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!