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Looks Cool doesn't it? ;) i like this picture alot I'm Tarzan oh yeah ;) Jk read later where this was taken... ;)

Oh yeah, a 4-day awesome, awesome, awesome Weekend just ended with a last part of awesomeness haha, that's why my blog is one day late, I don't like writing an entry and then missing part of the awesomeness that happens ;)

So here we go: A week of school :O More or less boring, but I got to see two interesting things, besides the usual people hanging out like almoust every day now, due to the less serious school, due to the upocming end of school ;) : On Tuesday the Merrillville Orchestra performed and I got to see it together with Ryan, that was fun! :D They're actually pretty decent too, and I played 3 of the songs they performed before ;D : Mambo No. 5 ; Slovak Dance by Dvorak and a Waltz, of which I totally forgot the name already haha. I went together with Ryan an Erin's family and Ryan and me had alot of fun watching all the people we knew, play (Lauren, Erin, Paul Crowley, Monika, Katherine), and we were the ones clapping the loudest and longest, oh yeah! ;) At the end we were also the ONLY ones giving standing ovations, that was kinda embarassing, but it's all good as Ryan would say :D

Besides that, Thursday night I went to see Lauren play Softball ! That was fun too, they dominated the other team though kinda, they won like 21:4 or something riddicolous! :) It was really fun though and I got to show my skills at cheering again haha, compared to the tennis match the people at softball actually were loud :P Lauren played 3rd base and in the end pitcher, and even though I really don't have too much clue of soft/baseball it looked good I guess, so I'm just gonna say she's very good :P On Thursday, since AHS (bc of Prom) and Lou were off Friday, the garage was open of course, but nobody really was there so I just went to bed early to be prepared for the next days ;)

Lauren, Thursday night after the softball game, still in her uniform

Now the awesome weekend! I'm even gonna go so far and say, that it was the most fun weekend so far, just from the stuff we did (not really the garage this weekend, it was alot of fun too and quite some crowds, but the other stuff was more interesting this weekend :D).

Friday:

A day off, no school!!!! Yeah, fun! ;D I hung out with Ryan all day pretty much (he's homeschooled, Idk if I told you that yet, so he doesn't really need to attend school at certain times...) and we had a lot of fun :) We started walking to downtown Crown Point at about 11 and reached "the square", after having stopped at Dairy Queen for some ice cream (Yummy! ;D), after a good hour and a half :) There we checked out the "courthouse" and the shops in there, Ryan got a haircut, we went throught the little museum in the courthouse for 50 ct (it actually was pretty interesting, for example an Astronaut who was in the ISS is from Crown Point...), walked into a bar and didn't get kicked out (haha, that was funny, ofc bars are 21+ but apparently nobody really cared at 1 PM ;)), talked to a old guy in his modell train store about how he used to be in Germany with the airforce and liked Trier (he was pretty cool haha), checked out the millions of antique stores on the square and got some Hot Dogs :D We had a lot of fun and walked back at about 2:45 PM, when the Merrillville kids were just getting out of school, haha ;P We reached our subdivision at about 3:30 hung out with Erin for some time, before we headed off home and waited for the night in the garage to start :P

It took some time to get it started (even Zac was late :O) but we then had a pretty big crowd there (it was so funny, I was txting Lauren and telling her she needed to come , because nobody was at the garage, so then, when I walked to get her (she actually was grounded, but was allowed to go because she had cleaned the whole house all day so she could go ;)) everybody showed up and when we got back the garage was filled up pretty good already haha :)) People there were: Lauren, me, Paul Crowley, Erin and Katherine (came late that night), Zac and his Buddy Devan, the Stephen guy and his buddy Jon (new! ;P), Colin (a guy apparently living in our street, he rides the bus, no idea why he never was there before), Ryan ofc and even Andre showed up for some time later that night :D We had tons of fun, but my camera was out of batteries that night so only one picture ;P

Crowley with, ... Lauren's purse ;P

Saturday:

TONS OF FUN!!!!! :D Yay that day really was fun, we (Lauren, Erin, Ryan) and me had planned to go bike riding the night before, so we started that at about 2 PM (even though Ryan and me started gearing up at 12 lol, Erin took like 2 hours to get ready O.o). We went, after a quick stop at CVS for some minutes and batteries for my camera (important ;P) (lol I'm not kidding you, Ik all the cashiers there by now and they like all know our group and say hi ;P), to the bike trail I had gone on for a ride quite some time ago. We biked all the way to Griffith High School, stopping at a fun Ice Cream store on the way, scraming very loud in a tunnel (haha :D), checking out a cool bridge (the first photo, remember?! ;D), doing some random stuff and saying WHAT'S UP? to everybody we met on the way :D.

Biking is fun :)

AWW RYAN IS GOING TO FALL!!! Haha jk, the bridge was fun! And I like the lighting in this picture ;D

Ice Cream Store :D
Griffith High School :D We randomly met Erin's cousin Rachel there btw ;D
Oh yeah, Umm can someone explain to me the point of the Stop Ahead sign 10 feet before the stop sign?! ;)
End of bikeride, Ryan, yeah, he is out of the picture kinda ;)

As you can see, we had alot of fun and it was pretty frickin' awesome :) We got home at about 6 PM...

But the day was far from over after this :D Sol's Bday party was that night so we all headed home changed clothes and showered (yeah I was pretty dirty after half falling into the stream under the bridge (yeah I kinda left that part out on purpose ;P)) and met up again at like 8 o'clock. Besides us 4 actually quite the crowd showed up :) : LouLou (yeah Idk, Sol's best friend (Korean exchange student), her name apparently is unpronouncable so everybody just calls her LouLou haha), Maise and Meghan (Ik them from music class! :>) Kenisha (History), Shelby (History and Homeroom lol), Bryonna (Idk her but it wasn't my party either haha), Saskia (Exchange student from Germany Sol knows from different tripy by the organisation), Big Bryan and his buddy Greg, Zac ofc and Little Lou and Missy all showed up so it was good times :D, even though Erin, Lauren, Ryan and me had to run to CVS really fast at some point, (since Lauren had forgotten to buy a card :O), but we pretended it was for Energy Drinks ;P No pictures really, because umm, Idk ^^

Lauren and Erin at the party... I took like 5 pictures that night and this one was the only one that turned out kinda decent...

Sunday:


MORE FUN!!!! :) After Sandy got home from church that day her, Lou, me, Sol and Erin (Okay would have brought more friends ofc, but Sandy didn't want me to, but that's okay of course :)), went to the beach of Lake Michigan :) It was lots of fun, even the water still was ICY cold :P Erin and me still did some water splashing and then ran up the sand dunes to get warm (that's harder than it looks, okay ;P) . The beach looks just like one on one of the oceans and there really is no difference, besides that this water is sweet no salty ;) After that we had some KFC chicken (yummy ;D) and then went off to go for walk in the woods that were right by... It was alot of fun overall and we spent about 5-6 h at the beach and in the woods right there. I won't upload that many pictures really, for those interested, click here , that's the pictures Lou and Sandy took with their camera, they got a picture server they upload it to...

The Lake...

One of the Dunes :)...
...up on the Dune :)

The day of course wasn't over yet, since Monday was off too for us, so here the short story: After some dinner at Ryan's house (Barbecue #1 ...;)) , not many people at the garage, only Erin, me, Ryan, Zac, Kathrina and Jeff, and Ryan's brother Kyle showed up but it still was good, especially since Ryan, Erin and me headed off to Ryan's house later that night and just hung out around a camp fire they had going on :) We didn't leave that till 12 AM and it was just good to chill there together with Ryan's older brothers Cameron and Kyle ;)



Monday:

Happy Memorial's day! Think of all the men fallen in wars, that's what it's about pretty much, so Lou took me and Zac for a trip to the "Munster War Memorial", a big memorial "garden" which is pretty cool, and they had some speeches there and a marching band playing... It was pretty cool and it was pretty sweet seeing all the patriotism you would NEVER EVER see in Germany... :/ Yeah not much to say about it really it was pretty cool though :>

WWI memorial part
The celebration part with cannon shots that day

"The forgotten War" memorial (Korea ;))

At the end of the walkway this was put up, just read it I thought it was kinda cool ...

But that's not all that happened today, after we got home, I started planning another trip to the movies, but because of various reasons (don't even ask haha american Teenagers kinda problems of people txting NO! YES! NOT WITH HIM/HER! OH YEAH! DIFFERENT MOVIE! NO! YEAH! LET'S GO! NO! WHATEVER! at the same time to each other ;P) that didn't really work out haha. Anyways Erin, Ryan and me met up and then walked to get Lauren (this time we had to wait for her changing and getting ready like 15 min, but that's okay haha(, before we just walked around the neighborhood and CVS of course (Donuts and Chocolate lol) and had lots of fun just doing random stuff (like I gave some of the Donuts to some random kids on the street, Lauren was cracking up on that very bad ^^ or we talked to some nice, unknown people playing Bags). We then went off and had dinner at Ryan's place again (another Barbecue :D). It overall, even though we didn't manage to go to the movies (that seems harder in the US than doing ANYTHING else ;P), was LOTS of fun and one last picture of our little group at the barbecue, will be the end of this EXHAUSTING weekend :)

Lauren, Ryan, Erin and Me (yeah mine and Ryan's faces look... interesting ;P In the background is one of Ryan's little brothers btw, it's Nicholas...)

THE END!!!!!


P.S: I'm SO tired this weekend, you can't belive it, 4 days in a row with more or less a lot of exercise and not enough sleep each night (okay actually probably enough, but Idk ... ;P), so I'm going to sleep right now so I'm not dying tomorrow in school (I will anyways, I'm ALWAYS SO tired ins school here, getting up at 6:15 still just feels wrong ;P)

PAINTBALL!!! I love it :D Oh and the garage (not enough people there this weekend!!!)...

SIR, YES SIR! Camo is cool ;)

But let's start from the beginning :) On monday I had to go to school again and I was so tired again from getting up at an time, that's just not made for Humanity to be awake yet ;P But I had to wake up fast, since till Wednesday I had 4 Tests and 2 Quizzes scheduled for Friday :O AHHHHHH!!!! THAT'S NOT VERY NICE, TEACHERS! JUST LETTING YOU KNOW ;P And the sad thing was, the only thing I didn't have a test in, was music -.-" That's the only class I don't even dare to look at the notes (Okay I don't take notes in that class, I admit :P It's just too stupid to write something down I already know (although some stuff is called differently, but I can hande that ^^)), since it's so easy :O It turned out to be quite okay though on Friday, I didn't really struggle in anything or something like that, I think I did quite good in everything :) (Yes, even Physics this time, I don't know what happened to Mr. Clark this week but he must have been very happy or something, since he gave us problems that were actually doable without your brain melting ;) )

But again let the interesting part beginn :D : The WEEEKKKKEENND! I was so glad the week was over after that Friday! ;P I still got random chunks of information mixed from 6 different subjects (Something like F=qvB*sin(Angle between them), Allude=refer to casually or indirectly, The 3 theological virtues are Faith, Hope and Love and the Potsdamer meeting of the leaders of the allies in WW2 actually was the beginn of the seperation of USA/britain and Russia which eventually led to the Cold War :O ( k that'y only 4 but I think you get the point :P) Anyways (how come I used aprox. 5 lines to express one short sentence?! :O ;D), Friday:


Only Erin, Zac and his cousin Tony (n/c on him he is a very ... interesting ... guy ;P) + ofc me and Lou were in the garage :/ WHAT HAPPENED TO ALL THE PEOPLE?!?!? ;D I don't know! (k in some cases I do but not very interesting foranybody :P)We still had fun :) Oh and I almost forgot, but later that night Paul showed up again, after Erin had texted him... I don't remember why, but I didn't feel like getting my camera out, so no pictures for you guys ... :D The next day was a little more interesting anyways (k not the garage (it was still empty ):) but see yourself, Saturday:

I had Drivers Ed in the morning, then driving lesson around noon (Okay I got a C+ again because (yes, this is a real quote ! :D) "You need to work those breaks more gently!" ... Okay.... :/). After my Driving lesson I then went biking with Erin (only with her, because Zac was being a Sissy and gave me the excuse "The Weather looks like rain" (even though it did rain later, hes still a sissy ;D) ... :P oh and Lauren was having a tennis tournament (which she didn't even win ! :O She decided, it was more important to go to the tournament than go biking and then she didn't even win! :O ;) )), but even though we got soaked after 5 minutes of riding (it was riddiculous, we were totally wet in 5 seconds, after it started :O), we had fun going on the bike trail I went on alone before :)
After that I went to Little Lou's house together with Sandy and Lou for a barbecue "party" for Matt, the guy why the changed the wedding date, because he is being deployed to afghanistan very soon... We only stayed for a little bit but it was fun, since it was all the people that were gonna go paintballing the next day, so I got to meet them and got to see Little Lou' garage (which isn't as cool as the one here, but it's still better than most garages :D), as well as play some corn beags (My team lost miserably, but the last time I played it was probably in 2007 or even longer ago, so it's kinda understandable ;)). After that we headed home to the "Big" garage :P

PAARRRTTYYY!

Erin! :D Ok, I know that I look kinda stupid in both pictures, but I still just felt like uploading them ;D

No not really, still only fricking 4 people there, different ones though :D : Erin, Zac, Lou and Big Bryan :) It was a fun evening, even though Big Bryan got so drunk he started talking the biggest Bullshit (sry ;P), but hey it was still fun xD

ZACHARY! (yep that's his real name NOBODY calls him that though :D)

Big Bryan and Lou :)

The best part of the weekend was still to come though :P The next day, SUNDAY:

PAAINNNNTBALLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D
Awesome ! Paint! Pain (a little bit, but that's okay ;D)! Camo! Fort Knox Paintball! :D

The only bad thing was I had to get up at 9 AM again, after getting up at 9:15 at Saturday for driver's ed :/ But the fun was definately worth it :) We got to "Fort Knox Paintball" at about noon, and there were (including us, which were Little Lou, Zac and the people from the party on saturday :D) about 20-30 people I would guess :)
The gun I used, borrowed from Little Lou ;D

I was so much fun and now I wanna do it in Germany but it's 18+ :O We're old enough to get drunk at 16 but can't get hit by a paintball till we're 18 that makes sense :P Well, anyways the paintball field is huge having anything from a woods field, an old western city and a castle to fight in :) I really didn't get any action shots, because I didn't take my camera on the field, since a hit would definately not have been very good (Yep, those paintballs DO hurt when you get hit and you can get some pretty bad (Okay not THAT bad but they can make you bleed) bruises but it doesn't matter you're "high" (;)) on adrenalin anyways ;D), but Little Lou took an old camera he didn't care about and took some pretty good pictures, he's gonna send them to me soon so be prepared for me in ACTION! ;D

Our Group
All the stuff we brought (yeah you ofc need to wear one of those masks and you sweat under them so bad ;P)
The "car field"

Just a little explanation about the game, there's different types we played, team Deathmatch (take out (If you're hit you need to say you're out and walk out of the field ( hold up your arm clear so people don't shoot you (happened to some people ;P)) all of the other team), Defend & Capture (One team needs to hold something (the castle for example) for a defined time, Plant the Bomb (Put the "Bomb" (A flag) into the designated spot), VIP (one person on a team is the VIP if he's hit the team looses, to win they need to escort him a certain distance) and "Slapstick" (Get to the enemy's side and "slap" a stick to win)...
Since I'm supposed to be in bed already, but this blog kept me awake (all your fault people ;)) I better stop now! So maybe I'll post tthe pictures Little Lou took later this week Idk ;D

The End

P.S: If you were wondering where Sol is all the time, I really don't know why, but she just stays in her room, uses her laptop and watches baseball all the time (including 4 in the morning :O) ...

Birthday on Friday, Biking on Saturday with Poker and an empty garage and a short Sunday! Also feat. DRIVERS ED!!!! GOGOGOGO REEEADD NOWW!!! :P

Oh yeah, two weeks till Spring Break :) A week in Virginia :) That's gonna be AWESOME! :D The only thing that kinda bugs me is, that my Hostdad's son has changed his wedding to April 11th (spring break :/), since one of his friends is being deployed to afghanistan, so I again won't be able to attend (it was supposed to be sometime in october), but hey I can see pictures at least, and overall I heard weddings aren't in particular the most interesting stuff you can go to as long you're not one of the marrying persons :D

Yep, you heard right, I'll fly to see my grandparents in Spring Break and have some vacation from all the stuff going on here :)

So how am I? GOOOD ;D Still having an awesome time, and alot of fun! I'm gonna start off with school again: Going smooth and easy, I must say though, that my dedication to school has kinda drifted away in some classes a little bit, but hey I'm still getting perfect grades everywhere so there's no problem at all :) I'm also actually fully understanding the topic we're doing right now in physisc, so I'm doing fine there too :) The most fun class I have is probably Math, since I just like Math, and since it's a honor class it's not that easy (though I probably could still sleep through most of the class, but that's okay :P), so it's quite interesting. For anyone that cares about the topic we're at at the moment: equalities/inequalities of which the graphs turn out to be circles :D It's kinda weird, but easy and fun, so look forward to that Germans :D. My physics class of course is also fun, just because the teacher's good and I'm getting the current topic about electrostatics it's not that hard anymore :D. Besides that my other classes are good, but pretty much too easy mostly, but that's ok it's still fun, and my teachers are all good...

WEEKEND: Friday: My hostdads birthday! I got him a Miller-High Life Cap (his favourite beer) and a "Have a Crummy Day!" T-shirt :D Actually I thought my card was awesome too ;P: "Happy birthday from Both of us: The Smart one and the Beautiful one!" Inside: "Oh wait that's both me ! Happy Birthday from both of us anyways!" :D I really liked that one ;)
So to the "surprise" (It was supposed to be one, but Lou kinda was figuring it outafter Sandy had brought in the cake and a lot of chicken fingers ;P) Party:

I'm guessing there were about 15-20 people there, so it was a pretty big crowd :D Some of the already mentioned person's being there were: Bryan (Big guy--->picture?!? ;D), Lauren, Erin, Little Lou, Missy (I guess her real name is Melissa, but she doesn't like that one :)), Matt, Jeff and Katrina...

Lauren! OMG NO BRACES!!!! :D (she was really happy to get them off :D)

Just to explain the bad picture quality: About 2 weeks ago (I guess I never told you...), I managed to mess up the display of the camera somehow, I must have hit it with something while it was in my Pocket, and when it's dark it's really hard to see if a picture's gonna be good ;)

That's pretty much all that's to say about Friday, I had fun and everybody else too (I hope :O ;))...

Saturday: Loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong Bike Ride :D Sandy told me about a bike trail so I went there and apparently made a good long ride of 12 miles, seriously it didn't feel that long at all, but I checked it with Google maps (I knew where I was at the end, a gas station named "Highland gas station", ads about Highland and a free wi-fi connection named "rediscoverhigland" made it fairly obvious :D), for all of you that don't believe me, put in 9330 Hayes St, 46307 Crown point to Ridge Rd, Highland, IN... It took me about 2 h overall getting there and back (with a short drinking break at the gas station :D), so I guess I didn't go that fast, thinking about it, 20 km isn't that far either, hmm, but my host parents were impressed xD

After that I took off for some more poker, this time being very close to winning, 3rd Place, and I lost with a FRICKIN' ACE TRIPLET (AGAINST A WOMAN (:P ;)), but that's ok it was fun :D

The evening was very boring though, only Lou, Sol, me, Andrew (just look it up in the other entries shouldn't be TOO hard to find^^) and later Jun Hi (... n/c ;D). Also Sol, Lou and Andrew just watched some Baseball (I somehow really don't like that sport sorry, seems very boring to me ;)), so I was just kinda bored and doing nothing :D

SUNDAY: Not much, slept 12 h till 1:45 PM, took the bike for a little bit (just a bit this time ...), barbecue for dinner and then Pool with Zac :) I'm getting pretty decent at pool too, I actually was VERY good that day but Zac had a good day too, so he's now up by 9 games on the scoreboard -.-".

TODAY: Drivers Ed: Actually being one out of 2 Germans in the class it was fun, there also was someone from my english class (only one from Andrean though :/), I had my first theory lesson, which actually wasn't that easy since it was just, take this work sheet and do it, If you're new, that's what you need to know when you're done, if you're old, you yould be able to do it without a mistake :D But the Instructor is fun. What I need to take: 30 hours of Theory (3 times a week), 6 hours of driving (scheduled individually), and then a 50 quesion multiple choice/fill in the blanks test and a 15 minutes driving test :D If my exchange programm wouldn't be set up like this, that I can't drive at all (I'll be able to though when I go to Virginia after my school ends (no exchange anymore) :)), I could drive with a person over 21 with a license too, since I got my permit now...

THAT's IT! Sorry I didn't take many pictures this week, more next week (though I'll have to do some papers that weekend, but a party in the garage should be there anyways :D)....

A Interesting site I found earlier last week when biking :D In the middle of Crown Point...

THE END

Boring Fridays, ok Saturdays, awesome Sundays and Mondays without school :)

Ladies and Gentleman, please fully turn up the volume and then play the video...










I hope you're awake now and paying attention :D I didn't write my Blog yesterday, because I was pretty tired from the day, but in exchange: something new: videos I took with my camera, sorry about the quality though :D

So how was my week?! Fun! :D Since Art left last week, Zac started coming over each night, so we had a lot of fun playing pool :)
School also is still same old: everything good, having fun most time and my grades are still doing good :) That's pretty much all there is to say about school... :D

The weekend, this time 3 days long, because we had today off, it was "Quarter Break" was the interesting part again :)

Friday: Was really really boring ): Almoust nobody showed up, it was pretty much only Lou, Sol, Jeff, me and two friends of Sol: A German exchange student living in Michigan, Sina, and a girl from AHS, Brionna (I think^^). But hey, it was ok and I talked to Lou about music and Jazz alot so it wasn't that bad :D

Saturday: Nice :D In the morning I had to ge up rather early (9 AM :/) to get me signed up for drivers ed', which I'm starting on next Monday :) I'm really looking forward to that, since I want to have a license, and drive in Germany with 16 :O :) Yes, I'll be able to drive german cars with 16 for a half year, before I need to change it to a German License (no test :)) and American cars I can drive as soon as I get a formula filled out ! Driving !!!! :) :D We also got a new Internet/Phone/TV conncection that day, which made the internet faster, so I can upload videos and photos faster now :).

In the evening at first not many people seemed to come, but slowly they dropped in and it was fun :) Sina stayed for the whole weekend:

Sina and me Saturday night

Overall there were about 10 people that night, which isn't the biggest possible crowd but it was fun :D People there: Sol, me, Lou, Little Lou and his girlfriend Missy, Matt (Little Lou's friend) and his girlfriend, Jeff, Sina, Jun Hi, Lauren, Erin (only for 10 minutes though, she is in some kind of trouble ;P) and the big guy Bryan :)

Bryan and me

The night was really fun, especially, as you can see in the picture, as I had fun with Bryan :) I also played some pool, didn't do that good though, but hey you can't always win :D I also talked to Sina about Germany and weboth told the older people what we thought of the US and other exchange students speaking their own language all the time (That's just rude :O), so we came to the conclusion, that Germans are just the most polite exchange students, cause we don't do that ;) :P . If you have been wondering where Zac was all weekend by now, he was at his dads again :/

Missy (Little Loud's Girlfriend (they're engaged btw and having their wedding in october)), Sol and Little Lou. Oh and the dog's their dog it's actually Kelc son :D

The most fun: Sunday: Bryan texted me at 7:30 approx. 2139491230 times to wake me up ;) But besides that sunday really was fun :D We went to see the Southside St. Patricks Day parade in Chicago and it was really awesome :)

This was one of the many marching bands in the parade :) Sorry the sound quality didn't turn out too good :/

Since I don't know which pictures were good that day I'm just gonna pick 5 random ones: :D

No, this isn't a T-shirt, he actually painted his body green :D

That should be enough to give you a impression of what it was like :D

After the parade, we did a little round trip around chicago were Lou and Sandy showed us some of the big sites from the car, because Sina had to leave from a train station in Downtown. We had something to eat in a really funny restaurant, where the waiters were supposed to act rude and be snippy. That was really fun.

The last thing we did before we dropped Sina off and headed home, was to see the bean, which is this big shiny metal "thing" in the middle of millenium park, were you get really nice reflections when you walk underneath it.Shiny :D

Monday: Last day off :/ I slept 12 hours and was really awake, so I decided to take a bike ride, on the bike our neighbors are borrowing me for my stay (they gave it to me at sunday evening). I found some interesting stores, and a "European Food" store, where I bought some "Kinderschokolade" :D Later today I also rode the bike to the Social Security Office, to get a letter of verification for my Social Security number, since my card's still in Germany, which I need to get my Learner's Permit, which I need to get my License :D. After Zac got off school (haha MHS had school ;P), we hang out and texted a stupid Txting service, which answers all your questions, called ChaCha :D That was really fun :D


Hmm, somehow it seems like I'm writing less and less every week :D But hey more pictures AND some videos :D

The End

Happy Birthday Art, good bye Art and why riding your bike is fun!!

Happy Birthday!

Good Bye!

Yes, everybody wish a Happy Birthday to Artturi(I learned how to spell his name ;D), and say good bye! He left yesterday, after only beeing able to stay two weeks overhere ): . He's going to some family friends in Illinois before he takes the first plane back to Finland. His parents just want him out of this area and back home after what has happened with the chasing by the gang I told you about. His 18th Birthday was on Friday, so we kinda did a little Birthday/Good-Bye Party in the garage, but more later.

Again the update on how my school's going: Perfect! :D I'm still having a lot of fun, though it's school overall, so it's not that much fun ;P. My grades didn't really change since last week, only in Math I managed a 125 % (Extra credit problem...) on the last test, so I'm on a B now and I just checked Edline (you can check your grades online there), and somehow I managed to get a B in Physics, too (I don't know how though, because I failed the last two tests (one with 60 % ( You pass above 60 -.-) and the other one miserably , but apparently he curved them very much :D)). So now I have 5 A's and 2 B's, and since this is the last week of the quarter I don't really think it's gonna change alot anymore before the quarter ends. I'm really happy with that :)


Nothing really interesting happened over the week, besides Art coming every single day (for the two weeks he had been here he was in the garage every single night ! :D) to play pool with me. That's the reason why I will miss him, nobody to train with, so i won't get better as fast :O
So about the party :D It was fun and about 15 people showed up, even the language coordinator of the organisation, Anthony, showed up with his wife and kids. We kinda just played pool and ate the pizza they ordered no dancing or anything like at the Valentines party :D

Art's birthday cake

Some of the people there

But again, it was mostly exchange students that showed up and even if they didn't all speak in their languages I always seem kinda awkward if it's just other exchange students, just because (this may seem stupid and rude but ok ^^) I personally think I'm here to experience the American culture not the korean/spanish/brazilian/... one, though it's interesting hearing about them and so on, but I would like more american people at the parties ;D So I mostly kinda talked to Art (well he was the one the party was about ;D) and the two Americans Lauren and Andre, that were there. It was fun though and I played alot of pool again :D (The score me and Art ended: 25 games for him/23 for me). The party pretty much ended at 1 when everybody had left besides Art himself :) .

Saturday: Road Trip ! YAY! :D

On Saturday we left Crown point and went down to Indianapolis for a birthday of two of Sandy's relatives. The ride was about 2 h each way, but the temperature difference from here to there was incredible it was in the forties (about 5 ° C) an raining in Crown Point when we leaft:

Where we came from...

Butwhen we reached Indianapolis it was sunny and up in the seventies (~ 25 °C), so it really felt like summer:

Where we went...

Since it was such a good weather I decided to borrow one of the relatives' bikes and went off for a bike ride most of the afternoon. It was really good to ride a bike againa after such a long time, but the neighborhood was kinda boring, the only interesting I found was a River and later a Burger King, where I bought a milk shake :D

The fartest point from the house I biked too, a place called "Dirtworks LLC" :D

It was really fun though and after that we had dinner there (Barbecue :) ) and watched the kids open their gifts before we left for crown point at about 5:45. We came here at 8:00, but the night was far from over.

First it seemed like nobody would show up and it would be a very "boring" night, but after I had told Lou I was bored because there was nobody there suddenly the garage got crowded in a blink :O About 15-20 people, all in Little Lou's age, showed up so we had another big crowd there with more pool (Me and little Loud managed to win 3 team games in a row, YAY! :D). I went to bed at about 3 o'clock (4 o'clock new time, daylight saving started here yesterday :)).


A rather short blog entry's end.