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Christmas Update

Hello guys,                                                    20.12.2009

Well at first I think I have to apologize. After some of my friends have “kicked me in my ass” I realized that my last article was from the 28.09.09. I really thought I had written something new on it.

So this article will be going a little bit back in timeJ.

Homecoming: Well in the last article i wrote that we have homecoming pretty sone. I went to homecoming but alone because i didnt really now a girl well enough to ask her. So I went with my friends. We went for dinner and then to the dance. It was really fun there even if the music wasn't so good. I had a lot of fun and it was easier than to have a partner for which you are responsible :).

Halloween: 31.10.09 Halloween is a big festival here in America. I think everybody knows what it is.

Everybody has pumpkins outside with the craziest motives and especially young children dress up and go from door to door and get sweets.

So at this I bought with some friends a pumpkin at a really big field. I believe there were over 300 pumpkins and you just go around and take the one you like.

In the evening Bruce showed me how to carve it and we made a really simple and easy one.

In the evening then I hung out with my friends and at first we were just sitting around and listening to music. Later then we went trick or treating, which means collecting sweets.

We worn just masks of monster or political people rang the bell, said trick or treating and they gave us sweets. Later in the evening we went to a party and it was pretty much fun.

When we were on the way to the party some guy drove with his car along and threw eggs on us. One guy got hit and had all the egg over his clothes but some guys recognized his car and so we gave it him back;).

San Francisco: During the thanksgiving holidays I visit Santa Cruise, San Francisco and Sacramento.

On Saturday morning Bruce, Franco and I drove up to Santa Cruise. It took us the whole day because we took a street along the coast line. I just have to say it is an amazing street, you are an alone on the whole street nobody is there and the view is just so wonderful. With some music from our laptops we enjoyed the drive. Especially in the evening we had a beautiful sun set and it was just a nice atmosphere. Later in the evening then we arrived at Chris’s house. He is the brother of Marty.

In the evening Franco and I went to the movie and watched Pirate Radio. It is really a funny movie and we had lots of fun. Also the Starbucks around the corner was pretty goodJ.

At the next day we drove to a huge Aquarium. It was really huge we need 5 hours to see all. But it was really nice and I got some really nice pictures of it. They had huge water tanks there it was just nice.

In the evening Franco and I went to the “shopping mall” but there was nothing and so we went in the cinema again and there we watched the worst movie ever. It calls The men who stare at the goats.

At the next day we left Chris, he is a really nice guy and a surfer for his whole life and drove to San Francisco. During the day we visit the harbor, a famous chocolate fabric, Pier 89 and of course the famous street which goes always in slopes, like a snack down from the highest hill in the city and the Golden Gate Bridge and Cable Card.

The harbor was a really nice place and we went into a restaurant with an amazing view.

We were lucky because we found a free exhibition of fun machines like Flipper and flip books.

One machine was really fun. You had to pull weight up to the top and only Bruce, Franco and I together achieved it. I believe nobody could do it alone.

After this we went to Pier 89. It is a pier in the harbor which belongs to the sea lions because there are hundreds of sea lions and just lying in the sun.

The next stop was the crazy road down from the hill and it was just pretty funny to take the same road you see often in the movies.

In the chocolate fabric we made a stop and eat a really nice ice, after this we went to the Cable Card (Zahnradbahn) but there were so many people that we decided not to do it.

Finally we drove to the Golden Gate Bridge and got some insider tips from which points we can take the best pictures. So we spent about one hour on the hill taking pictures and enjoying the sun set.

Then we drove to Sacramento, the Capitol of San Francisco. There we met Mary’s sister and her nice family, her husband and her two daughters.

The next day we started quiet and so we just visited an almond factory. At the next day we drove to the Capitol building and visited Arnolds place for ruling over California. Ant I really have to say it is a really nice building with Mamore and gold. Also it has a really nice park around it.

Later in the evening Franco and I went with the two girls of Marty’s sister and a friend of them to the cinema and saw Twilight. (I really have to say it is not a good movie, 3 hours just about love).

Then at the next day we drove back over the highway and need just 5 hours.

So we were back for Thanks giving, one of the most important celebrations. It was a really nice evening because the whole family came together and the food was just amazing. The turkey (Truthahn, nicht Türke) and all the other things it was really, really good.

Gingerbread house: My host family has the tradition to meet one time in December and to build a house out of Gingerbread, after this you “glue” sweets on it. The glue is some special thing out of sugar, butter and something else. Later this glue gets really hard but it still tastes good. But on this day I couldn’t join the celebration because I had a wrestling tournament, so I built my house 2 days later at home. It was fun and I destroyed it already to eat itJ.

Christmas: Last week we decorated our house with Christmas lights. It looks pretty nice we have some lights around the whole house but not too much. With my organization we drove to one street where they had Christmas lights all over the house all over the front yard it was crazy. They have music outside and the lights flash up to the music and they have some figures in the front yard which are taller than 2meters. Here you have to look at my pictures to understand what I mean.

School: School here is pretty much the same.  Sometimes it is boring sometimes it is goodJ. On the last day of school we had a meeting in the gym. These meetings we have always if there is something special. On these meetings some students perform by singing or dancing in front of the rest of the school. And there are some guys who are amazing good. For example one friend of mine sang a part of an opera there and his voice sounds really good for it. On this meeting I took some pictures and some videos. The pictures you can see on my homepage. The movies are too big to put them up.

After the 2 weeks of our vacations we have the big finals at the end of the year.

Here in America there is no rule that says you have to have so many tests in class during the year, but at the end of the half year and the year there is a big test and it is about all the stuff you have done in this year. I am really not happy about thisJ.

Wrestling: Up to know we had 3 wrestling tournaments. There we went as a team and fought against another team. It is always pretty fun and I am in the varsity team (Team line number 1) and fight in the weight class 152. Some of my matches I won some I loss, my record is at the moment 10:8 (10 won, 8 losses) in wrestling you score points by bringing your opponent on the ground or on his back.

If both shoulder of him touch the ground the fight is over and you won. If you bring your opponent down to the ground you get 2 points. If you hold him 5 seconds on his bag you score 3 points. If you are down and the partner controls you, but you can escape in the stands again you score 1 point. At match consist out of 3 rounds at 2 minutes. The break between the rounds is between 15 and 20 seconds. You win a fight by pin that means when you bring both shoulders on the ground, by points, if you are 15 points ahead of him or by time, after six minutes the guy with the most points wins the match. I won all my 10 matches by pin, lost 2 by bin and 6 by time.

The team and the coach are happy with me and I get better and better from match to match.

But the most important thing is that it makes fun.

Rock climbing: On the last day of school we went after school with my physics class rock climbing who wanted. It was really funny and I noticed that I haven’t done it a long time. But I was really nice to do it again.