WgqSNfvgwDbzhDTRkx-Ik_-U78fGyQPiHx2SnqcqUgXMJqMVvy5G3ukaoYYW8jRjbfFZ8UQusjl3DX8cTH1h_evAXMoaE/s1600-h/R&R+057.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4dZoKN3rYmS26uyOCeW8EkWkOlN101vu0X_-u4ZRSJgtI-6WgqSNfvgwDbzhDTRkx-Ik_-U78fGyQPiHx2SnqcqUgXMJqMVvy5G3ukaoYYW8jRjbfFZ8UQusjl3DX8cTH1h_evAXMoaE/s320/R&R+057.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326478448971158066" border="0" /></a><br />Sunday we went to Church for Easter and then drove to Bad Kreuznach to visit Oda's (Oda= my host mom) parents. Oda wanted to go to the Cathedral in Speyer but we decided not to when the car got stuck in 3rd gear. It was very "Little Miss Sunshine". We had a huge lunch followed by an Easter Egg Hunt for all children under 30 as Oda put it. Then we went for a walk on which we found yet another playground. Then we saw an Old American Army Recreation base. 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghI-nzEz0NnurD6_LnNeXzis-Rddd27GezM5qy2z6jWvdAmZVHrcHcZSeYFb_NYh3m-R6OmZNl5D_EDBlBCBLX9-xhaFTNhMRgMR52UkMo7JdZ00ar4GEZPH-ecdBbFzFH-vl4OKwxpLk/s320/R&R+081.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326493442195028498" border="0" /></a>I look like a monkey in this photo hahaha<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG_OWahLtU86-iOzmED210r6IsVcDehfYXvvdA7qeLG0lQfkfurrouzDb6bkx4mUObmUfsVPvhZX-v2Yak99iUaKow85GzvhuP-na7DBz4UGG1-TKTA07eVibru1wS_-dGJ7y_BBTW_4o/s1600-h/R&R+077.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG_OWahLtU86-iOzmED210r6IsVcDehfYXvvdA7qeLG0lQfkfurrouzDb6bkx4mUObmUfsVPvhZX-v2Yak99iUaKow85GzvhuP-na7DBz4UGG1-TKTA07eVibru1wS_-dGJ7y_BBTW_4o/s320/R&R+077.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326492948654859266" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIQTIn33SrhgMFiOcTAZky1_uh3Lp3tNzTNSheWsgW8bTGjWDwQMahMykfIdpSO3zLndEiCyyUQXsNZS-TtCOC1xMJ6NjVfmun45bZLnmWgbH93La6RorroeDcvfUrIPqvMsGJBhlGKx4/s1600-h/R&R+082.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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(reverse quiznos??)<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3RyqerHzFVlT5osQCmHjlwCw1cte-0OOVtb9bFMCDIwSDI6MszRXz2j54NNjHIwmmxt8BLEgNUfJt7Evt9frL7pdjQoeBiFD9gL4ypKg2w846t8XQ0GZtonrfIAXrNg_Mfnf7e0xZ7tQ/s1600-h/R&R+086.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3RyqerHzFVlT5osQCmHjlwCw1cte-0OOVtb9bFMCDIwSDI6MszRXz2j54NNjHIwmmxt8BLEgNUfJt7Evt9frL7pdjQoeBiFD9gL4ypKg2w846t8XQ0GZtonrfIAXrNg_Mfnf7e0xZ7tQ/s320/R&R+086.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326499010767621826" border="0" /></a>Some wierd rowing machines....<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9F2zZoIe7uT_sU5CQedbgMvswNFejvUN01Q9MGC1t2zPUC6RrvNTLJjaiXObXqF7Si8lt2PoOtBzi-DEq9bV1PzLcQVL2VQQVZtiMSxmi1RXKJl5-2pWXUR8pC2ci4dzTwwVGWdNo8gg/s1600-h/R&R+087.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9F2zZoIe7uT_sU5CQedbgMvswNFejvUN01Q9MGC1t2zPUC6RrvNTLJjaiXObXqF7Si8lt2PoOtBzi-DEq9bV1PzLcQVL2VQQVZtiMSxmi1RXKJl5-2pWXUR8pC2ci4dzTwwVGWdNo8gg/s320/R&R+087.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326499017301234738" border="0" /></a>I like them because you can use them for sweep rowing....hahaa<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjzDit1SVHuQIHsilJDjvUiXmMeCibKzNdUGpHSYp9PM-d1o7IdqLU44fiPaaiL1iXYPR0MfeZ9hciEJhvrJzP8l_yfjVdEkVGIXvqAUtJyzrhB02_J0fwpsfjmDxQxoDvfWZjmsrlyhU/s1600-h/R&R+090.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjzDit1SVHuQIHsilJDjvUiXmMeCibKzNdUGpHSYp9PM-d1o7IdqLU44fiPaaiL1iXYPR0MfeZ9hciEJhvrJzP8l_yfjVdEkVGIXvqAUtJyzrhB02_J0fwpsfjmDxQxoDvfWZjmsrlyhU/s320/R&R+090.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326499022391658530" border="0" /></a>Old U.S. Army training base<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNl8Go-IVxAYTTqrmEikcHaNTIFWbBSnfm1BeVrfwZwHXwuZgDgr_uSQF11JB40ww2z_FOinKcI3gWhqLSuWsnbb32bMQmE6WpgA9qgQulFqD-Qm2Tsz7EtOrgXksioj83MxpAzB0d3f0/s1600-h/R&R+092.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNl8Go-IVxAYTTqrmEikcHaNTIFWbBSnfm1BeVrfwZwHXwuZgDgr_uSQF11JB40ww2z_FOinKcI3gWhqLSuWsnbb32bMQmE6WpgA9qgQulFqD-Qm2Tsz7EtOrgXksioj83MxpAzB0d3f0/s320/R&R+092.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326499025615270450" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBNaZ8QgPHc0UlAuidwB08zgeLWPlV0NrrsZecz9pXjqqciFi5DUMAfnxmhyphenhyphen1wUhr0k4ssjbo5SKkeg78jOxa5xEpLJl9O1FxQJIqkmvSRpAK1FroU3BJpMOui21UR0ML8P20eV1DhJC0/s1600-h/R&R+094.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBNaZ8QgPHc0UlAuidwB08zgeLWPlV0NrrsZecz9pXjqqciFi5DUMAfnxmhyphenhyphen1wUhr0k4ssjbo5SKkeg78jOxa5xEpLJl9O1FxQJIqkmvSRpAK1FroU3BJpMOui21UR0ML8P20eV1DhJC0/s320/R&R+094.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326499030148128162" border="0" /></a>Again the fam :)<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglfDMG29y5OGx1fWWw7imXP1tZFY9sXuXwawmVHxfV-Bicjycp9B1tiqlgL8Ye2SW2LmWXqDQkYxfQylspR3OUBg8pDmyZXLRljb5aqIQIEapvTEhGyGD_1eN9qr1t7SPW9dblLJq-fs0/s1600-h/R&R+096.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglfDMG29y5OGx1fWWw7imXP1tZFY9sXuXwawmVHxfV-Bicjycp9B1tiqlgL8Ye2SW2LmWXqDQkYxfQylspR3OUBg8pDmyZXLRljb5aqIQIEapvTEhGyGD_1eN9qr1t7SPW9dblLJq-fs0/s320/R&R+096.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326501955961417874" border="0" /></a><br />Monday Oda and I saw Ryan and Rachel off at the train station :)<br />We then returned to Karlsruhe where Tabea and I spent pretty much the rest of the day just laying in the sun in the Castle gardens :)<br />Tuesday I used my freetime to straighten up my room (something I NEVER do). I even folded all my clothes......<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha5uDEdHnHo_El-ZLxHEi_6Y53XjZTUPuxRE7VDfVWACp_SzXq3tLZHF5fLW94a0jKWlIIwKcCuj0yqxbgs6a_uPVyTb04eiIo98LtYAA1AuccA3vJ1yWiAub74KPyFrzr7DFrpraapvc/s1600-h/R&R+097.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha5uDEdHnHo_El-ZLxHEi_6Y53XjZTUPuxRE7VDfVWACp_SzXq3tLZHF5fLW94a0jKWlIIwKcCuj0yqxbgs6a_uPVyTb04eiIo98LtYAA1AuccA3vJ1yWiAub74KPyFrzr7DFrpraapvc/s320/R&R+097.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326501944910202994" border="0" /></a>Ryan can verify my wardrobe did NOT look like this when he came....<br />The rest of the week has been filled with visits. One of my friends from Stuttgart came Wednesday. Another came Thursday. Thursday we went to Europabad, which is a swimming pool/waterpark. I now have bruises from one of the slides, as it was winding and built out of cement.....<br />Friday another American exchange student came. We celebrated a friend's birthday. It was, as usual, a good time.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAXr4W_sBWVJhPTGOzpPxSxMNUlf-0wl886XqDKHfo18-zeJrZiKt1Vtnj7pwuQH2EFEWAgGOR0kluC9ewmFWByvf2EnSIvPZ9JIvbfEWb18aKWDng1B7UcDfywiPhqBnTmQr58M3dZXg/s1600-h/R&R+139.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAXr4W_sBWVJhPTGOzpPxSxMNUlf-0wl886XqDKHfo18-zeJrZiKt1Vtnj7pwuQH2EFEWAgGOR0kluC9ewmFWByvf2EnSIvPZ9JIvbfEWb18aKWDng1B7UcDfywiPhqBnTmQr58M3dZXg/s320/R&R+139.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5326501949494344210" border="0" /></a>Dance lessons in the Salsa Bar....<br />Today there is nice weather again and we're going to grill!!!!!!! Rebecca and Nehle (school friends) are also coming and I'll get to here there stories from Italy :)<br />Tomorrow I'm going to Europapark with Tabea (Tabea= host sister). Should make for a super time :) :)<br />Hope everyone there is doing well.Marthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16517941527672040669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5740358435936915282.post-50387507778160141572009-03-30T09:37:00.000-07:002009-03-30T12:08:37.581-07:00Ruins, Reptiles, Riding and Rowing :)I've had an eventful couple of weeks since I last wrote.<br />And by weeks I mean weekends really....<br />During the week I go to school, or actually right now I have a community service project in an Elderly Day Care Center.....<br />The weekend after I got back from Mid-stay Karlsruhe had other Mid-stay students. We all went to meet one of Karlsrhe's Mayors together. It was surprisingly much more fun than expected.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjLb7OmYRWU5HXkP-5LRBxY5Um6o-dzCZJMRKm4ZzLg5yJ4Z57Iyf-UlseXEQgbxHymMmKHS2jBO_-euYsXEpS12wuonDkoDtguHJkcCi8dG5s-LkI1vMqTJxIrRm_PnOZHgKbzGwDN1A/s1600-h/Madenburg+etc+002.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjLb7OmYRWU5HXkP-5LRBxY5Um6o-dzCZJMRKm4ZzLg5yJ4Z57Iyf-UlseXEQgbxHymMmKHS2jBO_-euYsXEpS12wuonDkoDtguHJkcCi8dG5s-LkI1vMqTJxIrRm_PnOZHgKbzGwDN1A/s320/Madenburg+etc+002.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319030507715137474" border="0" /></a>Karlsruhe at night :)<br />I was very proud becuase even after I talked he thought I was German :)<br />I then, however, informed him I'm infact American.<br />Later in the weekend my host mom, Oda, took me and Nehle and Rebecca (friends) in the Pfalz. We went for a "hike" and saw some really cool ruins of an old castle.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJBZ6HGtYTD1qmwe5StEVcV1zfivui66jaiQUU5Tyas-8eKBUMv27-ykaI9ULJGwW4lrcJ7SkhetdmqQRrbEIj2S7SotZoaPRwEEpcTvmMvP8CS2HLx1U0gEdADahzulsNWB7LLAGi3RE/s1600-h/Madenburg+etc+004.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJBZ6HGtYTD1qmwe5StEVcV1zfivui66jaiQUU5Tyas-8eKBUMv27-ykaI9ULJGwW4lrcJ7SkhetdmqQRrbEIj2S7SotZoaPRwEEpcTvmMvP8CS2HLx1U0gEdADahzulsNWB7LLAGi3RE/s320/Madenburg+etc+004.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319030519281779538" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi6AeVaTFH-3b1DF4sqBKbQZgAVsqKpC1j-FK_yGntTlX24zUioAG9jJtGooXiWKGzoTeK-lqK5EmTMR0tOqNiM7riEoXzbEhaW9vkXYDMKIUZTtTUpkZ8knAD9PFAGxalLJy1Mo-e9aM/s1600-h/Madenburg+etc+007.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXu4_VHChebV7C1P5gNqJhv9KpKVLwkSVDkPUIuclOeAk9D-uifq7-2Lq0e-aSUEM0Wc4hu0PnodK_04G22exhdr3_lr0bu5QrXQFt1wyVnSk4gj4uH_CXYSag0vHMJbAEKn_uS0CbkJk/s320/France!!!+1366.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319050202244516162" border="0" /></a><br />The steps we had to climb up<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0KKTsWk0B3UbH-WJZ1fsBmvYeGhSRK1hTIuEIcwFtUN2C-5D0wfWYXHgQeQiOsk0L_f3mDLbVHtgkd3lSc-ghYA1jwXvEbu22q90xGF3J128iNAmV0Dctce4umpkXVontWDxVe1Gs5dQ/s1600-h/France!!!+1355.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0KKTsWk0B3UbH-WJZ1fsBmvYeGhSRK1hTIuEIcwFtUN2C-5D0wfWYXHgQeQiOsk0L_f3mDLbVHtgkd3lSc-ghYA1jwXvEbu22q90xGF3J128iNAmV0Dctce4umpkXVontWDxVe1Gs5dQ/s320/France!!!+1355.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319048642260825794" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqO7L7qKGrtrj_v1W_86mrOT3axHplb85-2JQ-d81BqwLlLpcZmJ9FctUANlFJvLHv9VFaq3_hqOENOW5o2Z4Po6w7yi6Xyru6bfJm9NtXHGVV39ea0ADnujclfmKA-qLeGi-dT7ZTeII/s1600-h/France!!!+1358.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHh6rBQjd1eR62_KyiZndvMampYSAyONW3I6GiXc949q5Dwi2H-NEnuebLZrJGpTwFmvaGbi6e09p-40CJisWNhhaX7GIjsGCnTRNYnkP1RUqr6eIN56nhwqb6F1166FCACF6D_i1afBE/s320/France!!!+1383.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319055442768324770" border="0" /></a>Almost the whole ride back I could see where I row, which is in Germany.....<br />Speaking of rowing I spent the whole last Saturday at the rowing club. We had practice in the morning as usual and then we had lunch together afterwards. Then we had some time in which we (those of us around my age) used for sleep/figuring out what our spring training schedule would be like. Then we had practice again. Then we had some game time. Then we had dinner, and then watched a movie. It was really really enjoyable. It's very seldom here that I just spend a whole day with the same group of people (other than when I'm in school).<br />Riding has also been going well, and I can't wait until the weather is good enough that we can go outside for lessons :)<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXF4_6C04wDfYcVNE8595Pqr1HRsan4RvOjTtGPFXQ2HGEdbO7bwaUefD7nfs4Z0XVbqHS5n7GD3u7_6Sc0EhjQWys7QlDjiN8HG05v5-fRy6T4q778hQiOV2mdf00Ys13_9OqCT0mptQ/s1600-h/Madenburg+etc+058.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXF4_6C04wDfYcVNE8595Pqr1HRsan4RvOjTtGPFXQ2HGEdbO7bwaUefD7nfs4Z0XVbqHS5n7GD3u7_6Sc0EhjQWys7QlDjiN8HG05v5-fRy6T4q778hQiOV2mdf00Ys13_9OqCT0mptQ/s320/Madenburg+etc+058.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319036131267644706" border="0" /></a>"My" horse, KalidorMarthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16517941527672040669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5740358435936915282.post-64790979471076378332009-03-11T11:00:00.000-07:002009-03-12T11:31:37.525-07:00Witch hunts, Crabbing, and Fashion Shows...Last week I had midstay camp with other CBYX students here in Germany.<br />We were staying in Bad Honnef, which is near Bonn.<br />We spent two days in Bonn. One day in Köln (Cologne), and one day just hanging out at the Youth hostel.<br />It was soooooooooooooo much fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!<br />I can not even describe how much I enjoyed it.<br />At the beginning of the week, in all honesty we(as a group) did not get along with the liaisons. They thought we were hard to motivate and that we weren't really very interested in what they were doing with us.<br />By the end of the week, however, we were all very good friends with the liaisons, and the liaisons even said that we were really interested in what we were doing (even if we took some time to show it :p).<br />It was really really inexplicably nice to see all the people that I hadn't seen since September at our prep. camp in D.C.<br />In Bonn we took a walking tour, which was rather interesting. 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We first went to the Cathedral. We also wanted to climb the Church tower, but that unfortunately was also closed. I don't think we would have seen too much anyways, the one downside to the week was the weather was TERRIBLE. Anyways afterwards I went to a Chocolate Museum. It was interactive which I LOVED.<br />Then we had the choice of going to an Olympic Sport Museum or having freetime in the city. I would have liked to see more of the city, but it was really so windy and rainy I didn't want to be outside. Plus, I was interested in the Sport Museum. The Sport Museum was amazing! It was also interactive, it had a weight you could try to lift, a long jump you could try, a pommel horse, a balance beam, and a boxing ring you could play in. 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We started off our day with talking about the week. Then we were given free time. It was the one day with nice (partially sunny) weather. A bunch of us went out and played soccer. 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It was very very very funny. I normally Irish Dance at talent shows, but I didn't have any music. So the other Maryland kids and I decided to give a shortened explination of how to crab. It turned out actually to be rather funny. There were a number of singing, dancing, playing instrument acts. The Massachusetts group of kids decided to a "Massachusetts History" including: landing at Plymouth rock, Witch hunts, Boston Massacre, and the Boston Tea Party. 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfIkbELjK9jLCVYNUTFBiDR9TC7wmpU9a98H7euqkWgFMuLqm__OeU1dbgZ9vfxhTF_5QpEqSu0uEi6hpN2DCltu_oeG1EK6rq3rSiWTWSSW-Z0Lfmxe4hHq1-OL_pPZbp9Sk8uInDgIM/s320/Camp!!!!+082.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5312033291930053858" border="0" /></a><br />This is the imitation of our liaisons, and the new AFS rules.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx7iLK8iNEZxf40eHrIKSrRl1ir85_G_oTaYslOgAoj67dsmnjO_qDUr55bf3JvRCeHHEsYDWzBxIar-vTEhYVv9J_kHCwtO0aJq17zIFpU0BQ3691ngRXhBP8-Jw2_72jUhc9KILdgoE/s1600-h/Camp!!!!+085.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx7iLK8iNEZxf40eHrIKSrRl1ir85_G_oTaYslOgAoj67dsmnjO_qDUr55bf3JvRCeHHEsYDWzBxIar-vTEhYVv9J_kHCwtO0aJq17zIFpU0BQ3691ngRXhBP8-Jw2_72jUhc9KILdgoE/s320/Camp!!!!+085.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5312033294618221890" border="0" /></a>So this is the witch hunt....<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp7H1_jG4eun0idaWfLrmmr2Mz5xg-ioQhxM73Iq3nwypu0bM_UrCEzKUCWU61rFnCGPpf7G0sF2zK-yHasDJcsaTu07zwvav8ClWex1BZkEfs53_l8ee1S_GbkLv8pU95O8GqO28N71c/s1600-h/Camp!!!!+091.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm3j0zNHXe8MJeASQT5ehv2EkpL4sd_O25uBYSTglwqOxWItaaLvTzx1YDW5lUjuZEbTmWP8_U-wg4YH-eLtz9UY6tC6biXy6VQ0pE-obsrOFc4z1sHDRn-Fd-ywsSC-k6PLMAEHaRVUQ/s320/Camp!!!!+088.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5312368997051286274" border="0" /></a>Pajama Fashion Show :)<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2z991c-4ENGPeR5Z6O0mm2T8GTPj3Y6v1V9CaksudY4KsKCTtrn2mqQQrZNR-Vi_tjMt_SOmm6OLqlAlHxdqGcK2me6vYE2nPpAojymNl9dE_-OVLwlkCgikxOM_HZ-gNZ3WypgLdG0I/s1600-h/Camp!!!!+090.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2z991c-4ENGPeR5Z6O0mm2T8GTPj3Y6v1V9CaksudY4KsKCTtrn2mqQQrZNR-Vi_tjMt_SOmm6OLqlAlHxdqGcK2me6vYE2nPpAojymNl9dE_-OVLwlkCgikxOM_HZ-gNZ3WypgLdG0I/s320/Camp!!!!+090.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5312369005151888834" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCwFa8dMujcoARQEj_tjowIhHtRhrKctn8mPF1oxvHBFdBvYJcm6DYLE5rW3JVb4Y_SiPHMKMFONc6YxYUW7HxMAiXxwuFzTjfqUfGEgDvwNgnphCFTOOkDXA_jb_pk5K1lMfKVK-wYJ4/s1600-h/Camp!!!!+092.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCwFa8dMujcoARQEj_tjowIhHtRhrKctn8mPF1oxvHBFdBvYJcm6DYLE5rW3JVb4Y_SiPHMKMFONc6YxYUW7HxMAiXxwuFzTjfqUfGEgDvwNgnphCFTOOkDXA_jb_pk5K1lMfKVK-wYJ4/s320/Camp!!!!+092.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5312369006942727314" border="0" /></a><br />We ended the night with a dance party. Just an overall really good last night of Midstay, and a really good week at Midstay!<br />We played lots of games, learned lots, and all with very little sleep!! :)<br />And at this time I would like to send all our thoughts to those people who have lost someone close to them in school shootings this week. Especially, to those people in and around Stuttgart.Marthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16517941527672040669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5740358435936915282.post-74879121153809490242009-03-01T07:29:00.000-08:002009-03-08T10:22:11.229-07:00I admit it, I like skiing......The last week of February we had "Faschings Ferien," which would be like if the U.S. had a week of vacation for Mardi Gras. My hostfamily and I went to Switzerland to go skiing. To say I was not a big fan of skiing before this week would be an understatement. I wasn't looking forward to the whole skiing part of our ski vacation. It turned out, however, that now I like skiing, quite a lot actually, and it was lot of fun!<br />We left on Saturday. There was sooooooooooooooo much snow as we headed south! It was fantastic!!! Driving throuhg the Swiss Alps at dusk is absolutely amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We arrived around 6, quickly unpacked, and then settled in for dinner. After dinner we played "mafioso" or mafia. It was fun.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTajNBQKA280hgjBEwVvgZTKi-pipaStmghedV3ICn2LBcMxaPf2g1AxlreFc1YL0OllQplop8upivn8IXp_jE_jK6gOhRaVA_QDfd0Ib84-Fq98UDyjW7c325O-NwiN06acr4NxgXlOg/s1600-h/IMG_1171.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTajNBQKA280hgjBEwVvgZTKi-pipaStmghedV3ICn2LBcMxaPf2g1AxlreFc1YL0OllQplop8upivn8IXp_jE_jK6gOhRaVA_QDfd0Ib84-Fq98UDyjW7c325O-NwiN06acr4NxgXlOg/s320/IMG_1171.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310859755148388354" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFATHpXxhqB2BBYzhl9sTn3yrvZeggJBbClt4KExkQ3e67oJh802xeL86e3rnSokNnlWkqb2IIEhHPkQUGnsDvigRAV-DCqqEbdy4PhWurOvwQk3zHiO6pRxd55WM7K2BkCn5a-aRE5EQ/s1600-h/P1050422.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFATHpXxhqB2BBYzhl9sTn3yrvZeggJBbClt4KExkQ3e67oJh802xeL86e3rnSokNnlWkqb2IIEhHPkQUGnsDvigRAV-DCqqEbdy4PhWurOvwQk3zHiO6pRxd55WM7K2BkCn5a-aRE5EQ/s320/P1050422.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310861492712169698" border="0" /></a>They had soooooo much snow you couldn't see out some of the windows!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPHL0-m9S6WE0R6mgg4MM2q3GEPBCaZ9rPIXFOGUivS9zHoSVyugMagBhuiAomRTlB01yo4hm7e90LK3e_4obJ2VtYzn2smo4ulsxnXTkAX2IPA5AYZOr6GPm749aZzPASJvxAaxhnRW0/s1600-h/Schweiz+006.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPHL0-m9S6WE0R6mgg4MM2q3GEPBCaZ9rPIXFOGUivS9zHoSVyugMagBhuiAomRTlB01yo4hm7e90LK3e_4obJ2VtYzn2smo4ulsxnXTkAX2IPA5AYZOr6GPm749aZzPASJvxAaxhnRW0/s320/Schweiz+006.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310864302163690242" border="0" /></a><br />The house we were staying in was adorable!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2n0zNLj_dd-vBxckRvld32SYxi82zp80gMChGLzkefC1weS5zOd-YXKP10QUO20lsMTobJg8wpoyj6rAgJlZgBYqW9IUrb5udkTweXxL_QHoEFe7oYNidXZciQVnrkKgmPZmI9Bytgmw/s1600-h/Schweiz+002.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2n0zNLj_dd-vBxckRvld32SYxi82zp80gMChGLzkefC1weS5zOd-YXKP10QUO20lsMTobJg8wpoyj6rAgJlZgBYqW9IUrb5udkTweXxL_QHoEFe7oYNidXZciQVnrkKgmPZmI9Bytgmw/s320/Schweiz+002.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310864295917795266" border="0" /></a><br />The next day we woke up to snow. Lots of snow. There was all ready lots there, but it was snowing more. The 4 boys (my host brother and 3 host cousins) decided to go early anyway. The rest of us decided to wait a while, until the snow lightened up a little bit.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPIszyaJHYm6YbjpG-pEoA0DM_ryUT4Bty5vm7XzmSk6djZunktGG82LFUaMU-2AjrXR_A_Xt9mm8DlHxkYO1LCdeJN_g0QcffTXqLU4tZC7qML3Z294mgAsvpHE1sSszX7I5h7mz4fxc/s1600-h/IMG_1169.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPIszyaJHYm6YbjpG-pEoA0DM_ryUT4Bty5vm7XzmSk6djZunktGG82LFUaMU-2AjrXR_A_Xt9mm8DlHxkYO1LCdeJN_g0QcffTXqLU4tZC7qML3Z294mgAsvpHE1sSszX7I5h7mz4fxc/s320/IMG_1169.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310859733742428914" border="0" /></a>From left to right: Jonas Mario Dominik<br /><br />We picked up my skis and got a ticket. My oldest host cousin, Mario, was assigned to give me ski lessons for the rest of the day. I had actually never met Mario before this trip. His brothers Jonas and Dominik study in Karlsruhe and I knew them very well all ready. Mario, however, is very very nice, a good ski instructor, and reminds me of my oldest brother, Ryan.<br />So anyways I had expected that the next day I would be in a ski lesson with lots of little kids (4-6 year olds), but was pleasantly surprised that there were only two other people in my group and they were around my age. Our ski instructor's name was Balzer. The one girl was 15 and her name is Lisa. The other was actually a Chinese woman, named Ellen. Ellen couldn't speak German and my instructor couldn't speak English. I offered to translate. Following conversations all in German......just by the way :)<br />After hearing me speak English Lisa turned to me and said "Wow you speak good english!"<br />I laughed. "Thanks, I actually am from the U.S." I said.<br />"Oh," she said, "Are you here on exchange?"<br />I nodded.<br />"I'm studying abroad in the U.S. next year" she said.<br />"Oh with what program?" I asked.<br />"With Congress-Bundestag" she replied. (Ok really she said PPP because that's what CBYX is in German)<br />"REALLY?!?!?" I said, "That's the same program I'm here with!"<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNJx3vCM_PtSeIBC6ZZDqSVDIFpGoEYWiLM9ofOLV6cq1CkVbBo3FnIEaas3Hu0XOPH3bfqISN4xl1OM3qmkwAGd_jYHXod-jyh24rby6TN9zQbN-tZuT_7vKmudUbH6KDndWp9jNqAgk/s1600-h/IMG_1227.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNJx3vCM_PtSeIBC6ZZDqSVDIFpGoEYWiLM9ofOLV6cq1CkVbBo3FnIEaas3Hu0XOPH3bfqISN4xl1OM3qmkwAGd_jYHXod-jyh24rby6TN9zQbN-tZuT_7vKmudUbH6KDndWp9jNqAgk/s320/IMG_1227.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310861474068289074" border="0" /></a>Lisa Me and Tabea<br /><br />What a small world! Or really what a big one AFS is making!<br />Anyways after one run down the "Baby slope", as my host family calls it, Balzer decided to take us up the actual lift.<br />We took the entire two hour lesson to come down about a half kilometer. Then our instructor told us that we wouldn't be having a full day lesson, because there were only three of us.<br />My host mother and Lisa's mother then decided to take it up with the ski school.....not too much more to be said.....<br />They compromised we got one afternoon of semi-private lessons.<br />Anyways we continued the course the next day and the instructor decided it was a good idea to take us up all the way to the top of the mountain.<br />I somehow managed to ski successfully down the intermidiate slopes with out falling :)<br />As the week went on I learned how to ski in parrallel, I don't have to make a triangle with my skis when I turn. It was exciting! I also started having things said to me like "You stand well on your skis" and "Now you can go down any slope"<br />On Wednesday we had a fourth person join our ski lesson. Her name was Rose.<br />She came up and asked if we could all speak German (in German). Lisa and I explained that Ellen could only speak English.<br />"Cool!" Rose replied.<br />"Do you speak English?" I asked.<br />"Ja I'm from England" she said.<br />"OH, I'm from the U.S."<br />"Then why the hell are we speaking German?!?" she replied (in English now)<br />I couldn't help laughing. Rose turned out to be our entertainment for Wednesday and Thursday.<br />On Wednesday I also went in this cute Church in our village. The thing I liked best were that the people at the end of mass would dip their hands in the holy water and then turn to who was next to them and share it.....<br />It was REALLY interesting.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2LUtUI_YfIw8ULPYT9tBueQPQURfCa22Dxkza7YWS3u3dWHuFc1ZJZpUW4aDBpzVjZb-Q7Cj3r2KVJ_JAf63Ps_nuEGamMHI3Ld7KCXRRRGP-76JATG8brfO3bozxYZ_Fb38Wj_d6shU/s1600-h/Schweiz+021.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2LUtUI_YfIw8ULPYT9tBueQPQURfCa22Dxkza7YWS3u3dWHuFc1ZJZpUW4aDBpzVjZb-Q7Cj3r2KVJ_JAf63Ps_nuEGamMHI3Ld7KCXRRRGP-76JATG8brfO3bozxYZ_Fb38Wj_d6shU/s320/Schweiz+021.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310864314836676146" border="0" /></a><br /><br />By Thursday Lisa(who had been joining in on my afternoon lessons with family) and I finally felt comfortable enough to go all the way to the top (without Balzer).<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSNGQ5YSyUNYTFi6N4mNQ3fcm6K4qyMMilxMmhF5pUSfMJRBtBTXci0aoLQrYGpTA3asxW_Qh72EY0D5QGi1sqMnSqFYAY0nt-wmfLkFgOGHXnY_POd25vP-Mzcr6-_XFxN70u7jHVtJQ/s1600-h/IMG_1167.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGEPzWHFM6PqZq7ex2DBtTeJipePXggPNeNwk5dJUl2Z2lJp5GDtXkKSozuLuJv-ZbWuciZATaV_5pfxlA4Q9i0BPvvmGvZHelQ_UgBVE6CbsD1dWPYZCH1xWYbFRgb9nrxIoB8l5w_HM/s320/Schweiz+016.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310864304214015954" border="0" /></a><br />It was sad to say goodbye to Lisa on Friday but we exchanged email addresses and now have contact with another.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlUmPOBR4JDZvN-NjohGFXR5Zu2MO9b0JLjzleIjXc14D7gsnFbE2HaYD3PF6C35eoUi3qMIRpl3-Vawod7Xu94GymRENJWBA79mUlwVfrQ2ZUB87ngazukb4r1b8wU_BxV17NZmi-RuE/s1600-h/IMG_1183.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlUmPOBR4JDZvN-NjohGFXR5Zu2MO9b0JLjzleIjXc14D7gsnFbE2HaYD3PF6C35eoUi3qMIRpl3-Vawod7Xu94GymRENJWBA79mUlwVfrQ2ZUB87ngazukb4r1b8wU_BxV17NZmi-RuE/s320/IMG_1183.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310859762075484098" border="0" /></a>I skiied down from the top of that (the thing on the left)<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlzJOZoYCsLMNMt8VhnACZhYO6iNL-5XySp-Bm5E60HOnn6nvu1-6MOOrWKgCJP3jZ2g2cbo5Cgn2MTzXLyXQnJjI-TL3cppZyiMtOGR4wccB-Hm0kwZ4IWhSXI4OBRghReOijI6H-sUA/s1600-h/Schweiz+087.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlzJOZoYCsLMNMt8VhnACZhYO6iNL-5XySp-Bm5E60HOnn6nvu1-6MOOrWKgCJP3jZ2g2cbo5Cgn2MTzXLyXQnJjI-TL3cppZyiMtOGR4wccB-Hm0kwZ4IWhSXI4OBRghReOijI6H-sUA/s320/Schweiz+087.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310867211145346290" border="0" /></a>From Hitzeggen to Vella.....<br /><br /><br />Saturday we went hiking in the snow. Had a snowball fight. It was fun......<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVg5Sjy6dcGAYNaafsJ_f0LvOSjrn5JxsXArTOIJR5MkAqOaECrxce-J4Ppd7pkmfbP5-RpDfpr3dgNooz_Q5rA8lHU28Kcg1xOqQ49kojuN3Im-KOd_iFTo7XK5hFB9xzrZZ8kLPi79U/s1600-h/IMG_1262.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVg5Sjy6dcGAYNaafsJ_f0LvOSjrn5JxsXArTOIJR5MkAqOaECrxce-J4Ppd7pkmfbP5-RpDfpr3dgNooz_Q5rA8lHU28Kcg1xOqQ49kojuN3Im-KOd_iFTo7XK5hFB9xzrZZ8kLPi79U/s320/IMG_1262.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310861486775208514" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxNhfHlijiLohf3DbiM4LiYM18upEhvP475C6CmRhXslTUsb1tTyPsNh-1nwisVgfIJSBa4qzkILWyrBR1yI78-NrzZQnWy_iygcT9OdlatvzsCiDM07JHCsW8pLFyzRISaEgTJSiyvqc/s1600-h/Schweiz+063.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxNhfHlijiLohf3DbiM4LiYM18upEhvP475C6CmRhXslTUsb1tTyPsNh-1nwisVgfIJSBa4qzkILWyrBR1yI78-NrzZQnWy_iygcT9OdlatvzsCiDM07JHCsW8pLFyzRISaEgTJSiyvqc/s320/Schweiz+063.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310867197878908370" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeFU2Z2Syjr-BCouFIEmsCSTyEN6h0knfJ_n2Sk5AOYLRSvNIj3YWkByl2FctVIMblzXa8UIAhWjJuVv0WwLlsNmTAS9-pX3SpxBjXJyE5assZd5tQ4kvqXMzUaUiTHZ6Ca9jSB2xjifE/s1600-h/Schweiz+052.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeFU2Z2Syjr-BCouFIEmsCSTyEN6h0knfJ_n2Sk5AOYLRSvNIj3YWkByl2FctVIMblzXa8UIAhWjJuVv0WwLlsNmTAS9-pX3SpxBjXJyE5assZd5tQ4kvqXMzUaUiTHZ6Ca9jSB2xjifE/s320/Schweiz+052.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310867194526436610" border="0" /></a><br />But I actually liked skiing better (never thought I'd say that.....)<br />I was sooooooooooooooo sad to go back to Germany Saturday! It was such beautiful weather!!!!!!!!!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuFyk-JRJ9UphdjToWAMaYM_VaL0od6pyxpHq1TPuHucne1ZVAAQ_UtlMmBHzM47k8Yb7OKQw0sviixfQKKsmm7RIHXxp0uISdTKaVZWckDLn1NWyPtrWR_lfrx4pU9mDZ9RPJPqVapao/s1600-h/IMG_1248.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuFyk-JRJ9UphdjToWAMaYM_VaL0od6pyxpHq1TPuHucne1ZVAAQ_UtlMmBHzM47k8Yb7OKQw0sviixfQKKsmm7RIHXxp0uISdTKaVZWckDLn1NWyPtrWR_lfrx4pU9mDZ9RPJPqVapao/s320/IMG_1248.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310861477510870066" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje6aDErDpB7JEEyN6-GoQfxi-NEE367lV6wIzaMoW5ICq65UKovV9QrWZayHyiiVZNYDxild1pBxGEv4Gl1rPE1qDrw14plDdhD_yBhTAk75p53sdDGnnRy56D_MJEG5SQ6KkmumFF-eg/s1600-h/Schweiz+032.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje6aDErDpB7JEEyN6-GoQfxi-NEE367lV6wIzaMoW5ICq65UKovV9QrWZayHyiiVZNYDxild1pBxGEv4Gl1rPE1qDrw14plDdhD_yBhTAk75p53sdDGnnRy56D_MJEG5SQ6KkmumFF-eg/s320/Schweiz+032.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310867185684149570" border="0" /></a>The snow staircase Jannis made...<br /><br />On the way back we stopped at a rest stop that, no joke, was called Heidi Land.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia2kt49hvQMx4rIdsCB_GCxzrCMcGK1iWOUbHF6LapgG5mVKYUB6gjGOpL4l0h09yYuy1UtV0CrhzZbhznt_YN-x9aA7PSUqGHHxbxeXLrXXR84Fldd05OKMDyexROsbsT3OKw7ktML_8/s1600-h/Schweiz+083.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia2kt49hvQMx4rIdsCB_GCxzrCMcGK1iWOUbHF6LapgG5mVKYUB6gjGOpL4l0h09yYuy1UtV0CrhzZbhznt_YN-x9aA7PSUqGHHxbxeXLrXXR84Fldd05OKMDyexROsbsT3OKw7ktML_8/s320/Schweiz+083.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310867206828599682" border="0" /></a>View from Heidi Land....<br /><br />Anyways those are my skiing stories!Marthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16517941527672040669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5740358435936915282.post-51936037113166732952009-02-06T08:48:00.000-08:002009-02-08T10:17:43.632-08:00BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!My birthday was last weekend. I had such a good time. It really can't be put into words (much like most things here), but nevertheless I will try.<br />The weekend started out by going out to dinner with my class here. There is another girl in my class, Katharina, and she has the same birthday as me. We all had a very good time, or at least I did.<br />Then I went to a salsa bar with a bunch of other exchange students and liaisons. Three of my friends came in from Stuttgart. I even put on makeup, or rather, let my friends put makeup on me, which I never do. At midnight we were all dancing, and then as soon as the clock turned everyone just stopped and ran over to me and gave me hugs, and started shouting "Alles Gutes zum Geburtstag" (happy birthday). People I didn't know were coming up to me giving me hugs and telling me happy birthday. It was surreal and very funny. Plus Karla and Arthur had given me this ridiculous birthday hat. That they then made me where all night. I thought it was funny, becuase at Bryn Mawr we have a whole birthday tiara tradition, and here we have this birthday hat. Zoe and Tang made me a cake which was sooooooooo sweet of them and tasted sooooo good. Zoe also made me a Cd which I have since then greatly enjoyed listening to. Tang also gave me this thing that pops out of a box and says "I love you", which I found really funny because it's clearly directed for Valentines Day. It's also really good to scare people with ;) Chiara, Maridalys, and Francesco gave me this little adorable teddybear. Wissaf made me a scrapbook of sorts (with Cricket's help). It had a story in it and lots of pictures. It was extraordinarily thoughtful!!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqSyJPG3cTB0ePZuVUmmozukvVzH4q4uLr5noI-BJxkU1HgkxTcQVsACKwHmIGQSuHQ6qkgWwMHEYa8q8ZKltztsg6PBxxmcraxwQ-Ww9ES1zGsVPfuPkv-LXxIaJyKYrASxigTrvIRHE/s1600-h/Geburtstag+etc+010.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqSyJPG3cTB0ePZuVUmmozukvVzH4q4uLr5noI-BJxkU1HgkxTcQVsACKwHmIGQSuHQ6qkgWwMHEYa8q8ZKltztsg6PBxxmcraxwQ-Ww9ES1zGsVPfuPkv-LXxIaJyKYrASxigTrvIRHE/s320/Geburtstag+etc+010.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300483975645746114" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNJIYPWVXLoFYdsvJr6vLOdjeRZi3qb1lEHF7exNGl8sZgKczUqGIJrqP91zKIKrsvaCleBElfHQhlx2KpB8eGZ-XnQtaJfMkEinB1OKXEhya6NS5ZZqt_gW-U5jw42fHF3U-XdVB5Auw/s1600-h/Geburtstag+etc+012.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNJIYPWVXLoFYdsvJr6vLOdjeRZi3qb1lEHF7exNGl8sZgKczUqGIJrqP91zKIKrsvaCleBElfHQhlx2KpB8eGZ-XnQtaJfMkEinB1OKXEhya6NS5ZZqt_gW-U5jw42fHF3U-XdVB5Auw/s320/Geburtstag+etc+012.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300483976739456050" border="0" /></a><br />Anyway so then we went home. And my host father woke us up at 9:45. I had two weeks earlier or so asked my host mother if Chiara and Maridalys my friends from Stuttgart could spend my birthday weekend at the house. She said yes. I asked my host father later if Karla, Tang, and Zoe could spend the night Friday. He said yes. I assumed the two had talked about it together. Apparently not.... Because when my host father woke us up it sounded something like this. "1,2,3,4,5,6,7...7!!!!!! You said three!!! Wake up!!!!! Breakfast in 15 minutes....10 minutes!!!!!"<br />It was VERY funny.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxyAsUFdBeWJUqqpoo9j-HyjeIycSDDLbdagHxnRw9RkRGv_rBz7KbEJXTM5u42ha2Du_xFJrVrlyiYR6TMtmXySO1tfLlpVOglzi8gb5kNWx4BZZMN4do5GSonw6VcIsD4Umhr2ZIIOE/s1600-h/Geburtstag+etc+020.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxyAsUFdBeWJUqqpoo9j-HyjeIycSDDLbdagHxnRw9RkRGv_rBz7KbEJXTM5u42ha2Du_xFJrVrlyiYR6TMtmXySO1tfLlpVOglzi8gb5kNWx4BZZMN4do5GSonw6VcIsD4Umhr2ZIIOE/s320/Geburtstag+etc+020.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300483978027188114" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK2lU-YhlZPzgdygJK9CGz6PvaEHSmmbkMsBCMpTWIeeuxMhOSeULI8oxDca1oqhgvfqpDZe622bOWmdqx5gBeQ0atHLnnxdwVhWAviogOZCW4vrpdgE-c4hLdWDlela9s-TvIcTQnxEI/s1600-h/Geburtstag+etc+031.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK2lU-YhlZPzgdygJK9CGz6PvaEHSmmbkMsBCMpTWIeeuxMhOSeULI8oxDca1oqhgvfqpDZe622bOWmdqx5gBeQ0atHLnnxdwVhWAviogOZCW4vrpdgE-c4hLdWDlela9s-TvIcTQnxEI/s320/Geburtstag+etc+031.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300483983937599586" border="0" /></a><br />We had a big breakfast and then opened gifts. Then we took Meekah (my dog here) for a walk, and went to the playground. We came back to the house, took tons of photos, baked brownies, uploaded photos, and then more people came for cake and movies. :)<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4grjjFhysEcDBn2LsMNU9MZaULqqUd5UsdyxHNx6HE_n8CbPnpCGihibEjYjzq_-uDap_0_UZ81rUr-6aCD79FkYJHb3NSPC_ZT6ywpzhYWXb0ilSsvO5BvhetEBbU9t6o4sE_R0Spaw/s1600-h/Geburtstag+etc+058.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4grjjFhysEcDBn2LsMNU9MZaULqqUd5UsdyxHNx6HE_n8CbPnpCGihibEjYjzq_-uDap_0_UZ81rUr-6aCD79FkYJHb3NSPC_ZT6ywpzhYWXb0ilSsvO5BvhetEBbU9t6o4sE_R0Spaw/s320/Geburtstag+etc+058.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300483988417377874" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP9a_Tc_9XBJNpzyW4Rhms4T9-cxgudp9msW3gsMk-tH55CeOfPsYls7VhAPlEswF-hCHMwhrt68hvBeI6TdtR9D_CRdFJ2bgh8I-ejos2EYpQ5nB46JnO1JA3XL2wNyWmPgRuhINx-CU/s1600-h/Geburtstag+etc+100.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhP9a_Tc_9XBJNpzyW4Rhms4T9-cxgudp9msW3gsMk-tH55CeOfPsYls7VhAPlEswF-hCHMwhrt68hvBeI6TdtR9D_CRdFJ2bgh8I-ejos2EYpQ5nB46JnO1JA3XL2wNyWmPgRuhINx-CU/s320/Geburtstag+etc+100.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300486749554000130" border="0" /></a><br />It was incredibly fun becuase it was the first time my friends from school, and the other exchange students that I'm friends with were together. They got along so well. It was great!<br />We watched movies until 9 or 10, then ate dinner, listened to Taylor Swift, and watched more movies until 1.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVXPSrE_-1h3bR-7FZ4o4rzV_gzBobmr7Y73ty7EVJ4SCJ7u1Nct7BKuyrfCrqUlVJAQVA_qTTBQh9keIghMr0xYCiGeJkeXTSsqaZ3qS6tUCC7gp_1dgrdqM6RB7zFNlZKJNugE-Xb3k/s1600-h/Geburtstag+2+082.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVXPSrE_-1h3bR-7FZ4o4rzV_gzBobmr7Y73ty7EVJ4SCJ7u1Nct7BKuyrfCrqUlVJAQVA_qTTBQh9keIghMr0xYCiGeJkeXTSsqaZ3qS6tUCC7gp_1dgrdqM6RB7zFNlZKJNugE-Xb3k/s320/Geburtstag+2+082.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300486768096352322" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXA_chioYqHNAdPbm42KX8JAJEaALUMKHSy4AmAnv36n7SbZoydeim2Gtas7eNQb9gMP3guceAuABzBC2EB-qzadhubY4eBcNDU7vMmaxGWFpYg6lLyob9Zo-yZhsBVXfN5CVKYvdBHOM/s1600-h/Geburtstag+2+122.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXA_chioYqHNAdPbm42KX8JAJEaALUMKHSy4AmAnv36n7SbZoydeim2Gtas7eNQb9gMP3guceAuABzBC2EB-qzadhubY4eBcNDU7vMmaxGWFpYg6lLyob9Zo-yZhsBVXfN5CVKYvdBHOM/s320/Geburtstag+2+122.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300486776254422418" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRzsyMoEXUikI3-DAUb-Cm18Vh6VFGZAUIiGA7piZ4culdUIhhXyfVC0n6fZgJY5zq3R1AzPoY0Kg5Ou1eeRqITpYqQzqjUjcVdMDqdcv7B4bH8m3ZkMZ6uLZwa9xHaaMpYwHgInjl1TY/s1600-h/Geburtstag+2+135.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRzsyMoEXUikI3-DAUb-Cm18Vh6VFGZAUIiGA7piZ4culdUIhhXyfVC0n6fZgJY5zq3R1AzPoY0Kg5Ou1eeRqITpYqQzqjUjcVdMDqdcv7B4bH8m3ZkMZ6uLZwa9xHaaMpYwHgInjl1TY/s320/Geburtstag+2+135.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300486777808270690" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaWwcHGLskA9JYfqPlNQxBT2wjmB0oWWGW1hlYGwxEsk7IKOH7MUgwy0HnKSZ6Si2851KHqxG2vbHaCJlS9dphVRZw7coJjHo-ZFzJexcZIw7xWQMjbICjIAxsejQcEw9Ggl-CvJeKNBM/s1600-h/Geburtstag+2+142.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaWwcHGLskA9JYfqPlNQxBT2wjmB0oWWGW1hlYGwxEsk7IKOH7MUgwy0HnKSZ6Si2851KHqxG2vbHaCJlS9dphVRZw7coJjHo-ZFzJexcZIw7xWQMjbICjIAxsejQcEw9Ggl-CvJeKNBM/s320/Geburtstag+2+142.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300486785057310338" border="0" /></a><br />The next morning we (Chiara, Maridalys, Karla, Maria, and me) woke up at 9, because we had an AFS breakfast at 10. We then proceeded to meet everyone for breakfast, where we brought lots of non-AFSers with (friends from school, friends from language school). Breakfast was again amazing! Everyone who hadn't seen me Friday or Saturday came up to me and was like "Happy Birthday!" Birthdays are a big deal here...Not that they aren't in the U.S. but they seem to be bigger here. Sunday unfortunately also meant Chiara and Maridalys had to go back to Stuttgart :( No way around it, I was sad.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiph6fXKiTT7UFCL8hTIYGlLyji-K4MtjPeSbWo3BfEKkFcBfU1N8WCUFL9p1pRC5OHGd-1PG9U9MvoJjcjzV1eo2jbLQJpxixtS8jJv2at9Lo-5S7-dXsa_5wcCPP5fg23oDxCvZlCW8Y/s1600-h/Geburtstag+2+150.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiph6fXKiTT7UFCL8hTIYGlLyji-K4MtjPeSbWo3BfEKkFcBfU1N8WCUFL9p1pRC5OHGd-1PG9U9MvoJjcjzV1eo2jbLQJpxixtS8jJv2at9Lo-5S7-dXsa_5wcCPP5fg23oDxCvZlCW8Y/s320/Geburtstag+2+150.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300491880088789538" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN-RwuDgkL_Jv03pAKeEV4N6wsk5ic_tT5HFoNJsmx7IIPyjD0kUfTXjbZoESNrFBTOyvYRkKIHNpGlfLAcsT7aSAVV4VqkFX7hy5P0Kj7yTr9NDwdF3XO6nOGWlAh61S8RgkYGW1danU/s1600-h/Geburtstag+2+152.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN-RwuDgkL_Jv03pAKeEV4N6wsk5ic_tT5HFoNJsmx7IIPyjD0kUfTXjbZoESNrFBTOyvYRkKIHNpGlfLAcsT7aSAVV4VqkFX7hy5P0Kj7yTr9NDwdF3XO6nOGWlAh61S8RgkYGW1danU/s320/Geburtstag+2+152.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300491888117639522" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC5v74Q9oDuCqaTJIYk6-rX21y7CeW6FraqGAyJjDQXJtMuX2hPJEZNY2D2066XrsloLgfOj0MTQ8kPmF7MFSPmiuqxVJF2W0p9FCFKSLJwcfXhhxv7aulcH18Xm_LTO57xz114UGFJR0/s1600-h/Geburtstag+2+155.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC5v74Q9oDuCqaTJIYk6-rX21y7CeW6FraqGAyJjDQXJtMuX2hPJEZNY2D2066XrsloLgfOj0MTQ8kPmF7MFSPmiuqxVJF2W0p9FCFKSLJwcfXhhxv7aulcH18Xm_LTO57xz114UGFJR0/s320/Geburtstag+2+155.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300491890914876882" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRTSix6tMRU-3StJFKcHjfLZEGu1an0NTHsqqIuYPnePkkd9gF5O7cHu6t5flCQf96oXq-JxpSwOWKLQCyTebH476fVhN1WaQAhiQGd7KVkT33bjMKSP6v0LLouds9OrmbaSWkH7sN_eM/s1600-h/Geburtstag+2+165.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRTSix6tMRU-3StJFKcHjfLZEGu1an0NTHsqqIuYPnePkkd9gF5O7cHu6t5flCQf96oXq-JxpSwOWKLQCyTebH476fVhN1WaQAhiQGd7KVkT33bjMKSP6v0LLouds9OrmbaSWkH7sN_eM/s320/Geburtstag+2+165.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300491893860353618" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj21bZYc7V8P8WjMHp5QTkfgpVhOnE3cg5lKYSCYspdwJRtFx1exxKBgbFxeSL8oGTYv34WnZMlVSzbruQs9R1ltzAup8_7EAn2KxM6VmWpDtODZ69AP0Ci7cu2axnKnj_jFw1ZuQAMdwM/s1600-h/Geburtstag+2+167.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj21bZYc7V8P8WjMHp5QTkfgpVhOnE3cg5lKYSCYspdwJRtFx1exxKBgbFxeSL8oGTYv34WnZMlVSzbruQs9R1ltzAup8_7EAn2KxM6VmWpDtODZ69AP0Ci7cu2axnKnj_jFw1ZuQAMdwM/s320/Geburtstag+2+167.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5300491898527888290" border="0" /></a><br />I was not looking forward to Monday. I was the first one in our classroom, but then every person who walked through the door came running to me and gave a huge hug and said "Happy belated Birthday!" Then one of my friends Renan even made me a cake! It was so sweet, and reminded me again of Bryn Mawr :)<br />It was an extremely good birthday!!!!!!!!!!<br />Thank you to all of my family in the U.S. who have sent me cards and gifts, etc.<br />Aunt Pat I LOVED the photo album from my going away party! The pictures of Sarah especially are precious!!!!Marthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16517941527672040669noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5740358435936915282.post-49889656306237150942009-01-18T11:13:00.000-08:002009-01-18T11:14:42.090-08:00HelpfulHey for those of you who don't know, if you click on the pictures it makes them bigger. You can see everything a lot better that way :)Marthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16517941527672040669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5740358435936915282.post-10662846748501910042009-01-18T10:08:00.000-08:002009-01-18T11:11:58.138-08:00Skiing part 2So the second day of skiing went much better than the first. We went to Austria, and again I learned how to manage a new kind of lift I'd never seen. This time it was called "Teller lift". It consisted of a line coming down the lift with a small frisbee like thing attachd at the end, which you stick between your legs and "sit" on. It was also logical in that it had a small down slope at the top going away from the lift. No more sliding backwards :)<br />After an hour or two I took a private course with an instructor. It went very well and by the end of the day I was going up the small chairlift. All in all it turned out to be fun and am actually looking forward to going again at the end of February.<br />I finished my stay in Wangen with a winter "hike." I say "hike" because hike to me means that you climb something with a definitive summit. "Hike" here is often a walk through the woods with little change in elevation. It was nevertheless BEAUTIFUL!!! It was freezing!!!!!!! When we had sweat in our hair it froze, and made everyone's hair look gray. We saw lots of frozen waterfalls, which were all really cool. 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display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5KnamypZJMbHQ9EHwK3BTx5Dy4OUYSGcFyR-hQiHsffG5XmED3WM31p8IZI5mP7Pi1qSdsRnPf4LsbU_bdHb8wKrOuOqn6IlKqvATdrzrgXflHIBUo6FuVJBnVPK9ZjCBfndouZYUzDk/s320/Freiburg+bis+Thomas+geht+152.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292705714401564898" border="0" /></a>MEERSBURG.<br />Back in Karlsruhe they also had gotten snow!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2bP_RVq_LI9Z0WKkwsos6NTaAQSvfwAHxuJliyPgNyxan4qtypNL2UKqP7NDxbrDbWgCjxsTdTQLR07Cmv-VUnTiaG2vMnyZkzx6Caupq1aV5m3pBNoMCtUv3ChDaR7RpiH1oPdSTHHk/s1600-h/Freiburg+bis+Thomas+geht+153.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2bP_RVq_LI9Z0WKkwsos6NTaAQSvfwAHxuJliyPgNyxan4qtypNL2UKqP7NDxbrDbWgCjxsTdTQLR07Cmv-VUnTiaG2vMnyZkzx6Caupq1aV5m3pBNoMCtUv3ChDaR7RpiH1oPdSTHHk/s320/Freiburg+bis+Thomas+geht+153.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292709169680824946" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtawbEjvJ_bAKoGhCBIevaD1JMHhAXBA63bcdNoV5-nrXh5y1-couIwAvs5YJSsznAL-kPpXIfIZQHfevGzfYN7qksoaPjYJQ5j-hwi0DBsJT2nHCZ3YHBsEh09FY1_9KGaV1BSwfKDmM/s1600-h/Freiburg+bis+Thomas+geht+155.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtawbEjvJ_bAKoGhCBIevaD1JMHhAXBA63bcdNoV5-nrXh5y1-couIwAvs5YJSsznAL-kPpXIfIZQHfevGzfYN7qksoaPjYJQ5j-hwi0DBsJT2nHCZ3YHBsEh09FY1_9KGaV1BSwfKDmM/s320/Freiburg+bis+Thomas+geht+155.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292709173069560866" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8CDjLQnpFBw3ripoc336TTLAYsJ_W298YJBRwU275j3hTO66aUaL8r7SyC1enGqZO_dThX1extbqisl1oPWxLKlZvqDjXyYmz_Kzseqrp30No6tbyzO0FwcCKc2C04dTSA6Q7TctwjW0/s1600-h/Freiburg+bis+Thomas+geht+161.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8CDjLQnpFBw3ripoc336TTLAYsJ_W298YJBRwU275j3hTO66aUaL8r7SyC1enGqZO_dThX1extbqisl1oPWxLKlZvqDjXyYmz_Kzseqrp30No6tbyzO0FwcCKc2C04dTSA6Q7TctwjW0/s320/Freiburg+bis+Thomas+geht+161.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292709181063883746" border="0" /></a><br />In fact it was sooooooooooooo cold that the lake behind the palace was, I would say a good ten inches deep frozen.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgefBssp12Xgwx6zp_NoBRKVzqYkwAKkosIn4OQNOOZP_EA5ppWnmzt1eYb3NEX56RHOtLFwO8rjY-he6GRwG3xUcJe4jX7tHF2pPcZpYPJc2ZBvrWp1qoPu3YlErwoLePDSdoLKT2o6uc/s1600-h/Freiburg+bis+Thomas+geht+160.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgefBssp12Xgwx6zp_NoBRKVzqYkwAKkosIn4OQNOOZP_EA5ppWnmzt1eYb3NEX56RHOtLFwO8rjY-he6GRwG3xUcJe4jX7tHF2pPcZpYPJc2ZBvrWp1qoPu3YlErwoLePDSdoLKT2o6uc/s320/Freiburg+bis+Thomas+geht+160.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292709186326460258" border="0" /></a>And I naturally found a playground....<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWDNdvDNe2L3h1wtPmj_CBjISvxwdUNpOTy2-BS61x70tNoWZJUFrbtmyFwHy03OVxYwD1uq5GXPiLOZG1QwRMtGfp2aItKqH7TYxL2cDQL9jmS3PPBiN9raOsXLEkU6_AKEnttnxQvhQ/s1600-h/Freiburg+bis+Thomas+geht+170.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWDNdvDNe2L3h1wtPmj_CBjISvxwdUNpOTy2-BS61x70tNoWZJUFrbtmyFwHy03OVxYwD1uq5GXPiLOZG1QwRMtGfp2aItKqH7TYxL2cDQL9jmS3PPBiN9raOsXLEkU6_AKEnttnxQvhQ/s320/Freiburg+bis+Thomas+geht+170.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292710865256967362" border="0" /></a>After we returned to Karlsruhe one of my friends, who had moved to Stuttgart, came and stayed at the house for a couple of days. We went ice skating. Second thing I "relearned" in one week. Turned out to be much easier than skiing. Lots of fun. Many of us hadn't ice skated before. One of the girls couldn't stop and therefore ran into us to stop. That was interesting and resulted in one of the boys who actually could skate chasing her around the rink trying to make her fall. :)<br />It was funny.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2ZugRUzYRu9IukgE6Sbniyn9EmxkHiDwdehwxnCarXUJmhH9lhyphenhyphen_oLbwkO_LFnRkyk-beK5pjBaAeuOJYSd6C7j3MkhMD-PKTMtf495pRk5IlcxSUTMMHGyXq3NmB9DSQF5nmDT1JCho/s1600-h/DSCN0956.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2ZugRUzYRu9IukgE6Sbniyn9EmxkHiDwdehwxnCarXUJmhH9lhyphenhyphen_oLbwkO_LFnRkyk-beK5pjBaAeuOJYSd6C7j3MkhMD-PKTMtf495pRk5IlcxSUTMMHGyXq3NmB9DSQF5nmDT1JCho/s320/DSCN0956.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292712000062607554" border="0" /></a>The end of break also meant saying goodbye to my friend from Stuttgart, and to two of the exchange students who came in Feb. 2008. It was sad but we know we'll all keep in contact.<br />It's funny though the more you have to say goodbye to people the harder it gets.......<br />Good luck to the Ravens!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm so nervous!!!!!!!!!!!! Even from Germany!!!!!!!!!!!Marthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16517941527672040669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5740358435936915282.post-88855124209467075972009-01-17T11:06:00.001-08:002009-01-18T10:01:29.632-08:00Holidays....etcOk, sorry I haven't written in an extremely long time.<br />So the last month has been extremely busy, so much has happened, I'm almost positive I will forget something, but here it goes.<br />We had three full weeks of Christmas vacation in Baden-Württemberg, which I was naturally thrilled about.<br />I started off my vacation by taking a daytrip to Freiburg with some other exchange students, the majority of which I hadn't seen since my orientation camp. So that was really fun! Freiburg was amazing. For me it was what I think a lot of people think of when they talk about a typical European city.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx5kO4IGPSr4yYfqZMJA-aU4LJFtBw5eTXiYQ-2MPLNjw7x7CR8pvQMcQSD03Ve4YYSoGLjr84p8zJsN55EvU3mkVu9csSetW8Y2FmD7R5zcqvaaDMbScbOeqk7DMCDXZI22jfFGApBpM/s1600-h/Freiburg+bis+Thomas+geht+023.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx5kO4IGPSr4yYfqZMJA-aU4LJFtBw5eTXiYQ-2MPLNjw7x7CR8pvQMcQSD03Ve4YYSoGLjr84p8zJsN55EvU3mkVu9csSetW8Y2FmD7R5zcqvaaDMbScbOeqk7DMCDXZI22jfFGApBpM/s320/Freiburg+bis+Thomas+geht+023.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292675444088283650" border="0" /></a><br />Christmas in Germany was really cool!<br />I loved the "Christmas markets" and my AFS committee made several trips to Weihnachtsmarkts in the surrounding areas.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFoxyLft9kR6xL6brgbth-IVOauL4QpuI44Zb37YTQzFF4iR07PKL_lzlPty3D3r8mPolgur5ziFX4zjop9YKf4n_RrsXUe3W7nqJCS5PVbJJXYN63OSVbhU2KW8_YEdMvnyIrjR3zh5w/s1600-h/Freiburg+bis+Thomas+geht+030.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFoxyLft9kR6xL6brgbth-IVOauL4QpuI44Zb37YTQzFF4iR07PKL_lzlPty3D3r8mPolgur5ziFX4zjop9YKf4n_RrsXUe3W7nqJCS5PVbJJXYN63OSVbhU2KW8_YEdMvnyIrjR3zh5w/s320/Freiburg+bis+Thomas+geht+030.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292676658110513378" border="0" /></a><br />I went to church twice with my host family. Once on Christmas Eve and once on Christmas Day. For those who don't know Christmas is traditionally celebrated on the 24th of December in Germany. Then there are two days of Christmas the 25th and 26th of December.<br />In my host family we opened gifts on the 24th in the evening. We had a what I've heard is a "traditional" German Christmas tree, with real candles, that were lit on the 24th.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKyacCmuCEM-zl_oy5qg94PsKUao_Hn_q-12X2wkeJ0gQrZLw8LUCmtQ_c-jxGFVrTq3nFE7Xpwnq5RFGl6SCsHwt5ese1MGyy_XtCIm0QGZgYqeH4Nct2IWnoWj-4JcHdEz6pVsNdKmU/s1600-h/Freiburg+bis+Thomas+geht+037.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKyacCmuCEM-zl_oy5qg94PsKUao_Hn_q-12X2wkeJ0gQrZLw8LUCmtQ_c-jxGFVrTq3nFE7Xpwnq5RFGl6SCsHwt5ese1MGyy_XtCIm0QGZgYqeH4Nct2IWnoWj-4JcHdEz6pVsNdKmU/s320/Freiburg+bis+Thomas+geht+037.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292678052442251634" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyIqKDzqEV7bjFXNAIEqGDLcRcuT0pvQca87lc8jv47-fM7XwQ6pcJPNfxRXONEsqitzBKeb8rF8iGMRnuRWpbw2hssflkF6leI0CmehzMy7JM7CdaatpO926fbih739rlsm-9GfW17bM/s1600-h/Freiburg+bis+Thomas+geht+044.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyIqKDzqEV7bjFXNAIEqGDLcRcuT0pvQca87lc8jv47-fM7XwQ6pcJPNfxRXONEsqitzBKeb8rF8iGMRnuRWpbw2hssflkF6leI0CmehzMy7JM7CdaatpO926fbih739rlsm-9GfW17bM/s320/Freiburg+bis+Thomas+geht+044.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292681537316373746" border="0" /></a><br />I made my host family something called "Buckeye Balls" or really that's what we call them in my family. It's something my family typically makes for Christmas. They consist of peanut butter, powdered sugar, butter, vanilla, and chocolate. That's the only way I can really describe them, without having you actually eat one. You are probably reacting like my host family or my friends here when I told them that was what I was making. Thinking that's disgusting and that I'm crazy. They were gone within a week and I had made about one hundred. My host family including me is five people..... I was amazed......<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2Z9L1L6QjUDpa9FUgTQBAuaM1vr4KSzheIoA3fxxwJT_kJ-jB39Ljz50NW_k9CBXVyTnVG81QFSalViNQtqoxmbA-EGlY3qUzA0Fsa-kn9bt3IW8SozE4MaEbpdI9vmi5siLE3a18-7M/s1600-h/Freiburg+bis+Thomas+geht+049.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2Z9L1L6QjUDpa9FUgTQBAuaM1vr4KSzheIoA3fxxwJT_kJ-jB39Ljz50NW_k9CBXVyTnVG81QFSalViNQtqoxmbA-EGlY3qUzA0Fsa-kn9bt3IW8SozE4MaEbpdI9vmi5siLE3a18-7M/s320/Freiburg+bis+Thomas+geht+049.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292681537762858626" border="0" /></a><br />The 26th I got to go horseback riding on Icelandic horses. They are a special breed of horses that are what we call "gaited" meaning they have an extra gait (not the walk, trot, canter, gallop) that most horses don't. I had never ridden a gaited horse before, but it was a complete blast!<br />So after Christmas on the 30th specifically my parents from the U.S. came and visited. It was tons and tons of fun, actually much better than I had expected (no offense intended parents, but I was a little worried). Anyways we had so much fun, or at least I did. My host parents and I met them at the train station. Then we went to a small mountain and tower in Durlach, where you can see over the city of Karlsruhe. Then we went to the Palace, and climbed the tower, which coincidentally, you also have a great look over Karlsruhe. Then we went to a cafe(don't know how to use accents on this keyboard) that I go to often with friends. We met my liaison there, who was very happy to be able to speak english with people. We then went back to the house for dinner. The next day my host mother, my biological parents, and me went to Ettlingen. A small town not far from Karlsruhe. We took a walking tour. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_YOyXqDCZxJzEuS7edJcEQ75DV0Y0pq3CkgVpD7ScsGy9AYVUo32OID5aHw6fOhLJAiakXz7jVTpzKKp2Cent4kvcqT1KT7ii7dY2mwqTlciwq5-kgnMg-qWx_0h7BRjOSrBavFOzqZI/s1600-h/Freiburg+bis+Thomas+geht+079.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_YOyXqDCZxJzEuS7edJcEQ75DV0Y0pq3CkgVpD7ScsGy9AYVUo32OID5aHw6fOhLJAiakXz7jVTpzKKp2Cent4kvcqT1KT7ii7dY2mwqTlciwq5-kgnMg-qWx_0h7BRjOSrBavFOzqZI/s320/Freiburg+bis+Thomas+geht+079.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292686571862969778" border="0" /></a><br />Went and visited my school and my rowing club :) Then we went back to the house for lunch. My host father made his homemade Käse Spätzle. Basically the German form of macaroni and cheese. Then my host sister Tabea and I got to work on more buckeye balls and pumpkin roll for New Year's Eve dessert. Then I got the special treat of opening all my Christmas gifts and some of my birthday gifts from friends and family in the U.S. As well as my parents giving gifts to my host family. Then we had Raqulette (sp?), which I can't really explain very well, but it was good.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO43CRk7BAm0TF9VA37ei69QD4tVpfjFbhkqyYWBEtHH7BVyDbTPtoRoh6o-aJD6BMAePbu2DpI_eVTC_A1cM0fu6v8Veg-yEYtSnsG6-ABJGM10hoFL_GtQ_cvYiigrGthmPgl-h61gE/s1600-h/Freiburg+bis+Thomas+geht+057.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO43CRk7BAm0TF9VA37ei69QD4tVpfjFbhkqyYWBEtHH7BVyDbTPtoRoh6o-aJD6BMAePbu2DpI_eVTC_A1cM0fu6v8Veg-yEYtSnsG6-ABJGM10hoFL_GtQ_cvYiigrGthmPgl-h61gE/s320/Freiburg+bis+Thomas+geht+057.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292681549280923410" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGklS4MbaySvOsvctDyOWa64zKLuen-U7QAMRZN2Bkcb94FmALvDit5TFK2HATYy1JmQWY69aK_aBO324149fbRPCwnBKiBOKfdf-rW1Q-KTsiNzzHi38ea6CfDhmPPW-mBD5p9btizjw/s1600-h/Freiburg+bis+Thomas+geht+063.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGklS4MbaySvOsvctDyOWa64zKLuen-U7QAMRZN2Bkcb94FmALvDit5TFK2HATYy1JmQWY69aK_aBO324149fbRPCwnBKiBOKfdf-rW1Q-KTsiNzzHi38ea6CfDhmPPW-mBD5p9btizjw/s320/Freiburg+bis+Thomas+geht+063.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292681553547803522" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUWmBb4_rVrJLRfr1lKMEx4J-icDjsi28GmZH1uE990nwMmabxIaButRPPqmlmFSepQvYY1o4mKCqHXPFNV25uj_e5maKwQC5H0LMelOSD1LFiYfdNs1KzchWIRIQ2Qu2RXSxH9kxNy1Y/s1600-h/Freiburg+bis+Thomas+geht+065.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUWmBb4_rVrJLRfr1lKMEx4J-icDjsi28GmZH1uE990nwMmabxIaButRPPqmlmFSepQvYY1o4mKCqHXPFNV25uj_e5maKwQC5H0LMelOSD1LFiYfdNs1KzchWIRIQ2Qu2RXSxH9kxNy1Y/s320/Freiburg+bis+Thomas+geht+065.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292681559928292338" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyPVFIcrp5vtprmgbG5gHUwO-eITF8XoAuyc3FSvXc9V2t515xLK5Q_UGaGDuuIBY9fmJ9nYuRp3OAngKb_4D54p1E1ptU317Bl3L3hWfC4cWpmDDkOVDgAfwG5EgNAsauoONvTuT38BM/s1600-h/Freiburg+bis+Thomas+geht+067.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyPVFIcrp5vtprmgbG5gHUwO-eITF8XoAuyc3FSvXc9V2t515xLK5Q_UGaGDuuIBY9fmJ9nYuRp3OAngKb_4D54p1E1ptU317Bl3L3hWfC4cWpmDDkOVDgAfwG5EgNAsauoONvTuT38BM/s320/Freiburg+bis+Thomas+geht+067.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292686561501956754" border="0" /></a><br />New Years is really something else in Germany. Almost every house had fireworks going off... it was surreal. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj0csmnFFLJjnpJKWfYH0tuDJ9Awv55Zh07bfnh5LIo2rjZaV_ESSUVtSJdywoAab3MjLyPmwmX-t2Sc9joDsSFlixG8e-kmHkPgRVT1kth-5CLbS8exQvsU6mLlkr1Cyw96uH0YvSMZM/s1600-h/Freiburg+bis+Thomas+geht+083.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj0csmnFFLJjnpJKWfYH0tuDJ9Awv55Zh07bfnh5LIo2rjZaV_ESSUVtSJdywoAab3MjLyPmwmX-t2Sc9joDsSFlixG8e-kmHkPgRVT1kth-5CLbS8exQvsU6mLlkr1Cyw96uH0YvSMZM/s320/Freiburg+bis+Thomas+geht+083.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292686561191393762" border="0" /></a><br />The next day we all went to a restaurant in the Black Forest and then for a short walk. Later that night my host mother, my biological parents, and me went to a New Years concert where my host father was playing. The next day both sets of parents and I went for a walk along the Rhein, which was very pretty. Went back to the house for lunch, and then after lunch was time to say goodbye to my biological parents. Thanks guys it was fun!!!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5l-kJuvnBPSEumyHqA60W5LN4ceSgT48bLdS-9fiSvtXW2nqmASiD4f1kP-eyk0FMwniPYa6hezTBt9JB9TqVb01sB1Uu6ZZ-8Se4RpV2lSxlNSmtvDgiyzo_lKBScdtGXUnMp68CX4w/s1600-h/Freiburg+bis+Thomas+geht+094.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5l-kJuvnBPSEumyHqA60W5LN4ceSgT48bLdS-9fiSvtXW2nqmASiD4f1kP-eyk0FMwniPYa6hezTBt9JB9TqVb01sB1Uu6ZZ-8Se4RpV2lSxlNSmtvDgiyzo_lKBScdtGXUnMp68CX4w/s320/Freiburg+bis+Thomas+geht+094.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292686581035209602" border="0" /></a><br />Later that day we went to Bad Kreuznach for my host grandfather's birthday. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQLkAF4fUhyphenhyphen0ybi1Z_437dgfIineezBhN80TDsf4kVkWkYvgO-yKNM0rOOX_RBmTtpg2Oj2ZHCE0Xl5hfEpeLDpbSHnig3w6SKKhgheYhTSkRlP6BCZ8ZXpf-sppsqXbzPLg4WQjzZJxg/s1600-h/Freiburg+bis+Thomas+geht+095.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQLkAF4fUhyphenhyphen0ybi1Z_437dgfIineezBhN80TDsf4kVkWkYvgO-yKNM0rOOX_RBmTtpg2Oj2ZHCE0Xl5hfEpeLDpbSHnig3w6SKKhgheYhTSkRlP6BCZ8ZXpf-sppsqXbzPLg4WQjzZJxg/s320/Freiburg+bis+Thomas+geht+095.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292686589050266530" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijrCIK9EuMVyy5RBuZsi0FxIE8p0JQ2MUUPodMzyPrVOT5_qJpZaAH1H3ydUDlr4fMXOMOD3eEc4GrXaA3thiHUFyoDR4Nk4ys0Um8k-mooUw7WDXTeQsJNs1SSBQw0KXoqtVS74wyC5U/s1600-h/Freiburg+bis+Thomas+geht+104.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijrCIK9EuMVyy5RBuZsi0FxIE8p0JQ2MUUPodMzyPrVOT5_qJpZaAH1H3ydUDlr4fMXOMOD3eEc4GrXaA3thiHUFyoDR4Nk4ys0Um8k-mooUw7WDXTeQsJNs1SSBQw0KXoqtVS74wyC5U/s320/Freiburg+bis+Thomas+geht+104.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292693826927847186" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdr4uejEDIqt_xxRf16FN26qvKpddhb9_epC1tvhMj1MQyM0oGc6a-Pv0xipUt3jKc798Qt6N1DFl_NbAtezEqgq8eLSJoTXXd_0IDBdqjCKIGqWlWYciTbzf0OeXwOGGzmELdDz0r6kg/s1600-h/Freiburg+bis+Thomas+geht+103.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdr4uejEDIqt_xxRf16FN26qvKpddhb9_epC1tvhMj1MQyM0oGc6a-Pv0xipUt3jKc798Qt6N1DFl_NbAtezEqgq8eLSJoTXXd_0IDBdqjCKIGqWlWYciTbzf0OeXwOGGzmELdDz0r6kg/s320/Freiburg+bis+Thomas+geht+103.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292693857056292834" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHGqJUlC9GZdcdx12byMMDTrLV3irtQdB7ca5yQ9u6Q85bEogWD2jxJhv2ims58OsnFpds9zvAIMIiGq1_dbHSBn5tyQ-KXd4iUdbnWTBqkkduqGHb_2bkZ7zHj4xBdh7fL7uxNlfrl2c/s1600-h/Freiburg+bis+Thomas+geht+106.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHGqJUlC9GZdcdx12byMMDTrLV3irtQdB7ca5yQ9u6Q85bEogWD2jxJhv2ims58OsnFpds9zvAIMIiGq1_dbHSBn5tyQ-KXd4iUdbnWTBqkkduqGHb_2bkZ7zHj4xBdh7fL7uxNlfrl2c/s320/Freiburg+bis+Thomas+geht+106.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292693861414585426" border="0" /></a><br />We returned to Karlsruhe the next evening. Then the next afternoon we were on the road again to Wangen.<br />We spent four days in Wangen. There was all ready snow there, and with snow being a rarity in Karlsruhe we were all thrilled. I then spent the next two days learning how to ski. For those of you who don't know. Before this year I have skiied a grand total of twice in my life. Once when I was nine, ending quickly in a broken arm (even if I did fall in the lodge and not on the slopes). The second when I was ten, also not a great experience.<br />So my first day skiing was...... interesting. The first thing I noticed was the difference in lifts from where I've skiied on the east coast in the U.S. The only place I had skiied before had a tow rope and what I previously normal ski lifts, and by normal I mean what I had considered the only form of skilifts, chairlifts. Where we went skiing there was a tow rope, but the only other kind of lift was something called "Bügel (sp?) lift" in German, and I have no idea what it is in English. It looked like a tow rope, but with these little hook shaped things attached. You are supposed to grab them and then put them behind you back and let it pull you up. I tried once, looked at my host mother who was behind me, and said "I don't know how to do this". To which she replied "just grab it". Tried again, she looked at me and said "let's just try this part of the slope," meaning what we had to climb up to get to this lift. "Sure" I responded enthusiastically. Then she said "ok let's go over towards the tow rope (which was about half the size) and try some more things there". Again I nodded enthusiastically. The rest of the family went off for a round while my host mother worked with me climbing up the hill side and then going slowly down. Shortly the rest of the family was back and my host father suggested we try the tow rope. My host mother and I looked at each other and said "No".<br />"She needs to learn to turn first," my host mother said.<br />"Agreed," I responded.<br />"No, no she'll be fine," my host father said, pulling me towards the lift. At the top of the lift we quickly discovered another problem: there was no down slope away from the tow rope, and I could not get quickly away from tow rope without sliding backwards down the hill. Finally turned downhill I started down, turning but not knowing how. Suddenly I was turned towards the lift, not knowing how to turn, and desperatley trying to stop. My skis, as they were my host father's old skis, were too big, as he is a good five inches taller than me. That in addition to me being the most novice of skiiers, resulted in my skis overlapping-not giving me enough traction to stop. Inevitabley I ran into someone going up the tow rope. I was more than overly embarrassed, and apologizing like crazy. It was a teenage boy, I would guess 19 or so. A man came over to him and started asking him questions like "where are your parents? do you need the medics? ," all while glaring menacingly at me. My host mother came over to me and said "Martha get up". I was genuinely taken aback. When I fall in riding, the first thing my instructor tells me is "DON'T MOVE". I got up, the man still glaring menacingly, and he said to me "You need to exchange addresses, you might have wrecked his knee." I just stared at him in shock. I looked at my host mother for help, but she seemed to have no intention of helping.<br />"Come here," she said. So I did.<br />The rest of my host family soon joined us.<br />"If you know you're about to hit someone, just fall." said my host father. I looked at him like he was crazy.<br />"Let's practice falling," he said. I gave him a stare that I can only imagine was something like "you've got to be kidding me."<br />"No really," he said. So we practiced falling, just by leaning backwards. Only to discover what has turned out to be my biggest problem in skiing. I absolutely can not stand while both skis are attached to my feet (unless I have litterally 4 or 5 people to help me). My host family did not believe me, and insisted on me trying for about 10 minutes before finally realizing that I actually can not, and allowed me to take my skis off and stand back up.<br />I spent the majority of the rest of the day working my way back up to that "Bügel lift" that my host family had planned to start my day with. The first time I tried, the hook thing hit me in the back of my knees and I fell. The second time I grabbed it for a split second, but quickly fell again. The third time I finally managed to hold on, but couldn't manage to get it behind me, so I had to hold onto like a tow rope the whole way up (no easy task with two ski poles). Then in the process of trying to move quickly away from the ski lift fell. I was with my host mother and there was a relatively level area nearby. She allowed me to take off my skis, and readjust on the level area. We then started down. A little above half way down I fell. Since there was no level area any where near my host mother thought I should try standing with skis again. No luck. That's when my host father and the rest of my host family showed up. My host father conveniently also insisted that I stand with my skis still on my feet. Again no luck. I eventually was allowed to take one ski off. Back on my feet we started down again. Made it to the bottom! Went again, managed to get onto the lift on first try. Got to the top hurried to get away, started sliding backwards, grabbed for the rope. That rope turnedout to be the power cord for the lift.....yeah.....<br />So my host sister was behind me and I was screaming "Tabea, help, I can't reach the cord"<br />She was dieing laughing, and had to climb over a pile of snow to reach the cord. After an entire minute or so the lift was moving again. New problem. I couldn't move without slipping and the hook things attached to the lift kept hitting me in the back. Again "Tabea HELP"<br />"Ok ok just slide backwards." I started sliding<br />"Ok ok stop!" she grabbed my arm.<br />So we made it down, and ended on a good note.<br />Not finished but will continue tomorrow, but for now Good Night everyone!<br />And good luck to the Ravens tomorrow!Marthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16517941527672040669noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5740358435936915282.post-40723667149296703452008-12-17T09:40:00.000-08:002008-12-17T09:53:16.721-08:00ExplinationOk so the photos are of various things....<br />The first four are of our recent trip to Bad Kreuznach to see my host grandparents.<br />The majority are from AFS Christmas cookie baking event we had.<br />Others are just random pictures of people.<br />Then there are some of the window displays for Christmas in Karlsruhe.<br />There is one from Thanksgiving, that's the one with all the people around the table.<br />Oda and Herbert have MUCH better photos of Thanksgiving.<br />Oh and pictures of the little bit of snow we have managed to get in Karlsruhe!Marthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16517941527672040669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5740358435936915282.post-90382669186838794252008-12-14T09:03:00.001-08:002008-12-14T10:43:23.251-08:00More Pictures<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbKaUcvQrc55je7b60ZRBgcsS5WfVevWf5-F41X2kv15n3zFNI3THBMmcCq4PTVj2b3IcJdnnSh6iN3pbizVSFK-Y9yOtQcmXf9X_KCKDt78VPN5QhtMf_ArqU0Bt2AlsFhlTT2QysIto/s1600-h/Martha's+Photos+869.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; 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One University said it was fine if I had no grades, as long as I met the other requirements, the other said I needed grades or evaluations of some kind. So I'll be requesting some kind of grades, hopefully starting based on effort and eventually moving to what the rest of the students are graded on.<br />I'm freaking out slightly becuase I have my SAT next week, and I'm a little worried about the quality of my english, especially (don't know if that's spelled right) my spelling!<br />This week I made Thanksgiving dinner for my host family and a couple other exchange students.<br />It was so much fun, I enjoyed cooking so much, and I think my host father did too!<br />Two of my host cousins came, and it was just all around really nice evening!<br />My host parents asked me and the other exchange students to show where we lived on GoogleEarth. When I looked there were these little camera things on our street, and I clicked on it, and it gives you a real view of the houses. I could see my house, and one of my family's cars, and I was like "Oh my God that's my house!!!!!!!!.....and my car!!!!!!!" and I continued repeating that for about two minutes, much to the amusement of all the other people in the room. I was just so astounded, I hadn't seen the house in so long, and the pictures were of this Halloween, and we had purple netting on the bushes, and I don't know, it was very surreal!<br />I'm very close with all the other exchange students and around Karlsruhe. One of my best friends moved families today though, because her original family is vacationing in Brazil for a month. Anyways she lives near Stuttgart now, and that's not that far away, but it's really sad for me and all the other exchange students here.<br />I have three really good friends in the school, and next weekend I think we're baking Christmas cookies together. I have, however, talked with all the other exchange students here, and we've all agreed, we have good friends in the school, but 95% of the time when we do something it is with other exchange students.<br />This doesn't bother me, I'm kind of used to having two groups of friends, because in the U.S. I have all my friends in my current school, but also old friends from SFA.<br />My German is getting pretty good, I speak a lot accidently in German, during my English class. Today I was thinking in German, and I didn't realize until an English word popped into my head, and was like "hmmm that's a different language."<br />Pictures to come soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<br />HAPPY (late) THANKSGIVING!!!!!!!!!Marthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16517941527672040669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5740358435936915282.post-10309858463772670962008-11-04T09:50:00.001-08:002008-11-04T12:09:30.626-08:00München etc<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJqv0o99KbOtV1XTWa28FEvEbnYrDZv2vl-DmsutiuySrK5ZSPvZk43qQ2OmMchT8UEwrRrbRki9Yd7_wz4mJkDU5rNC8HUbQpr89foRFzcjTMEQ8J9s1Qwib_f-S6GI_N45h5FBuKFw4/s1600-h/IMG_1420.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJqv0o99KbOtV1XTWa28FEvEbnYrDZv2vl-DmsutiuySrK5ZSPvZk43qQ2OmMchT8UEwrRrbRki9Yd7_wz4mJkDU5rNC8HUbQpr89foRFzcjTMEQ8J9s1Qwib_f-S6GI_N45h5FBuKFw4/s320/IMG_1420.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264896597049247730" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGUmRXemSK4CQGnBWKfQLiH9a6T0_cUK3VREFhuOrqgofMLccNITV8iBcPGPpDzXl_I0mQ_GWJIAqMFfpx6kKcLX-oYfJ-w5rkZ7HCRUSIsjIYvKTmjVTn10DtvmCiTC3CdOU0CsoYGuY/s1600-h/IMG_1419.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; 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It unfortunately was not the fantastic weather like the day we went hiking. For a view of the castle in good weather go to<br />http://www.neuschwanstein.de/<br />and then click on the UK flag in the bottom right corner (if you want Enlgish).<br />There you can also find pictures of the interior of the castle, which I could not do on the tour as it was not permitted.<br />Oh yeah and it's a castle on a mountain, built for the "fairytale prince" of course I found horses!<br /><br /><br /></span>Marthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16517941527672040669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5740358435936915282.post-79366046359340228942008-11-01T13:42:00.000-07:002008-11-01T15:04:20.250-07:00Vacation etc<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil-f5prJgku9EwnyQfe3v7RRfWixo6Cddjz29dcJ_THiyJVSZaXBzjvC224gq4tcRlYnZ-ZfTXyqhUaDxUcp-dsQ0G4vfaKhE7qIYwxJ77Z1BkDFzAdTkZ1g1tdtu099HegNDDbNtwiC8/s1600-h/IMG_1370.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil-f5prJgku9EwnyQfe3v7RRfWixo6Cddjz29dcJ_THiyJVSZaXBzjvC224gq4tcRlYnZ-ZfTXyqhUaDxUcp-dsQ0G4vfaKhE7qIYwxJ77Z1BkDFzAdTkZ1g1tdtu099HegNDDbNtwiC8/s320/IMG_1370.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263812170440826002" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPDdzpxH8iPYs0Ow-kA32NRWorfJ5Z0FuqAQHIZhg_BAPZFYp0rmmN3RowjJ88Z0LV2H5bNYKm816Klmx_tvzqie1xqtdAA2DtZVIp-oMp85M1u_SHh6N5J3-T_b4HsoVnQB0i1CXnkeQ/s1600-h/IMG_1369.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; 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width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1XIMfR1HHf0HmuINAaNJEbXeqcm8mGL464koqsdB_yIqaI7ahW3_sMnhnhKZjFF7i0sdcnRHIh6h7f9M2uQEV0FgFyM-8KspPN3e59lmlyMK6SpvN952Cv2uqlFzUTtIiK7hJBGkd8LI/s320/IMG_1319.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5263793554973961538" border="0" /></a>Ok so these are absolutely ALL my photos from the Alps. So there are some from my very first views of the Alps, which were really cool because everything below was in the clouds, but then it was very very clear all of the sudden!<br />There is another particular picture of the Germany/Austrian border on the mountain. Part of our hike was in Austria and another was in Germany. The lake is Bodensee, which is Germany's largest lake. You couldn't see to much, because as previously mentioned it was cloudy below.<br />I have lots more photos of Wangen, München, etc, but I don't have time to upload them at the moment so maybe tomorrow!Marthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16517941527672040669noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5740358435936915282.post-3147850930857778432008-10-21T08:36:00.000-07:002008-10-21T08:57:53.704-07:00An actual update!Ok so I thought it would be good to give everyone an actual update of what is going on, besides just pictures.<br />I started Gymnasium two Fridays ago. School here is so, so different!<br />I have school until 4:30 on Mondays, and 2:00 on Tuesdays, but all the other days am out at 1.<br />I have so many classes. Music and art are.... interesting. I definitely prefer photography to painting.<br />I understand physics, and math, and obviously english. Chemistry I understand mostly so far, but the elements have different names. Both in my biology class and my natural science class I understand general concepts, but not how all the details fit together.<br />I also get the general idea in geography.<br />In French my vocabulary seems sufficient, but the amount of grammar I know is quite minute compared to the rest of the girls in my class. My French in general has gotten worse since coming here, after a peak when I first arrived and found I could say nearly everything in French (things I didn't know I knew how to say).<br />My German has gotten much better. I've been told I'm doing well for being here only six weeks.<br />I accidently answered a question in German during English class......<br />It is not good enough though for me to understand my German, history, or politics classes very well. My teachers, however, are very helpful.<br />I wrote a two page essay in German within four days of being in Gymnasium. It's exactly like writing an English essay, only I needed to look up every other word, and had no idea how to arrange the words in a functional German sentence. Needless to say the grammar was <span style="font-style: italic;">schlect</span> (bad), but my German teacher said he thought the essay was good! :)<br />I went to a beautiful castle in Baden-Baden with my <span style="font-style: italic;">Gasteltern</span> (host parents). It is from the 1400s, and is super cool.<br />I also went to Europapark last Saturday which was very fun and funny. As were the train rides there and back.<br />Next week I have Fall Vacation. I will leave Saturday with my <span style="font-style: italic;">Gastfamilie</span> (host family) for my <span style="font-style: italic;">Gastvater's</span> (host father's) hometown in the Alps! Then next Tuesday or Wednesday we will leave and go to Munich, and then return next Friday.<br />Everything here is on a so much more laid-back schedule. Z.B. (zum Beispiel/for example): the German essay I was telling you about, I and one other girl were the only people had it on time, and the teacher didn't give any sort of penalty to the other students. All that happened was that he gave them the period to work on it.<br />Also with rowing I just go on what ever day suits me. I don't have to tell my trainer ahead of time when I will be there. It's nice in one instance z.B. today it rained and I was like I don't feel like rowing in the rain is very pleasant, so I'll go another day. I, however, at the same time miss the dedication and sense of achievement that comes with my activities in the U.S. Not that I'm not still dedicated to rowing and riding! It's just in a very different way over here.<br />Anyways everything is quite fantastic, and I'm having a most wonderful time!<br />Hope it's the same for everyone reading this :)Marthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16517941527672040669noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5740358435936915282.post-65891745497104312012008-10-19T11:31:00.000-07:002008-10-19T12:10:35.920-07:00More Pictures!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijSfZhlLmyCAc0KjuR6l9dyvmaDZTOJ_rx_oDtruJI-__iQIZT0sTTKjcKOLz_50iJmXKX7NnIoY-lnvo7ZFyMgaHRtvds2J8vZvZlGl06VEmp_G1RCkM7VRCu4Z7Bqfyt1IAl9p5iiJc/s1600-h/IMG_1305.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijSfZhlLmyCAc0KjuR6l9dyvmaDZTOJ_rx_oDtruJI-__iQIZT0sTTKjcKOLz_50iJmXKX7NnIoY-lnvo7ZFyMgaHRtvds2J8vZvZlGl06VEmp_G1RCkM7VRCu4Z7Bqfyt1IAl9p5iiJc/s320/IMG_1305.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5258941580541856754" border="0" /></a>Ok so these photos are mostly of the a castle in Baden-Baden that is from the 1400s. It is really really cool!<br />There are also two pictures of the Rhine. A picture of what AFS does at Europapark (that's all the people jumping around)<br />Picture from the last day of my Spraschule.<br />Picture from in the train on the way to Europapark.<br />And a picture from another birthday party<br />:)<br />Hope everyone enjoys them.<br />Everything is still amazing here!<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrbDnJp_VWoHz1VFs6A6dUzO4S21oJafg6jx4ZZAa3rcsotD1lVVDy80iqBPdEwDi0aBfM-Hdb1kuSl1ekYe-w-oZLtRxNNxZqnECW1GFJKIYiwvOVcDrZu_OICobAOZ1H0fjtklSU1oA/s1600-h/IMG_1313.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrbDnJp_VWoHz1VFs6A6dUzO4S21oJafg6jx4ZZAa3rcsotD1lVVDy80iqBPdEwDi0aBfM-Hdb1kuSl1ekYe-w-oZLtRxNNxZqnECW1GFJKIYiwvOVcDrZu_OICobAOZ1H0fjtklSU1oA/s320/IMG_1313.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5258941587998583538" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIS3dzo9BGfy7t1kM-O4OWIoiFx6ft_cW3msLCWnjDI3IZxZnSm16nPHvhgcgEuZjJmr5npfMh2xwHSuf6xUfCulz7_nr6SOzH4yC7OAcIx2hdlZf1zuDhdveqaoML-TVAfSd4OQy5dhI/s1600-h/IMG_1268.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; 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float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF_B4OgiZfMH4uJSD-OFFQXbgIiKunlNTHjgXKTM4JOqowMCNh7DAW4CkWGjnXz2WEqoI1QcJUeTZQH0J1QT730REYGvllgHp9mFiuRLMblbL3u6dIv1tLFSr85tkRo2jnwkymyuCFz8M/s320/IMG_1231.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5258936523891642082" border="0" /></a>Marthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16517941527672040669noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5740358435936915282.post-23859647822238696532008-10-07T13:11:00.001-07:002008-10-07T13:17:27.175-07:00Ok so photosOk so those photo's are in a really messed up order but basically here's what they are:<br />Pictures of a hike I went on with my family a few weeks ago, and Meekah (the dog) and Kaya a neighbor's dog<br />Pictures of wild boar<br />Pictures of my retreat in Freudenstadt<br />Pictures of a friend's birthday, that's the thing with the beer poster. It was a gift to him, so please no one have a panic attack<br />And yeah I think that's all the photos<br />Also there is a picture of the Markplatz in Freudenstadt, which is the biggest Markplatz in Germany<br />Oh, oh there are also pictures of the really pretty leaves :)Marthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16517941527672040669noreply@blogger.com0