Hallo Aus Berlin

you are probably wondering where i have been all this time, and why i just said hello from berlin because you already knew i was in berlin. well here is your answer.

I was in dresden from tuesday to friday (today) that is why you haven't gotten any posts.. YAYAYA

Don't worry dresden was fun and although i did mis you it was ok because i had a good time without you. :D

In dresden i had spagetti eis and ate at some yummy restraunts and also played on fun placscapes. time for me to do something else cool :P bye bye

PARTY PARTY PARTY

My first weekend in germany. It's actually a 3 day weekend. We went to a party that night at Celestes partners house. I'm tired so you guys don't get anything really about today. Sorry :)

School Day

Today we went to the school and followed our partners through school until it was time for us to give our presentations. Kerry and I were presenting on LASA high school. We really just went up and talked and I think probably bored the students... but thats ok :P

one of the teachers split up the students and the americans so we could talk to them in small groups. One of jacksons groups asked him if there were a lot of hispanics in Austin. Jackson responded with yes and the kid said that there must be a high crime rate then.

Also one of my groups asked me is Jackson was a Satan worshiper.

Side note: One of the classrooms in the school had smart board. It was so cool!!!! we should have them at LASA :)


Why I like LASA: i can understand everything that the teachers say

City Excursions

Today we went to different famous sites in berlin and the 10C german class (berlin students) explained different places in berlin. It was cool in both senses of the word. Yesterday i wore jeans and was really hot so i decided to wear shorts... not a good idea. it was SO COLD!!! gahhh. but it was still fun. i borrowed Celeste's jacket.

Then we were all exhausted but the berlin teacher said we HAD to go on the boat trip. I was ok with it but some people not so much. We took the german tour so we wouldn't have to wait which meant no one understood anything :P it was fun to be on the water and wave at other boats though. so i guess it was ok except that it was even colder and windier (is that a word) on the boat.

Atleast i get to sleep tonight. sadly i have to wake up early tomorrow to go to the school.


weather: cold cold cold

first day of travel

Day 2 in germany!
Woke up early and went with Dana (one of my exchange partners) to the school. The schools are built up not wide so there were TONS of stairs. We took public transportation to get there which was cool but if i went alone there would have been a 100% chance i would have gotten lost. We went into one of the rooms and had a welcome breakfast thing. The principle came and said hi and we got to try different german foods.

then the germans went to class and us americans went on different tours. we went to the unter den linden, the Brandenburg Gate and the Reichstag (the parliment building)

some guy there told us about german government and stuff. was interesting but i was still tired from all the traveling yesterday. Thats ok though

We got rained on a bit so i bought a 2 euro umbrella. Not very good but it did it's job quite well

Also in Berlin we saw the TV tower. a little hard to miss because it's REALLY BIG!!!/tall

2 plane trips and a long time later

If waking up at 4:30 in the morning isn't bad enough, try doing that, meeting up with a group of teenagers, and waiting in a security line that goes on FOREVER at the airport. I mean seriously. It was 5 am and the airport is packed. Who wants to fly at that hour? i know i didn't :P
But after about 3 hours i made it into Newark, New Jersey. The airport was nice, had walking sidewalks (i mean moving sidewalks, most sidewalks are used for walking) and was pretty clean. But waiting there for 7 hours... it just turned into a long time. but it was ok because i only had one plane trip yet. In the layover time we played killer bunnies, ate pizza and tried not to annoy each other before the next plane trip.

Next plane trip
Only 8 hours and i'd finally be at destination. On the plane there were tons of movies, and games and the tv was touch screen. Pretty cool. The first hour went by quite quickly and it was really cool. until i look at the clock the next time and it had only been 10 minutes in what i thought had to be at least 2 hours. This did not make me so happy and thats what it felt like for the rest of the plane ride. Atleast for a couple hours we were flying along the sunset so there was a forever long sunset which was super pretty.

Finally we get into Berlin, Germany. YAY YAY YAY
and it's only 8:10 am on tuesday. ahhh that means i need to stay up the entire day to fight jet lag. that night we had the welcome dinner. I was so tired i couldn't even tune into the conversation i was just there. then sleep... sweet sweet sleep.

Flights taken: 2
Books read: 2.5
Hours awake: 32