Besuch aus Deutschland

Jetzt hab ich meinen Papa gerade zum Flughafen gebracht und muss euch erst einmal von seinem Besuch hier berichten. Jaha jetzt kann ich wieder Deutsch sprechen :D Das war allerdings echt schwerer als ich gedacht hatte, in den ersten beiden Tagen hab ich wirklich am Angang noch Englisch mit ihm gesprochen. Aber mein Papa hat das ja alles gut verstanden und dann halt auf Deutsch geantfortet. Das war echt verrueckt. Also wenn ich mir das jetzt nicht glaubt koennt ihr ihn gerne fragen. Ab morgen frueh ist er wieder in Deutschland.

Mal ueberlegen... was haben wir denn so schoenes gemacht? Wir haben ihn letzten Mittwoch nach meinem Track meet vom Flughafen abgeholt. Er hat mir deutsche Schokolade und Mama's und Oma's Marmelade mitgebracht. :) Scott hat Luettje Lage aus Hannover bekommen. Donnerstag hab ich Papa dann Berryville und Winchester gezeigt und wir haben Harpers Ferry besichtigt. (Ja ich habe bis auf diesen Mittwoch die Schule geschwaenzt. Papas Besuch war wichtiger!) Freitag haben wir dann eine Sightseeing Tour durch DC gemacht. On the way back we got dinner and cheesecake at the cheesecake factory.



Am Samstag hatte Scott dann Zeit etwas mit uns zu unternehmen und wir sind zum Skyline Drive gefahren (Berge und Natur anschauen).



Sonntag morgen sind Papa und ich dann los fuer 2 Tage zum Virginia Beach. Das Wetter war duch den Wind nicht das waermste, aber es war trotzdem schoen. Da noch keine Saison ist war es dort ziemlich ruhig und die ganzen Hotelkloetze waren wohl alle leer.



Dienstag waren wir dann erst einmal shoppen, nachdem Papa von Svea sogar eine Liste mitbekommen hatte, was sie denn gerne aus der USA mitgebracht bekommen wuerde. Gegen shoppen hab ich natuerlich nichts und auch Papa hat sich nicht beklagt und sogar eine Jeans fuer sich gekauft. Das Wetter war aber leider nicht mehr so gut und unser Reitunterrucht ist dadurch leider ausgefallen. Mittwoch war ich dann mal wieder in der Schule, damit ich nachmittags beim Track meet mitlaufen konnte. Jetzt hat Papa auch eine Idee vom Amerikanischen Schulsport bekommen. Danach waren wir dann mit Nelsons essen. Im Japanese Steak House haben die unser Essen direkt am Tisch fuer uns gekocht. Das war extrem lustig wie der Koch seine Sachen jongliert hat und uns essen zugeworfen hat, was wir dann mit dem Mund auffangen sollten (hat sogar manchmal geklappt :D). Heute war dann der letzte Tag und wir haben uns so ne riesige Salzstein Hoehle (weiss nicht genauch wie man das nennt - mit den stalactiten etc) angeschaut.



Ja und dann war der Besuch auch schon wieder vorbei. Papa hat jetzt einen Eindruck von den extrem offenen und freundlichen Amerikanern und der weiten offenen Flaeche hier bekommen.

Apple Blossom

This weekend was Apple Blossom. We got off on Friday and there was a festival in Winchster (city 15min from Berryville) all weekend long. Apparently this festival is a big deal all along the east coast. Well I didn't really get THAT feeling but went there with frinds two days.
Friday we were helping out at the one mile (1600m) for the little kids. Can you believe that the youngest kids are 5-6 years old? I think running that age is sick. But I have to admit some of them were fast!
Saturday we went to see the big parede. At night we went out to dinner for Blake's birthday. The food was really good and the waitresses sang 'happy birthday' for him. After that we went to the carnival, which is basicly like a 'Jahrmarkt'.

But there was no 'Tanz in den Mai' on Friday. :(

Now I'm soo excited for my dad to come on Wednesday!! :)

Earth Day

Vorab erst einmal eine Frage. Feiern wir 'Earth Day' in Germany??

Earth day was last Tuesday and because of that a few of the exchange students went to volunteer on the Earth Day Festival in Lauden County, the richest county in the US (Did you expect some county here in Virginia to be the richest in the whole US?)



It was fun but in the end of the day I was sooo tired. Not only because of that day, I couldn't sleep in at all last weekend. On Sunday I got picked at 7am for the volunteer project and on Saturday we had a track meet and left the school at 7am and got back at 6pm. So I spent the whole day at the meet and my race was at 9 in the morning. So after that I had nothing else to do. I think running cross county is more my thing. Maybe because there are more ppl in one race and so as long as you are not under the last couple of ppl I consider everyone as good :)So at track it's kinda easyer to look slow... I don't feel slow when I'm running but most of the ppl are still faster. I don't know how they do that. My legs just don't move that fast :D But I'm working to get better so I'm better when my dad's comming to watch me in two weeks :)

another week of april

Only 14 days left till my dad's coming to visit. It's gonna be exciting what he thinks about my life here. I still remember my first thoughts about America :D but by now I'm used to most of it...


The last two days I had science field trips. A couple of the science classes went to Monocacy and Manassas Battlefield Park. Since the American Civil Was was fought in this region we also got to see some history. Tuesday we took a lot of water samples to measure ph, persent of oxigen, etc and today we were looking at living organisms in the river. With this group of poeple we had a lot of fun and it was definitely better than going to school. ;)


I'm also getting closer to my goal to do one cross country event with Rosalie here before I leave. I've been starting jumping with her and we're getting better and better and last Saturday we went to a combined test. Dressage and Jumping. Unfortunatelly the dressage was extremly boring since I just had to walk and trot (yes I'm being serious) but I needed the low level for jumping because we are still beginners. Yeah... the jumping part was more rushing over the jumps and not at all the way we've been practicing but I still think we did a good job.

That night I went over to Ally's for her surprise birthday party. She really had no clue about it at all. She went out to dinner before while we got to her house. It was so funny seeing her opening the door of the basement (all decorated with balloons), finding a few friends plus her parents, who got home earlier, jumping up from behind the bar.

I really want a surprise party!!!

Spring Break

Well, it went by pretty fast. Just one week of spring break really isn't enough at all. But the weather was perfect. So I was reading outside in about 30 degree weather getting tanned. I read the sadest book ever, 'The Last Song, and seriously almost cryed. Yesterday I went with Ally and Lauren to see the movie. But it was so different form the book that I wasn't that impressed. Other than reading I rode with Christine and Richelle down to the river, I had a riding lesson with Rosalie, Jade came over, Christine had a camping party, and I went shopping. Now I just don't wanna go back to school tomorrow...

Happy late Easter!

Thanks to everyone i could skype with on sunday. That was my highlight of the day!! I loved it and can't wait to see you all again.

Sorry!

danke an alle, die am Sonntag auf Svea's Geburtstag waren und mit mir skypen konnten. Ich fand das total toll und freu mich schon euch alle wiederzusehen. :)

Meine amerikanischen Ostern bestanden aus Kirche, Osterkorb, Ostereier faerben, essen und die Sonne geniessen. Patrices Schweser und Sarah's Cousin waren hier und somit war es bei uns auch ein Familientag. Svea darf jetzt erst einmal neidisch sein und noch mehr mit Angelika schimpfen. Ich haben keine Suessigkeiten oder Ostereier im Garten gesucht! :D Wir haben nur hartgekoche Eier eingefaerbt.

New York die Zweite

Jetzt war ich innerhalb von 8 Monaten schon das zweite Mal in NY! Dieses mal mit meiner Marketin Klasse. Das hies volles Programm, ca 70 Schueler und auch dieses Mal hab ich gaaanz viel fotografiert.


Mittwoch ging es um 5:30 AM los und nach ca 6 Stunden Busfahrt sind wir dann in NY angekommen. The Highlight of the day was the Blueman Group. This show was so awesome! But I'm sorry I can't really describe what it is.... some comedy + music + show elements. The audience gets involved also. The first 4 rows were wearing ponchos because the 3 blue men were spitting stuff and they poured some fluid color on the drumms. It just looked gread. They also called ppl on stage. So this show was definitely worth all the walking we did before. We got a tour at 'Madison Square Garden' (a icehockey/basketball arena - I didn't konw what it was before and still don't know why it's called garden). Well, the tour might have been more interesting if I'd be more into basketball or ice hockey. We also walked to see ground zero (where the world trade center used to be) and the NY Stock Exchange and Wall Street (both not really interesting for me).


Thursday continued with a lot of walking. The day started with the 'Today Show'. I don't know what we were supposed to see there cause the show is inside but there we saw what kind of weird dressed ppl walk through NY. Next we went to the 'NY high line'. This place wasn't really high but it was some kind of garden at an old railroad track. The tour we did in the 'radio city music hall' was better than 'madison square garden'. Now I really wanna see their Christmal show one time. The day ended with a Broadway Show! We watched the musical 'Mamma Mia'. It was great! I just wanted to get up and dance and sing with them :D In these two days I've definitely seen the best 2 shows in my entire life. I can't remember any rally good play I've seen in Germany. (The best thing about 'A clockwork orange' was the exelent grade I got from writing a critic about the play afterwards. ;) )

On Friday we got to see the 'Statue of Liberty', Central Park, 5th Avenue, and Madame Russauds. Some of the wax figures seemed so real and others looked completely wrong. So we got many pictures with some celebreties :D In the end of the day I just got a littel annoyed, that we never got the chance to get some souveniers even though there were ppl selling stuck EVERYWHERE!! The only time we had time for shopping was at macy's and on 5th avenue. 5ht Avenue is next to the Central Park with stores like Louis Vitton, Gucci, Prada, Tiffany's etc. Well, I didn't feel like spending my money there. So in the end our chaperone could convince our teachers to get to one souvenier store real quick.

Yeah that's everything about my second stay in NY. I think the city is kind of weird. All these huge buildings - but what is in there? It can't just be all office space but I just can't imagine ppl living in there. And if so, there are no grocery stores anywhere and we just saw one school. And the school we just noticed because of the busses in front of the building. Then there are always ppl walking around everywhere. NY is always busy. It kinda looks as if they werre going to work all dressed up. But there are so many of them all day around.

Zum Schluss noch einige der vielen Fotos...