Hey!
Sorry, I didn't write anything for a looong time... Now it's already October! I don't know where to start, so I will probably just tell you some nice/interesting/great/exciting things that happened so far. The
Last weekend there was a big halloween costume party for exchange students, about 45 minutes from where I live. But since the weather was really bad (It rained all day long) we decided not to go. My friend from Germany stayed the whole weekend with us, because her host parents were out of town, so we just invited some other exchange student friends over to my house to have a little pre-halloween party. It was so much fun (look at the pictures)!
Football season (and marching band season) is nearly over, we only have to games left. That makes me a little sad, because I really love marching our halftime show and playing in the stands. But the "marching band" becomes "concert band" after that, so I stay in a group with all the nice people I met. We already started practicing christmas music!
Another weekend I visited Galveston, together with 22 exchange students. We were a huge group and had so much fun being at the beach, the pleasure pier and eating s'mores at the fireplace! (photos) Isn't it funny that we actually spend the "hug-an-exchange-student-day" together? We hugged each other a lot!!!
The title of this post refers to another unexpected meeting. My host mom and her friend took me and her friend's exchange student to Austin, the capital of Texas. There we visited the Capitol, the campus of one of the big universities in Texas and had dinner at a beautiful lake! The Sunday after that we went to New Braunsfeld to see a large cave. It was very interesting! And for lunch we went to a german restaurant, the "Friesenhaus". There we met the owner of the restaurant, and guess what - he was from Emden!!! He told me that he just moved to the United States in 2005. I couldn't belive that I met someone from my (not huge or famous) town in Germany, about 8.500 km entfernt!
At October 3rd we celebrated our two dogs' 16th birthday. That was a great experience! We had some friends over for dinner, the dogs got dog-ice cream and dog-cookies and we had a dog-cake.
Something else that made me very happy is that I got my first invitation to a birthday party of an american friend! She celebrated her 16th birthday together with about 40 friends at a pizza place. I had the great evening together with the other band students that were invited!
Next weekend is Halloween, and my school's homecoming football game and dance. I am very excited for that and I think it will be a great weekend again!
You see, I am having a great time here, not bored at all and way to busy and happy with everything to be homesick! I hope that everyone else in Germany, Martinique or wherever people live and read my blog is having a good time too!
Johanna
