Right now it's 13.43 and I'm still wearing my PJ's because I'm too lazy to change- I am officially in Herbstferien-MODE (aka-Fall break). I have 2 weeks of no school and I am ready to indulge in sleeping-in, eating, relaxing, etc... I NEED A BREAK. Even though school isn't academically challenging (because I can't understand the curicculum) it causes a lot of fatigue!
Its a typical Sunday afternoon in Berlin- cloudy, and brisk. It is definately Autumn here!!! When I'm on my way to school every morning I have to wear a sweatshirt and a jacket because the temperature is so low. I really like the atmosphere though... It feels like the city is smaller when it's cold, because there arn't as many people walking outside. The house is quieter than normal because my host brother left yesterday to go to Egypt with his friend. Tomorrow or the day after tomorrow I'm driving down to Bad Kissingen (close to Frankfurt am Main) with my host-family to visit my Oma. We'll stay there for a few days then drive back up to Berlin. My host parents are still unsure if we can go to Budapest... but if that doesn't work out I'm fine with staying in Berlin.
Nothing really big has happened since my last post- I'm starting to get excited for Paris!!! I should start to brush up on my Französisch... but thats going to be difficult though because my mind is swimming with DEUTSCH!!! speaking of, I think it's safe to say that my spoken-German is better than my spoken-French now. But I can read and write better in French... That's EXCITING! Yesterday I went to a party with only German people and I realized that I could understand a TON about what people were saying!!! I'm almost to the point where I can start to actually contribute to conversations... (other than answering questions)...but not yet!
On friday I had a 2-hour math test (Theres only 2 of them every year). I was worried that I wouldn't be able to understand the problems and that I wouldn't do very well... but I actually think I did really good! I answered all of the questions... finished with 30 minutes to spare. I ended up re-writing half of the test because I didn't want to get points off for sloppyness like I did last test.
After school on Friday, I met up with another exchange student and we decided to get our hair cuts... but for CHEAP! So we set off looking for a cheap hair-salon... hopped onto a U-bahn and crossed our fingers that we would find a place. After much looking, we didn't find a single thing... so we decided to walk to the S-bahn station to drive back to where we started... and as fate would have it, RIGHT when we were waiting outside the station we turn around and RIGHT there was an express hair salon. It was a little bit sketchy (the women working there had crazy mullets dyed yellow and pink) but ended up getting our hair cuts there for only 10€! It was really funny trying to communicate with the people there! GREAT EXPERIENCE!
Well... I don't really have anything else to say. I'm kind of bummed that I don't have a camera right now because there are so many instances that I want to take a picture of something... bummer. Oh and I think I'll post up another video soon because I feel like it's more personal!
I really should take a shower now!
Here's a really old pitcture of me from my first week here... I just found it.
Its a typical Sunday afternoon in Berlin- cloudy, and brisk. It is definately Autumn here!!! When I'm on my way to school every morning I have to wear a sweatshirt and a jacket because the temperature is so low. I really like the atmosphere though... It feels like the city is smaller when it's cold, because there arn't as many people walking outside. The house is quieter than normal because my host brother left yesterday to go to Egypt with his friend. Tomorrow or the day after tomorrow I'm driving down to Bad Kissingen (close to Frankfurt am Main) with my host-family to visit my Oma. We'll stay there for a few days then drive back up to Berlin. My host parents are still unsure if we can go to Budapest... but if that doesn't work out I'm fine with staying in Berlin.
Nothing really big has happened since my last post- I'm starting to get excited for Paris!!! I should start to brush up on my Französisch... but thats going to be difficult though because my mind is swimming with DEUTSCH!!! speaking of, I think it's safe to say that my spoken-German is better than my spoken-French now. But I can read and write better in French... That's EXCITING! Yesterday I went to a party with only German people and I realized that I could understand a TON about what people were saying!!! I'm almost to the point where I can start to actually contribute to conversations... (other than answering questions)...but not yet!
On friday I had a 2-hour math test (Theres only 2 of them every year). I was worried that I wouldn't be able to understand the problems and that I wouldn't do very well... but I actually think I did really good! I answered all of the questions... finished with 30 minutes to spare. I ended up re-writing half of the test because I didn't want to get points off for sloppyness like I did last test.
After school on Friday, I met up with another exchange student and we decided to get our hair cuts... but for CHEAP! So we set off looking for a cheap hair-salon... hopped onto a U-bahn and crossed our fingers that we would find a place. After much looking, we didn't find a single thing... so we decided to walk to the S-bahn station to drive back to where we started... and as fate would have it, RIGHT when we were waiting outside the station we turn around and RIGHT there was an express hair salon. It was a little bit sketchy (the women working there had crazy mullets dyed yellow and pink) but ended up getting our hair cuts there for only 10€! It was really funny trying to communicate with the people there! GREAT EXPERIENCE!
Well... I don't really have anything else to say. I'm kind of bummed that I don't have a camera right now because there are so many instances that I want to take a picture of something... bummer. Oh and I think I'll post up another video soon because I feel like it's more personal!
I really should take a shower now!
Here's a really old pitcture of me from my first week here... I just found it.
