My Host Family

My host family rides unicycles. That is so cool! I was told on June 25th who my host family was (so yes, I am being very lazy about updating this), but they seem so cool! My host sister Julia is my age, but she will be on an exchange year in Ireland while I am in Germany. The other host sister, Alina, plays the violin, and is 12 years old. My host mother is Viola, and she is a stay at home wife who takes care of their garden, and also reads to kids once a week. She's also trying to get me to write more often in German, so that I learn the language faster. My host father Joachim was on a bike tour thing this weekend. My host family seems really into riding bikes. After reading about them on the host family profile, and also from the mails they've sent me, I'm really looking forward to spending my year in Germany with them.

They live just outside of Berlin, the capital of Germany, and I will be going to the Heinz-Berggruen-Gymnasium. My German friend David looked at the gymnasium's website, and said it was really good... I will also be able to continue studying French at that gymnasium, so I am happy. I don't know wether I will be going into the 10th or 11th grade there, though, since the school wants me in the 10th grade (because I don't speak German), but it says on my secondary application that my American school suggests I go into the 11th grade.

I'm very happy my host family doesn't smoke, because I have so many not-so-fond memories of the smell of smoke :\. I feel like I'm not writing enough about them... maybe I would have written more if I hadn't been walking around for hours in the murderous sun. When I sat down at this computer I could FEEL all of the sweat on my back :'(.