Time: 11:56
Place: Sarah's
Just after breakfast, after a sleepover, after a party.

Things I love about Germany (my head is just as unorganized as my typage, and pardon the messy english- i've given up on anything that'd resemble eloquent, AP student...-ness.):
1. holy crap. the mcdonalds are CLASSY. They look like restaurants, with cafes that resemble starbucks on the inside. It gives the feeling of you actually WANTING to sit and eat there. Nils bet Dominic that if Nils bought 5 euro worth of food, dominic wouldnt be able to finish it. Oh nils. So evil. He was talking about ketchup and mayo. (each packet is 25 cents, 20mL)
2. They party hard, but safe. American kids just seem to slam the shots and get wasted, but its a social thing here :)
3. The Greenery (haha. Its not just my english going down the pooper. green and scenery. get it?)
4. The People. I don't know why my mother and sister warned me that the germans weren't friendly. Sure, they're more reserved than the American families I know in the bay area, but they're all quite lovely. On my first night with my host family, they said the word 'shit' multiple times - adorably with their accents. Fritz is bloody hilarious, destroying awkward moments as often as he creates them.


Friday was the first day in Germany where I felt like myself again.
Marina went to watch The Reader auf Deutsch with her German class, and since Nils was going as well, I didn't want to intrude so I went to school with Dom and Fritz. (btw I LOVE fritz's mom. she peer pressured me yesterday but more on that later :) )
Fritz's first class was art, so we did nothing but sit around and talk. I introduced myself to more people and continued to talk to even more (oh god, i know that thats not how i would say it if i was more well practiced in english, but...). I've come out about how I believe Konstantin looks like a Löve (Lion) and I drew post-it notes for everyone. Yostos was playing music out of this yellow and black speaker..thing.
My third class was my presentation for a politics class that was currently studying obama. It went better than the first presentation we had, but that really isnt saying much.
Fritz had free period fourth and fifth period, so dom and i hung around with Rent Good Hands' bakesale, and met the people there
Sixth was a meeting (completely pointless). Herr Lynch was still in austria, so FJ was leading it...pointless pointless pointless. Walking to seventh, I introduced kt to konstantin and he listened to the song :) KONSTANTIN AND KONSTANTINE ha!
7th was Chemistry. Talked to Bonnie, Dakota, and dom. Half the class was missing, but I met Christine, and another guy with a peterfox shirt. Alexandria, yostos, konstantin were also in this class and I talked ot them all more :)
After school, fritz dom and i walked around the city and ate Kochlöffel. Dom got his new tradition of Pommes mit Kirsch(en?)Eis (fries and ice cream) and we saw Thao and Dakota and waited for dragonboating with them. Dom bought speakers from Saturn, and loved them 'i think this is the best purchase ive ever made'. We met up with Timo, Isa, and Bonnie and walked to Dragon Boating - Der Herford Kanu Klub.

Americans won. Twice. Thank you, american ego.

AFterwards, marina and i returned to her house to shower and whatnot before going to the bars.
It was adorable, since her father came with us. On the way, we passed by the Go!Park and they pointed out girls dressed for the club, 'i know, she looks like a bitch.' It was unglaublich, the way they were dressed. Shocking.
We met up with nils, florian, and thosten (?), and later nils parents came. It was strange, seeing the way parents interact with their children, joking, laughing, and making sex jokes.
We ended up hitting three bars - New Orleans, an american styled one, then the oldest bar in herford-more traditional, and a third where i got in trouble for taking pictures. I had my first Herforder Pilz. I am not a fan of beer, so Im not sure how to feel about it, but I drank colas at the other places. It was sort of awkward, but the pilz helped a lot with that, i must say. We went home around 1, the second marina said she was tired, her father said it was time to go, it was so cute. Fritz kinda looked sad towards the end :(

I slept till 15:00 saturday.
Woke up, showered, and went to watch TRANSFORMERS auf deutsch. Had no idea what was going on, but the effects were amazing.
I got peer pressured by Fritz's mother. Thanks Dom, for NOT HELPING.
'Listen. You can eat here, then we'll take you to the party. okay?'
'But-'
' *sigh*...Lieber Gott.'
Got to Sarah's, and left immediately via Mrs. Barsch's vehicle to Jana - a lovely italian girl for her 18th birthday. Her family was so cute!!! Ate a lot of steak and kartoffelsalat. Met Franci, Tobi, Hannah, etc. Pictures must be uploaded
'If youre going to drink more, you gotta eat more.'
Good advice, KT
left around 11 to Robin's birthda party
Met Marcel, Timo, Tom, Christoph, Dennis with KT. so much easier to meet new people with her :)
Met the girls :( idk why two groups cant mix together.
I dont like beer.
Poor dennis was throwing up for two hours, according to marcel D: So i went out into the street to talk with him until he felt better. Germans are fascinating.
KT is the popular ;) and patrick, sarahs brother, is really nice
Got home at 6am this morning