Sports Girl For A Day and Warm Salted Pretzels.

So I don't have much to report, but I felt like writing an entry anyway. I've filled my first diary up completely, so luckily I had another smaller one I can write in for the time being. (I'm going to need to buy a few big ones.) My sister gave me that diary as a present before I left and I've already filled it up with my thoughts in 3 and a half months. CRAZY.

So I have news on the camera front. It's ridiculously expensive to fix it over here, so I am getting a new camera. So in the next few weeks I'll be able to upload some pictures again. All of the pictures I have taken on the Wildenhayn's camera I'll burn to a CD and get them on the computer to. I have some really sweet pictures so I am really excited to share them with you!

Drama was good this week and we are talking about having more rehersals in a week so I am quite excited about that. I really feel like I belong there which is a great feeling. I have been doing more yoga exercises and running so I am really sore again today, but I think that has more to do with my running, although some of it is the yoga too. I'm able to walk up and down the stairs so that's good! It feels really good to be a bit more active again.

I had my first gym class in forever yesterday. I've only gone twice since I got here and that has nothing to do with me, but everything to do with my teacher. Here in Germany if a teacher is sick, busy with something else, or what ever then they cancel the class instead of having a sub. Weird eh? So I've been here for 3 and a half months and I've now had 3 gym classes and I am suppose to have one every Friday for 2 hours. To the teacher's credit we did have 2 weeks of Autumn vacation, 2 weeks of Prakticum, and I was gone for a few Friday's with Rotary functions.

I was really nervous to find out what we would be doing in our Sports class, because I didn't want to completely suck. I'm not a Sports girl. I can walk, run, snowboard, cross country ski, do yoga, but beyond that I'm not really good at many sports. So when I found out we were playing Badminton I was relieved, because I was actually decent at Badminton at school and I hoped I still had it in me. Guess what?!? I did!! THANK GOODNESS! So I actually did quite well and had a lot of fun playing Badminton. So gym class was great.

Then I went to Deutsch class where I just memorized more German words and because the next class was Math and they had a huge test I was taken to a different English class by two other girls in my Deutsch class. The teacher was a really sweet little, blonde, German lady. She was such a honey and had a cute British English accent. All of the students have British English accents it's quite cute.

The teacher often asked me questions if she said this or that right and I helped as much as I could. She said one word, tercet which I had never heard of and she wasn't even sure if it was a word. She spelt it like this: tercett and I had never heard it and since she wasn't even sure it was a word. I told her I didn't think it was a word. Well, one guy in the class got a little huffy and found it in his dictionary and made a bit of a point about it. I've spoken with this guy once. I think I might have mentioned it. He was the guy who asked me if I understood the music lesson and then tried to explain it to me in German when I didn't understand it.

Well after that he's made a point of ignoring me and then he did this in class. Oh and it didn't stop there. After class the teacher wanting to ask me things about my exchange, about Canada, and I answered all of her questions. He stayed behind after class and while she was talking to me he cleared his throat. I think she wanted to talk more, but after that she said goodbye and he also did, but not in a friendly way. The way he said it was more like get out of the room. Maybe he was just having a bad day, but I was stunned at how rude he was. I haven't done anything to this guy, I could hardly believe it.

I find as an exchange student sometimes we, well I can't speak for all of us so I'll say I, can sometimes take things too personally. Maybe that's what I did in this situation, or maybe he was just having a really bad day. So I'm just going to let it go, but it really got under my skin yesterday.

OH on a positive note I had my first German pretzel for supper last night! Yum! Katrin and Johannes looked completely stunned when I said I hadn't eaten a pretzel yet in Germany. Haha..they were quite yummy.

Today the sky is grey, like it often is and many of the trees have completely lost their leaves. It's much colder now, definetly winter weather, but it's nothing like Canada so I actually find it quite pleasant. I think it's hilarious how I have to carry an umbrella in my purse even though it's winter!

I slept in this morning and that felt really nice. I have really early mornings and late nights during the school week. So I feel much more refreshed this morning and my mood has improved. Everything seems a little bit more intense, or worse when your tired. So I've been keeping that in mind this week. I have some things to look forward to in the next few weeks and then a ton to look forward to as I am involved in a German Christmas. You have no idea how excited I am.

OH one more thing before I wrap this up. I am completely amazed at how comfortable I am around dogs now. (The dogs I know of course.) I have no problems going up to Mira, the black lab who I am currently living with, and petting her. It's a really wonderful feeling. I have never felt so relaxed around a large dog, EVER. So, it's been a really neat thing for me.

Well that's all I've got to say for now. Take care reader. =)