Life according to me

No, you can all breathe a breath of relief, I shall not be giving y'all a sermon relating to my views of life. Well, actually I coooould. It consists of one word: sleep! Oh, man, I would pay alot of money (even in euros) if I could be at home (yeppoon, buxheim, same thing) in bed, deeply asleep. You all might be wondering why I really want to sleep, considering that most of you guys know I'm tired (or at least look it) all the time. However, it seems that the German weather is causing acute sleepiness, plus I had one hell of a weekend. Allow me to explain.

... let's see, where did I leave it last time...
Sunday (last week): called Alex, which was noice. Went to that Japanese Festival in Munich with my pals here. Then went with Sachiko to this exchange meeting thing with her exchange organisation. Met some nice young folks (most of who(m?) were actually older than me).

Monday: school. bah.

Tuesday: school again. All of the exchange students (me included) were invited to the deputy pricipal's house for coffee. That was nice. (nice seems to be the word of the week). yummy german cakes....

Wednesday, Thursday, Friday: school. didn't do much afterwards. Made a semi-successful lammington-making attempt. Thursday was also 'Kinderfest' (Children's Festival). there was a parade through memmingen where all the kids dressed up as stuff (for example, cheese, italians, earth wind water fire, etc). really cute.

Friday: 'Fish Day Eve' (sounds worse in english than in german). THE night to be in Memmingen, apparently. I, however, was not there. Franzi had her birthday party. In bed sometime after 3am.

Saturday: 'Fish Day'. Ohhh, I kinda wish I saw this little event. At about 6am ... nah, okay 7am, the men of memmingen (men, and only men, who were born there or/ live there for a number or years) go jumping in the little rivers that go through Memmingen to catch the fish. I think they cook and eat them afterwards. The fish, that is, not the men. I slept till 10.30am. Got home, slept for an hour and then went to Sachiko's house. We cleaned up the basement of this youth-building thing for Sachiko's combined birthday-going away party. The party, by the way, was really really good. Except for the fact that Sachiko is, you know, leaving. that was sad for me. the party finished at about 3am, and the remaining 5 of us went down to the Hawangen Fest (Sachiko lives in Hawangen). At 5.30 we walaked back home, through this meadow and ending up soaking wet from the knees down. went to bed at 6.30am. got driven home at 11am. ate 'breakfast' (okay, lunch) with the whole family (grandparents were over). oh wait, now it's

Sunday: yeah, so had lunch. slept from 2 pm to 3.30pm. ate more cake drank more tea. got ready for the OPERA. yes, that's right, meine Damen und Herren, I went to a real opera ('the troubador, by Guisueppe So-and-So). In Bregenz, which is in Austria. I saw the Vienna Symphony Orchestra!!! I think I spent more time watching the orchestra than the opera. ofcourse, it was raining (and the seating and stage is outside. actually the stage is this great big huge floating oil refinery like object has fire spurting out and everything. rather cool), so everyone was bundled up in rain jackets and what not. I found it entertaining when it started to rain cos there was this sortof mexican wave as everyone put their hoods on. yes, I'm easily amused. it finished at 11.30pm. got home at 1 am. went promptly to bed.

Monday (today): woke up and wished dearly to continue to sleeping. alas, could not. so here I am, at school, my eyes tingling with that slightly burning feeling they get when you feel you're going to topple from exhustion. oh, it's a hard life, I know. I'm also half way through harry potter. oh the suspense and excitment of it all. can barely contain myself. am now wondering how much I intended that to be sarcasim. welll....yes. and tonight I have to make a noodle salad, and then I going to my english teacher's house for this little get-together with the class. ohhh, did i tell you guys I played baseball last week? It was so fun!!

what else? last week of school. tomorrow is 'Wandertag'. we go climbing mountains for fun. then on thursday is school festival. lots of eating, drinking and making merry, as hobbits might be inclined to say. and then holidays. all of my exchange possie are going home..... ahh

ok gtg.

love, alicia xxx

Time for a (normal size) update

HEEEELLLLLOOOOOO!!!

ahoy there me harties! (don't ask why I have resorted to Pirate Mode. I don't know myself). I am (like most of the times I write emails and stuff) in the school library, on Friday afternoon. I'll give you a short rundown of the last week.

Thursday (okay, more than a week, but still interesting): I wrote my first German exam! Go Team FES! It was specially written for us exchange people. It had some stuff with grammer (conjagation, conjunctions, pural and singular forms of verbs, declation of substantives and so on) then a text we had to read (and understand) and write a summary of, then write a short text about the differences between our home school and school here. Then us foreign exchangers had an interview (!) with the Memmingen newspaper (complete with tacky picture of us pointing to our home-countries on a map). Should be expecting that one day soon...

Friday: ummm, can't really remember (therefore, nothing really important happened). No, wait! I slept over a friend's house. That was cool: she cut my hair and dyed it dark. I like it : ) ... surprise.

Saturday and Sunday: normal, lazy (ahem, relaxing) weekend. Wrote first German assignment about Australia.

Monday: Presented said German assignment about Australia. Went quite well. I made jokes (usually cos I stuffed up, but still counts)

Tuesday: I went over to a friend's house for lunch. We watched Birdget Jones in German. Not quite the same. Had an English movie evening with my english class. Watched 'Runaway Jury' -- quite good. Ate these really yummy chocolate chip things.

Wednesday: A friend (these 'friends' have all been different people, I might add) had her 19th Birthday. Par-tay next week.

Thursday: Got my German test back -- got the best mark (even though it was only me and two other people, I think it'S an achievement con´sidering I only attended the previous 3 lessons and haven't been here 10 months, unlike the other girls.) I spent the afternoon with Sachiko and we watched the Last Samuri and Kill Bill Vol 1 in German. Both of which I have to see again in English.

Friday (today): Got my English exam back -- 15!! (The highest, and like, impossible!) And it was about Shakespeare! Actually probably why I went so well...

And now a little look into the future:
Friday (continuing): Franzi (the girl who had the birthday) is sleeping over. cool.

Saturday: THE LATEST HARRY POTTER IS OUT!!!!!! wahoo. should be able to read it in the comming weeks. also doing a guided tour of Memmingen with a group of French exchange people who are then coming for a good old German lunch. Should be interesting...

Sunday: Going to Munich with friends to a Japanese Festival and then to a exchange organisation's get-together hoe-down thingy-mabob.

And theeeen, only 2 weeks left of school!! Huzzah. But already the exams are finished and it is futile of the teachers to attempt teaching us braindead youth, so we get to watch movies, lots of movies. Or, in the case of my english class, go and learn how to plan baseball. (Why not??)

It's all happening. I also sent off about a bizzilion letters (ok, 5 postcards and 1 letter) and I will try to call you, Alex, tomorrow or sometime. Thanks for the call, anyway.

Love you all.

Alicia xxx