Christmas PARTY

last night was the Christmas party for my soccer team.. hahahaha that was so amusing... some of the girls hardly ever drink and they just got absolutely hammered!!
I didnt drink.. well my coach gave me some really gross green shot.. from this gigantic bottle of god knows what hahah
any way.. enjoy teh pictures!!
The coaches gave all of us training pants and gloves :)
I made everyone an origami box with their names written on top in calligraphy.. with some treats inside!
I walked home in the rain with Merle...

Ling Zhus last day!!!

Today was Ling Zhus (My Chinese friend) last day in German class...
she's flying back to China for a few weeks and coming back in January..
I won't see her again unless I take part II of the German course..
Continue German or.. take Italian?  WHAT DO YOU THINK???

HAIRHAIRHAIR.

I now understand the whole Europeans don't shave thing.. well girls at least
BECAUSE ITS COLD AND IF YOU DONT HAVE YOUR WINTER COAT ON or GROWING (MEANING LEGS, ARM PITTS... and idk what WHERE else) THEN YOU WILL FREEZE YOUR ASS OFF.
then maybe when it's warm they are too lazy to shave it off.
as a conclusion: when in Europe, do as the Europeans do.

Dinner with my Bundestag Representative

Last night I had dinner with Michaela Noll, my Bundestag Representative. She is apart of the CDU here in Germany. I arrived at 6:00pm in Hilden. When I got there.. I noticed that there were all older people. Then i found out it was the press form 3 news papers.. so the first thing we did was take photos, my cheeks hurt from smiling so much!!! ahhhh..
then I sat there with another exchange student from my program who I had never met before and they interrogated us like crazy. It was so nerve racking because they were sitting there grilling us and writing down everything that we were saying. It was fun though to say the least and Michaela Noll is really nice. We started talking about politics and they asked me if it's uncomfortable sometimes when people talk to me about american politics.. adn I said no because I can agree wtih most Germans on American politics. Then we started having a jolly good German time.. just absolutely ripping on Sarah Palin.. and the tea party. We found out 5 minutes later that the kid from Chicago sitting next to me is a conservative Republican and a catholic hahaha... oh god.. it was so funny. We were all absolutely shocked. We were all trying to hard to hold ourselves back from nailing him on everything he was saying.

Don't be fooled by the ice that I got.........Literally.

I ran today for teh first time in one week..
due to the weather I havent been able to run....... and I figured it was okay to run today because things were starting to die down, kind of. Oh how wrong I was. My running path was pure ice and snow. Sometimes you think.. ohh it's normal road.. NO wrong.. it's ICE!!!! tricky..As much fun as it was running through tractor tracks surrounded by snow that was knee high.. I think that I prefer a normal road.. without snow.
A word about German Winters: When it snows or ices for that matter, Germans don't freak out. Nor do they bother to clear the road or sidewalks. Youre lucky to get salt or cat litter. Unlike America, where everyone would be flipping out like the world was ending or something, Germans don't give a shit. I cannot tell you how many times I have busted my ass. Of course, you have to take my clumsiness into account- BUT I have witnessed several other slip and slide incidents. bahah s

December 7, 2010

This morning I wrote my Spanish exam.. which blew because the text made absolutely no sense...
Im pretty sure everyone else was thinking the same thing haha... any wya
after that I had 45 min of English
I was talking to my Australian friend (she's an assistant teacher kind of thing) and she has some classes wtih the younger grades.. adn she said that yesterday one of the 13 yr old girls BEGGED her to buy her pills because she wants to have sex with her boyfriend on friday... my Australian friend was scarred for life hahahha she said no way!!...
if that's not scary.. then I don't know what is haha

Happy St. Nikolaus!!!

Today is St. Nikolaus..
so last night we all left our boots by the fire place and St. Nikolaus came baring treats.. including candy, cards and a book
the book is : Ich werde ein Berliner: How to be really hip in Germany

bahah!

Building a snowman

Cross Country Skiing worldcup!!

is apparently held in Dusseldorf every year.. and I went to the finals today with Peter, Evy, Mila and lucky!!! it was really cool... intense competition!
Before teh finals started there were two guys on stage doing a hacky-sack show.. which was really cool.. they were soccer players

December 4

so today I had to be at our schools open house for my Spanish class.. we were supposed to dance (even though we didnt really... the occasional macarena.. but nothing special)it was really cool though.. every subject had cool projects going on.. like the physic class.. and the computer science class..
any way.. after that I went to Dusseldorf with Janike and Anne to the Cross Country Skiing world cup.. it was FREEZING. but still cool..haha
then we stopped by Annas favorite asian market..
when I got home (after trekking through the snow) running actually.. haha
I helped out with our Turkey Dinner.. not a belated Thanksgiving.. it's actually a  Pfister tradition.. Germany doesnt have insanely large Turkeys.. so we had to make two..I used a Bon Apetit Thanksgiving edition from my mom ... actually Evy marked it all up with Recipes to make haha
it was chaos in the kitchen wiht 6 people making 6 different things haha..
I made baked sweet potatoe fries topped with sea salt adn rosemary... then an herb  stuffing...
I helped Emily make a southern Apple pie
other than that we had... 2 turkeys, cranberry sauce, redcabbage, baked veggies, Knuddle, sauce and an apple cake that Lore made.....
oh yeah btw.. we are getting a blizzard :) haha

FIRST DAY OF ADVENT!!

check out our advent calendars:

ice lantern!!

haha made my first EVER ice lantern (thanks dad for instructions!!) and it was luckily a success.. wohoooo
will light it tonight!

sweet you rock and sweet you roll

I wish that I had an underwater camera or video camera.. to do a photography project on the morning swimming crowed..
Imagine waking up early to go swimming..and youre surrounded by nothing but round (not necessarily fat.. but just round...thick) old people in pastel colored swimming suits.. or speedos.....
it's like being in Little Nemo's Slumberland.............
but the people dont swim.. they drift.. while they chat..
and some of them bob in the water like jelly fish