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Well. I apologize. It really has been a long time since I have added to this. Seems like I am always busy or something. Currently I have two weeks of school. Pretty damn nice, i know :D Its called Herbstferien here. So, I will try to recount everything that has happened since I last posted here. I am sure there are alot of things so this may turn into a giant post if I really put my mind to it.

Now going back about three or four weeks ago I went to my first soccer game in Germany. My host father here procured two free tickets from work and offered me them. I quickly jumped on the offer. In school I asked one of my class mates Norman if he wanted to come with. He was all for it so we started looking up our train times to and from Fankfurt. We left for Frankfurt at 8:00 from Wächstersbach Bahnhof. The trip there was uneventful, but when we made it to the Hauptbahnhof in Frankfurt, man was it crazy. The whole station was alive with Frankfurt fans. All pleasantly drunk and rowdy, but not in a negative way at all. In a way more of a collective spirit. It was a great atmosphere. It got better yet as we waited for the S bahn to the stadium. Everyone was breaking into the Frankfurt Eintrach songs and chants. When we loaded the s bahn it was pretty full, and every stop we made it was hilarious. The fans would all jump up and down and chant in german lets shake the train, lets shake the train, while juming up and down over and over. It was priceless. I uploaded a video of it below. The atmosphere inside the stadium was amazing. The whole crowd was screaming, yelling, chanting, and waving flags. Sadly Frankurt lost to Freidburg 0 to 1. It was a great night though. I think we made it home around 1ish.


Then, I am honestly not to positive what I did the weeks after that. I think every weekend was a party or so and it was alot of fun. Oh, wait. I do remember something. There was a festival in the town nearby of Wächstersbach. I went there alone and planned on meeting a couple of friends. I got there and then chilled for about 30 minutes waiting for them to get back from the Store from their alcohol run. They finally got back, and there was a kid with them who I had never seen before. He also was quite drunk. I started talking to him and sure enough he came from America. He moved here a few years before. Anyways the night went on like usual in all German festivals. Everyone getting really drunk, having fun, and just enjoying the night. I ended up staying at Brandons house, the american. His mom was really nice and the next day they invited me with them to go to a obstacle course thing. One of those things where you are harnessed in and you are up in the trees. Like Iron Oaks back home. Anyways, it was alot of fun, and just relaxing to be able to speak to another English family for once.

Hmm the next weekend was more parties. I think you guys can catch the drift about Germany. Theres alot of drinking, but thats not all there is to the German people, so dont you ever think that or make that assumption.

The next friday I went with my host father and the neighbor to pick grapes. My neighbor makes wine every year. I think this year he is shooting for 750 liters of wine, half red and half white. Who knows, maybe I will send one bottle back to the U.S. if i get one. Then you guys can taste my work. Heres some photos of the day as well. We were in the Rhein region. Big rolling hills and acres an acres of grapes. It was beautiful like all of the area in Hessen.

School went increasingly better as well. The last week of school before the holidays I actually answered three questions in Political Sciences class. I was pretty damn proud of myself. In history I made a presentation in History about the education of the kids during Welt Kreig 1. I did it in German also mind you :)!! I also made the Math test with them as well. I think I honestly did pretty well as well.

Since the Ferien has started it has been really nice. I have been able to relax, but I still have to make an english project and finish reading a german book for Deutsch class. The reading the German book thing is kinda shit. I have to make a summary of every chapter. Its difficult, very difficult. But anyways last Monday I went with a Polish exchange student on a small vacation. I met her in the Frankfurt bahnhof and then we traveled by train to Gießen. It was really really fun trying to find out where our Hostel was. It was a big German test. We had to work our way around the city and ask whoever we thought could help us. It took us about 2 hours to finally find our way onto the bus to our hostel. It was my first time staying in a hostel and the particular one we were at was very strict. After unloading all of our stuff we headed back into the city for some sight seeing before it was too late. We saw two old castles, a massive church, and the shopping district. Before we came back to our hostel we bought a bottle of Apfel Wein so I could finally give it a try. We got back to the Hostel and then started looking for a place we could sit back relax and crack the bottle open. We ended up just going back to my room. There was only one guy already back and he was nice quite nice. We sat around drinking the wine and talking to him for about an hour. Then, the hostel director barged into our room and was screaming like the stereotypical German. We quickly hid the alcohol before we saw it. He was telling us how in the room next door he was suspicious of them drinking, and if he caught us drinking we would be thrown out. Phew, close call. We would have been alone in the middle of nowhere at 9 in the night. Damn that could have been shitty. We talked to the German guy for another hour or so before going to bed. Our conversations were very interesting. There were three view points on every subject. My view, a conservative polish view, and a more relaxed German conservative view. The German guy we were with was majoring in Power engineering. I had a long talk with him about the future of nuclear and he actually agreed with me that green energy is still a long way off. The first German to agree with me! YES! :D The next day we headed back into Gießen and went to the Mathematikum. It was a museum with alot of Hands on math experiments. It was really really interesting. We took a train back to her house. I staid there one night. Her family was really nice, and town near her, wiesbaden, was also very very nice. I took the train home two days ago.

Tonight I was with two friends in a nearby town. We had fun watching videos and chilling with pizza. Later tonight we went around town blowing off huge m80s. Honestly, they were so loud whenever we blew one off all the lights would flip on and dogs would start barking. It was hilarious.

On monday I head to poland for a week. Igo to Poznan to a university to see if I will be going there for my medical education when I am finished with highschool. Sorry for the lack of descriptiveness as this post went on. Its midnight and I am quite tired. I guess i will have to update this sooner like Nina is always telling me to!

P.S. Not sure if the video will upload, having trouble with it.