My trip to Detroit

Der Trip nach Detroit ist zwar schon etwas her, aber egal.. :D

Detroit:

Detroit was great. I saw a building where they filmed some scenes of 'Transformers'.
But Detroit also has sad sides. There are lots of empty buildings and homeless people..

However, I have some great pictures for you :)


General Motors:

My future cars:

Canada:

 

Oh and we had Ice Cream yesterday, from Dairy Queen.. Yummy.

 

I got one new question:

" What do you do in your free time?"

I go to the local dance studios three times a week. I dance hip hop, ballet, and pointe. I also go to a youth group in the church, it isn't as boring as you think. It's actually really cool :)

We go to church every Sunday.
 And I do something with friends, study, clean my room, watch TV, .. The stuff that everybody does :D

We're going dress shopping tomorrow for homecoming. I am really excited about that *-*

Haha okay. I think that's enough for now.

See you ♥

Still alive

Hi guys,

I just wanted to let you know that I am still alive and everything is good. I just hadn't any time to write something on my blog. So sorry..

The last two weeks were amazing. I met lots of new people and they are all friendly and nice. It's just wonderful. I love it.

I think it's time for some questions from you guys. Here we go.


Was everyone interested in you, because you're an exchange student?

No. I had to go to the people at school and talk to them. I was hard at first, because I don't know them and I don't know how they will react. The first thing you have to learn is that you just have to be yourself and smile. Always :)


Did you find friends?

Yes, and I already love them. They are great. And I don't know. I hope you read that guys. I only know you for 2 weeks, but you are sooo great ♥


How did your host family react to you host presents? 

They were really excited and I think they really liked them. It was really cute how they reacted to the pens and ink-eraser. They don't know something like that over here. So yeah, really cute :)


How was the audition for 'The Nutcracker'?

I will be one of the Carolers and I'll be one of the Icicles. The Carolers dance on pointe and the outfits for both of the scenes are just beautiful. I am already excited :)


Homecoming:

Homecoming will be on the 11th October. It's gonna be great. I think I'll go there with a group of friends, but it would be really cool if I would have a date :D


Please send me more questions. I would really appreciate it if you would put your name at the end or something, so that I know who you are. And if you can, ask in English :D

Bye. ♥

First day of school

My first day at the High School:

I couldn't really sleep this night, but somehow I managed to get some sleep. I woke up at 6am and got ready for school. My hands were shaking and I just felt strange and nervous, but also excited. After breakfast my host mum took a picture of me. She told me that basically everyone takes a picture of their kid on the first day of school. 
Okay, I know that you want to see the picture. And if not. Well you don't have to look at it :D

 

After that my neighbor Dana and I walked to the bus stop and the bus came at 7:30am to bring us to the school. 

Okay, so.. I sat there in that yellow school bus. Like everybody knows them from those High School movies. But it really isn't that special or fancy. It is just a bus and you get to school with it. So sorry if I destroyed your dreams :D

When we arrived at the school the hallways were already crowded, but thank god that I got a private tour and found my first classroom. 

Child Development:

My teacher is Mrs. Nowka and she is really nice and different from German teachers and younger. Well okay I will start at the beginning. I went into the room and there was only one girl in it so I sat down in the third row. After a couple minutes there came more and more students. When the class starts we talked about the syllabus and the baby dolls. That we have to carry around from Friday to Monday. But only once. That's gonna be fun :D


English:

I made it to the next classroom in six minutes and lots of people in the hallway. My teacher is Mrs. Ake. She is also a younger teacher. We will read 'The Great Gatsby', but watch the movie first, so that we can get deeper into the book when we read it. She also seemed pretty nice :)


US History:

I've got Mrs. McMahon.. Well she is.. different. Her voice is like high pitched or something I don't know. And she loves to talk, because she almost talked all the time :D


Biology:

My teacher in Biology is Mr. McGregor. At first I thought he is very strict and everything, because of his tie and button-down shirt. He sat at his desk staring at his MacBook.
When the class starts, it turns out that he is really nice and he made some jokes. And I think that he likes my name, because when he called my name, he was just like 'Oh, that's a beautiful name'. :D
The bad thing about Biology is that he gave us a really heavy book. Seriously Why?
But okay I'll have to carry it around :D


Lunch:

I found two girls who are also in my 'Exploring the World of Food'-class, so I sat with them and their friends in the cafeteria. It was really nice, and a bit loud and also different. But everything worked out well :)


Exploring the World of Food:

Mrs. O'Donell is my teacher, but only for two weeks. After that we'll get our actual teacher. She just talked about what we're gonna do and all that stuff. After that we played a game and had free time. 


Group learning activities:

I really don't know what this was good for, but okay. We were put in 'small groups'. We were ca. 15 students, all seniors, and played another game and watched a video and whatever.. We had 2 1/2 hours time for that, but were ready after 1 hour. The last 1 1/2 hours we just sat in the room and did nothing..


At 2:35pm school was over and I went to the buses (yes, I found it :D). I found my bus and we drove home. 

Sooooo. That's it. That was my first day at school. If you want to know more things. Or have any questions, you can ask me. 
By the way we don't have this group thing everyday. It was just because it was the first day :D

Bye, bye ♥

Labor day weekend

Hi guys. I am back.

Soo.. on Friday we drove to Ohio and I met the family from my host family. Lots and lots of new people :D
It was really nice to get to know them :)

At the next day we drove back to Michigan. But not to Farmington, but to Coldwater. My host dad's father came with us, because he has got a boat and a big camper. 
Oh, I have to tell you that the Campground is at a lake ;D 
Okaaay. So we made boat trip, went tubing and made a campfire (and smores :D)
Here are some pictures:

 

The lake

 

Me and my host sister in the tube :)

  

Tubing :D

 

Lots of swans

  

Our campfire

Tomorrow is the 3rd September which means that it is my first school day. I am super nervous and excited. I already know some people who are at my High School, but  it's gonna be different. Very different from Germany where I know.. everybody. 

I think that I will post everything about my first school day tomorrow :)
But it can be that I get lost in school and don't come back home and won't be able to post anything. Haha, okay I hope that this won't happen :D

Here is little preview of my school day:

1st period: Parenting/Child Development
2nd period: English (American Literature)
3rd period: US History
4th period: Biology
5th period: Exploring the World of Food



See you. Hopefully tomorrow :)