Everyday Life

I'm writing in English because I'm getting worse in German (yes, that can happen) and I wanted to see how it is to write in English. If English is not your language or you're too lazy to use your brain (I don't judge you!), just use the translation function beside this post.

My day starts at 6:30 am. First I answer my family and friends in Germany after that I'm dressing, which doesn't take long because of my School uniform. After the exciting dressing session, I do all the hygienic stuff like brushing my teeth and so on. I eat something really quick and at 7:10 am a classmate picks me up to school. The first bell rings at 7:55 am and the second at 8:00 am and this is when my School day starts. At 3:05 pm school is over. After school I have swim practice, which is really fun, but also really, really exhausting and after it I just wanna take a shower and sleep. Practice starts everyday at a different time, but at 7:00 pm I'm home for sure. I do the rest of my homework, eat something, sometimes I watch TV with my sisters and then I get ready for bed. Since I'm here, I have to go to bed really early (9 - 10 pm) because if not I would die and dream of sleeping the whole day. Maybe because I'm not used to have school 'til 3 pm.
Most of the days are similar, I got used to it, so it's not that bad. At the beginning it was a huge shock to have such a long school day and only one break, where you eat lunch. I was starving! Everyday I'm looking forward to my salad, which I eat at lunch. It sounds weird, but it's the truth. Since I live here in America, I'm craving for fruits, vegetables and salad. Everything what's healthy. I mean, Fast Food doesn't taste bad, but if you eat so much like you do in America, you get tired of it and just want some "real" food. Most of the time even an apple sounds better than American candy. It is way too sweet! I'm  getting really, really tired of the unhealthy food, drinks and the driving all the time. Nobody here walks. Once my sisters and I got yelled for walking besides the street. I miss my bike, which I could go wherever I want to. The only time I move without a car here is when I have to switch classrooms or when I walk to the restroom or the kitchen to make some food. You're right, really exhausting!

You notice, you're missing the small things from your home, you've never thought you would miss. Like you're tiny town, your bed, your favorite meal, your bike (!). What sounds really funny when I tell it my American friends and family. I also miss my German school. How the heck can you miss school? I miss to wear my own (!) clothes - you cannot imagine how frustrating it can be to buy new wonderful clothes and not be able to wear them the next day in school, but I'm trying to make my school uniform look little bit different; to go with my bike to school, my teachers, my classmates, the breaks I spend with friends. Everything. But it's not a bad missing, I'm not homesick. I just noticed how lucky I'm to live the life I live and that not everything what seemed bad to me in Germany, is bad. I like to live in Germany, I just didn't know I do. To live here in America for a few months showed me this, it is still showing me and I'm really, really happy about that. I learned to be thankful for what I have and I think, that's pretty great.

Last week something really, really weird happened to me. I wanted to talk to the Admission Director at my school, but she had a visitor. I saw a leash in the visitor's hand and thought, it would own a dog. 
It wasn't a dog. It was a skunk! I freaked out, I've never seen one before. I took pictures like my life would depend on it and later I asked to take a picture with the not at all normal pet. 

Dogs are too boring for Americans

Last Wednesday all the Juniors and Sophomores had to take the P - SAT 3 hours long! It was so weird and boring! We all sit next to each other and almost all the exercises were Multiple Choice. It was Critical Reading and Math. Actually, you could have copied everything for your neighbor, but it was so easy, that you didn't have to. The others said, it would have been hard, but it wasn't. If my first language would be English, it would have been really, really easy! 

Yesterday was Semi. It's the Formal Dance of my school. It was really small because our school is small. Americans don't dance, they "grind". That means the boy stands behind the girls and holds her hips, the girl shakes those. Some girls go hard :D   

Serena