=) Did somebody say pictures? =)

"Pictures!!! NO WAY!" *look of shock*

No way, there can't be pictures on Marita's blog. There haven't been pictures FOREVER and she still doesn't have her new camera yet. How can this be SO?????

Yesterday I was in Fulda with my Host parents and I purchased this card reader thing so I was able to put all of my pictures of the Wildenhayn's camera onto my portal hard drive. Woo hoo. OH and news on the camera front, it should be (crossing my fingers) be in my hot little hands on Monday. Then I will go picture crazy.

And you can also see a picture of this years Bunnyhug!!!! Hehehe.

So now, I need to go back in time a little bit. This was my first host family. This is Lutz my host father and marion my host mother.

You've already seen a picture of Stephan, so this is a picture of Jonas.

And now the moment all of you have been waiting for! This is ANTON. You've heard a lot about him, so now you can feel like you know him a little too.

This is the crest for Rotenburg an der Fulda. So now we are moving forward in time and saying Goodbye to Oberellenbach.

I know it's been a long time since Halloween, but I just had to show you the pumpkin that my new brother Johannes and I made on Halloween. (It was my second day in my new host family.)

The snow never lasts particularly long around here so I needed to take a picture while I could. My family also mentioned that it has snowed here more this year than it did all of last winter in Rotenburg. (It really hasn't snowed much, so I wonder how much snow I will actually experience here.)

The Europeans sure know how to wear scarves and I talk about scarves a lot, so here is a picture of one of mine that I bought over here.

This is the skyline in Frankfurt. Skylines are not common in Germany. I was in Frankfurt for my Rotary Cultural weekend.

And this is....dun dun dun da....THE BLAZER after Frankfurt. It's epic. You can click on the image to make it bigger and I don't know if you'll be able to see it, but up on the right hand side I have this diamond yellow sign with a kangaroo on it from Australia. I love it sooo much! OH and you can definetly see the bannannas from Ecquador! BAH I love them!

And this is the back of the blazer! Fun stuff!

This is the advent calender Katrin made for Johannes and I. It was so incredibly sweet of her!

This is a picture of an advent's wreath. In December, every Sunday until Christmas a new candle is lit. Today is the second advent so now 2 candles are lit, but when I took this picture it was only 1.

In Germany these things are really popular. (Weihnachtsmarkt pyramide) They are handmade out of wood and they can be really eleborate like this one here. You light the candles and then the centre piece moves around. It is soo cool. This was one at a really sweet toy mueseum here in Rotenburg. It is 150 years old. Pretty excellent!

So I don't know if you celebrate St. Nicholas' Day, but my family does. Although, not quite the traditional way. Here in Germany it is very common. On December 6th 'St. Nicholas' comes to all of the kids and fills their shoes with sweets. The kids have to clean their shoes or he won't come. So that's my stash of things!

And now I'll hit some highlights since we last spoke. On Thursday it was determined which crazy person I will play in the school's play. I will be Carla, so if you've read the book, that's who I am. Now that I know who I am and since we still don't have a script yet I decided to buy the German version so I can try to memorize some of my lines. I don't know what Herr Meyer is planning, but I would really like to try to do the play in German. Which of course is a bit nerve wracking for me. Memorizing lines in English is hard enough somtimes, but I am going to do this. The book came quite promptly and I already have it!

I also went to this really really cool toy museum in Rotenburg an der Fulda. It had a special Christmas display and most of the Weihnachtsmarkt pyramides and other things were around 150 years old. They also had this really SWEET giftshop. So I bought a painted metal thingy in the shape of a pretzel which I am going to sew onto my blazer, a super cute ornament for myself, and a nutcracker pin! So my blazer will have some new editions. Did I mention how much I love my blazer???? I think the blazer will be my favourite souvenier. <3

On Friday evening I went with Caroline to the Christmas market here in Rotenburg. I had a really good time. I ate some typical Christmas market things like fruit dipped in chocolate and a German bratwurst. The stuff at the market wasn't as cool as in Frankfurt, but the atmosphere was great, the food was good, the company was wonderful, and the large moving Weihnachtsmarkt pyramide was soooooo cool and the largest in Germany!! I have a picture of a Weihnachtsmarkt pyramide on this blog. It's the thing with the candles.

Then yesterday I was in Fulda and I had a mission. I needed to find boots. My runners aren't in good shape. I ended up finding some really cute ones so I was pleased, but I had a lot of trouble. My feet aren't usually difficult to find shoes for, but yesterday they sure were! Strange! lol, but I guess when you are looking for something specific it's always harder to find. We looked around a little bit at the Christmas market in Fulda, but we came home so Johannes wasn't all by himself.

So it's been a good couple of days and I have a pretty full day today as well, but I'll talk about that next time. Take care reader! OH YA and in my new profile picture you can see a new pair of gloves from my favourite store in Lethbridge, Edit. If you haven't been there and checked it out seriously you need to go. Eco friendly and fashionable! Thanks Joanne for the gloves!