Drama + A Castle = A Happy Red Blazer Clad Canadian

I haven't written in awhile, so I wanted to update everyone about the last week. I recieved a phone call from my parents on Sunday, which was so nice. I feel really good after having one of those phone calls. I also love being able to talk really quickly in English and use some of the slang words that I'm use to. Here if I speak English I have to watch my vocabulary so I don't confuse the person I'm talking to.

So I was back at school again this week. I've found that this week I am understanding more at school, than I did before I left for the camp. That was extremely encouraging. I still don't have a good idea about what's
going on in my classes, but I can understand a bit more.

Oh that reminds me! Before I forget I need to tell you that I had an entire phone call in German, with my neighbour's daughter. She's the girl who takes me to all of her classes. She talked really slow and I know my German grammar was terrible, but I was able to understand her and she was able to understand me. There was only one thing that she said that I didn't understand so she told me that in English. I was so proud of myself.

There is a boy from Brasil who is also hosted by my Rotary club and I saw him at school throughout this week. He got pretty homesick this last week and he wasn't doing too well. Homesickness hasn't hit me hard yet. There are definetly times when I feel some homesickness, but it hasn't slapped me across the face yet. I wonder when it will come, because I know that it will. He's doing better now. I saw him at school today and he looked a lot more like himself.

I went to my second Rotary meeting this last week. The Rotary meetings alternate between two locations so that it's easier for the Rotarians who live farther away to attend. I'll see the second location next week. However, back to the first location. It was in a castle. YES WAY! It was in a castle. Bahhh I was so excited. The food was good and the Rotarians, were all very nice. The presentation was about Insurance and it was all in German so I understood very little, but I was glad I was able to attend.

On Tuesday in my politics class the girl beside me passed me a note. It was all in English, but I answered in German. I really appreciated the gesture, because it can be a bit lonely at times. I'm never alone there are always people around especially at school, but no one who I've befriended. They are all friends of Theresa. They are good to me, but I haven't been able to find my own friends. The language barrier is definetly a problem, but I'm working on that.

I don't believe I've told you what my classes are. Here you go reader, these are the classes I am taking:

History
Politics
Art
English
Deutsch
Biology
Physics
Math
Music (Theory)
Sport (Gym)

I start school most mornings at 8:15, but on Thursday's Theresa has an early class so I have to be at school at 7:25. Monday mornings I get to sleep in because she has a spare, so I don't have to be at school until 9. Every day, but Wednesday's & Friday's I get off school at 3:50. On Wednesday's and Friday's I get off school at 1:30. I also joined a Drama production. So I stay even later on Thursday's. Drama goes from 4 to 6. (Thursday's are a little brutal because I am at the school from 7:25 am to 6 pm. OOOCHHHH....but I'll talk about how much I love Drama later, so it is worth it.)

So I am taking Art for the first time. I've always wanted to, but I never really got around to it. It's fun and I like it. I enjoy that class alot because I can actually do something. That's how I feel about Sport too. I'm able to do something so I look forward to those two classes. We are kayaking on the Fulda river in my Sport class. Pretty cool eh? I also enjoy English, because it is the one class where I know what is going on. The teacher often asks me questions, so I feel useful.

During the rest of my classes I work on my German. I try to listen to what the teacher is saying and when my brain is too exhausted from concentrating then I work on my German. I'm learning about 20 new words a day. I'm making sure that I can spell them, say them, and I know which article to use. (der, die, or das) When I have memorized them then I write them down in my notebook which will become my very own dictionary.

One interesting thing about school, is if a teacher is sick then class is cancelled. Weird eh? So I have had a couple spares this week because one of my teachers has been sick.

In my little village, the small grocery store had it's 10th Anniversary so my host father Lutz took me there in the evening and we watched a movie outside and ate bratwursts to celebrate. The German's definetly know how to make a good sausage. =)

Now I will talk about Drama. All the people there are great. They make sure that I know what's going on and I was able to participate in all the Drama games even though my German is very limited. They are going to make a play based on the German translation of the book I Never Promised You A Rose Garden, by Hannah Green. I have ordered a copy, but it hasn't arrived yet, so I haven't read it. Basically it is about a girl with Schitzophrenia. The director split us up into two groups. One group played around with a scene, and the other group I was in had to create a scene where the girl is hearing voices set to music. The music was so creepy. I ended up being the girl so I didn't have to say anything, but I was able to act which was excellent. I really wanted to prove myself. I think I did a good job. I also had to scream in the scene, so my throat is a bit sore today. All in all, I had a wonderful time! They are also planning a trip sometime in the fall which I am invited to go on. I am sooo excited!

I also found out when I will doing my presentation about Canada, myself, my family, and my school. It's on October 27. AHHHH. I hope my German is OK by then. Marion said that I could do the presentation in some German and some English if I wasn't able to do it all in German. I hope it goes OK. I do have some time though. Well that's all for now. Take care and try not to miss me too much. Hahaha. I miss you.

P.S. Forgive my atrocious spelling, but for some reason blogspot's spell check has failed me! Also, I'll explain my title a little bit. For my Rotary year I was given a blazer, because I'm from Canada it's red, and by the end of the year it should be covered in pins, keychains, that sort of thing. (It's going to be a pretty neat keep sake. If you want to check out a picture of it check out my blogspot profile.

A Brasilien Soundtrack

So...I'm back!! I got back from my Language Camp yesterday. I'll try to sum up all that's happened in the last few weeks. The Language Camp took place at Wasserkauppe which is the highest mountain in Hessen. In the winter you can ski and snowboard at Wasserkauppe and in the summer you can drive planes, go paragliding, things like that. We couldn't do any of those things for insurance reasons. So we stayed at a youth hostel. Although, I'm a bit confused to why they call it a youth hostel because people of all ages were staying there.

We ate in a Cafeteria 3 meals a day. There was one hot meal and the food was well cafeteria food. I can't believe how much bread I've eaten here. They eat a lot of it. I'm still trying to get use to having such a big meal at lunch and such a small meal at supper. I think my stomach has finally gotten use to the sparkling water.

OH that reminds me funny story. So half of us didn't know that we needed to bring our own towels. I was one of them, I had no idea where we would be staying. So they had to find us towels. Talk about embaressing! LOL They ended up finding us some very small towels, but they were towels so we didn't complain.

I also have another funny story. So I forgot something in my room. I retrieved it and then went to the bathroom. While I was in the bathroom. I heard the door close. I came out of the bathroom and I remembered that I had left the key in the door. I try to leave the room, but I was locked in! I couldn't believe it. Everyone else had already left and I was going to be late for a meeting if I didn't get out. So clearly I had no choice, but to try to jump out the window. Luckily it was manageable, but if it had been any farther I would have been screwed. One of the other girls had seen the key in the door and thought everyone was out, so she locked it. Dang that was embaressing.

Another thing was it was very cold there for August. It felt much more like late fall. So all of us had broughten summer clothes. So we pretty much froze. Luckily I had packed my long raincoat, a hoody, a pull over, 4 long sleeve shirts, and 2 pairs of jeans. The rest were summer clothes. It just killed me, because at my host parents house I had a lot of sweaters and long sleeve shirts I left behind. During our stay there was no chance to buy clothing so we were a bit cold.

During the week we attended our language courses in the morning from 9 to 12:30. There were 42 exchange students so we split up into 4 classes. (This Language camp was a combination of two Rotary Districts 1820 and 1860.) In the afternoons and evenings we had free time, more free time, and more free time. That was nice for the first little while to get to know everyone, but by the end of the two weeks we were a bit bored.

We went on two outings and one hike. We went to a village called Ostheim and to Point Alpha. Point Alpha was were the border that use to divide Germany was. It was neat to see, but very difficult to imagine. Lutz my host father and I talked about that when I got home. He said that he grew up with the border being there and even though it's been open for 18 years, it still feels strange to him.

Other than that some of the exchange students made a film. It's pretty funny. They planned a lot of it when half of us were on a hike, so I appear for a very short time in the movie. I'll post a link to it, when it's available.

We had a Cultural Buffet one night which was sooo good! The Canadians made Nanimo Bars. Woohoo! I love Nanimo Bars. That reminds me I forgot to mention I was one of 4 Canadians. The two boys were from Ontario, I was from Alberta, and another girl was from Quebec. The buffet was fantastic and they will be e-mailing us out all the recipes. Gosh I am so excited for all of those recipes.

We also had a camp fire and we had smores! A lot of people had never had one, so it was a really neat experience for them. I throughly enjoyed it. =) Nanimo bars and smores wow I was spoiled. Those were two things I was missing a bit.

Here is a list for where everyone was from: (There are more coming...)

4 Canada

2 India

1 Indonesia

1 Japan

1 Taiwan

7 USA

3 Thailand

1 Latvia

1 Chile

1 Ecuador

8 Brasil

3 Argentina

9 Mexico

So as you can imagine I heard a lot of Spanish, Portugese, and English when we weren't in classes.

I became close to a lot of girls who were in the other district so it was quite sad to say good bye. I won't see them again until the spring on the Europe Trip. I will see the people from my district every month.

So Wasserkauppe is quite small. There were a handful of tourist shops and restaruants. A group of us went rather frequently to a crepe shop in the village. One girl in particular from Thailand got at least 2 crepes a day there. I'm not kidding. When ever they saw us they laughed and smiled. We ended up being really good business for them. I definetely didn't eat two crepes a day, but when I got one, WOW were they good.

So you are probably wondering how my German is. Well the camp helped some, but it wasn't at all what I expected. I learned more words, but I still don't know how to organize a sentence. I can understand a bit more German than before, but I feel like I've also lost some of my German because there was so much English spoken at the camp. So that was great for people who didn't know English very well or Spanish very well because they had a lot of opportunities to improve it.

During our free time we played a lot of Sing Star which is a basically karokee on a playstation system. Some of the songs were German so there are a view songs I want to download really bad! (There is no wifi here, so I have to wait to download them to my i-pod.) You however have access to these songs so I think you should check them out!

Juli- Perfekte Welle

Revolverheld- Welt Steht Still

Klaus Lage Band- 1000 und 1 Nacht (this one is a little more old school)

Yesterday morning before we left Wasserkauppe we had to talk in front of our host parents and a few Rotarians in German. I was shaking so bad. I managed to spit out all of the dialogue I had memorized. We were all wearing our blazers and I definetly stuck out because of my bright red blazer. All the other countries have dark green, black, or navy. The boy from Taiwan had a reddish brown. The rest of the Canadians are in the other district. It was a sad goodbye because I had become quite close to the girl from Quebec. My blazer has some pretty sweet pins on it now. Hehehe. It looks GREAT.

Now that I'm back at my host family we are speaking a lot more German and I'm trying to answer in German. It is quite frustrating at times because I know what I'm trying to say, but I don't know the words. It can only get better though, so I'll keep trying.

I also recieved another package from home which included an adapter! WOHOO!! Now I can charge my I-pod. Currently it is fully charge and I have been enjoying my music this morning. =)

Oh before I forget I need to explain my title. I don't know if you've ever met someone from Brasil or not, but they really enjoy singing. When we were on a bus or just sitting around the hostel they would start singing Brasilien songs. Have you ever wanted a soundtrack to your life? I've always thought that would be sweet. So for those two weeks I had a Brasilien Soundtrack! Pretty cool eh? I thought so.

Last post before Language Camp.

Hello everyone. I will be leaving for Language camp tomorrow for 2 weeks, so you won't hear from me until I get back. I am quite excited! I will be meeting all the other exchange students in my district there. Pretty exciting!!

So I've now met everyone in the family. I met the older daughter Ann-Kathrin. She isn't home much because she is working a lot. In the fall she will go to University. Stephan has gone back to the city where he goes to University to look for work.

On August 4th, I went to my first Rotary meeting. There were a lot of people. It was definitely bigger than my Rotary club back home, but there weren't hundreds of people or anything. I think it was a spouses night though, so I'm not sure how many were Rotarians. I was outfitted in my red blazer, so you definitely couldn't miss me. Everyone wanted to meet me and they all were very good to me. That's one thing I have been so greatful for is the German people's kindness.

The meeting took place at a different location that usual. There was a presentation about Adam von Trott in a house which use to be his home. I had never heard of him before, but he was a man who belonged to an organization who tried to assassinate Hitler. The presenter spoke very quickly so I didn't catch anything she said. There was another man who talked every once and a while who spoke much slower, so I was able to understand him better.

The next day was my first day of school. I barely slept the night before, because I was so nervous. Lutz even had a lunch packed for me. That was so nice. I was taken to school by one of the neighbours. (Jonas is now going to a different school, not the one I am going to.) Theresa the neighbours daughter took me to all her classes. She was very good to me.

Differences I noticed at school:

1. The chalk boards can move up and down on wheels. I kid you not! Behind the chalk boards is a white screen for the projector.
2. Classes are more like discussions. The teachers and the pupils talk a lot more.
3. People don't need to be prompted to raise their hands. Many hands are in the air at all times.
4. Classes are different lengths from each other.
5. 7 classes in one day
6. School starts at 8:15 and goes to 3:50.
7. Classes are smaller. 20 pupils
8. Language courses far more advanced.

I'll explain this last point a little. For their first English class of the year in Grade 12 they had a discussion entirely in English about the concept of the American Dream. They were asked to make an acrostic poem about the American Dream in English. They were using and understanding words such as the new Frontier, Rags to Riches, melting pot, etc. The class was conducted in English and students spoke in full sentences back to the teacher. It was unreal...I was completely floored. This is why every one's English is so incredible. WOW.

That evening I called my parents and my sister. It was so great to hear their voices. We talked for about an hour and a half. It was really uplifting for me.

So school is a bit boring for me, because I don't understand what the teachers are saying. So I've developed a bit of a routine for myself. When they talk, I try to listen to what they are saying and try to understand them. When they ask the class to work, I work on my German. I have a great little dictionary that Tannis let me borrow. I make lists of words I already know, new words that I've learned, and words that I hear a lot but don't understand. So school is hard work. When I leave a class I usually have a head ache. I'm also quite tired a lot of the time, because it is exhausting trying to understand.

The next day I stayed at the school later so I could be involved in Drama. Gosh I was soo nervous. They are going to be doing a play based on the book, I never promised you a rose garden by Hannah Green. I am going to obtain this copy in English. (They are doing it in German.) So we'll see if I'm up to it and how my German is.

That evening Marion took me with her when she took Anton for a walk. (Anton is the dog.) We went through some fields and into the forest. It is so beautiful here. It was so nice to walk around. I'm use to walking a lot in Lethbridge and I haven't been walking as much here. I miss it.

It's official that dogs in Germany are so much friendlier than in Canada. I haven't had any problems. None of them have given me any reason to be afraid of them. Pheww...what a relief.

I never thought I would say this, but going to Gym was a relief. I was actually able to do something, and understand what was going on. That was soo nice. I had a pretty crazy adventure after school looking for a place to buy bus tickets. My goodness! I was sent from one place to another for about 3 hours. So I got a lot of walking in which was nice. However, it rained a lot during this time. BIG DROPLETS. So I was soaking wet. The weather changes very fast here, so in the morning I went to school in shorts, a tank top, my little white sweater, and a pair of running shoes. I didn't think I needed a jacket or an umbrella. Man oh man. Well it was an adventure. I never found anywhere that sold bus tickets, but Marion took me home.

Then I had a music binge, so my I-pod really needs to be recharged. The Spill Canvas is amazing if you haven't listened to them look them up! Seriously, you are missing out. Tomorrow is Language Camp I am sooo excited. Well I'll blog something in 2 weeks. Try not to miss me!

Odds and Ends

So I'll start off by talking about a few odds and ends I keep forgetting to mention.

1. As some of you know mosquitos love me. Well they also love me in Germany. Crap!
2. The curls are thriving, and love all of this humidity.
3. Around the village I am known just as 'the Canadian' Haha
4. I remembered everything, but an adapter. So I've had to limit how much I listen to my music. Luckily my parents are sending me one, because I can't find one here.
5. The belt and little purse I got from Edit have been so useful and environmentally friendly. If you haven't been to Edit and you live in Lethbridge, go!
6. Movies are so helpful when learning a new language. I've watched a few movies with German voices in the background and English subtitles. SOOOO helpful.
7. I wish my life in Germany had English subtitles. lol (I find I pick up more German and remember it when I watch German movies with subtitles.)

Differences I've noticed so far in Germany:

1. Carbonated water is more common to drink than still water. (The carbonated water also has a bit of a bitter taste.) I'm still trying to get use to it. When my family went to France I had some and I almost threw up. I couldn't eat lunch that day I felt so nauseas. So far I haven't felt that sick, but my stomach still has to get use to it.
2. Guys hear whistle a lot. I don't mean cat call whistling, but just random whistling to a song or something. As if to prove my point I just heard Jonas whistling in the hall.
3. Ice cream is much softer and there are way more flavours.
4. I've been eating a lot of bread. No black rye bread yet, but the bread here is different. The pieces are small and quite heavy.
5. Cheese and meat are common for breakfast.
6. I've ridden in more convertibles here than I have in Canada.
7. Apple juice is extremely popular. If you aren't drinking water than you are drinking a glass half filled with apple juice and topped off with carbonated water.
8. The windows are very different. There is this handle that you can turn 3 ways. Depending on how you turn it depends on how the window opens!
9. Architecture is quite different. Many half timbered houses.
10. Tons of solar pannels. They are literally everywhere. There is a solar panel farm in Oberellenbach. There are multiple solar panels on many roofs in Oberellenbach too.
11. Toliettes are different too.

Surprises:

1. The German language sounds much softer than I expected. When people talk normally it doesn't sound harsh at all.
2. Many people speak incredible English. Now I know why, so I will talk about that in another post.

Livin' the Dream

Last time I promised pictures, so here are some of my little village!! ENJOY.




The picture above is my first host family's house.




This picture has a funny story attached to it. I mentioned in an earlier post that I watched Shrek in German. Well one of the words I picked up was donkey which is der Esel in German. At the time I thought to myself, "Jeeze, I'm trying to learn how to communicate in German and I learn the word donkey. When will I ever use this word, why couldn't I have learned something more useful!" Well as you can see in the picture there are two donkeys and when I saw them I was able to say, in German, this is a donkey. So from now on no word will ever be useless, I learned a pretty good lesson. I'm glad I learned it this early on.




This is icecream. Yes I know it looks like Spagheti, but I swear to you this is icecream. Isn't that SWEET. I had to take a picture, I didn't think anyone would believe me if I told them that I ate icecream that looked like spaghetti.




This is the sign for my little village. IT EXISTS. I don't care what Wikipedia says, it does and it is uber cute. =) 400 people! What a change from 80 000. I'm digging it though.




This is just outside of the village. It's a field of sunflowers. You are allowed to go and pick as many as you want and all you have to do is leave 50 cent in a tin. Isn't that cool!! So I am definetly going to do that in the next few days.


I took pictures on a great day! You can't usually see this much blue sky. This is a picture I took as I was just walking back into Oberellenbach. Pretty eh?




Wooden sculptors are really popular in this area. There are quite a few in Rotenburg, but there are also a few in Oberellenbach. These are a few in Oberellenbach.




This is very typical architecture in Germany. Most of the buildings and houses in the towns and villages look like this. It is gorgeous! Everytime I come to Europe I find that I fall in love all over again. I've fallen in love with the architecture, the scenery, everything. Reading is also like that for me. When you read a book, a good one, you can't help, but fall in love. (With something: the characters, the writing style, something like that.) I know I'm goofy, but that's why all of you love me. =)




I took a picture of the sky that day, because that's the bluest I've seen it since I got here. (That was the bluest part of the sky. There were other bits of sky around me that were all grey.) I took the picture, because I didn't want to forget what it looked like. Silly eh? Hahaha.

Bruised and Sore!!

So, my hands and wrists are pretty bruised from volleyball. They are less tender than yesterday, but OWWWWW. I'm not cut out to be a volleyball player!! It was fun though, so I can see more bruises in my future. Haha, I guess I just have to toughen up a bit.

I slept SOOOO good after playing volleyball. I woke up to the clang of the church bells. The church bells ring every 15 minutes, but they don't ring from 10 pm to 6 am. THANK GOODNESS. Well I thought I had woken up to the church bells at 6 am and I was thinking Oh this is not happening. I was pleasantly surprised when I looked at my watch and saw it was 10 AM. I had slept like a stone since 11 PM. Maybe the bruises are worth sleeping through the night! LOL

I had some breakfast and Stephan told me that there was a big village beach volleyball tournament. Stephan and Jonas were on a team so we got there and they started to play. Of course I didn't know anyone, so it felt a bit strange being there. It was fun to watch the volleyball, but I was relieved when Stephan and Jonas were finished.

There were a couple of times when I was by myself there that I just wanted to melt into the ground. The first thing was there was this guy that kept looking over at me, and we made eye contact a few times. Then he started to come over to the table where I was at. I just about died....I was looking straight ahead at the game. He sat down across from me and went through his bag and then left. He didn't say anything and I'm not sure if he was going to. I was so embarrassed. I felt bad, but I wasn't sure what else to do... There were a couple of other things like that, but those moments are over now. So it's okay.

A girl from Rotenburg an der Fulda is going to Calgary with Rotary. She leaves this Thursday. Her family is my second host family. I've mentioned her before. She had a goodbye party and she wanted me to come. So I went and we had a good time. We had a picnic, played some games, watched a movie, and went canoeing. I'm feeling the canoeing today! LOL My shoulders and butt hurt.

I came back to Oberellenbach (this is the name of the little village I'm in) and Stephan took me to the village party for the volleyball tournament. If you Wikipedia this village, there is apparently a page that talks about how it doesn't exist. It does, promise promise!

Today I visited a castle and just hung out with my host family. I will be starting school on Tuesday. Gosh I'm scared...it'll all work out, but my German needs a lot of work. I've got a pretty massive dictionary to help me out and an excellent phrase book. THANKS TANNIS! It is sooooo useful. Reality is setting in now that I'm going to be gone for a long time. I'm trying really hard not to think about that.

This is a bit random, but I find myself comparing how people look or act to celebrities. I think I'm doing this instead of comparing them them to people I know, because that would make it hard. I think I'm trying to find familiarity, so I find comfort out of these comparisons.

Overall I'm OK, a bit beat up, but this too shall pass. Thanks for the comments =) I miss all of you a lot. Pictures will come soon. I took some nice ones of the village today, but I'm dead tired so I'll take care of that later.

The German Boa!

Guten Nacht (Good evening)! It is me! I managed to stay awake or the first day, after I wrote my post. I actually managed to stay up until 10 pm. Go me! Then I slept until 1 pm the next day. There were a few interuptions like the dog, the church bells, and Jonas trying to shut up Anton. Overall though, it was much needed rest.

I didn't mention my host family in the last blog will talk a little about them now. I was picked up by both of my host brothers at the airport. They found me right away--thank goodness! Their mother, Marion, made a sign for them, but they didn't use it. However, Stephan had looked at the pictures I sent with my application, so he knewwhat I looked like. The greeting at the airport was warm. Both of them hugged me, which was a suprise. I wasn't expecting that, but it was nice. Stephan is 23 and speaks perfect English. He is always suprising me, because he knows English so well and is able to speak and understand more complicated phrases. He is very friendly. He is so funny, we get along really well.

Jonas is my age, and his English is also quite good. We talk some, but Stephan and I tend to have more to talk about together. Jonas is also quite kind, and drives me everywhere. I have to say, though that it is quite strange having brothers. I'm still not quite use to it. So far we are getting along just fine.

My host parents are quite nice too. Their names are Marion and Lutz. I have a hard time pronouncing Lutz in German. lol. Believe me it is more difficult to say than it looks! We are speaking English with a bit of German for the first little while so we can get to know each other. We have now started speaking more German. Lutz thought we should stick sticky notes all around the house so we did that. I feel very much like a child here. I do understand some German, but not alot. So not only do I feel inteluctually like a child, but I also have to completely trust them for everything. It is a weird feeling especially since I will be considered an adult in September. Very strange...

I met Marie, who would be my host sister, but she is going to Calgary on a Rotary exchange next Thursday. Both Marie and her mother are sweethearts. I met them yesterday at their home, just to talk and they took me to another village near here for the day today. It was quite fun.

I came home to Lasagna courtesy of Stephan. (He is a good cook.) I'm less nervous that I will gain weight here. This is a huge relief. I was quite nervous about that. Then we went out and played beach Volleyball. They have a sandpit in this village where they have set up a net. It is quite nice. But as most of you know, I am not really into sports. I played though. I'm quite sore! Volleyball HURTS! I played with Stephan and a friend of Jonas' named Thomas. Thomas was also quite good to me, but he was nervous speaking English. He was very encouraging even though I'm very bad at volleyball. They both made me laugh a lot. We played against some local girls who were fun.

I understood some of the German and they were all quite funny so I lauged alot. My face hurts from laughing and smiling. My arms, wrists, and fingers hurt from volleyball. I didn't sleep very well last night, so I'm getting tired. I hope this little volleyball excursion helps me sleep.

I will now explain my little title. When we were driving to the other little village there was a man on a motorcycle in front of us. On the back of this motorcycle was a feather boa with the colours of the German Flag. It was super funny.

Before I go I have another funny thing to add. I watched Shrek in German. I didn't understand much, but I never realized that the donkey talked so fast! Jeeze... I will write more in the days to come.