Je parle allemand.

28.02.10

So, I totally forget what happened on this day.

01.03.10

It was my mommy's birthday ^^. And I went to a book store, and I sort of want to buy one of those Moleskin journals, but I don't know... they're so expensive, and I only want one because other people have said that they're wonderful. I don't know.

03.03.10

I stayed home from school today. I was pretty sick... I had used almost two carry-around packages of tissues the day before.

04.03.10

I saw a limo! But really, what I did was go with my host mom, who is a community representative in case you guys forgot, and meet a family who was wondering about whether or not they should become a host family. They live in Wandlitz, a city outside of Berlin (and on the way there, you pass by where the Olympic players were living when Germany hosted the Olympics during Hitler's reign), and they lived practically on the shore of this really pretty lake. They were a really nice family, and I think that if they get an exchange student, the student will enjoy itself there.

Other than that, I just stayed home sick this day too, because, well... I wasn't feeling too wonderful for the first part of the day ^^. (I'm perfectly fine though now mom, so PLEASE, do NOT send me more cough-drops!)

06.03.10

I got into the van with Stranger Danger, and he gave me candy :D.



No really, I got into the van with my host family, and we went to the Baltic Sea. It was simply beautiful there. It was sort of strange though, because it was freezing cold with snow on the shore, but... we were at the ocean. Basically, when you think about the ocean, you think about warmth. That sort of permeates every other idea. But it was cold. The waves were splashing, the seagulls were flying, the sun was in the sky, but I was jumping up and down because I was FREEZING!

But we stayed at the "vacation apartment" that my host family rents out. Basically, it's like an apartment that is treated like a hotel (tourists are always checking in ant out). So, my host family rents this apartment (and decorated it all themselves), and then rents it out to other people who want to stay there. We were visiting to take care of the apartment before tourist season.



7.03.10

We went back home :'(. I actually really liked it there ^^.

8.03.10

I tried to tutor someone in math and English. They were in the 9th grade, but it didn't go too brilliantly. It was hard for me to try to explain something in German, and she was sort of going over the section of math that I had in 9th grade too... but sort of slept in. I think Mr. Henrion knows how well I can mentally tune out subject matter ;). But, I ended up learning myself what she was doing... the problem was the way that she did it. I had taught it to myself a different way, because the other way made more sense to me. But not to her. And, oh well ^^. She ended up not needing English help because they're just reading a book in her class, and I couldn't help her as well in math as a tutor should be able to, so... ya.

9.03.10

I had SO much fun today! I was playing Egyptian Ratslap in the library with these two guys, and it was SO much fun! I can't wait to play that game again ^^! (But I feel bad for the little German kids that had to listen to me play ;))

10.03.10

Someone stole my apple. It was just sitting there on the table... and then it was gone. Poor apple.

But anyways, in art class we were drawing still-life, and we each got a tomato, a nut, and an apple. The kid sitting next to me kept on messing up my nut, and then he was throwing them at my head xD. He even rolled a retard-tomato across the table at me. Then, when I was trying to trace something onto my paper, and wasn't paying attention, someone stole my apple.

Afterwards I went to KFC with my boyfriend's mom. She gave me candy :D. Then I went to a community representative meeting with my host mom, and it was... well, I wasn't paying attention during the actual meeting, but other than that, it was interesting. I got to see this video that was filmed in Buckeye, Arizona, in order to get the point across to the exchange students that they can go to a host family that's in the middle of nowhere ;). But the kid's family was literally in the middle of nowhere... they weren't even in a housing development; there was just a bunch of cacti around the house.

I also got to meet another one of my host brothers at the meeting. The one that studies in Munich was there, and he's going to be staying with us for 10 days now. The first time he talked to me though (admittedly, I had seen him once months ago, before I knew he would be my host brother), he was just asking me if this glass was already being used. No "hi Caitlin". But then I told him that, and he hugged me ^^.

13.03.10

I bought materials to make a pencil case. I have never sewn anything before, but my host mom has a sewing machine, and will let me play around with it.

14.03.10

I got rained on. And I forgot my jacket. And my post card got all messed up...

15.03.10

This boy figured out how to make me laugh. He basically just needs to get me to laugh a little bit, then he makes the dumbest face ever, and imitates exactly what I do, and even pretends to laugh. He and his friend made me laugh for like 10 minutes straight by doing that. I honestly have no idea how long I was laughing, just that I could hardly breath anymore, my stomach hurt, and I started coughing.

16.03.10

I went to Broadway today.

Really, it was just this little cinema in the middle of Berlin. We went to see a French movie there with German subtitles. It was really interesting. It's called LOL (Laughing Out Loud) ®, because the main character's name is Lola and her friends just call her "Lol". But, it basically follows her life through a year of French high school, including all of the girl-problems, love-problems, and family-problems that come along with it.



Also, on the way home from the movie, I met this Lebanese man and a Serbian woman on the bus. I was taking a picture of someone on a bike in the middle of the street, riding along side of the bus, when this guy was telling me to take pictures out of the other side of the bus, because the other side is clearer... I said something, and then could hear him saying to his friend "I didn't understand a single thing" basically... and then we got to talking. He attempted to convince me that he's a pilot and that they were going to the airport :D. He was just pulling my leg though ;).