Chicagooooooooo!

Hello people :)

As you probably noticed. I have been to Chicago and it was great!

So we left the house on Friday at 8am. 4 ladies on tour, haha. My (host)dad had to stay home, so it was only me, my two (host)sisters and my (host)mum. The drive to Chicago was ca. 4 1/2 hours. We drove through Indiana, one more state I visited. Well, the highway but who cares? :D
We drove to the train station and waited for the train. Okay, so German people. The train wasn't like the metronome or something like that. It looked different.
Like this:

 Different right? Told you.

Okay, so as we reached Chicago we walked through the train station and then outside. It wasn't really warm.. Okay it was cold. We saw the Sears Tower:

Afterwards we took a taxi to the Navy Pier; the taxi driver was really nice. At the Navy Pier we went into the "Funhouse" and did the Fun Maze (may be scary for kids under 5 years). So we went in there and it was so funny. It was this Maze with all the mirrors, and it was dark with a few lights. My (host)sister freaked out. Haha. So we got through, alive.
Our second taxi driver brought us into the town, he was really quiet, but the music in his car was good. 
I will skip this part, because we just went shopping and it is not that exiting for you. But it was for me :)
When it was dinner time we went to the Cheesecake Factory. It was AMAZING. The food was so good, and the cheesecake.. Oh my good it tasted like heaven. No, seriously it was so good. And as every good tourist I took pictures of my food, haha.

 Tomato Basil Pasta:

Toasted Marshmallow S'mores Galore™:

 So you German people who read this. You probably don't know what S'mores are. I'll tell you.. Google it ;D

After dinner we wanted to go back to the train station. So we waved at a taxi and got into the car. Here comes the scary part. The taxi driver wanted to kill us. I am not joking. I was so scared. We drove through the tunnel or whatever that was. He stopped at a red light and when it turned green, he went from 0 to 60 or something. I was so scared. And it was like that all the time. My (host)sister sat next to me and giggled and said "It's fun<". I was just like "No, no it's not fun. We are going to die". Oh, and he also honked at actually every other driver without a reason and you couldn't breath in the car, because there was actually no air. I was so glad a we arrived at the train station and could get out of the car. 
As we were in the building waiting for the train my (host)mum told me that she was so scared, when we three already got out of the car and she wanted to pay for the taxi and she didn't got the right money out of here wallet. She said that she wanted to just give him all her money and be like "here take all my money and my credit cards, but please don't kill me", because she was so scared of him.

Okay, back to being serious. We drove with the train back to the station were we left the car and afterwards we drove to the hotel.
The next morning we ate breakfast at the hotel and there was a whole soccer team. A good-looking soccer team ;D

Later we packed our suitcases and drove to a mall and shopped more. After that we started our way back home. 
And then I saw the craziest thing ever, so we were on the highway, and in the middle of the highway. Like seriously, in the MIDDLE of the HIGHWAY. Between both lanes there was a McDonald's. On the highway!! That is just not normal. 
Here is the prove that I am not telling fairy tales.

UNBELIEVABLE!!

I think this is enough for now. Or no wait. Some more pictures of Chicago, haha.

  

The Skyline:

                                                    A real police men:

        The most expensive shoes I have ever seen (they weren't even really pretty) :

Spirit Week and Homecoming

Hello again :)

So last week we had our Spirit Week, because of Homecoming.
Okay, sooo.. The Spirit Week is the week before the Homecoming Game and Dance. We had a different theme everyday.

Monday: 

Class Color:
    
Freshmen → yellow
Sophomores → green
Juniors → red
Seniors → black

                                              Our senior shirts :)


Tuesday:
Pajamas Day (I don't have a picture, but you just wear Pajamas to school. It's actually normal for Americans, because some people come to school in Pajama pants at a normal day haha)

Wednesday:
Sports Day (You can wear basically everything from a sports team. But be careful with Michigan and Michigan State. And don't wear Ohio State)

 

Thursday:

Super Heroes Day:

Freshmen → Hulk
Sophomores → Spiderman
Juniors → Batman
Seniors → Superman

So you just wear a shirt or something from the Super Hero. Here is a picture. Haha, sorry for my face.

Friday:

Blue & White

I don't have a picture, but it's easy. You just wear blue and white clothes, because that are our school colors.


Our schedule was different on Friday, because we had the pep assembly at the end of the day. I didn't know what it was, and as they told me what it is I thought they were crazy. 
But it is really fun. 
So.. the Marching Band starts and walks through the hallways and when you hear them everyone gets out of their classroom and goes to the gym. In the gym you go to your 'section'. So I went to the senior section. And after that everyone goes basically crazy. It is so much fun. The Marching Band plays, the Pom Pom Team & the Cheerleader & the Dance Company dance. There also some games. 

We also had the Homecoming Football Game that night. It was great even though we lost. Like really bad.. But who cares? It's Homecoming!



Homecoming:

The Homecoming Dance was on Saturday. Everyone was so excited except for me (in the beginning).
As I got ready and but my dress on, I didn't even recognize me in the mirror. I looked so different, but good. We drove downtown and took photos with my friends. It was fun and everyone had a good time. Afterwards we drove to  Chinese Restaurant. The food was soooo good. Haha.
A lot of people looked at us, because we were so dressed up. But I think they knew that we are going to go to a Homecoming Dance.
When we were done with eating, we drove back to the school. I changed into my comfortable shoes, because I wore really high heels and I was really tall. 
When we went into the gym/dance floor. Everyone was already dancing, well if you can call it dancing. Most of the people were just grinding into each other. Oh well.
My friends and I had a wonderful time. The DJ was okay, but I like the German DJ's in the real clubs better.
At 11pm the dance was over. So it was actually the normal time for people in Germany to go to a club and here everything was already over. 
If you have any questions to Homecoming or the Spirit Week just ask me. I promise I'll answer ;)

Here are some picture of me and my friends:

That's it for today. A lot of pictures :D

So I hope you have a good time in your holidays, because I don't have holidays right now. 
But school began at 9.50 today, so that was really nice. 

See you ♥

Stressful weekend and an important announcement

Hello people. I am back :D

Okay, so first of all sorry again that it took me so long to write something new. My friends already complained about it. So I hope you are happy now guys. :D

Last weekend was.. terrible. Just terrible. I got the baby doll in my Child Development class. And well, I really hate babies right now. It woke me up at the middle of the night and not only once. Like four times or something. And every time I was awake for about 30 - 40 minutes to get the baby happy. The last day was the worst. First the baby cried all the time and I had to change its diaper or feed it or rock it or burp it. After the baby finally stopped crying I was able to eat breakfast. But when I wanted to shower the baby started again. I had to care for the baby for one hour. ONE HOUR! I was so frustrated, because I just wanted to take a shower. When my (host-)parents and my sisters came back from church, I went downstairs with the baby and gave it to them, because I just couldn't do it anymore.
I thought that the baby would be more quiet at that night, because it was school the next day, but no. It woke me up again at 2.40am. So I was sitting there and caring for the baby. I had to rock it for like.. 40 minutes?! I don't even know. I was so annoyed. I just wanted to throw the baby against the wall. Seriously.. I need my sleep.

Okay, so enough of the terrible baby doll project. Here is a picture if you want to see her (and me.. haha I look terrible). Oh, and by the way her name is/was Skylar. 

  

 But, I can tell you, all that was worth it. I got an A for the project! 

So I got the question if I'm going to be the Homecoming Queen. 

Well.. uhm. No. So today they announced the Homecoming Court and yeah. I don't know I still have to figure that out. Haha.

Sorry. So I will definitely don't be the Homecoming Queen.

If you have more questions. I would be really happy if you just ask. And don't forget your name :D Thank you.

Oh and now the important announcement. I got an Instagram. Here you go guys:

http://instagram.com/tessa_official#

There's nothing on right now, but there will be.. sometime :D