Tomorrow ó.Ó

Oh goodness, tomorrow is the day of days! School starts.
I'm sooooooooooooooooooooooooo nervous! New school, new people, new teachers, new rules. Even though I studied a lot, I don't feel perfectly prepared. Right now the nervousness still keep its limits, but when I think about tomorrow, whenever my mom or dad will drop me off at the school, and I'll have to get out the car, into a school I never really visited, find a room I've never seen, and meet new people - I feel sick.
Destination: International School of the Hague. Even though I really, really wanna go to this huge school with lots of students, and I think it will be so interesting with all different cultures, and I (finally!!) get to know some people here, I'm still a little worried.
I hope I won't forget anything.
Wish me luck! I guess I'll see ya tomorrow evening

- At least if I survive this day.

♥

California

The Grand Canyon.

So we're back from our trip to California. It was great! It's probably been one of the best holidays ever! We've been to Los Angeles, Las Vegas (Nevada), the Grand Canyon (Arizona), Death Valley, the Yosemite, and San Fransisco. Everything was great! I loved Las Vegas especially. The architecture of all the hotels is so well-done! And I loved the Universal Studios in LA. I got to see the Wisteria Lane of Desperate Housewives, my favorite TV show. ♥ It was so cool! The Santa Monica Pier was really pretty too. San Fransisco was beautiful, even though it's exhausting walking for a long time, because of all the hills. I loved Pier 39 with all the seals and, of course, the Golden Gate! The Grand Canyon was really amazing. It's huge, and with the Colorado River inside it just looks so fantastic. I would've loved to do river-rafting in the Grand Canyon, haha. Death Valley is the hottest place of whole America. It was so hot that my eyes burned so bad, I thought they'd be just burning away! In the end of our trip we were driving down the N° 1 from San Fransisco back to LA. The sea in California looks so pretty! What I loved the most are the surfers! Surfing must be so much fun. I wanna learn it now. My first lessons are today ó.ó I am sooo excited!! I've also been to a musical in Las Vegas called ''SURF'', with songs of the Beach Boys. It was a really good musical.
Well, I guess that's it for now - Here are some photos:

                                                                     

                                                                            Los Angeles

Universal Studios ♥

                                                                                Las Vegas

                                                         San Fransisco

                                                 Bye Bye From California ♥

California, here we come! ♥

Yap, this is where I'm heading tomorrow :)) My my best friend Isabel, our mothers, my uncle and aunt, and I are having holidays in California - Home of the rich & famous ... And Schwarzenegger :D
Haha, I am suuuuper excited!!
I won't bring I laptop since we won't have any wifi there, so I guess I'll c ya'll in four weeks when I'm back here!
Love you ♥

The Week In Germany

"The Taming of the Shrew"
- Alice, Joelle, me, and Friede (from left) 

The past week I've been back in Germany. The main reason for that was studying a bit of chemistry with my old tutor but it was also a great opportunity to meet my old friends ♥
It felt so good to meet all of them again! On Wednesday, the 4th of July (American Independance), I went to an american diner. It was good!
On thursday I finally saw most of my best friends again - The drama presentation of their play "The Taming of the Shrew" by Shakespeare. It's kinda mysterious that almost all of my best friends are in the drama club. It was a really good time!
On friday I visited my old school. Surprisingly nothing had changed... Not even one hair color.
I realized that I really missed doing stuff with the most crazy people ever. In the morning, before the first lesson, Steffen was like: "Anybody want some tea?". I figured he had prepared tea in thermos bottle, but well, I forgot that it's Steffen. He actually brought five cups, hot water and different tea bags with him - He's crazy. I also visited the school newspaper's group. Nothing changed there either.


Christian and me in Cologne :)

After school I went to a café with Alice, Friede, and Ilayda. I guess the last two names are hard to pronounce for americans, haha :D Anyways, it was a good time. I basically spent the weekend with Alice. I love spending time with Alice. This girl is amazing! For real, you could tell her anything and she wouldn't get mad. Well, maybe she just doesn't show it, but either way works out for me :D On Saturday I also had lunch with my grandmother and her sisters. They're pretty crazy. And they are the masters in complaining. - If it's my hair color or my weight. Yap, they are the best.
On sunday I went to my old church in the morning. In the past I helped there in the children worship. We've been a lot of people back then. Now there were hardly a few there, which is kinda sad but I still enjoyed it.
On monday I went to Cologne ♥♥ Aaah, city of my dreams!! I just love Cologne. The only city comparabale to Cologne is London. There I met Christian. Yaaa, Christian. The exchange student thaat has been at my school in Somerset. Oh goodness, that was a great time! I think I've never done so many things on one day in Cologne. We made a tour on the Rhine, ate at the Hard Rock Café and walked up the Dome Ó.Ó 533 steps! But it was great. The view was awesome! I had a lot of fun 

My Grandmother

there. On wednesday I met with Isabel again. We watched "Nightmare on Elm Street". That's a really good movie!
Even the tutoring was fun. Probably more than it should have been! But still, it was good and I think I learned a lot! My tutor Marvin is probably one of the smartest people I know. At least in maths and chemistry!
Most of the time I stayed at my grandmother's house. She's so sweet. I love my grandmother. ♥ I also stayed at Isabel's house one night, and at Joelle's (another friend of mine) house another night. When I went to Cologne I stayed one night with Steffen. He was there for his traineeship. So well, everything worked out good! 
The main difference betwenn the USA and Germany is probably the transportation. In the USA it's really hard to get somewhere if you don't have a car. Right now I could easily get to Munich, Berlin, Hamburg, wherever right now!
Yap, I love Germany. And Europe. Even though the people are really hectic around here, but that's all right by me. :)
So I guess, I'll c ya'll soon!
xoxo

Back "Home"

Five days have passed since I got off of the plane in Düsseldorf. The first thing I got was a culture shock in Munich. Actually a worst one than when I arrived in Somerset...
Oh my Goodness!! All of the people were looking super busy and oh my gosh, the shoes the men were wearing were awesome *___* You know, these extravagant designershoes with a matching suit. Oh wow, I didn't see these for months! Not even in Chicago!
That moment I realized that if I ever marry, it's going to be someone with shoes like that. Most of the time you find men wearing shoes like that next to the newsstand wondering which of the newspapers they should take. Since I missed the flight in Munich because the plane from Chicago was too late and I had to wait about two more hours I had enough time to keep watching them, haha :D Furthermore it was super clean! Everything looked way more pure than it did in America. I was the only person wearing flip flops... I guess I have to say goodbye to them.
Anyways, in Germany my parents, my grandmother and our dog Daisy was awaiting me. It was way less awkward than I thought it would be. I was really nervous and excited before but it was all right! Yeah, it was kinda great to see them again! They had ballons and a stuffed animal (Penguin) as a present for me.

Watching the game.

Then we first went to my grandmother's home for a little. Then we picked  up my best friend Isabel. She's living in our old appartement now. It was a little awkward in my old room with all her stuff, but well. Then we went to my favorite restaurant Maredo in Oberhausen. I love it! Their Chicken Wings are the best in the whole wide world! Afterwards we watched the UEFA Germany against Italy semi-final. It was kinda cool with all these people. Isabel's mom joined us later too. And even though Germany didn't win it was a great evening! I guess they were just super afraid and under pressure because they never won a game against Italy... But well, none of them would've been winning against Spain in the final, they are just awesome!
So well... I don't know what to say. It was Germany, haha. A lot of germans, celebrating Germany.
After that we went home. I was super tired.
The next morning my mom and I went shopping a bit. Gelsenkirchen didn't change at all. But that's ok by me (:
Then we drove to my new "home". It's really awkward for me because our new house is huge, and our apartement in Germany was tiny compared to this.
I've done all kinds of stuff here... Finished the rooms, cleaned them up, skyped with Whitney ♥
Man, I miss this girl!
Anyways, on sunday my grandmother from my dad's side arrived. She's going to stay with us for a few weeks. She's kinda cute, even though we can't really talk to each other, because she can't speak either german or english.
One of the best things about living here is that it's so close to the sea. Ten minutes with the bike. It's awesome. The best feeling on earth is feeling so small when you're standing next to the sea. ♥
It's wonderful.
Tomorrow we'll drive back to Germany because I need some help in chemistry.
And I'll see Steffen, my best friend, after six months. Yaaay, so excited. :D
So well, c ya!

Bye Bye, Kentucky.

So well, I guess this is it.. I'm sitting in the airplane from Lexington to Chicago. It must be about 6:40 pm. I can't believe I'm already leaving Kentucky, home of all rednecks, horses and the BIG BLUE ♥  It's awkward leaving the place I was so excited to live at six months ago. Kentucky is looking so green from the sky. So my host family is on their way home right now. There'll be a few presents awaiting them there. When they walk upstairs they will look at all the pictures of Whitney on the wall. It's like a "Whitney-Shrine". There's one picture frame on the top of the stairs though and there's no picture in it. I always wondered why. Maybe they save it for her graduation picture... Anyways, I taped a picture of me on there and it's saying "Finally! Somebody broke the Whitney-Shrine! hahahaha :D ". They'll probably crack up. Then Michele and David will go into their room and they'll find a picture frame with one of our easter pictures in it... I chose my favorite one ♥ Whitney and David had some issues with his tie on there... Furthermore they'll find a letter adressed to them.
When Whitney goes into her room she'll find a bunch of stuf on the ground (I couldn't put it on her bed 'cause it's too messed up). Also she'll find two picture frames with pictures of us in them. My two favorite ones. One of them is at Animal Kingdom at Disney with our faces painted and the other one on the camping trip with Lacy. Then there'll  be the stuffed annoying orange and it can speak!! Also there'll be two posters; one of a church evening when we compeeted in a drawing-without-looking competition against each other and the other one is from the day I got her. They made a poster saying "Welcome to the USA". I love these but couldn't take them because they are too huge. Then there's a small note and a loooong letter telling her how much I love her! But the best thing (in my mind) is a bracelet. It's saying "sis". I got the some one for me just that I got flowers as a charm and she's got an elephant and a cloverleaf.
Yes, I love this family. I had so many great moment with them! The best one with Michele was definitely one time at diner. Whitney was talking about something gross. Then:
Michele: "Can we please change the topic?"
Me: "Let's talk about cows!"
Michele: "Cows?"
Me: "Yeah! Did you know they have four stomachs?!"
Whit: "Oh yeah! And they always throw up their food and chew and swallow it again!"
Michele: "-.-".
Haha, that was a good time!! The best moment with David was definitely the first Merit Trip. The bus the students drove in broke down a few times. In the morning the commode in our bathroom had broken and I was kinda panicked about how they'd react. I wanted to tell them at diner, whenever we're back home. So David picked us up from where the bus had broken down.
David: "So what happened?"
Me: "I don't know! I didn't do anything!!"
David: "You didn't do anything?"
Me: "No! I swear! Nothing!"
David: "Well... Ok."
Me: "Really! I didn't touch anything!"
David: "I didn't expect you to be driving the bus anyways..."
Me: "The bus?"
David: "Yeah, the bus broke down... Remeber?"
Me: "Oh my..."
Hahaha, I was talking about the cmmode. That was so odd, haha. I had so much fun with him and his jokes! :D
And Lacy? Well, I wanted to marry her, but it didn't work... ;)
So today I saw the three greatest people of Kentucky for the last time until they'll visit Munich next spring. Before they got me to the airport we went to Bob Evans for diner. Really funny since the first time we went to a restaurant together it was Bob Evans too. - And both times Whitney and I had fun with the straw paper, haha. 
Then we went to the airport. When I hugged David, Michele and Whitney goodbye I just kept crying. I went through the baggage-check, looked back one more time, Whitney was waving. The people working there offered me tissues. When I got upstairs I bought a pink "Kentucky"-Shirt and put it on. I cried for about half an hour I guess. It was super hard!! Harder than I actually thought it would be. I can't wait to see them again!

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I'm sitting in the plane to Munich nw. It's about 9pm. I met two other exchange students who are sitting next to me (one from Austria, one from Germany) and a guy from Hungary.
I'm just so thankful for the time I spent here! So thankful for everything right now! I will never ever forget these six months! The best six months of my life, spent in Somerset, Kentucky. ♥♥

My very favorite picture.

Last Post from Somerset

The day I got here.

We're leaving to the airport in about thirty minutes... I can't believe how time flies.
So I guess this is for now and probabky a longer time my last post from Somerset, Kentucky.
When I look around the room now, I'm just super sad that I have to leave this house, Lacy, my family.
There's this song by "Owl City" called 'Fireflies' and there's one part I consider being so pretty:
"To ten million fireflies, I'm weird 'cause I hate goodbyes.
Got misty eyes as they said farewell.
But I'll know where several are, when my dreams get real bizarre,
'cause I saved a few and I keep them in a jar.
I like to make myself believe that planet earth turns slowly."

Saying goodbye is a little like storing marmalade in the fridge. After saying goodbye, you still store the memories in the back of your mind, just as you store the marmalade, and you always got the opportunity to take the marmalade out of the fridge and say hello again, even though it never tastes exactly the same.

Our first picture together with the poster they
made for me saying: "Welcome to the USA".

Last Goodbyes

It's my last evening in  Somerset. I'm sitting outside, watching the sunset. Whitney is riding the bike in the neighborhood, David is washing his truck, and Michele is watching something on her laptop. Later Whitney will come in and we'll play some games such as chess or Scene It! So I guess it's like a normal evening. The only exception is that I know that I might never have a "normal" evening like this one with these people again. My stuff is already packed, and the last set of goodbyes had been done. At this point I have to mention some other people (instead of my host family) that are just awesome and I'm really glad I met them.
I'm gonna start with the best freshman-girls. There's Sarah Flinchum. She's probably the most polite person I met here. Almost too polite! But just almost. I remember the first time I saw her. It was our merit trip to the Ice Scating hall. I was sitting alone in a row. She was sitting across from underneath a hatch through which water kept dropping on her. But shy as she is she didn't ask me if she could sit next to me. So after watching her misery for about two minutes I was like: "Hey, you can certainly come and sit over here!" So she did. We talked a looot since the bus broke down a bunch of times. After that day she was like my best buddy. And I still love her.
Then there's Taryn Haddix. We became friends in drama. And she's just awesome. She wants to become a broadway star and has dancing classes almost every day. Indeed, she;s pretty good and I'll miss her a lot.
Then there's my favorite freshman boy Spencer Harsh. He was like my first friend when I came here. Homecoming was a great evening. I remember when I put the carrots on my plate thinking they were fries. Yap, that was a good time!
Also there are my favorite sophmores. Abi Hutchinson, Caroline Parker and Logan Adams. I just can't split them up because they just belong together! I remember the first time I saw them. Logan came to my locker and he was like: "Hey. Du bist fett und hast keine Freunde." (You are fat and have no friends). I had to pause because I didn't know what to say since the way he said this sounded super sweet. It just doesn't sound mean with an american accent. In the evening at church he asked me if I've ever been to Antarctica. From this point I just knew he was crazy, in a good kinda way though. Caroline and Logan are going to my church too so I got to see them a lot. And all four of us were in the drama play "How to Succeed In Business Withough Really Trying". We did a bunch of choreographies together, and I just loved doing that. I remember this one time, when Abi, Caroline and me were trying to teach the boys a choreography that only includes them and they just wouldn't listen. Caroline and I just sat down to wait because we didn't want to sound mean or something. Whenever this happened, Abi would be like: "Ok guys, this is not how this can work!". She'd hold a short speech  about effectivenss and Caroline would look at me and be like: "Yap, we just leave these things to her". And I just love Abi for this. The best moment with her was probably when I gave her all the stuff I would've usually been throwing away. It was BIG box. Carrying it from my room downstairs and get it into her car like strong men was the best thing ever.  And Caroline. Well, it's Caroline. You just have to love Caroline. She's just super funny, and super cute and a super good volleyball player! Since we both are setters we kinda made a good team! I'll miss these folks.
And then there are, of course, Bethany and Emily Cox. They are just lovely and super nice people. I loved having drama with them, and Bethany's 16th birthday party was super good and I'm so glad I got to meet them. They are awesome singers, by the way.
Then there's David Sams. He was a senior and graduated this year. Even though we never talked that much I just like him a lot! I remember when I was telling Logan I love musicals. And he was like: "Oh really? You should tell David Sams! He's a big musical fan!". And I answered: "Who's David Sams?". Haha, I'll never forget him!
And then there was Jarred Johnson. He's just worth mentioning because he's so talented in everything. He's a good dancer, singer, writer! In the academic team he knew everything! Goodness, he's just awesome. The first time I talked to him was in drama class. In a little room behind the stage there's a piano. Logan, Jarred, me and some others were back there. Jarred started playing a song on the piano. He's super good. Then Logan was like: "Lara, didn't you say you can play too? Play something!". I played the only good song I knew by heart. When Logan went out, Jarred was like: "So you're a super good dancer, a super good writer, a super good volleyball player and you play the piano? Anything else I should know about?". This is really ironic since he's the superbrain, haha :D I probably never met anybody who can do so many things as him. The last day I saw him he told me his plan is to study Literature and Theatre and go to New York City. Pretty funny that I'm thinking about doing the same!
Then I have to mention the best Somerset Christian School teacher Mr. Robert Akers. I was in three of his classes: Bible, US History and Drama. My three best and favorite ones! He's an awesome preacher and story-teller and I just loved as a teacher and I'll miss his jokes sooo much! He's just awesome. He's bold and out of whatever reason everybody's joking about it. One time he was like: "Give me your three bold jokes". One was: "You're so bold, you look like the top of deodorant." Or: "You're not bold, you're just taller than your hair." Or: "You're so bold, it looks like your neck is blowing a bubble". He's just awesome for taking this with humor hahaha :D
So last but not least saying goodbye to all the church people. That was one of the hardest things I've ever done. At the end of the service Pastor Bill Haynes wanted me and my host family to come the front. They prayed for me and afterwards a bunch of them lined up to say goodbye to me personally. It was super sad. I had to say goodbye to Mickey Hicks and Rhetta Haynes who are like my choir buddies. They are sitting next to me during choir. I will miss them so much! When Mickey hugged me I almost started crying. But I could provide me from doing it. One day in choir the woman in front of us sneezed so I was like "Bless you!". Ten seconds later the woman next to her was like: "Oh yeah! Bless you!" It took Mickey like ten more seconds to finally also say "Bless you!". I just had to laugh a bit. Mickey looked and me and was like: "What?! She sneezed!". "Naaaa?! For real???" Hahaha, I just lately got to LOVE her! Both of them are the best. Another day in choir practice Whitney and I were talking to Ryan Cravens, the only younger member of the choir (before we came). He was like: "I'm so glad you joined! I was the only one with natural hair in the choir so far!" Hahaha :D So everybody said goodbye... Caroline, and the choir people and all the others. I really wanted to cry but not in front of everybody. When I looked to my right I saw Whitney. She was crying... That moment was super hard for me because I almost started to cry too. She later told me that this one old choir lady came up to her and was like: "So you're going to lose your sister now?".

Rhetta, me and Mickey (from left) during choir.
I love them!

It has just been super sad! I will miss wednesday nights, bible school, sunday service, choir and all these great people who really care!
Before I left Rhetta gave me a scapbook to put all my photos I made here in there. They are just awesome and I will miss them so much...
So yeah. I guess that's it. Tomorrow I just need to say goodbye to my host family. That will be the hardest part of all. Especially saying goodbye to Whitney. I'll miss my sister being around...
But well, I still got 22 hours and 28 minutes left. So I gotta use them now!
C ya tomorrow!

Wednesday Night

Last wednesday night was one of the best evenings I've spent here. As always, wednesday night is church night - Including choir practice. Now, that we've got summer break, the services on wednesday kinda stopped, but we're still meeting to play games and do some stuff. The game on wednesday was the best game ever.
We were seperated into groups of four people plus one driver. In my group there was Logan, Ashley and another random guy. A woman drove us.
So they gave us one single dollar. The task for every group was to trade the dollar for something else, and trade whatever we get then and in one hour get the best thing we were able to get. We were not allowed to ask somebody we know. The reward was a coupon for an ice-cream store. The group with the best thing wins.
So when we first went out, we had like no clue where to go. We just went into the car and drove around first because nobody had an idea. Then we stopped at a restaurant. Ashley and Logan went inside to ask somebody. When they got out they had a package of tissues a lady gave them. So after that we didn't know where to go again. I had the idea to just go to Walmart and ask random people. So that's where we were heading. When we parked, we saw a man (- a redneck by the way) putting a water melon into his car. Logan was shouting "Laraaa! Ask him! Now!" So I was kinda hurrying out, I almost fell in front of his feet and he was like: "Wow, young lady." So I explained to him: "We need to trade this packet of tissues with something somebody else has. It's a church challenge."
"I know you!", he said. "No, you don't." I answered. "Wait... Where are you from?" "Well, from church right now, and we got to get this going, so.." "Well! I'm not giving you the water melen ( :c ) but I can give you half full packet of gum!" So he gave it to us. Even the packet was broke... Seemed like it was going worse, and worse... Then we went into Walmart. First we were hoping in front of the building there would be people who give puppies away for free - But we got disappointed.. ;)There were Walmart-Workers though who would have given us their work-schedule but we decided not to make this trade.
So inside, we were walking around and I was like: "We should ask old people. Old people are THE best." So there was an older lady and I was just going up to her, and explained the whole story to her. She traded the gum with a strawberry-pretzel candybar. From there we went to a restaurant. Logan and I got in to ask for maybe a Kids' Menu or something. So we went in, but nobody came to help us, so we went out. When we went out the car was gone. After about two minutes they came back. They had picked up a broken umbrella... Didn't look very well for us. Then we stopped at Cracker Barrel, another country-cooking restaurant. Logan and Ashley went in and traded the candybar with kids menu... We only had about 20 minutes left and we still had to get back - This meant: One more stop and then we need to get back. We stopped at like a tank station or something like that.. And Ashley, Logan and me went inside. Nothing was going on in there. It was a bad situation for us. Suddenly the other boy in in our group came in and said: "Hey guys! We need the menu! There's a man who wants to trade it!" The woman who drove us around really found our final trade! Through the opened windows of the car she was talking to a man with piercings literally everywhere! The little boy in the back was like: "They can have my cereals!" Hahaha! This man was the best! He gave us shears which were still in the packet!! He was the best!

Picture of my reaction haha :D

My present (: I don't know why I can't turn the picture, sorry.

We had ten minutes to get back and the car in front of us was driving super slow! We were the latest group and like two minutes too late.Then Todd (the youth minister) told us that every group has to choose one member to explain and commercialize their product in the best way possible. We chose Logan to do it. He's one of the best and funniest story tellers I know. There were only about three of seven groups that traded the whole entire time and didn't buy something with the dollar. So Logan explained everything. What has been really weird about this evening is that Todd mentioned we had to hurry up to get us to choir... Normally nobody would care. One of the choir ladies came in two times to tell Logan to hurry up. He's in he choir too. I really wondered why they cared so much this evening. So I we went with her the second time she came. When we got into the lobby every choir member was there - Not in the choir room, as usual. The choir lady was like "Surpriiiiise!" And I was like: "Ehm.. Well.. Thank you". I was so surprised I didn't even know what to say. Then she was like: "She's here everybody! Scream surprise!" Everybody screamed: "Surprise!!!". It was sooo cute! I just need to say that these people are the best people ever! They really care about you and are just so cute and funny. As a goodbye-present they had a card for me, and a magnet board. On the board they pinned a picture of the chair I'm sitting on during church service! Furthermore they had provided drinks, cookies and pancakes. I just love them, and I will miss them so much!! I can't even believe it. After that we just had a short practice. My last practice. Whitney couldn't be there because she had gotten her wisdom teeth pullen out in the morning, the poor one. Anyways, I just had a great evening which is worth to be mentioned!

Packing

This weekend I was packing my stuff into boxes. Now, that I look into my room, it looks awful empty! It's like when I got here... Really weird. I wanna share some things I found here, about which I almost forgot:

My room sign. I once made it with Aiden
and Conor. When I put it off, Whitney put it on
the door again. <3

My wall.

The both corsages for Homecoming (on the left), and
Junior-Senior (on the right), which Spencer and David
gave to me. Of course they looked better with the
blooming flowers. ♥

My mom got me this before I got here.

Gabby Moore made this for me
- She thought this was the most fitting
song for me, haha

This is from my first monday.
Whitney had Academic Team, and Logan
and Abi though it was odd, that I don't
have a second name. So they gave me one..

The ticket when I got here.

Science Olympiad Instrument... :D

My first starburst, in Geometry.
Ms. Pierce gave it to me because I was the
only one with a 100 points in the test,
and never had one (: It's goooood!

My Minnie-Mouse-Mole for Chemistry Class.

The board on which I pinned anything that I got...

... And how it looks now. :(

Conor's Birthday

In the car (: I love her!!

Conor's (Michele's brother's son) birthday was on the 14th of July, so we went to Florida to see him and his family. It was fun. We got there on Thursday, celenbrated a bit, and then went to the Magic Kingdom (Disney) on Friday. That was even more fun! Even though I have to admit that I'm not half as much into Disney as Whitney is. Oh my goodness, she was looking at the firework as if she had just been drinking two liters of coffee... Mix of joker and bambi, hahaha :D She's too cute.
Anyways, it was a good time. The other day we went bowling. It was fun also. There were disco lights and super good music, I really enjoyed that. After that we went back home. It was probably the last time I saw Conor, Aidan, Kenny and his wife Katie here. They may be moving to Germany because of the military though, so I might see them again :) It was a ten hours drive through the night. We got home at like 5 am. I didn't sleep most of the time - It was like the best time ever getting back home, haha! :D

Another Sleepover (:

Seems like summer break is only there for one thing: Sleepovers (: On Monday there was another sleepover at Katie's. We almost just talked and played "Just Dance" (and Taryn, Hannah and I had a little staircase-party). It was fun! Really sad too though, because it was the last time I saw all of the Freshmen... Well, if I visit again, I bet I can see them again!! :)

Scary Movie Night

Before ..

.. After

Yesterday to today Taryn and me had a scary movie night. And yeees, it was scary!! We watched "The Lovely Bones" (super sad!!), "Dream House", "The Woman In Black" and wanted to watch "The Silence Of The Lambs" but it didn't work, so we watched "The Day After Tomorrow". My favorite movie was "Dream House". I really enjoyed that one. I kinda didn't want to watch "The Woman In Black" again because it's just super scary!! I was just sitting underneath the blanket u.u  Until Taryn was like: "The next time you're coming here you're not getting any blankets!". :D And after the "Woman In Black" when I looked out of the window there was a bat o.O And I was like: "There's a bat..." Taryn: "Sure.. It's the woman in black" .. "Are you kidding me?! It's batman!" .. "No! It's Edward Cullen!" hahaha, that was a good time! I really enjoyed this and I'm kinda glad that I'm not the only girl in Somerset that likes horror movies :))

Time To Say Goodbye

So all of the foreign exchange students left Somerset now already.. On the 20th of April they had a Goodbye-Party for all the foreigners... I didn't really want to realize it but well, now it comes to an end. I'm the only one that's still here and it just feels a little awkward because pretty much all of my best friends are gone, so I was thinking I should create one post in memory of them.. So this is it!

1) Marta Civettini. From Italy. I love this girl! She's been my very best friend here and we've got soo much in common, I never want to lose contact to her!! I was checking our pictures together, and thought about the best moments we had and I just couldn't decide which one to show here. I am pretty sure that some of our best moment were when we were texting. Texting with her is just hilarious! Trust me, we'd use all he smileys we can to make the message more alive, haha!
This conversation is hilarious:
Lara: "Ah ok. I think for living Boston is better. NYC for shoppin' lol"
Marta: "I live for shopping u.u lol"
Lara: "Hahaha you are crazy!!"
Marta: "No, I;m Marta u.u lol"
Lara: "Doesn't Marta mean crazy in... korean maybe?"
Marta: "No, actually it means owner lol"
Lara: "Owner of what? Shops?"
Marta: "Owner in general.. Maybe ower of the whole world muahahahaha"
Lara: "Sure. Lara means winner :D beat that!!"
Marta: "-.- That is victory!"
Lara: "Exactly"
Marta: "No I mean is not Victoria that means victory?"
Lara: "Maybe. But Lara means winner anyways! :)"
Marta: ".-. Mmm"

Last hug.. Maybe for
a long time :(
The place is symbolic though ;)

Hahaha, it was really funny also, when we kept coming too late at my second Merit Trip to the Salt Mine. I remember this day I told her that I probably wouldn't cry when I leave Somerset, since I didn't cry when I left Germany - That's kinda ironic now, since I already cried a lot, and probably still will be! Another really funny moment with her was when we were skyping with Jason and we both skyped first and then invited Jason so we've been able to change his messages. Whenever he texted something normal it would end up in something like "I love Christian.. From now on no girls.. just Christian!!!!!! Marta.. are you angry if I will ask Daniel to go to prom together? I love him so much!" Hahahaha and it would go on, and on, and on... I guess Jason's still mad because of this conversation haha :D  We always talked about getting each other bracelets. We never got to get them so without talking to each other we both got the other one a bracelet, haha :D It was cute. I love her sooo much!

Favorite Picture <3 Softball!

2) Cindy Yu. From China (though resident in the US). Cindy and me are the workaholics! We both are thinking about becoming a doctor and compeeted together in three competitions in Science Olympiad. We did horrible in every single one of them but well..Who cares? :D Then we both wanted to do Track, Golf and Softball all together... Not possible, haha! I think I had my best time with her not knowing what the translations for all the terms in Science Olympiad were!! Or building the car for Gravity Vehicle. Two girls on a car competition -- Suuuuuree! :D It was really funny too when we've ben on the Ski Trip and Marta and me were like: We're gonna make a before and after black slope picture and on the after picture Cindy won't be there anymore and we'll be like: "Yeah.. She didn't make it"  ahahah it was a good time!

Favorite Picture <3
Junior/Senior after-party!

3) Josephine Pedersen. From Denmark. I just love Josephine! She's too sweet! The first time I saw her I thought she was crazy though.. It was the first day and I was standing at my locker, and Marta and her came up to me in a kinda crazy mood and they were like: "Yaay! Now we got more foreigners than americans in our trig class". And then they just kinda pulled me into the class.. It was crazy! :D Three days later I changed the class anyways, haha. Sorry to dissapoint them! The best time with her was the first time Marta, Cindy, her and I met at Tumbleweed and went to the movies ("The Vow") after. I remember Cindy being like: "I talked to my mom this morning." Marta: "Oh yeah! I talked to my mom this morning too!" Me: "I can't even remember the last time I talked to my mom.." Jose: "Me either.." And we just kept talking, leaving Cindy out and after a while she was like: "Yeah.. you never let me talk. Anyways.. This morning I talked to my mom and.." Marta: "OOOH! I talked to my mom too!" It was too funny, haha! :D I couln't find any picture with her and me alone, but I love this one!!

Favorite Picture <3
Kat had a blue eye because she got
hit in softball. Good times!

4) Kat(harina) Sellmaier. From Austria. Kat is my bro. Can't say it better :D She'd be the only one to call me bro and repeat the sentence "That's soooo sad" billions of times.. Even though something wouldn't be sad. :D I had soo much fun with her playing softball this season. I guess this was my best time with her too! She's just funny. Even when I said to her "I love you", she'd be the only one not to answer "I love you too", but "Sure, bro!".

Favorite picture! It was the first picture we took (:
I needed it for his contact in my phone.

5) Jason Lim. From South Korea. Jason was probably my first friend of the foreigners here! I remember the first day I came here, he said a phrase in german that actually doesn't need to be repeated ( :D ), and I was cracking up every time I saw him again. Then we've been lab partners in chemistry. I remember this one time when he had an acid in a bottle and he grabbed it with a small stick, so our teacher Ms. Adkins was like: "Jason! Don't grab it like that!" He was like: "Naa, that's gonna be fine". One second later he almost dropped it over me. Yeah, him and me in chemistry. That didn't work out very well. Even though I gotta admit the sinks in this room are crazy. Just a little push and they freak out and the water pours out so fast that everything gets wet. Another time we had to boil water. So I put some water (100 ml) in a beaker, set up the boiling stand and then wanted to put the beaker onto the stand... I didn't realize I did it to fast and in a 90 degrees angle. So all the water pours out of the glass right on Jason.. And I mean - He was wet! I still feel sorry for this. He was like: "I swear! You did this on purpose! Because of the acid thing!" Hahaha, I loved the labs with him! Furthermore we worked in the Science Olympiad in the competition "Sounds Of Music" together. Oh my, that was A MESS! But it was too funny! Another really interesting thing about our friendship was our passion for tetris. He started playing it. So one time he wanted to compeet against me and he'd win every single time with soooo many more points! From this time on I played almost every day so that I'd become good enough to finally win against him - And it worked! In the end I won against him (even without him doing mistakes on purpose). I'm just really glad I got to meet him because he was so much fun.

Favorite picture!
Nerd day at school, haha :D

6) Christian Scheit. From Germany. Yaaay! Here goes the german! This boy is just hilarious. We never really talked german to each other instead of calling the other "Opfer" or "Knecht". When we once did we just realized it was awkward :D Even when I texted him in german on facebook he wouldn't answer in german. I remember in the beginning I thought he was a nerd. I remember a group of us sitting in the cafeteria, at one of these round tables, and it was awkward silence. He was the one putting his wallet on the table, saying "Okay, guys. Let's talk about money." Hahaha :D Another really good time was on the Ski Trip when he was being obsessed with the "Red Solo Cup" :D Or when we've been to the salt mine and the guide would ask: "Any questions?" And Christian whispered: "I kinda wanna know where the elevators are..." He's just funny and I'm excited to see him in Germany because I'm wondering if we'll talk german or english... Yeah, for real! :D



Favorite picture!
After the musical // Swag

7) Victor Magelund. From Denmark. Victor is a funny guy too. I remember the first time I talked to him at the Ski Trip when we were going in a lift together.. It was really funny because he went with the snowboard and he wouldn't wear a bib because he thought it looked stupid :D Then he fell and broke his hand? Or thumb? Can't really remember, but he broke something! I was the only one who waited for him, so we kinda lost the group for a time. It was funny. He's just really nice and I have to admit that now, that he's gone, I feel really awkward at church on wednesday evening, because I never really know who to talk to! And I gotta say that there's one thing I really have to agree with him: Hats are awesome! :D I never saw him without a hat out of school..

Favorite picture!
The pirat dance. (:

8) Daniel Gonzales. From Mexico (though resident in the US). Speedy Gonzales! :D (sorry..) I remember the first time I talked to him.. Or he talked to me. It was in chemistry class, and he had a piece of Milka chocolate, and turned around, put it into his mouth and asked: "Naa, are you jealous now?". That's actually kinda ironic when I think about that later I told him I'd give him a bar of this chocolate when we finally got our dance done. I can't really find any words to describe him.. He just makes random, crazy comments to everything and I don't think I had any serious conversation with him.. Maybe about dancing, Dubai and soccer but usually he's just making fun of literally everthing. When we were dancing together, and practiced for the lift, he'd just keep making fun. So I was like: "Daniel, we really gotta try this harder!" His answer would be: "Does your mother try this harder?". 'What?!' was the thing I thought after almost every sentence he said to me. One time when we did the lift and I couldn't hold the strain, he just turned around in a circle. I still have this video.. It looks hilarious! :D He's a good dancer though. One time in the very beginning of the dance practices we had to dance in front of the whole drama class watching us, and then I made a mistake.. That was kinda embarassing! :D And just like Victor he cares a lot about the way he looks. He's the only boy I know who goes to the gym every day, cares about the way his nails look like, and put a pink bandade around his toe at the night of the musical performance because he had a little black spot there. He's also a really honest person. When I said goodbye to him, I was like: "Well, maybe we'll see each other someday again.." I tried to make the situation better. His answer was: "No. I really don't think so."  I'll really miss dancing with him, it was a good time! So all in all I'm glad to know him whenever he's not wanting me to touch his legs (...) or making fun of something I say. :D

Favorite picture!
Good time in the car!

9) Nels Acquistapace. From Germany. He's the only foreign in this group (there's also Hauke and Timo, but I never really go to know them) that didn't go to Somerset Christian School. Still I feel like he really belongs to us. I got to know him at the Ski Trip. He went down a black, hilly slope with a snowboard. I took him like forever but well.. He made it! :D I remember one time I was texting with him on facebook and he was all like: "Yeah, when I'm done with school I wanna see the world". He named a few places he wants to see, and I was like "Well, I really wanna see the rainforest too!" He said: "No, I really don't wanna go there!" I answered: "Well, there are cool birds!". He never let me forget this. Even the last day I met him with a few others, and we were sitting at a table, and everybody said where they wanna go after graduation in ther countries, and Nels was like: "I wanna live in the rainforest!" Somebody was like: "What the heck.. Why?!" .. "They got cool birds!". Hahaha, he's just hilarious and really special. I don't know any other boy who likes going to the theatre, jazz music (especially "cheese cake" by Louis Armstrong), reading, and at the same time is still super funny. He's just awesome. Another thing that's really special was is old phone with an antenna.. and his car here.. He drove an old Dodge, and it was crazy. His left blinker was broke so every time he turned left he had to put his arm outta the window. It was a truck, so after it had rained, there was a small pool in the back and the whole car would shake when he stopped. I'll never forget that. With him I'm really certain about which moment was the best one! It was definitely when we went to see "The Avengers" together, and he said that they had two clips after the movie. So we waited for the first one - The first one was pretty good, I guess. Then we waited about ten more minutes for the second clip after the final credits and this clip was the worst ever... All the superheroes sat in a restaurant eating. And yes, that was it! Oh my, I can still laugh about that...

So I guess this is it - The most awesome people I EVER met! I just love them so much, and I will never forget them.
I swear, I can't wait for the reunion!