Itzehoe!

Okay. It has been quite a while since I have last updated, and I have to apologize. But I have been very very busy, which I guess is a good thing!!! SO!

My year-long host family is really nice and fun! I really enjoy everyone in it! The first night I went to a BBQ! It was delicious! In fact, I really cannot complain at all about the food here! I have promised myself that I will try everything, and, with the exception of Sauerfleisch, I have not been disappointed! The only thing I don't like is the weather. It is great that it is less humid, but it has rained literally every day since I got here!!! I was told that this is unusual weather for this time of year, but still. Not cool.

Now, to school. I am in the 10th grade here. Which isn't that bad. The classes are not too hard. It is just tough to get around the whole language thing. I am pretty positive that, once I have gotten good at german, school will be a lot easier! I really like all of my classmates, they are hilarious!!! I cannot wait until I know german well enough to really get into their conversations! The teachers are cool and let me get easier assignments, if something is too hard for me. My favorite class, of course, is English. I find it really cool that the class is taught in English, even though it is British English, which isn't cool! I also enjoy listening to all of my classmates talk in English. There accents are really funny! It is weird, though, because I feel like I have been here for a very long time, even though it has only been two weeks! OH! One really sweet thing about german school is that, if your teacher is gone or sick or something, you pretty much have a free hour! Like today, for example, our teacher for our last class just didn't show up, so we got to go home early!!! HOW COOL IS THAT!?

I have been watching a lot of german TV, which is pretty cool. A lot of the shows are really just American, but have been dubbed. Like Two and a Half Men, Scrubs, The Simpsons, etc. But still funny! I am clad with how well I am able to understand stuff, but I still have quite awhile before I will be able to really understand everything that is going on.

I do bike to and from school every day, which is about 6 miles total, I think. So I will definitely stay in shape here! Probably even get more in shape! Especially for tennis! TENNIS! I had my first tennis practice at a local club yesterday!! It was a lot of fun, but it has been so long since I had played that much tennis, so I was freakin crazy sore and tired! And I had to bike home! Needless to say, the ride home was a challenge! But I feel great! I love it! Clay courts are still a little hard for me to get used to, but they are fun!

I think that is about it for now..... anybody have any questions? My next post will be a response to all of them, if you do! Hopefully, I will be able to post sooner!