This weekend me and my family went to the original OKTOBERFEST in München! After school on Friday me and my family rushed around the house to make sure we had everything, and after eating a whole pizza, and 2 glasses of 3,5% Milk (My host family doesn't believe in non-fat), we all crammed into the car and headed off to Dresden. In Dresden we picked up my host dad who was working there, and then we drove for a couple hours until we stopped for dinner in a typical Bavarian restaurant in a typical Bavarian town with cobblestone streets and those German-looking houses with the X's on them (I forgot what it's called). My host parents are very proud to be Bavarian and they know a lot about Bavarian dialects, history, and of course FOOD! So anyways, after some Wiener Schnitzel and Bavarian tap we drove a few more hours to a friends house in a town right outside of München (Munich). The whole trip was about 6 hours and it was not bad at all... however it is a little overwhelming to be stuck in a car with non-stop German all around for 6 hours.
The next morning all of us headed into München to go to Oktoberfest. I spent most of the day with my host brother and his friend Henning, and we had a great time! First we just walked around for a while... there were SOOOO many people! Its really hard to describe! Then we went into one of those HUGE beers tents... but naturally it was full, so we left and tried getting into another one, and we ended up having to wait in line for a while but we finally got into a tent! Naturally, that tent was full as well, but we managed to find room at a table and yeah... we were there in that tent, at that table, for the entire day! It was really fun, really loud, really... GERMAN! A little bit overwhelming, but fun non-the-less. After the tent closed we went and ate at a restaurant and then went home to sleep.
The next morning we said goodbye to our hosts and drove about an hour south east of München to one of the most beutiful towns I have ever seen. (The most beutiful one I have seen in Europe so far). The town was called Tegernsee, and it was situated right on the edge of the Alps with a
big lake right in the center. We all ate lunch at another Bavarian restaurant overlooking the town, and it was really beautiful!
The ride back to Berlin was a little bit tough for me. Not only was I tired from the day before, but for some reason I just was not feeling myself. I was listening to my Ipod about 4 hours into the journey and all the sudden I came across some songs that really reminded me of home. It was so weird because emotion just hit me all of the sudden, and tears just came to my eyes. I put a sweatshirt over my head and pretended I was sleeping... but I on/off cried for a good 30 minutes. It was unreal! I still can't really say exactly why I cried... I wasn't homesick... I was just missing certain things- like eating dinner with my family and understanding everything, and chilling at the Molly Meier' house with my friends (***cough cough*** shoutout to the girl who know how to twirl, that fine thang who goes bang bang, and the laday who drives me crazay... haha I couldn't find anything that rhymed with lady... I miss you... really!!!) ! It's really hard to explain. Anyways... enough of that! I have it so good here so I shouldn't complain.
I guess I'm just learning that I can't do everything! I have limits, and I really need to lower the bar for myself. Before I thought I could do anything on my own. I only depended on myself and the reason why I seldom trusted someone to "get the job done"was because I had too much pride...I now realize that I'm only 16. Like I said before, I can't do everything! I'm a human being.
Well, I think I've written enough! This has been quite a week! The elections were yesterday and the Conservative party won... so all the people in my school are happy! My German has gotten tremendously better! I can understand more than 50% of what people are saying in normal conversations... and I normally can answer a question if someone asks me something! School is still very difficult to understand but I know what what's going on in every class. My grammar is still very bad (the articles der,die, das, den, dem... I guess every time)... but I can get the point across.
this metaphor defines my life right now,
"Foreign exchange is an emotional rollercoaster"
The next morning all of us headed into München to go to Oktoberfest. I spent most of the day with my host brother and his friend Henning, and we had a great time! First we just walked around for a while... there were SOOOO many people! Its really hard to describe! Then we went into one of those HUGE beers tents... but naturally it was full, so we left and tried getting into another one, and we ended up having to wait in line for a while but we finally got into a tent! Naturally, that tent was full as well, but we managed to find room at a table and yeah... we were there in that tent, at that table, for the entire day! It was really fun, really loud, really... GERMAN! A little bit overwhelming, but fun non-the-less. After the tent closed we went and ate at a restaurant and then went home to sleep.
The next morning we said goodbye to our hosts and drove about an hour south east of München to one of the most beutiful towns I have ever seen. (The most beutiful one I have seen in Europe so far). The town was called Tegernsee, and it was situated right on the edge of the Alps with a
big lake right in the center. We all ate lunch at another Bavarian restaurant overlooking the town, and it was really beautiful!
The ride back to Berlin was a little bit tough for me. Not only was I tired from the day before, but for some reason I just was not feeling myself. I was listening to my Ipod about 4 hours into the journey and all the sudden I came across some songs that really reminded me of home. It was so weird because emotion just hit me all of the sudden, and tears just came to my eyes. I put a sweatshirt over my head and pretended I was sleeping... but I on/off cried for a good 30 minutes. It was unreal! I still can't really say exactly why I cried... I wasn't homesick... I was just missing certain things- like eating dinner with my family and understanding everything, and chilling at the Molly Meier' house with my friends (***cough cough*** shoutout to the girl who know how to twirl, that fine thang who goes bang bang, and the laday who drives me crazay... haha I couldn't find anything that rhymed with lady... I miss you... really!!!) ! It's really hard to explain. Anyways... enough of that! I have it so good here so I shouldn't complain.
I guess I'm just learning that I can't do everything! I have limits, and I really need to lower the bar for myself. Before I thought I could do anything on my own. I only depended on myself and the reason why I seldom trusted someone to "get the job done"was because I had too much pride...I now realize that I'm only 16. Like I said before, I can't do everything! I'm a human being.
Well, I think I've written enough! This has been quite a week! The elections were yesterday and the Conservative party won... so all the people in my school are happy! My German has gotten tremendously better! I can understand more than 50% of what people are saying in normal conversations... and I normally can answer a question if someone asks me something! School is still very difficult to understand but I know what what's going on in every class. My grammar is still very bad (the articles der,die, das, den, dem... I guess every time)... but I can get the point across.
this metaphor defines my life right now,
"Foreign exchange is an emotional rollercoaster"
you are my sunshine,
my only sunshine,
you make me happy,
when skies are grey,
you never know dear,
how much i LOVE YOU,
so please don't take my sunshine away.
Aw, Benji i love! thanks for the shout out! it made me cry! im sitting here eating a pint of ice cream by myself crying...how coool am i? haha love you!