Bonjour Monsieur! Oú est H&M?

Soooo... since I last updated my blog I have done a couple of things. I was in Paris, and did the normal touristy stuff there. I was with Sabine, Reinhard, Niki, Eva & Svenja (a friend of Evas from school). It was basically really funny the whole time, and we had so much fun! And then on the way home I was in Straßburg, where we went in the EU (European Union), and got a tour and were able to sit inside as the actual EU was in session! We got to speak to Frau Grässle, who is the representative there from our region of Germany.

Other news; when I speak to native english speakers that don't know I'm from America, they don't think I'm from America. I can't even say how cool it was to be in Paris, and not be taken for an American tourist. There were three encounters with English speaking people (two groups of Americans, one of Brits), during which we spoke english. Apparently I have a bit of a German accent in english. The coolest one I would have to say was when we were on our way down from the Eiffel Tower and had to wait for the elevator: I was fooling around with Niki, sorta doing the thing 'if your hand is bigger than your face you could get cancer' and then hitting them in the face, which ended up being us just trying to smack the other ones hands into their face. So in front of us in the line there were two Americans, a teenager and her mom. Her mom said, Oh you guys are very entertaining. So then i said quickly in english, Oh Niki you're just so little. And then Niki said something in broken english, which I forget. So then I said to the people, Niki's english isn't so good. So what did they say? Oh, you must have had many more years of english than him. I laughed. I'm an American, I said. They said, What? Really? Well, you've picked up a German accent then. So the we had a conversation about exchanges and everything. :D

If you look at my blog titel you'll be able to see my extent of the french language. Well, that's about it. The most important stuff right? Plus: Oú est Niki? Niki est la. Niki est ici. Oder, Tu es bête. Das wars. Oh, and another important phrase: Warum haut dein Vater immer ab?! Er ist wie Chau Yi wenn sie betrunken ist! Or: Alle. Alle. Alle. Alle alle alle. Eine Straße, viele Bäume, ja das ist eine Alle. :D

Then last weekend (or Sunday to Monday), Mirko and I went in the mountains, and tenting. We really wanted to climb the highest mountain in Deutschland, but because of train complications, we went on a spontaneous whim to Füssen instead. And we camped on a lake, and it was pretty.

In other news, we're reading Das Parfum in German class, and it's actually a really good book, though a bit challenging for me. (What they read in school for german class, like what we read in school for english class.) I recommend it very highly, I only have about 50 pages left (yahooo!). In english it's called Perfume: The Story of a Murderer.

And right now we have two weeks of vacation! A little bit of chill time is nice, especially since after vacation basically every second is already planned. I think my first really free weekend after this one is after I get back from camp. Wow. :D

And only 1 1/2 ish months in left in germany... wow... That's something right there. I'm not even sure how I feel about that..

lovee,
em

Love.

I can tell you the exact moment I fell in love with Germany. Really in love. Like when I knew that I have to come back here again at some point in time.

It was a Sunday. On Sunday in Germany everything is closed, the stores, everything except cafés and restaurants, and they aren't open as long as usual. On this Sunday, maybe about a month ago, I was visiting Nürnberg. It was pouring rain, but a bit of sunshine was shining through. We went up to the castle, and into the gardens, where despite the rain, the flowers were as bright as on a sunny day. As I walked along the castle wall, seeing the flowers and Germany down below, it hit me. I've fallen in Love with Germany. And I can tell you, there are a few places I love, but not a humongous number of them. There are still a few places I love more than Germany, like Farnsworth, but I can tell you, Germany will remain in my heart forever.

Regentanz ;)

sooooo... eigentlich wollte ich eine post vor ein paar wochen schreiben.. woops.
anywho...

The weekend before last weekend was my birthday party. And I'll just leave it at that it was absolutely amazing. The Sunday after that I went to Nürnberg with Mirko, which was fun, even though it rained the whole time and since it was a Sunday everything was closed. But it was really pretty :D





Then school & I was sick and stayed home on Tuesday. I had bronchitis actually (I went to the doctors). We had our monthly exchange student meeting in Ulm. Basically I just didn't catch up on sleep (and I haven't yet). Otherwise it was a pretty normal week.

This weekend we went to Salzburg. It was sooo pretty! :D We had like a six hour train ride to get there (which was pretty funny), and sung a lot there, and in Salzburg. We went to Mozarts House and the house he was born in. And up to the castle. And we walked around the old city. Just sooo pretty.



Then we went to Berchtesgaden, where we spent the night (the youth hostels in Salzburg were already booked). We went for a long walk there and it was soo pretty. We played Uno and just hung out really. When I woke up I could see out our window as the sun came up and the mountains and it was just amazingly beautiful. I wanted to take a picture, but I was still too tired to get up, so a slept a little more, and when I woke up there was a bit of fog, so you couldn't see the beautiful part from earlier, but at least I got to see it. I talked to a guy from England at the youth hostel, who was doing hiking. He said I had a bit of a german accent. I guess it must be true then.



Then we went to Munich for the FC Bayern soccer team party. :D (aka, my favorite german soccer team; I now have a nice scarf from them.) It was a big party. And they gave out 10,000 liters free beer too. (:D) Then home a long train ride home.

This week was pretty normal, and yesterday I did a presentation in Politics/Civics on how in America the government is more in the states and how in Germany its more in the federal government. Tomorrow and Friday we don't have school because of some holiday or another. But we have like Rehersal/Practice weekend for band. And then on Sunday we're going to Paris! And the Straßburg and the EU.

I still haven't gotten to the point that I wanted to write about when I wanted to write a few weeks ago... which I forgot after I wrote all that, maybe I'll write another post soon, when I have time.

love,
em
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