heyyyyyyyyyy guys


i have so much i have to tell you all


First of all, I'm am now officially in winterguard, that;s a group of people, who are doing performences with Flags and rifles. it is pretty cool, but i'm the only person in there, who never made anything even close to that, so I have a hard time learning everything. yesterday we had rehearsal the whole day, but I was on my way home at that time, so I couldn't come and so I'm missing a huge part of the show, but i'm gonna make that up.


so, now I have something reallyreally american, what we don't even know in Germany^^

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand about Disney. it was so great there.

On the Tueday before we left ,we were discussing if we kids are going to school on Friday or not, but this decision was taken away from us, because on Friday it snowed and so we didn't even had school at all. Everybody packed and we left around 3 with the car all packed with stuff.

6 hours drive to where we stayed for the night. Saturday morning after a nice breakfast we left to drive the last 3 hours to Disney. But on the way Fil got a phonecall from his old swimming friend, who invited us for Lunch, but the town where they live was on our way, so no problem.

After a nice lunch we started for our last drive and finally arrived in Orlando at about 2:30.

But our appartement was not ready yet and so we waited at the pool and the Jaccuzi, nice and warm.

it was so totally awesome, because when we left it was snowing an there we could swin in the outside pool. it had about 25 Degree Celcius.

We finally checked in and got our very very nice appartement.

We stayed there for some time, but later another friend of Fil called, who was camping in Disney and asked us to come to Downtown Disney. it's a shoplandscape, where you can get anyhting you want from Disney, and I got a pendant for my Pandora bracelet. it's like our 'bettelarbaender', on which you can add stuff, until it gets full.

so downtown disney, until it got cold and everybody left.

Next morning: the magic Kingdom, the main parc with the Cinderella castle. So beautiful. But first wheen we got there we parked and then got into a little train, who brought us to the 'overground station' and the into something like the tram, and then we fibally arrived at the park. But we were there a little bit yto early, and so we had like a humanjam at the entrance, because the had a bige parade for the opening of the park.

At 9, a train with all the Disney characters came, and they finally let us in, but everybody wanted to be first, and so it was a huge scramble there. we got in and run to the first ride, because in the middel of the day, you heve to wit to get into one ride for like 90 minutes, and I don't think that's worth.

So we got our rides and fastpasses, those are like passes you can get and they tell you to come nack at a certain time and you have a different line than everybody else. It moves faster too, normally.

in total I don't thin the rides are that good, the only one is 'mount everest' in the animal kingdom, just for somebody, who wants to know^^

we stayed there the whole day, from 9 in the morning until 11 in the evening.

We stayed there for so long, because at 9 there was this huge parade and afterwards a amazing fireworks.

here is a littel video of the fireworks, hope it's not a problem, that it's turned around^^

Monday i finally met Fils parents, they came for this week from Puerto Rico to Orlando, just to visit us. They are totally nice^^

The whole Monday we stayed in, because we were all totally tired from all the walking around in Disney.

Tuesday we went into EPCOT, the park with the big white ball, and with all teh different countries. It was a lot of fun to walk from one country to another. I was kind of disappointed from Germany, because they just have the 'Biergarten vom Oktoberfest', but anyways, it was funny, because all the people in Germany are supposed to speak german and most of them are actual from Germany, and so I could talk to them on German^^

And through all the other countries, most of them had a 3D movie of their country, pretty interesting for me^^

Wednesday we went to the Animal Kingdom with the 'mount everest'. That's one of the best Roller coasters there and I think we went on there for like 5 times.

We watched the lions king show, which was incredible, and i took a lot of videos there, and I'm just trying to upload it, but it really takes a very long time^^

Thursday was thanksgiving, I ate so much that day^^ The whole morning we were preparing the Turkey all the dishes and stuffing, ... the reat if the time we went to the pool, where i got my first sunburn, I've ever had in November;) Then after the turkey was in the oven for like 5 hours, we had Linner (combination between Dinner and Lunch^^) at like 3 in the afternoon^^. before we ate eveybody wrote on littel pices of paper what he/she was thankful for this year. After a hugehuge meal everybody was so stuffed and we kids went for a Tennismatch.

After that we had Pumpkin pie, very typical for Thanksgiving here and than we read the thankful papers, pretty interesting what everybody was thankful for but i'm not gonna tell you^^

The next day we went to the Hollywood studios from Disney, a very exhausting day , that evening we wnt out for dinner, because Mamama, Fils myum had ner birthday and so we went to the best stekplace there, where they even people, who were parking your car^^ what was so funny, whgen somebondy just opened the door for me and was waiting for the carkeys^^

Saturday, what a pity we already had to leave, and we sat there in the car for like 10 hours, until we finally arrived home. It was such a great vacation.

Oh and mIlli I finally got your Birthday present, thanks so much for that, and guesss what I'm listening to you CDs right when I'm wrinting this and I'm thinking of you;) By the way I really think we are the only two persons, who are making the most pousitive pictures of all, i almost forgot all those trampoline pictures;) and i love the one with the lemons^^ I know I look stupid on this one, but that's the best thing of it;)

Elections

America has got a new president:OBAMA

everybodys talking about that, so I'm gonna talk about that too

the last week everything was focused on the election, everytime you turned on the TV you saw a debate, speech or political commmercial, pretty interesting for me;)

but now it's over because the president is finally elected, I was watching the news yesterday and it was pretty interesting how they made projections about whos is gonna get teh electoral votes of several states, when they only had about 1%of the votes, but they were right every time.
Last weekend was very exciting for me, because I went to my firt real Footballgame in Alabama,

The old university of my hostdad was playing against Arkansas state University and they won 35-0

First on Friday I checked out earlier from school, so we could leave in time. We drove 6 hours staight through Atlanta and to Birmingham. Between the driving we kids were watchin movies in the back of the car.

This is Atlanta , a very big city, with a lot of skysctatchers

Welcome to Alabama, the beautiful, what a pity that the picture is so dark, but it's the sign at the stateborder between Georgia and Albama

Dreamland, one of the most famous Restaurants there, with the best Ripps ever

Those Ripps were our Lunch at that day, but it wasn't actually Lunch, because we had them at 10 o'clockin the morning, so between Breakfast and lunch^^

Hmmmmmmmmmmm, I guess thats me with the best ripps ever, super delicious and nerver forgettable

Welcome to the University, where the game was

Right on the University in front of Fils old school building

After more than 3 hours game, tired, sweety. sunburned, ...

but it was a great experience!!!!!

In Birmingham we first had problems to find our Hotel, but we finally got it with our Navi, after checking in ew had dinner at a very famous chinese restaurant.

we had a reservation for 8:30, and were there at out watches at 8:20, and the lady at the welcome counter told us to wait a little bit, so we waired as everybody else.

after half an hour, nobody wanted to wait anymore and so we asked again, and what was the result??: another timezome, 1 hour behind our time, and so we were there actually at 7:20, over one hour earlier!!!!!!!!

Stupid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

then saturday, there was the game and we went to Dreamland for 'lunch'.

after that we drove to the actual universityplace, where already so many people were there. most of the people lust go there with tents, chairs and TVs to watch the game there on TV, kind of crazy!!!!!!

and the game was so awesome, 2 hours before it started the players came into the stadium, and after them the Marching Band, so good. They were about 300 people in there, playing, dancing

dankeeeeeeeee

heute mal wieder auf deutsch,
ich will nur allen meinen super freundinnen aus deutschland fuer das tolle 'survival package' danke sagen.
das ist so lieb von euch, und ich habs echt nicht erwartet, also musste ich fast die taschentuecher hernehmen^^ aber ich finds einfach super tolll von euch, dass ihr euch so viel muehe gemacht habt, und ich finde echt, dass jedes geschenk seinen sinn hat( naja bis auf den depp vom dienst;))
naja auf jede fall tuts super gut zu wissen, dass man so tolle freundinnen hat;)
I love you all, forever!!!!!!!!!!!
dann kann ich mal erzaehlen, was ich so mach, am naechsten wochenende werde ich nach Alabama fahren, um zu einem ziemlich wichtigen Football spiel zu fahren, weil wir dafuer freikarten bekommen haben.
und mein Gastvater ist total gluecklich deswegen, weil naemlich sein altes College spielt.
Also bekommm ich einen neuer amerikanische Erfahrung.
letzten sonntag war Trunck or treat, das ist so was aehnliches wie Trick or Treat, aber es ist fuer hier, wo alle so weit auseinander wohne, da trifft man sich bei der kirch, jeder schmueckt seinen Kofferraum und dann gehen die kinder voon kofferraum zu kofferraum, anstatt von haus zu haus.
und ich war Rotkaeppchen, nicht ein grosses M&M, :), hatte alle meine schonen sachen mit puencktchen an, war ganz niedlich, aber da waren ganz viele kleine kinder, die alle super niedlich angezogen waren. echt suess;)


gestern hatten wir das erste mal Schnee, weswegen die Schule 2 Stunden spaeter angefangen hat.
Ich wurde leider durch den anruf von der Schule um 6 Uhr aufgeweckt, in dem sie uns gesagt haben, dass die Schule 2 Stunden spaeter anfaengt und konnte danach leider nicht mher einschlafen, also hats nicht so besonders viel gebracht, war aber trotzdem lustig an dem tag Kurzstunden zu haben;)

Naja jetzt ist der Schnee leider schon wieder geschmolzen, aber es ist trotzdem ziemlich kalt, also kommen schon die Muetzten und Handschuhe in der Frueh raus.:)
Die Baeume gier fange shcon lagsam an ihre Farbe zu aendern und deswegen ist es bald ein Meer uas Rot&Orange, wenn ich aus meinem fenster scheu, weil unser Haus naemlich mit Baeumen umgeben ist:)
si ich hoffe jetzt mal, dass ich in meinen, ausnahmsweise, deutschen Blog nicht zu viele Fehler reingeschreiben hab, aber ihr muesst ein bisschen nachsichtig sein, wreil ich schliesslich in einer anderen Sprache schreib/rede/denke/traeume, ...
so, jetzt nachdem der Computer mehrere male das Internet abstuerzen hat lasse, hab ichs glaub ich endlich geschafft den gesamten Blog zu speciher und zu veroeffentlichen;)

It's fall break here at the moment, but only for four days.
at friday we wanted to go to Dollywood, but it begam to rain, when we drove there so we went into wonderworks, a house where you can do a lot of stuff, it was pretty funny
after it, it was still raining so we had lunch and decided to drive home, but on the way there were the 'forbidde cavern', caves which were really interesting to see, with a lot of weird figures and lightshows, which were sometimes a little scary
Yesterday evening we went to a german reataurant in Asheville, we all had Schnitzel, but it wasn't as good as in Germany:)
I'm trying to put a video of the inside in here, but it's still to big and so i'm gonna work on it, perhaps I can put it in the next time after I worked on it^^
That wasa almost everything we made at this 4 days, but perhaps we're gonna do something tomorrow at the last day of the break^^

birthday!!!!!!!!!!

so, I think now it is time for a new blog, I know I hadn't wrote for sooooooooooooooo(you all know I love this word^^) long, but now I have news

It's my Birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Sweet 16!^^

so, today was a really busy day, because today was homecoming, too.

first in the morning I had a breakfast with chocolate chip pancakes, and the chocolate things were melted so it was absolutely delicious, and i had strawberrys, too^^mhmmmmmmmmmmm

and mum thanks for the call, it made me happy <3>

then I left for school, that was a little bit weird, because i brought ballons for a girl, whose birthday was today too, and so it looked loke I'm bringing myself ballons;)

Funny, so i was at school, carrying around the ballons, and I went into the Bandroom for my first period and on my desk there were ballons and a rose and such a cut card;) that was so sweet

but the ballonbs were a little bit annoying when I was playing flute, but I made it^^

Oh yeah, good news between, now I'm playiing first flute at the band, I'm sooooooo happppppy^^

back to today:

so after band I was carriyng around MY ballons, so everybody saw thet it was my birthday^^ but some people really belived I had them just for fun, or because of Homecoming, funny^^

Third period I realized that my English teachers birthday was today too, sooooooooo funny^^

For lunch i brought leah(the other girl, who had birthday) Muffins, or Cupcakes, how they call it here and eveybody could see our table, because it was full with ballons^^

and after lunch, Sarah, another friend gave me this cute, very sweet chocolate cake with sparkeling icing ;)

Later the day in 6th period the whole class sang for me, actually pretty good^^

then in the middle of 6th period I checked out, that means I left the school earlier because I had an hairappointement for styling it for the evening

so i was there, but we had to wait a little bit, because the one, who should style me, had lunch, so we waited

then we decided what I'm gonna do, I had/have my hair curled put up at the back of my head with about 50 clipper and tons of hairspray in it, so it doesn't fell like hair anymore, I'm nor sure how I'm gonna get that out, but I'm gonna try it^^

so, my lady who was fixing the hair worked about 1 1/2 hours, so after that i was a little bit in a hurry and had only about ten minutes to get ready for the pictures, I know very, very short, but I made it

So I and Fil went to the lake, where they took pictures for the yearbook with a very pretty background

that's me and my hostdad in front of this beautiful lake ;)

and we took other pictures with the girls

AND only the Junior girls togther( Lauren,Me, Kirklin and Rachel)

so after the pictures we left and went home for my birthday dinner : Lasagna and chocolate cake with back forrest topping ;) super delicous, at the dinner I got my present a bacelet on which I can add things, there is already a little present, a Football and a Big T( for Tuscola my school) on it, so when I;ll be back in Germany I will have the whole thing full with memories^^

then we finally left for the game:

TUSCOLA-FRANKLIN, ;)

I was so nervous at the beginning but it was ok, we just went to get our flowers for the jacket and then we had time to 2 minutes before halftime. at that time we met right next to the stage, arghhhhhhhhhhhhhh

So they called everybody, blah blah blah name grade daughter of, eskorted by, ...

so we were at the stage and then they announced the homecoming queen, a really pretty girl, whos in my french class;)

after that we actually were done for the whole game so I walked around with my friend, even my shoes killed me, almost^^

AND tuscola won the game 44-18, so pretty pretty good^^

ouf!

what a day, I'm so tired and so totally without energy.
this day was so exhaustig because I was babysitting for 4 hours for 4 kids, so busy the whole time, but vicky was there so it was good.
but the two little boys 1 & 2 were almost crying the whole time, one becuase he wanted attention and the other one because he wanted his mum, the whole time. after 3 hours a little bit annoying^^
but I got $ 50 for this, so not bad for only 4 hours.
perhaps I can do more times;)
last week at school we got our grade reports, I did good in almost every subject
in math, science, life&team sports and french a A, the best grade, in english with 0.4 points a B and in History a C, but that's not that bad, becuase I made two A's since the report, so no more C's, I'm pretty sure;)
and next saturday the day, i'm sooooooooooo excited, but it will be so funny, I'm sure, really, epecially because my date is such a nice boy from my english class^^
Yesterday I was shopping and I got a jacket with dots, so cute and a blouse, very pretty, but I still need boots and a skirt, so more shopping!!!!!!

hey there

I'm in the homecoming court!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I made it
I'm so happy about that, because only four girls from my grade got into it, and I made it!!!!I know I'm repeating myself but I just so happy^^

Now I have to go clothes shopping because they have stict rules, what I'm alowed to wear and what not!

I'm not allowed to wear a dress, and I have to wear a skirt and a jacket, but the skirt has to have at least knee length and it forbidden to see skin when you wear a jacket!!! They are so crazy.

Except for that nothing really special happened last week, but it was so funny when they announced, who's in the court.

because there they said alle the other names first and then:' Johanna The german Girl'

Now everybody knows me as the german girl^^

At Friday there was a Footballgame, and my school won again, but we pip. In the last minute we made a touchdown and won 17-14, everybody was so glad.

everybody saysthat this is a good year for me to come to the US, because last year Tuscola was so bad and lost almost every single game^^

But I wasn't paying so much attontion at the game because I had to kept myself warm. I was even so stupid to wear shorts!!!

At the evening at about 6 o'clock, when I left from home it was so sunny and warm, but then at about 8:30 it got cloder and colder and so I sat down with a blanket over my knees, so that I won't freeze^^

But it was funny^^

From yesterday to today my little Hostsister had her birthday party, so cute.

The whole house was decorated but so kitchy^^

This was her borthday cake for today, but i'm gonna make a blackforestcake for her real Birthday, which is on Tuesday, so if you think about it brings badluck, to do something like that^^That was at hte table, cute isn't it^^

That were their glasses, where they drank Hawaiian punch out of them^^

The whole table, everthing with flowers, bright colors, ...

And what is very important for a hawaiian theme, the language, so Aloha to everybody^^

And the important person for the birthday, Vicky;)