Mittwoch, 15. Dezember 2010

Birthday and other stuff

Heyah =)

Last Sunday was my birthday. I was really excited and at the same time sort of scared of my birthday. On one side I looked forward to it, just because it's my birthday, and on the other side I was afraid of getting homesick. It was my first birthday away from home, without my family.
But it turned out as a really good day. I got up in the morning to do some homework, well that wasn't a good part, but it saved me from staying up very late to do all my homework. Then before lunch Yolanda and Aspen came over, and we had pizza for lunch. After lunch we went to buy a christmas tree. It was really weird, when we went to buy the christmas tree it was 20°C and the sun was shining, so I went in a T-shirt. My first Birthday, I could walk around in a tee outside without freezing. It is a cool (well it was rather warm :P) experience and definitely diffrent from home.
At home then, we started to decorate the tree, we were done pretty fast and it just looks like a decirated christmas tree^^ (no shit, Sherlock)
After decorating the tree I played with Aspen, for quite a while. She had a lot of fun playing games she made up by herself, and which were pretty weird, and which use a lot of imagination. But it was fun though.
Lorena had bought some balloons, which were all over the living room. In the evening Juliane, Leticia and Rory came over. We had a blast, and ate a whole lot of stuff.
The cake we had, was made by Selin and me the day before. It was a recipe of Selin's mother and it was really, really tasty. Actually it IS tasty, there are still some leftovers =)

The Winter Assembly is going to be on Friday and we're going to perform there with the Dance Troop, that means I have Dance evry single day, so we can practice and improve our performance. It gets exhausting, but I think it is good, because I definitely need to do more sports. And when I have dance I usually walk home, so I walk at least 2 miles a day. I'm so proud of myself :P

Oh, and by the way, since winter breaks starts on Friday after school, there are only a few days left until I see my lovely twinsister again =D
And that's just awesome, and perfect and great and.... I'm so damn excited to see her again!!! =)It really is just awesome!

Samstag, 11. Dezember 2010

EF-Christmas Party

Heyho =)

Yesterday evening was the EF Christmas Party.
All the students had to bring a dish and a gift, suitable for boys and girls. First we just ate and talk to each other, and then we started the gift exchange game.
That game is a lot of fun. All the participants have to bring a gift, otherwise they can't play. Then the game starts. The first person can go and choose one of the presents. He opens it and shows it around, so everybody can see what he got. Then the second person can decide, if he/she wants to open another present or if he/she wants to steal the present already opened. There are only two rules, you cannot steal a gift back and when a gift has been stolen twice its dead, so the person who has it after the second one, keeps it, you can no longer steal it. When all the presents are opened, the person who began, can steal another present or keep the one he has.
The game is actually only fun, when people are stealing and not only opening a new one.

After the game, we continued talking for a bit and then we all went home. It was a fun evening and I really enjoyed it.

Donnerstag, 9. Dezember 2010

Still alive

Guess what!? I'm still alive after my root canal...
It wasn't the best experience ever, but it wasn't as bad as i thought either. I even could watch dvd during the treatment with awesome video glasses!
By now my tooth still hurts, but it's not as bad as before, and I have to take antibiotics... but I'm glad that it's done now, and it should get better now!

Dienstag, 7. Dezember 2010

Blubber

Hey everybody =)
As you may all have seen, Selin didn't wrote another post, probably because she was too lazy or too busy (I tend to the first one :P). So I have a quick update for you.

Last Weekend on Saturday, Selin and I went (once again) to the Fashion Show Mall. We met up with Nils and Silvia, but they had to leave already after 1 hour. So most of the time it was only Selin and me. We were looking for some chirstmas presents, but I didn't find any... Selin was luckier though and found somethings.

Then in the evening we just hung out at the house. In the night a terrible tooth ache hit me, and I wasn't able to sleep until around 6 in the morning. Lorena gave me some pain killer and some Thieves, and I went back to sleep for some more, since I only slept for 4 hours. The pain killer did a good job, so I felt good enough to go to the cinema with Lorena and Selin. We went into the last show of "The social Network".
I didn't like the movie that much, it was kind of boring, but also interesting, because you learnt something about the history of facebook. Something almost everybody uses today.

The night to Monday was fine, and I decided to go to school. It was one normal boring day at school, like always. When we came back, the tooth ache began again, and I took some more painkillers. My hostmum told me then, that she already called the dentist. So today, I didn't go to school, I had too much pain and too less motivation to go there. The dentost called at 8, to make an appointement.

At 1 we were at the dentist and Ihad to fill out all these forms, so we could get started. Then I was called in and waited for about 10 min before the dentist showed up. After knocking on my tooth, what awfully hurt, he already knew, what's going on. The diagnosis: Root Canal =(
So tomorrow I have another appointement, at another dentist, to make the root canal treatment. And after that my tooth should stop hurting, until then I just take pain killers, because otherwise I wouldn't be able to do anything else but cry!

Today I'm going to call my dad, to tell him about this not at all exciting news. I think his not going to be too happy about it, but you cannot change it anyway...

You might hear from me tomorrow again, just to tell you how it went.

And at last, one thing my aunt taught me a while ago: Always see the positive things in a bad situation. So at least I don't have to go to school tomorrow =)

Sonntag, 28. November 2010

¨Thanksgiving and Black Friday =)

Hey there, so now it's Sunday evening and I'll take the time to write another post, isn't that nice of me?
Thanksgiving was cool, different than I imagined it, but still awesome. We got up in the morning around 10 and then just hang around in the house until Lorena took us to a All-you-can-eat Buffet, which is typical for Las Vegas. Like always at such a buffet, I ate too much. Then we went home and got ready for the dinner at Itzel's house. We left around 3:45, so we would be there at 4.... well we turned into the community on the left side, instead of the on the right side, we drove around for 10 minutes, before we actually figured out, that it was the wrong one. Itzel was already out and looking for us, so we didn't had to look for her house on the other side of the street as well, what saved some time!
When we finally arrived at Itzel's house, we were sitting there and just talking to Itzel, which was a lot of fun. Then we ate, there was a lot of different things to taste: Ham, chicken, appelsalad, normal salad, pasta and some more things. For the dessert, they had brownies and jelly, both made by Itzel, it was soo tasty! What a wonder, I ate too much the second time at that day^^

On friday was Black Friday, something they need to have in Switzerland as well. Selin and I got up around 8, so we wouldn't get there too late, then Jana Gronau arrived at our house around 9, and after half an hour we left for the Outlet Mall. There we met up with Kaori and Alina, two other exchange students. We walked through the whole mall, but didn't really find anything, well except in Tommy Hilfiger. So we decided we would go to the Fashion Show Mall, which was a pretty good idea.
At the Fashion Show Mall we went into a lot of stores, and had a lot of fun! But there was a missunderstanding with Kaori and Alina's hostmum, who was suppossed to bring us back home. But in the end we figured everything out, and we came home arounf 9:30 in the evening, so we had a 11 hour shopping day, we both were very tired after it...

Today then, Selin and I went around in the neighborhood to sell cookie dough, for the Softball team fundrasising, in which we're hoping to get in... But NOBODY wanted to buy anything, well at least the one who were at home, except for the last one. He said we should come back on Thursday, after pay-day, and he would buy some then... Well we weren't that succesful, but at least we tried it, and we're going again on Thursday, hopefully there more wanting to buy something then...
After this Lorena asked us, if we would like to go to the Fashionshow Mall (yeah again, but it's like the biggest and best mall in Las Vegas, and it's not on the other side of town, like Townsquare or Galleria...) to see the Christmas Show. Aspen and her mom were there too, what was actually the reason to go there. But we missed the 2-o'clock show, so we had to wait 2 hours for the next one. We were walking around in the mall, going into childrens store, because Aspen needs some longsleeve-dresses and shirts. It wasn't all to interesting for Selin and me, so we went to Starbucks, which was right next to one of the stores they were in. Waiting in the line, we met some swiss people and we started to talk to them. It was sooo awesom to speak swissgerman with people standing right next to you, and not only over the phone, or betters said skype.
Then after the two hours have passed, we went to see the Christmas-Show, which was on the catwalk, which is only up for shows. It was interesting and it gave me sort of a christmas feeling, what I haven't really had and already lost again after the show. But I enjoyed the show and was glad I went there with Lorena and Selin!
By the way, you don't really get into the Christmas-mood, when there is still sunshine and it's around 15° C outside... It makes me miss Switzerland!

So that's it for today... oh you also going to have a post from Selin, or at least you should^^
Johanna

Mittwoch, 24. November 2010

Selin's post =)

Holaaaaaaaaaaa :)
sooo... now... i have to write something.. i think u know, that i am living in the moment with JOHANNA :D the best swiss girl ever :D i know nothing is better than being german :D but i am soooo nice and say nothing against it :D JUST KIDDING :)
i love it to live with her :) it is everyday sooo funny, because we have much or less very much fun during being on the computer :D or laughing about EST******.. he is a strange boy from our school :D and what he wrote was very very crazy and nooot good :D
johanna is awesome and a great hostsister :)
she is sooo nice that she went with me to the mall because of seeing nils(my boyfriend) at saturday.. normally that meeting was not important for her and a little bit boring.. but she came with me.. and like next friday(black friday).. i hope it will be awesome.. i dont think so that i have to explain what the BLACK friday is because johanna did it already :) awesome isn"t it :P We will have lots of fun.. i HOPE :D but i am sure :D when we are together everybody knows for sure that it will be very funny :)

I know.. nobody knows what moapa is :D moapa is the best small village ever :D
u have there a loong street :D with some houses but they are far away from each other :D so at the beginning it is for everyone a culture shock :D but after a time :D U LOVE IT.. like me :D i love it there because u have so much fun there and it is normally never boring when u have the possibilty for hanging out with friends ;P
there are the best people :D with johannaaaaa haha :D
i am so nice i know :D just kiddingb :D

I <3 Moapa :D i think everyone has to visit moapa ;P

sooooooo ;D i am so exited because of thankgiving our first and last.. for the next time hehe :D
we will have so much fun tomo and friday :)
if i have the possibilty to write at sunday after JOHANNA.. i will do it :)

greetings from the german girl :)

JOHAANNA i love uuu :**

seeelin :)

Blahbla =)

Well I just decide to make a short update =)
Living with Selin is great, and she is a little bit like my twin sister, what I really like. The sad thing is just, that I talk too much German with her... But that's how it is now, and it doesn't look like it would change (I know, if I would like to, it would be possible to change, but it is also sort of comforting to speak German^^.
Last Weekend we actually didn't go to the game, like we're planned, we change plans and went to the Fashion Show Mall. This was sort of pointless, because we went there, so Selin could see Nils. Nils was with another hostfamily coming from Moapa to Henderson for some reason, and then they were supposed to be in the Mall at 1... Hmmm.. Selin and I arrived there at 2 and they were still in Henderson, but we're just leaving Henderson. So Selin was really looking forwar to see Nils again, but we had to wait another 2 hours, due to the continuing changin of plans... The first change was, that they would go home, then they change to going to Walmart first, then they went to eat at Panda Express, then they wanted to go to a shoe store and a friend, then they decided to go to the "Welcome in Las Vegas" shield (which I still haven't seen yet...)to hang out there for 30 min, then they came to the most intelligent reason, not to come to the mall, which was "it's raining" (they would be inside the mall, so what does it matter? but anyway) then they finally decide to com to the mall shortly, that Selin and Nils could see each other though, first 1 minute, then half an hour and in the end, they stayed 1 whole hour. This resulted that Selin and I were at the mall 7 hours, 1 hour seeing Nils and 6 hours of walking around, without buying anything... Isn't that awesome?

So for all who don't know it yet, tomorrow is Thanksgiving, that means we have 2 days (Thursday and Fryday) off of school. Since my hostmother doesn't want to make a big family party, Selin and I are going to Itzel's house. Itzel is a mexican girl, we know from school. It sounds like it's going to be fun =)

On Friday then is Black Friday, and that's just awesome. It's going to be the most chaotic, stressful day in the year, regarding shopping. On Black Friday in almost all the shops there are sales up to 70% off, so everybody goes shopping, which results in a huge mess and probably also some fights^^ Nevertheless we're going there as well, so I probably going to be K.O. in the evening, but that's how it is supposed to be :P

So I'm going to write to you again probably on Sunday, after all the exciting stuff around Thanksgiving.

Freitag, 19. November 2010

Aviation Nation/Sleepover and hostsisters =)

Hello everybody =)
It's already a week ago, but I just decide, out of boredom, that I'm going to make a post about the Sleepover and the Aviation Nation.
So on Friday evening Selin's hostdad came to pick me up and brought us to the Mini Grand Prix, a go-cart drive... We first ate pizza and then went to drive the go-cart. It was so much fun! Then at 10 o'clock we went to the gym, where we had the sleepover... We played some games and ate some snacks before we went to bed, well before most of us went to bed. Jana, Hannah, Selin and I stayed in the bathroom until 3 o'clock in the morning, talking. Then we finally went to sleep...
The next morning we had to get up at 7:30 or something like that, because we had to leave the gym at 8:30, and we had to eat breakfast before... In the end, we waited in front of the gym until like 9:00, before we left to go to the Aviation Nation.

Then we finally left and went out to the Speedway, where the parkin lot was. The fun began there... We had to wait over 2 hours to get on the buses to get to the actual airshow. I hope that it would be a lot of fun, so I was kind of dissappointed when we arrived there. It was not what I expected and so I got bored... It even got worse, when I dropped my camera and it wasn't working anymore... So I was really glad, when we finally after around 5 hours went back to the gym, where Lorena picked Selin, Patricia and me up.

So on Saturday I got a hostsister, I was not really sure if I should be happy about it or not. But I was glad, so I wasn't alone anymore. But Patricia was pretty quiet.

On Monday already we got a call from Linda, she told us that she would pick up Patricia in the eveninng. So I actually had a hostsister for only 2 days... But I just saw how fast you get used to be an only child, way too fast :P

Then on Thursday, so yesterday we got another call from Linda, who told us then that Selin would come over to our house until around Tuesday. If you wonder why, Selin just had a temporary hostfamily, and since they're goint away for Thanksgiving, she needed a place to stay. But Linda already has a permanent family for her, just the paperwork isn't done yet. So she's staying with us until the paperwork is done, that means until around Tuesday.
So since today Selin's here, and she already drives me crazy with her music... but I have a lot of fun with her, more than with Patricia, because she also talks to me^^

Tomorrow we're going to the football game Moapa Valley vs. Arbor View. I hope it's gonna be fun =)

Freitag, 12. November 2010

Temporaly host sister

I just got the information that I get a host sister, temporarly though.
Her name is Patricia Hansen, she's from Denmark and she is 16. =)

She's coming home with me after sleepover/aviation nation =)