The Best Ever

I just have to say...

...My host dad is the best ever!

Today he came home from work and made the most scrumptious chicken salad I have ever been privileged to eat. I've eaten a lot of different chicken salads, but this one was by far the best ever! Not only did it taste good, but it also looked splendid. Unfortunately, he wouldn't allow any pictures to be taken...

(okay, I'll own up to the fact that since I've been ill the past few days, I've hardly eaten anything...so I was pretty famished... but still it was extremely tasty food.)

Perhaps you ask why he made dinner? Well, Heidi is currently in Wien, Österreich (Vienna, Austria) with a friend. So Dieter played Mr. Mom. He's amazing!

A Day at a Time - Part 7

Saturday

Well, this post ends my week-long "day at a time" posts. This week was pretty typical. Life is always interesting.

Today was a pretty chill day. I practiced harp, worked on some homework, and baked some delicious snickerdoodles and chocolate chip cookies.
Later in the afternoon, I headed to my church for a baptism of a Russian girl who is working as an Au pair (nanny) here in Germany. That was pretty awesome.

After that I met with some friends from school and went bowling. Es hat so viel Spaß gemacht! (It was so much fun!)

A Day at a Time - Part 6

Friday

School was awesome. I love my Fridays!!! (especially since I'm finished with school at 10am).

I had one hour of Music, we analyzed a piece by Beethoven.

Then 2 hours of Sport, where we played floor hockey. Now That is something I can play, and love doing! It was so much fun, but I was really tired afterward and ended up sleeping 2 hours after school.

Later I made chocolate chip cookies. Trying to be resourceful and creative, I used some chocolate from my ginormous Easter bunny. However, about 10 minutes after I was finished with the cookies, Heidi came running into the living room (with her worried face) and asked me what finger I had lost. I was momentarily confused until she told me there was a unusual red/pink color in the cookies. Haha....some of bunny chocolate was colorful. Below is a picture of the Easter Bunny.

What I tripped over on Easter Day Morning
(silly host family - leaving things at my bedroom door)

A Day at a Time - Part 5

My school is so pretty!!!

Thursday

...my longest day of school.

2 hours Religion
2 hours Mathe
1 hour Geschichte
2 hours Musik

Reli - Vortrag (presentation) about another capital sin: Neid/Eifersucht (Envy/Jealousy). Apparently it's a little hard to distinguish between the two German terms. So I was given the assignment for next Tuesday to explain the difference of the terms (in English).

Mathe - really long and sort of pointless. Our teacher got so excited with something or other and went off on a crazy tangent. He not only lost me, but the entire class. Nobody could understand what he was talking about.

Geschichte - More about a Sweden war and then analyzing pictures/drawings. I paid better attention this time.

Musik - was very different. Our teachers (they are team teaching) directed us into the orchestra room, instead of our normal room. There was orange juice and fruit for us, and we were directed to sit down. We were going to have a paino concert. So after we were quiet, our teacher walked in, sat down and began, or we thought he was. He closed the piano lid, and just sat there. It was hilarious to watch the kids reactions. I knew what was going on...
After a minute, he opened the piano lid, waited a few seconds and closed it again. Some kids burst out laughing, but were quickly quieted by the glare from the other teacher. After about two minutes, he once again opened and closed the paino lid. Finally after a few more minutes he opened the piano lid, stood up and bowed. He had just ''performed'' a piece titled Four Minutes, Thirty-three Seconds, by John Cage. I knew what was going on because I had just read up yesterday on John Cage in preparation for my Vortrag. It was hilarious. We then talked about this experimental piece and whether it was really music or not. Then I gave my presentation over John Cage.

After school, I came home and later watched a horse film with Laura and Heidi.
Later, I went to Metro (German version of Costco) with Dieter, Laura and Matthias. There I bought a few gifts for my USA family (can't believe I only have 34 days left!!!). :D

A Day at a Time - Part 4

Wednesday

Nulltestunde Englisch gefällt mir gar nichts. (I don't really like having early morning English class). We worked more on the group advertisement project.
After English, I had two free hours. I used to start school on Wednesdays at 10am, but then they had to go and change the schedules for some reason or other, and my English class ended up as zero period on Wednesday. Blah.

During my two free hours I spent part of the time with Heidi in the horse stables, and then the rest of my time in the Bibliotek reading a book.

Then finally I had class again, but my the hardest class, Geschichte (history). We talked about a war between Sweden and Germany, or something like that. I'm not exactly sure cause I zoned out a few times, and that's really bad, because I have to concentrate or else I'm completely lost since of the German language.

After Geschichte, we had lunch - fish sticks and salad. It was alright, but it tasted too much like American food.

Then off to Chemie class. A girl gave a presentation over some chemical that is giftig (poisonous). It was interesting, but long.

After school, I worked on a Musikprojekt with a friend. We have to give a presentation over John Cage (I, the American, got assigned this cause he's an American componist - what a concidence) on Thursday in class.

A little later, I headed to church for the Young Single Adult activity, which was amazing! We had a scavenger hunt game around the church building. Special shout out to Anya: Thanks for all your help in planning it!!!

Our YSA group has activities every Wednesday, and since me being the YSA Representative, I'm in charge of each activity and making sure that people go.

Yep that was pretty much it for my day...

I love this picture of Samy. She's such a sweet dog!