Soccer Game!

Yesterday was pretty busy so I didn't have time to upload any pictures onto my last post. After school today I should have some time to do that though so this post and yesterday's post will be updated with pictures later. Anyway yesterday we went to the soccer game! It was interesting to see what the fans are like here, much crazier than for any sport in Canada (except for maybe some people during NHL playoffs lol). Now I was in the fanblock, so everyone has to stand and your just crammed in there, so maybe everyone seemed crazy because you have to be crazy to pay money and stand for 2 hours! They even have a theme song for the team, which was cool/cultish lol. Overall though it was fun, but the game ended in a tie. Hansa didn't play very well until the end of the first half when they scored, and the fans go nuts when they score! Then the second half was ok but no one scored, Hansa had a few close ones but oh well, it was still a cool experience!

Dresden

This weekend we went to Dresden. It is in central eastern Germany, right near the Czech Republic. Most of the city was destroyed during World War II, but they have done a lot of reconstruction on the old buildings. The biggest reconstruction project was on this church which translates to "The Church of Our Lady". There were a couple other churches we saw as well. In the one church we snuck into a tour group so we got to tour through a lot more of the church, and went into the basement where all the old Kings and Queens of Saxony are. When we arrived Friday night we did a little bit of touring around so I got to see the city at night which was really cool! We also went to a transportation museum where they had lots of old cars, planes(just models of those), trains, bikes and ships(just models of those too). It was very intersesting. We did a bit of shopping too, and i bought a German soccer jersey but I didn't have time to buy anything else. That was about all for Friday and Saturday. I really enjoyed being able to see all of that because it is all so old and has so much history, more than anything we have in Canada. On Sunday we went to "the mountains" haha I don't remember what they're called but they were much more different than ours. Where we were at there used to be what looked like some sort of medival fort from the little miniature they had there. All that is left is like the stone floor and you can see the stone steps they had carved out, but the bridge is the main thing that is left. After that we drove through Berlin, and saw a few things but we didn't spend much time there because we're going back next week anyway. Thats about all for my weekend though! Today we are going to a soccer game! I'm really excited!

So nothing new has happened today, but I thought i would add a couple pictures. Thsese are some of the girls in my class, the one on the right is Laura and she'll be in Stettler pretty soon. The picture was taken in the morning so they still thought it was cold enough for jackets, but i'm sure it ended up being above 20 degrees today. And now for a picture courtesy of my paparazzi picture taking skills I present to you the World's Largest Mullet!!!

The Island of Rügen

On Sunday we went to Rügen, the biggest island in Germany. It is in the Baltic Sea, also has the most northern part of Germany on it. The first place on the island we went was Nationalpark Jasmund (national park is together for a reason too lol), and the cliffs that overlook the sea are all made out of chalk, so that was really cool to see. Then we went to this place where it was some sort of ancient grave site, I don't know remember exactly what it was all about, but it was kinda cool. After that we drove to Arkona, I think it was some sort of military outpost during WWII among other things. It had a cool lighthouse, a bomb shelter, and a good view of the sea, but none of the building were open, so all we could do was basically look at them. I t was still cool to see everything though. So that was our Sunday trip. Today it was about 18 degrees outside, it made me so happy, because the sky was completely clear and I finally dind't need a jacket after all the wet windy weather we'd been having. We also went into Rostock to buy tickets for a soccer game next monday. Their team is called FC Hansa Rostock, and they are actually doing really good this year, so it should be an interesting game!

First Full Week

So, I've been in Germany now for a full week, and I've been having tons of fun. The school is good, but the teachers are crazy! If any of your remember George when he was in Stettler, I have his mom as one of my teachers at school, and I can definitely see a family resemblance. So on Tuesday me and Jasmin and another guy they call Kalle (or Kaaaaleeee) and we did some more touring around Rostock. Its surprising cause they're so much to see just in that city, like in this picture you can see part of the old wall that went around Rostock, and then there are lots of other old buildings, so just looking around is cool. The rest of the week was good too, I'm getting some schoolwork done lol, hopefully I'm doing it quick enough! So then on Friday there was a birthday party for one of the girls in my class named Jette (pronounced "Yetta") and that was lots of fun, there were quite a few people there, and it was good to be able to hang out with some of these kids outside of school! And it was fun cause they actually had lots of questions about Canada, especially this one kid lol, so I really enjoyed that. This morning I got to ride in my host dad's Rolls Royce car that he bought the day I arrived, I thought that was pretty sweet.In the afternoon we went to Warnemüde, it is a beach area at the Baltic Sea, with shops and stuff, so we toured around there for the afternoon, bought some fish that I'll be having for supper lol so we'll see how that is! Oh and when we were there one of the seagulls pooped on Jasmin's jacket!! Anyways thats all for now!

I Made it Alive!!!

Hey everyone! So I made it here alive, and I really like it. The flight over was good, but it made me really tired, so I slept from 10 that night to 12 in the morning, and I don't think I have ever slept that long!! On sunday I got to meet a lot of Jasmin's family, her grandparents and great grandparents on her mom's side, and an uncle. We also went to Rostock, and toured around there a bit. Today was my first day of school, and I honestly was a little nervous, but everyone seems to be very friendly, and it was pretty fun (as far as school goes lol). Jasmin's family is really nice, and I'm very lucky to be staying with them, because they like to have some fun kinda like my family. It is hard not being able to understand German, and I don't get everything explained to me (that would be a little much to ask) but no one has had a problem talking to me in english so far so I'm happy about that. Oh lol today in math I actually did their work, and it was just logarithms so I knew what they were doing, but it was interesting trying to have them explain what they were doing so I could match it up to what I knew from our math. Anyways I should go, so I will keep you all updated on whats going on!

(this is us on the Autobahn, we going so fast the picture is blurry lol!)

So I 'm not actually there yet, but I thought I would post one quick message before I left just to make sure this works. I'll miss eveyone a lot, but its only a month lol so I have a feeling it'll go by way to fast!