Wheeeew, that was a wild ride, I´m just overpowered by well, actually a lot of things, but so how fast it all went, by how much I learned, how many people I met, where I´ve ben, what I´ve got for stories to tell, and everything else. It was really an unbelieveable time here in Germany that I´l never forget, and when at all possible, I´d like very much to come back and visit, maybe even live for a while, who knows.
This last week, I´ve been going around to parties and to the pool and everywhere, just to say goodbye to everyone, I had a great Abschiedsfeier going away party and a little sunburn and now it´s time to pack! I´m a little torn because I hate leaving Germany and my Hostfamilie and my new friend and everything, but I must say, it´ll be really nice to speak english again, to see family and friends, to drink real milk, to have sensible internet and shoppingcarts and lakes and whatnot, and just to be home again. At least until my parents start to go me on the nerven.... haha no, I´m actually pretty excited. But now I really should pack, there´s not much time left! and it´s also murderously hot, 37 degrees Celcius or something, maybe 40 in the sun! I don´t know what that is in Fahrenheit, but you can bet it´s "too damn sultry!"
I´m also having another party tomorrow, so a fourth of July thing, but also a going away party for the friday night sport club and oma and opa and the family thing. And today we´re all watching the Germany Argentina game! it´ll be pretty exciting!
Saturday, July 3, 2010
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Spance and Frain and approaching twain
Twain is not a joke about trains. Just thought I should put that out there. Boy, so lat time I told about Köln (Cologne) and that was a LOOOOOONNNGGGG time a go. or so it seems. Anyhow, I got the chance in April to go to Dresden with some friends, which was impressive. The buildings are splendorous, and almost every old one has a big ol´golden statue on top. That said, the "old ones" were mostly reconstructed after WWII. Our guide showed us pictures of the mittle of Dresden, and the famous Frauenkirche, and how in the DDR times, there were meadows there where sheep and cows grazed. Pretty unbelievable destruction. But now it´s all back, and they have a rule, like in many old citites, including Paris, that all new buildings have to at least look like they are old from an architechtural standpoint. It makes a pretty cool impression, and coupled with the crazy Dresdeners who walk around in renaissance dress and the Horse-drawn carriages, it´s one of a kind.
I also got a chance to go to Hamburg again, in that I participated in a Village Harmony workshop there, and saw a few people from the Green Mountains who I knew- Will, Patty, and Larry, and had a lot of fun. We sang Georgian, South African, and Shape Note songs, and I met three Germans who had worked on Hard Beat Farm in Hardwick. How small the world is... While I was there, the Hamburger Marathon took place, and I watched it from a balcony with very loud music. The firs guy ran the 42 Kilometers in just over two hours. haha. Amazing.
After that, I headed off to France with the French Class from my school in Germnay, and we stayed for a week in Western France, not far from Cholet, Angers, and Saumur. Istayed with a guy who really loved U.S. Rap music, and who could and did speak good English. I spoke French with the French, German with the Germans, and ended up dreaming one night in three languages. Not Recommended. We traveled a lot, and saw Versailles, cathedrals, botanical and Japanese gardens, an aquarium, the old port city of La Rochelle, and of course Paris and the Eiffel Tower. I even got to go to a castle, where my host´s uncle lived. Nice. It was pretty cool thinking that I got to go to France and Germany, even though it wasn´t with Madame O´Brien.
Anyways, now it´s Fathers´day, (Männertag) where in Germany all the men go bike-riding and partying, and pretty soon I´ll be off to Spain! It´s the end of school trip with the 12th grade, which I ALSO get to go on because I signed up in time and have quite a few useful connections. WELL, I´ve also started to plan my going away party, which is sad, but I think I´ll be glad to come home, at least for a while! haha, well,
Macht´s gut,
Theron
I also got a chance to go to Hamburg again, in that I participated in a Village Harmony workshop there, and saw a few people from the Green Mountains who I knew- Will, Patty, and Larry, and had a lot of fun. We sang Georgian, South African, and Shape Note songs, and I met three Germans who had worked on Hard Beat Farm in Hardwick. How small the world is... While I was there, the Hamburger Marathon took place, and I watched it from a balcony with very loud music. The firs guy ran the 42 Kilometers in just over two hours. haha. Amazing.
After that, I headed off to France with the French Class from my school in Germnay, and we stayed for a week in Western France, not far from Cholet, Angers, and Saumur. Istayed with a guy who really loved U.S. Rap music, and who could and did speak good English. I spoke French with the French, German with the Germans, and ended up dreaming one night in three languages. Not Recommended. We traveled a lot, and saw Versailles, cathedrals, botanical and Japanese gardens, an aquarium, the old port city of La Rochelle, and of course Paris and the Eiffel Tower. I even got to go to a castle, where my host´s uncle lived. Nice. It was pretty cool thinking that I got to go to France and Germany, even though it wasn´t with Madame O´Brien.
Anyways, now it´s Fathers´day, (Männertag) where in Germany all the men go bike-riding and partying, and pretty soon I´ll be off to Spain! It´s the end of school trip with the 12th grade, which I ALSO get to go on because I signed up in time and have quite a few useful connections. WELL, I´ve also started to plan my going away party, which is sad, but I think I´ll be glad to come home, at least for a while! haha, well,
Macht´s gut,
Theron
Thursday, March 11, 2010
The Adventures and Times of the Traveling Theron, or, Schwänzen
Wowsaheysee. When was the last time I did this? Quite a time, I have to say. Ähm, okay then, so where shall I begin?
The last week of January: I went to Austria for a family vacation, skiing in the Alps for a week. Madness. It was really just the coolest, we drove for eleven hours or so, stopping on the way for lunch at a resaurant built on a bridge over the Autobahn, so we could watch the cars zoomarooming past. I slept. BUT, as we came into Austria, and I was awake……..there still were no mountains. I slept some more. Then all these enourmous mountains started appearing all around us, so high, I could barely see the tops out the car windows when I layed flat, and my Host Parents chuckled. There were also several tunnels that went straight through the mountains, paying no heed of the hundreds of thousands of billions of rock tons above our heads. It was cool. There was also an amazing Castle, on a smaller mountein, looking out over the Autobahn. So anyways, we eventually came to our ski village, Kleinarl, Austria, near Wagrain. It´s a little less known, and that just makes it better, because there arent so many people, but there are still the biggest, most amazing and steep and impressive and rediculous mountains you´ve ever seen, with slopes a hundred meters wide, and more lifts than you could ride in an entire season, and the runs would last around ten minutes, if you skied like we did and… hmmm, the English is failing me here, so I´ll just say Durchgebrettert. Anyways, it was just really great, and the Schreibers were sohappy that I didn´t have to go to skischool, and fall alot and be a miserable skinoob, that I´ve been invited to come back next year! Super wowcool! Yeah!
So, we got back from a week of skiing, unpacked, swore we´d never put such crazy boots on again, and climbed in bed, but first I packed my bag for Denmark, where I went the next morning on a class trip with our Ethiks class. That was also really great. The Danes are an unbelievably nice, mild folk, who almost all speak very good English and fort he most par another language too. I did get a chance to speak English, which I must say was wierd, but I also learned some Danish, which I musst say was even wierder. I could read it, andalmost understand it, and by the end of the week, I could almost follow the conversation, and translate some sentences, speaking it on the other hand…whew! The only way I can desribe it, is if you mix German with Chinese, and then everything with a strong British accent. Really cool language. My hosts were also great, and we had a lot of fun going to school, bowling, playing dice games, and trading stories and musik. We also had a chance to go see a movie, Avatar, which was also great.
That was the first week of February, the second was vacation, and the third, I went to Austria again for another week of skiing with the 10th grade. It was also good, but certainly a lot less… Durchbrettern and a lot more teaching people to ski. Haha, but that was also really rewarding, and cool to do in another language.
I came back from skiing, and went to school. But just for one day, and it was my birthday, and that was really nice, the Germans are wicked übels serious about Birthdays, I mean, if you don´t come up to someone on their birthday first thing and wish them „Alles Gute zum Geburtstag,“ youré pretty much a terrible, heartless person. Haha, so that was good, and then the next day I went off to AFS Midstay for a week in Köln (Cologne) which was REALLY cool, especially the Dome. The Dome, The Dome. It´s probably the coolest building I´ve ever seen ever in my life. And it was built in the 13th century, and it´s so enourmously high, and so damn intricate. I can´t imagine that the workers, on their rickety twickety wood scaffolding hefting huge chunks o´finely carved granite around, felt anything but the scariest fright. I was afraid, and I was inside the thing, with wire cages and stone walls. But I´m also a little bit of a chickenbaby when it comes to heights… haha, bt really, this church was amazing, and I can´t imagine the country-bumpkin-farmer-peasants in the 1200´s and what they would have thought of this amazement park.
So, I finally got back to school, and back into my getting up at 5:30 routine, yes, I changed it from 5 to 5:30, now I just hustle a little bit more at breakfast, but I do admit, I miss the Cabot village style: get up at 8:00, go to school at 8:20, somtimes later…. Haha, maybe I´ll split the difference when I get back and get up at 6:30. Speaking of which, I should get to bed. Well, I hope everyones doing well at home,
Theron
The last week of January: I went to Austria for a family vacation, skiing in the Alps for a week. Madness. It was really just the coolest, we drove for eleven hours or so, stopping on the way for lunch at a resaurant built on a bridge over the Autobahn, so we could watch the cars zoomarooming past. I slept. BUT, as we came into Austria, and I was awake……..there still were no mountains. I slept some more. Then all these enourmous mountains started appearing all around us, so high, I could barely see the tops out the car windows when I layed flat, and my Host Parents chuckled. There were also several tunnels that went straight through the mountains, paying no heed of the hundreds of thousands of billions of rock tons above our heads. It was cool. There was also an amazing Castle, on a smaller mountein, looking out over the Autobahn. So anyways, we eventually came to our ski village, Kleinarl, Austria, near Wagrain. It´s a little less known, and that just makes it better, because there arent so many people, but there are still the biggest, most amazing and steep and impressive and rediculous mountains you´ve ever seen, with slopes a hundred meters wide, and more lifts than you could ride in an entire season, and the runs would last around ten minutes, if you skied like we did and… hmmm, the English is failing me here, so I´ll just say Durchgebrettert. Anyways, it was just really great, and the Schreibers were sohappy that I didn´t have to go to skischool, and fall alot and be a miserable skinoob, that I´ve been invited to come back next year! Super wowcool! Yeah!
So, we got back from a week of skiing, unpacked, swore we´d never put such crazy boots on again, and climbed in bed, but first I packed my bag for Denmark, where I went the next morning on a class trip with our Ethiks class. That was also really great. The Danes are an unbelievably nice, mild folk, who almost all speak very good English and fort he most par another language too. I did get a chance to speak English, which I must say was wierd, but I also learned some Danish, which I musst say was even wierder. I could read it, andalmost understand it, and by the end of the week, I could almost follow the conversation, and translate some sentences, speaking it on the other hand…whew! The only way I can desribe it, is if you mix German with Chinese, and then everything with a strong British accent. Really cool language. My hosts were also great, and we had a lot of fun going to school, bowling, playing dice games, and trading stories and musik. We also had a chance to go see a movie, Avatar, which was also great.
That was the first week of February, the second was vacation, and the third, I went to Austria again for another week of skiing with the 10th grade. It was also good, but certainly a lot less… Durchbrettern and a lot more teaching people to ski. Haha, but that was also really rewarding, and cool to do in another language.
I came back from skiing, and went to school. But just for one day, and it was my birthday, and that was really nice, the Germans are wicked übels serious about Birthdays, I mean, if you don´t come up to someone on their birthday first thing and wish them „Alles Gute zum Geburtstag,“ youré pretty much a terrible, heartless person. Haha, so that was good, and then the next day I went off to AFS Midstay for a week in Köln (Cologne) which was REALLY cool, especially the Dome. The Dome, The Dome. It´s probably the coolest building I´ve ever seen ever in my life. And it was built in the 13th century, and it´s so enourmously high, and so damn intricate. I can´t imagine that the workers, on their rickety twickety wood scaffolding hefting huge chunks o´finely carved granite around, felt anything but the scariest fright. I was afraid, and I was inside the thing, with wire cages and stone walls. But I´m also a little bit of a chickenbaby when it comes to heights… haha, bt really, this church was amazing, and I can´t imagine the country-bumpkin-farmer-peasants in the 1200´s and what they would have thought of this amazement park.
So, I finally got back to school, and back into my getting up at 5:30 routine, yes, I changed it from 5 to 5:30, now I just hustle a little bit more at breakfast, but I do admit, I miss the Cabot village style: get up at 8:00, go to school at 8:20, somtimes later…. Haha, maybe I´ll split the difference when I get back and get up at 6:30. Speaking of which, I should get to bed. Well, I hope everyones doing well at home,
Theron
Friday, January 8, 2010
The German Holiday season and die Waschbär Schnüte
Wow, so by now, I am a little late on my blog, but that´s only because there´s been soooo muuuuch going on! So I´ll start by wishing everyone a Merry Christmas, and a Happy Newyear!
The German christmas season (which is in full swing by the first week of Dezember) was really great, except of course for the musik, which is just as bad as at home, only the songs aren´t all understood with their sappy lyrics and silly maschines. SO. The germans have 3 or more days of Christmas- but as we all know the Germans love to party! Christmas eve (Heilige Abend), Christmas day (the first) annd then two more days. During this time, we eat so much food, and all the family comes together, and we exchange gifts. For the kids they get presents on the 25th, because Der Weihnachtsmann must come some time right? and the adults or later, the presents are exchanged on the night of the 24th. The stockings are done on the 6th of Dezember, on Der Heilige Nikolas Tag (the holy nicholas day) when the kiddies put their shoes on the window sill and wake up with goodies. On Christmas eve, we had Oma and Opa and all the family together for a big dinner of Würst and potato salad and all kinds of things that are deadly filling. We have recently aquired a Wii, and we all bowled and boxed and such and then we went to a small old stone church where there was a very nice reception and I played some music on the saxophone and then there was a little afterparty with hot cider and glühwein. That was very nice. the second day we went to oma and opas, and had another huge dinner. and we played German rummi and other games, like Müller, which is something like a mishmash of checkers and tic-tac-toe. On the third day of christmas, three french hens...nope. we went to Hamburg and saw Tarzan the musical, very cool, with apesuited people swinging through the audience, pretty great.
On Newyears eve, or Sylvester, I went to a party at a friend´s house where we set of tons of fireworks off (which are legal, and which everyone sets off at midnight in the middle of the street) and blew up a snowman. haha, that was a fun time.
The 2nd I went out in the woods with opa, my guestfather and his stepbrother and stepnephew and we chopped wood aaaaallllll day. It was a good thing. A little snowy, though! Speaking of snow: this year in Germany (and Europe) there has been extreeeeeme cold and snow, they usually don´t have so much, and they are all a bit flustered, and there are lot´s of accidents on the news.... but there´s only a foot or so. ANYHOW, we are expecting more later tonight! I think I must have brought it with me from Vermont! But that is a good omen for our ski vacation in Austria, which we go on in the last week of January. It was alos fun to introduce the other exchange students (from Bolivia, Italy, Thailand, Brazil) to sledding, snowman making, and snowball fights! and of course whitewashing! :0! haha.
Okay, well I´m off to sit next to the fire and read Harry Potter in German, which is going very well! It actually seems a lot funnier in German, I´m not quite sure why..... Okay people, Stay healthy, good luck, be happy, and .... make some new year´s resolutions! or something!
Theron
The German christmas season (which is in full swing by the first week of Dezember) was really great, except of course for the musik, which is just as bad as at home, only the songs aren´t all understood with their sappy lyrics and silly maschines. SO. The germans have 3 or more days of Christmas- but as we all know the Germans love to party! Christmas eve (Heilige Abend), Christmas day (the first) annd then two more days. During this time, we eat so much food, and all the family comes together, and we exchange gifts. For the kids they get presents on the 25th, because Der Weihnachtsmann must come some time right? and the adults or later, the presents are exchanged on the night of the 24th. The stockings are done on the 6th of Dezember, on Der Heilige Nikolas Tag (the holy nicholas day) when the kiddies put their shoes on the window sill and wake up with goodies. On Christmas eve, we had Oma and Opa and all the family together for a big dinner of Würst and potato salad and all kinds of things that are deadly filling. We have recently aquired a Wii, and we all bowled and boxed and such and then we went to a small old stone church where there was a very nice reception and I played some music on the saxophone and then there was a little afterparty with hot cider and glühwein. That was very nice. the second day we went to oma and opas, and had another huge dinner. and we played German rummi and other games, like Müller, which is something like a mishmash of checkers and tic-tac-toe. On the third day of christmas, three french hens...nope. we went to Hamburg and saw Tarzan the musical, very cool, with apesuited people swinging through the audience, pretty great.
On Newyears eve, or Sylvester, I went to a party at a friend´s house where we set of tons of fireworks off (which are legal, and which everyone sets off at midnight in the middle of the street) and blew up a snowman. haha, that was a fun time.
The 2nd I went out in the woods with opa, my guestfather and his stepbrother and stepnephew and we chopped wood aaaaallllll day. It was a good thing. A little snowy, though! Speaking of snow: this year in Germany (and Europe) there has been extreeeeeme cold and snow, they usually don´t have so much, and they are all a bit flustered, and there are lot´s of accidents on the news.... but there´s only a foot or so. ANYHOW, we are expecting more later tonight! I think I must have brought it with me from Vermont! But that is a good omen for our ski vacation in Austria, which we go on in the last week of January. It was alos fun to introduce the other exchange students (from Bolivia, Italy, Thailand, Brazil) to sledding, snowman making, and snowball fights! and of course whitewashing! :0! haha.
Okay, well I´m off to sit next to the fire and read Harry Potter in German, which is going very well! It actually seems a lot funnier in German, I´m not quite sure why..... Okay people, Stay healthy, good luck, be happy, and .... make some new year´s resolutions! or something!
Theron
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung and German Life
So now I´ve been in Germany for....no idea, 9 weeks? okay, 10 weeks now. and everything is still great. School is a little bit boring sometimes, but that´s okay. So yeah, my German is always getting better, Ifeel entirely comfortable speaking German, now it´s just a little bit uncomfortable to speak English, as my parents can tell you. Haha, I tried to teach them some simple phrases for asking to speak with me on the phone, and it was one of the funniest things I´ve ever heard. hahaa.
So since my last blog, I´ve been to Hamburg, it was lots of fun, really big though. I went with some other exchange students and a couple Germans, we did some shopping. sight seeing, and hanging around. Berlin, (Berlin I went to with my Guestfamily, and I walked around a lot in the city, saw the rathaus and the brandenburger gate, the crazy TV tower( i went up in it too, a 2 hour wait) and lots more.) a Markt, which is like a German fair, many parties, a candle factory, a Baumkucken factory, The Baumkuchen fabrik was also good, lots of free samples, like the Cabot Cheese factory. haha. the cakes are really cool, really tall, rediculously expensive, cool stuff.(Baum kuchen (tree cake) is a speciality cake from the city where I go to school)(look it up at www.baumkuchen-salzwedel.de), I´ve run some races and been in the paper, I´ve played the part of The Kaiser in Der Kaiser´s Neuer Kleidung (The Emperor´s new clothes) in the annual 11th grade class theater production, I´ve been to the movies twice (and understood the whole films), I´ve Learned that it´s very expensive to send packages over the ocean, and I´ve realized that I´m pretty much a German and always have been, and that my parents probably adopted me or took the wrong kid home from the hospital. hahaha. I´ve also started singing with a chorus, playing in a bigband, taking saxophone lessons from the sax player from the German band "Die Prinzen" (the princes), and taught several germans the T-Ron Dance,(the fast one with the waving arms in the air.) Of course I´ve been taking pictures of everything, but I need to find a way to put them online....hmm, I´ll ask.
I should probably say what that monstrous word in the title is: so, Geschwindig is speed, keits as a suffix is a state of being, and begrenzung is restriction, so put them all together and you get.....Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung, which is Speed limit. haha, you can also say Tempolimit, but it´s not nearly as cool. This kind of word is entirely normal, instead of having a bunch of separate words, they combine words together and make big ol´words, for example: orange juice concentrate is Orangensaftkonzentrat (saft is juice, and I hope you can figure out the other wordss... haha.
Last night we celebrated Thomas´s (my guest father) mother´s birthday, and I played saxophone for her and we all had a big ol´party dinner with all the family and friends and the whole shebang. that was fun, and I think there will be many more such dinner night machines.
so I´ve also signed up for everything. honestly, I´m going to Denmark, Austria for skiing with the school, maybe france, who knows what else. haha, I think I have... five days of school in February? hahaha, it´s a good deal. okay, well until next time, be well, do good work, and keep n touch.
Theron
So since my last blog, I´ve been to Hamburg, it was lots of fun, really big though. I went with some other exchange students and a couple Germans, we did some shopping. sight seeing, and hanging around. Berlin, (Berlin I went to with my Guestfamily, and I walked around a lot in the city, saw the rathaus and the brandenburger gate, the crazy TV tower( i went up in it too, a 2 hour wait) and lots more.) a Markt, which is like a German fair, many parties, a candle factory, a Baumkucken factory, The Baumkuchen fabrik was also good, lots of free samples, like the Cabot Cheese factory. haha. the cakes are really cool, really tall, rediculously expensive, cool stuff.(Baum kuchen (tree cake) is a speciality cake from the city where I go to school)(look it up at www.baumkuchen-salzwedel.de), I´ve run some races and been in the paper, I´ve played the part of The Kaiser in Der Kaiser´s Neuer Kleidung (The Emperor´s new clothes) in the annual 11th grade class theater production, I´ve been to the movies twice (and understood the whole films), I´ve Learned that it´s very expensive to send packages over the ocean, and I´ve realized that I´m pretty much a German and always have been, and that my parents probably adopted me or took the wrong kid home from the hospital. hahaha. I´ve also started singing with a chorus, playing in a bigband, taking saxophone lessons from the sax player from the German band "Die Prinzen" (the princes), and taught several germans the T-Ron Dance,(the fast one with the waving arms in the air.) Of course I´ve been taking pictures of everything, but I need to find a way to put them online....hmm, I´ll ask.
I should probably say what that monstrous word in the title is: so, Geschwindig is speed, keits as a suffix is a state of being, and begrenzung is restriction, so put them all together and you get.....Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung, which is Speed limit. haha, you can also say Tempolimit, but it´s not nearly as cool. This kind of word is entirely normal, instead of having a bunch of separate words, they combine words together and make big ol´words, for example: orange juice concentrate is Orangensaftkonzentrat (saft is juice, and I hope you can figure out the other wordss... haha.
Last night we celebrated Thomas´s (my guest father) mother´s birthday, and I played saxophone for her and we all had a big ol´party dinner with all the family and friends and the whole shebang. that was fun, and I think there will be many more such dinner night machines.
so I´ve also signed up for everything. honestly, I´m going to Denmark, Austria for skiing with the school, maybe france, who knows what else. haha, I think I have... five days of school in February? hahaha, it´s a good deal. okay, well until next time, be well, do good work, and keep n touch.
Theron
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Four Weeks
HaHa! So! I´ve been in Germany for four weeks and already englisch is hard for me, to speak is harder than to write, but you know... I speak only German here, and only spoke english on the first day, so that´s normale. so, her everything is wonderfull so far, my German Familie is awesome, I play soccer with my host father every friday night in the sporthall in town, and after school I play soccer with Lolle, our golden retriever. I have my own room, and two host sisters, who live away from home because they are older but come back once in a while, Kathrine is in college in Berlin and comes back on the weekends, Annika works in south germany.
A shout out to Madame O´Brien, I was able to do some translating and conversing with swiss and french exchange students who didn´t speak englisch or german, and another shout out to Mr. Tobin, I can understand the mathe here! a little bit, when I understand the directions...but also, I should just say that Rick Wakeman´s Journey to the Centre of the Earth is the best thing since pb and j. Schule is good, a little hard especially with german, bio, and history, but that´s to be expected. all classes are in 90 minute blocks, with half hour pauses in between, and I get out of schule at one o´clock on tuesdays and fridays. buuuuuuuuut I also get up at 5.00 AM every morning to catch a 6.20 bus for my first class at 7.30....... I know, right? unbelievable for Theron Late-Sleeper. Ha ha. oh, so my schule is half new age architecture, lots of stainless steel and glass, and the other half is hogwarts. red sandstone, huge fancy windows and doors, a big ol´staircase, and all the cutleries.
food is also good here, for breakfast and dinner we usually have sandwiches, and luch is hot but not when in schule, then we have sandwiches. it´s also really cheap here. and the bread is amazing. and look online for Döner. it´s my favorite.
I went to afield trip to the Bauhaus in Dessau, it was really boring at first because it was a boring woman talking, butlater when we saw the exhibit and made some of the paper art it was really awesome. really good stuff, look it up, man.
so! I hope everything is good in the USA with all you guys, I´m having a blast! okay, a couple more things: I went to a Kartoffelfest last night (potatoe festival) where there were all these crazy potatoe games like sack races and the boards where everyone has to put their feet on and shuffle around like in healthy start and I won a big bag of potatoes and had to dance on the middle of the floor with another exchange student from italien which was kind of crazy. a little bit. and the crowned a kartoffel künig, or potatoe king. haha, so much fun.
also, a thing I learned here: "Ich habe drei Här auf der brust ich bin ein bär, ich zeih sie weider immer aber sie werde nicht mehr." that translates, roughly, to "I have three hairs on my chest I am a bear, I count them again and again but there will be no more." hahahhahaaaaaaa ha. ha. hoooooooo. hehe. oh, and most importantly they call me ol´T-ron. actually. seriously. not kidding. the germans have trouble with the "th" sound so I tell everyone to call me T-Ron, and they do, even my host parents. hahaha. or T-Rex, or T-Bone. all are good, sometimes Terren oder Serren and once Teo, but mostly? T-RON! haha, cool. okay, and I also have pictures of everything, but I cant put them online just yet, i have no method. later i will though. Speaking of pictures, I showed the Germans pictures from my camera and of my dad and they all have said "Kuche mal! Der Weinachtsmann!" which translates to "look once! the christmas man!" and means " look, Santa Claus!" hahaa.
Okay then, I will go to bed I think, it´s a little bit, or mostly, late.
Theron
A shout out to Madame O´Brien, I was able to do some translating and conversing with swiss and french exchange students who didn´t speak englisch or german, and another shout out to Mr. Tobin, I can understand the mathe here! a little bit, when I understand the directions...but also, I should just say that Rick Wakeman´s Journey to the Centre of the Earth is the best thing since pb and j. Schule is good, a little hard especially with german, bio, and history, but that´s to be expected. all classes are in 90 minute blocks, with half hour pauses in between, and I get out of schule at one o´clock on tuesdays and fridays. buuuuuuuuut I also get up at 5.00 AM every morning to catch a 6.20 bus for my first class at 7.30....... I know, right? unbelievable for Theron Late-Sleeper. Ha ha. oh, so my schule is half new age architecture, lots of stainless steel and glass, and the other half is hogwarts. red sandstone, huge fancy windows and doors, a big ol´staircase, and all the cutleries.
food is also good here, for breakfast and dinner we usually have sandwiches, and luch is hot but not when in schule, then we have sandwiches. it´s also really cheap here. and the bread is amazing. and look online for Döner. it´s my favorite.
I went to afield trip to the Bauhaus in Dessau, it was really boring at first because it was a boring woman talking, butlater when we saw the exhibit and made some of the paper art it was really awesome. really good stuff, look it up, man.
so! I hope everything is good in the USA with all you guys, I´m having a blast! okay, a couple more things: I went to a Kartoffelfest last night (potatoe festival) where there were all these crazy potatoe games like sack races and the boards where everyone has to put their feet on and shuffle around like in healthy start and I won a big bag of potatoes and had to dance on the middle of the floor with another exchange student from italien which was kind of crazy. a little bit. and the crowned a kartoffel künig, or potatoe king. haha, so much fun.
also, a thing I learned here: "Ich habe drei Här auf der brust ich bin ein bär, ich zeih sie weider immer aber sie werde nicht mehr." that translates, roughly, to "I have three hairs on my chest I am a bear, I count them again and again but there will be no more." hahahhahaaaaaaa ha. ha. hoooooooo. hehe. oh, and most importantly they call me ol´T-ron. actually. seriously. not kidding. the germans have trouble with the "th" sound so I tell everyone to call me T-Ron, and they do, even my host parents. hahaha. or T-Rex, or T-Bone. all are good, sometimes Terren oder Serren and once Teo, but mostly? T-RON! haha, cool. okay, and I also have pictures of everything, but I cant put them online just yet, i have no method. later i will though. Speaking of pictures, I showed the Germans pictures from my camera and of my dad and they all have said "Kuche mal! Der Weinachtsmann!" which translates to "look once! the christmas man!" and means " look, Santa Claus!" hahaa.
Okay then, I will go to bed I think, it´s a little bit, or mostly, late.
Theron
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Badel, Germany.
Haha! I found out who I'm staying with: It'll be the Schreibers and in Badel, Germany, in between Berlin and Hamburg. It's a pretty small town- 500 people or so, but Svenja told me that it's a different kind of population count in that everyone lives in town, not like here where the nearest neighbor can be seven miles away... Ha, well, I'm getting ready to leave, it's only about a week and a half 'till takeoff!
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