I've been with my host family in 'real' Germany for two weeks now. If I had to sum up those two weeks in one sentence I would say "I've never slept so well in my life". Of course, I don't have to do that. It's a free country, and this is my blog. But really, trying to speak and understand German all day drains one completely. Add in being surrounded by strangers all the time, school, homework, and every other thing that goes on, and you've got the perfect recipe for sleep.
The past two weeks have been all over the place for me. The list above is also the recipe for emotional instability. One minute I'm laughing with this girl from Iran over the fact that we understand nothing, marveling at the fact that by the end of the year I'll understand everything, the next moment I think about Christmas and it's over. But every day I learn more-more German and more everything. Every day life here becomes more familiar, and eventually it'll become home.
I'm once again going to resort to using bullet points to cover all my experiences over since I left Schloss Wittgenstein because I'm lazy and because, as I've said before, it's a free country, and this is my blog.
So, since August 31st I've:
-Toured a mine (we rode this cool old train thing in and wore hard hats and raincoats)
-Started writing my 1's and 7's and the date like a German
-Learned that Germans put butter on their bread even when they'r going to put Nutella or cheese on it (Gross, bro)
-Eaten a flower, lard, and...pine kernels...?
-Played Uno the German way (pretty much the same as the American way, actually exactly the same)
-Begun to appreciate warm weather like I never have before
-Slept outside in a tent for the first time
-Taken a walk through a candlelit forest at night
-Bought German style sneakers
-Done a million other things that I can't think of right now, but will write about later
I still don't really know what I'm doing, but life goes on, I'll figure it out.
Today's Song: "Home" by Phillip Phillips
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTg1n95--KE
Sincerely,
Anne
P.S. I'll add pictures later
