Monday, February 16, 2009

Parties with exchange students, bowling and shopping in a mall!

Happy Presidents Day people in Germany! That's why I was off school today, and not, because the teachers didn't want to teach like in Germany at the Karolinen-Gymnasium ;P

So again a little (it's gonna be less each week, I mean, it's school overall and not too interesting to hear about) update on my school life: The week went fine, with me actually managing to get a 80 % in my one physics quiz! At the moment I'm doing very well in every class and having no problems, I'm on straight A's through all classes besides Math (1. test was a C, 2nd one a A and he doesn't give grades other than the tests, but I'll fix that B ;)) and Physics, which is a C at the moment, but I'll certainly be able to get tthat up to a B, even if it's my hardest class, and my teacher has the reputation that his tests are unpassable :O. Actually I'm enjoying school a lot, since I don't have any classes I don't like, like I had in Germany , and most of my teachers are very nice. The most fun class is physics though, just because Mr. Clark has a very fun way of teaching (even if the material is very hard) and it's interesting, but I also like Math (of course ;D).

I think that's good enough for the "boring" stuff ;D Let's get to the more interesting part again the weekend *cheer*

Friday was a pretty normal evening, with only Sol, me, Little Lou (Lou's son for those who don't remember, I mentioned it in some other post), his friend mat and later another friend of him who I don't know the name of anymore ;). Little Lou promised me + Sol to take us paintballing when it gets warmer and I'm really excited about that, it should be a lot of fun :D. Zac wasn't there because he was at his fathers on friday (public schools had friday of (-.-")), so there weren't any more people my age besides Sol and me, but it was fun playing some pool and also some darts (I didn't even realise they also had a dart board in there before this weekend, but that's because they never used it, since nobody's really good at it ;)).

So now for saturday and the (Valentines (it had nothing to do with that really...)) party! Saturday started off quite boring though, preperations for the party had to been done, so I cleaned my room (well it wasn't too bad, but it wasn't bad I picked it up and cleaned it either ;P), vacuumed the living room and helped to clean the garage a little. But then the party: Sol and me actually invited a lot of people from AHS (Andrean High school, that abbreviation will now be more frequently used, since I don't want to write the full name ...), but Valentines day was apparently not such a good pick, since many people did stuff with their girl- + boyfriends, which they had told us, so we know there weren't too many to show up (3 people from AHS ( 2 left early), 3 from MHS (merrillville ...), + 1 from MMS (... Middle...))
Big Korean guy: Tommy; Big guy on the right: Zac from MHS, Asian in the middle: Alan from Hong Kong; On the left: Georeg + Lucas from Brasil; in the back left: People from spain/mexico

The picture shows pretty good that it was quite crowded though, because we had invited all the exchange students from AHS (and some from different schools) who were at the meeting I told you last week about. So the party didn't turn out too bad, though (like I had guessed when we invited all the exchange students) it was a lot of little groups that all spoke in their language (Korean/Spanish/Portugese), no other Germans though, just a girl from Belgium, but I wouldn't have talked German anyways, since I'm in the US at last, so there's no point :/ That kinda sucked, but still we had a lot of fun especially me, the kids from MHS/MMS/AHS and Dae Song (hope it's right like that ^^) another korean who wasn't speaking korean all the time (YAY! ;P).

From left to right: Me (ignore the stupid grin there please ;P), Lauren from MHS (she was in the post last week already) and Dae Song from MHS

Legendary was the moment when suddenly German Polka music started playing and I was made to dance to it (Most people at that time were in the house watching a movie, so they didn't see my miserable performance ;P), as you can guess I was really bad, but hey it was fun (probably more for those watching ^^) , even if I managed to brake a sign in the Garage (I really didn't mean too, I'm just too large for that garage ^^). I hope nobody got pictures of that ;P.
Charyl (one of the three girls from AHS) and me
Me, Lukas (a guy from Brazil) and Sol ducking down, scared of the camera ;P

The party officially ended at 12, but some people stayed overnight, so it went on to about 2 with that people (Sol and me ofc, Maryan (Ecuador), Lucas (Brazil), Tommy (Korea), Dae (Korea), John (Brazil) and Zac + Jun Hi of course, since the boys slept at their house). We went over to Zacs house at about 2 and went to sleep at about 4 (Dae, me and Zac sleeping in zacs room).

The party was officially over on sunday, but since the people who stayed overnight were staying a little bit longer, we had some fun playing Zacs video games and some Football (really fun, even if my team lost with 3:5 touchdowns) after getting woken by the smell of the breakfast (actually just Zac who then woke us, but hey ... ;P) at 8:30 (!). The day just kinda "drifted along" with dae, tommy and John (all living at the same host family) first being picked up after dinner, playing football a lot (just the one time with teams though), and later the day going back to the Garage to play some more pool and hang out.

But the day wasn't over yet :) After Tommy, Dae and John had left, Zac, me , Jun Hi, Bill (Jun Hi's host dad), Erin, Rachel (you should know them from last week, they're (respectevily) from MHS/MMS) and Chris (a gay (yes, I was scarred at first too (really ;P), but he turned out to be quite normal (most of the time ;P)) friend of Erin/Rachel) went bowling. We had to wait 45 minutes for a lane though, and just were able to do one game, but it still was alot of fun. I definately did my worst game for some time though, scoring only 92 points (my best was 153 once, and normally at least a hundred), but my team won by 3 points at the end, since we had Erin, who plays in the bowling team of MHS, who scored about 180 points on her own :O.
After we went back, I decided to sleep at zacs house again, since one of his other friends wasn't allowed to come over so he wanted somebody to hang out with. We fell to bed at about 1 o'clock after being really exhausted of the party and the football the next day after just having slept about 5 h.

Monday again wasn't a pacticularly quiet day either. I left Zacs house at about noon to head home, but at about 2 o ' clock I left again: Jun Hi, me, Erin, Rachel and Chris (btw: I know all the gay jokes that you guys are gonna write already, so please don't do it, that's not very nice ;P ;D) again went to the mall. (Sols legs were sore (no idea why, but...^^) and sadly there was no more room for Zac (you seriously need to plan 2 seats for him ;P). We had some fun there walking around, and I actually feel ashamed that I managed to spend 100 $ :D : New shoes/a shirt with the american flag (hey, I need souvenirs ;P)/a american eagle sweater (I didn't know it was a name brand, but I guess I should have guessed, since it was 30 $ and already marked down from 60 $ ;P) and 300 more minutes for my phone + something to eat. Jun Hi was riddiculous though, he seriously was shopping exactly like the stereotype of a girl shopping is: Trying on 123949 million different clothes, just buying name brands, stopping at every single store but just buying 3 pieces overall O.o, not even chris (who you would maybe expect to shop that way) or the girls were that picky or took that long. We left the mall at about 7:45, with Chris and Jun Hi stopping random people to ask them which shoes (they both bought new ones) they liked better. Somehow Jun Hi managed to win with a total of 6 people voting for him and 5 for Chris ;D.

Since I came home I have been writing this blog, so it took a long time, you should be thankful of how much time I spend for this ;P

I hope this entry was somewhat understandable, since it were a lot of different names from different countries a lot of places and if you somehow weren't able to understand anything write in the shoutbox, I'll try to explain :)

The End, with another picture:

Pool!!!!! ;D


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