CLUB.

So last night I went to my first club.. in Germany. It was mostly people from my school. I really wasn't feeling it. I bailed after an hour and a half. Ive been to bars and whatever, that's okay wtih me because its somewhat more relaxing and you can have an actual conversation wtih someone. This was just chaos... strobe lights, fog machines, extremely loud techno music, guys in tight shirts with spikey hair dancing by themselves showing off everywhere, etc. Not to mention, I am just really tired of woohoooo wasteddd party!!!! That really annoys me.. haha I think that me being older than everyone here just showed up really quickly. I am all for having fun, but I am too relaxed to be in a club. It's not exactly my idea of fun. Maybe it's because I wasnt with my friends... I was with friends, but no one that Im super comfortable around. At least I gave it a shot....

Lane lines..

I have concluded that..
Lane lines in a pool are like cat-nip for kids..
they just simply can't resist crawling, rolling and flipping all over them..

Today

Today I saw:

1. A girl with close pins in her ears...
2. A german Jamie Fox 
3. A man AT THE CITY SWIMMING POOL... swimming in his WHITE tighty-whitey underpants........

successful day.

Big red art!!

COOLEST BIG RED ART EVER!!
from BEN!

MOM&EMMA!

WOOOOO!!!! mom and emma got here this morning..
they are asleep right now... hahaha

Squashhhhh

Sven and I played squash again today.. we always end up laughing so hard that we can't even keep playing hahaha
just from our numerous misses...and today i hit the ball against the wall...too bad it  instantly bounced off and hit me in the head..
hahah

Cultural immersion is a funny funny thing

there's a point where stops being " you all" or "yours"...and become "we" and "our"

Pferde Fleisch...

Horse meat is a delicassy here...
WHAT!!!
we had a nice conversation with the horse meat butcher at the farmers market today

Long John Birthday party

SO last night 3 of our friends were celebrating their 18th birthday... they just had one big party.. well not so big .tehy arent really party people..
Leonie and I werent really looking forward to it.. so we decided to bring the party..
we definitely went to the party dressed in red long johns and our yellow rain boots.. we looked like frenchfries dipped in ketchup hahah
everyone was like..w aht? why are you dressed like that?
our response: because we are JUST that cool.
of course we showed up an hour late.. because it's just kind of our thing ...to be late hahah
and essentially did nothing for two hours..
but atleast we made it somewhat worth while haha

NEW COUSIN!

I HAVE A NEW BABY COUSIN!!! WOHO!!
im just thinking about how incredible WIERD itll be come home  to new family members.. or pax.. because he can talk adn walk.. and is just the cutest darn thing on the face of this planet...

woo

So i just found out that... Josh Moscow is studying in England all year... then Hunter Stephan is in Luxembourg this year.. small world eh?

Jello

So I taught the game of JELLO to leo, emy and sven teh other day... which seemed like a good idea at the time..
but the other night.. when we were going to dinner for Peters birthday, Leonie, Sven adn I were in the middle seat.. sven was sitting between us.. and we got a crazy game of jello going.. but it was more like Sven having total control of leonie and i hahahahaha.. lasted for a solid 5 minutes..

STOMP.

Last night we went to STOMP for Peters birthday... it was in Duisberg..
it was really really cool.. and funny..
i didnt expect it to be funny at all, but it was really funny!! twas a good birthday present and everyone had fun..

SQUASH!

Today I went with Sven to play squash..
it was really weird being back on the court.. but my new racket (that i got from Leo, Emy and Sven) worked really well and its light... we played for an hour because thats all we reserved the court for..
by the end of it we were so slap happy hahah
it was a lot of fun.. adn really relaxing...
it was all slowly starting to come back to me- own the T, get low, hand position on grip, racket slice, depth hits... etc..
wohooooo
then we went swimming.. to hopefully kill the soreness we will encounter tomorrow hahha

Dear Germany,

WHY ARE YOU SO FREAKING COOL?

Sweedish Fish.

A while ago.. Caroline Gray sent me a saweeeeet care package.. that had sweedish fish in it..
i was opening it with the Pfisters and i said OHHH SWEEDISH FISH!! adn htey thought that they were.. fish gummies.. that tasted like fish.. hahaha

good times!

This will be done at some point in my life...

MT. HUASHAN HIKING TRAIL.


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Sunrise.

WOHO!!!
I got a job at Sunrise Bakery this Summer :)

Things coming up...

Jan 24- PETERS BIRTHDAY!
Jan 26- We are surprising Peter being going to see the STOMP show.. wtih the drums and dancing!
Jan 27- Japanese exchange student day at the University in Dusseldorf that Im going to with Misaki adn Evy!
Jan 28- three friends are having a big birthday bash.
Jan 29- my friend, Merle, is having her first photography exhibition.

Feb 2- meeting with Misaki for the last time before she goes back to Japan on Feb 5
Feb 5- MOM AND EMMA GET HERE!
Feb 8- going to Amsterdam with mom & Emma
Feb 10- going to Berlin with mom & Emma
Feb 14- Going to Rome with mom & Emma
Feb 20-SOPHIES BIRTHDAY!

Smitten Kitchen.

THE SMITTEN KITCHEN COOKBOOK COMES OUT IN SPRING 2012.