UPDATE woohoo

This update is all for you mommy! I'm gonna talk about all the weird things that my mom asked me to that I don’t usually talk about...

School is going okay. I understand what my teachers say now a lot better, but I still don’t understand the lessons they are teaching... They don’t expect me to do anything anyways, so it doesn’t matter if I understand or not haha. The kids in my class still don’t talk to me much, only a select few which are Verena, Julian, and Sibel... All of the others are either scared of me or just not interested. Most of the people I hang out with are either in the 12th or 13th grade, so I feel cool when I see them in school and they talk to me. Then all the brats in my class see that I have friends and I don’t need them! haha I am kidding, kind of...

Most of my friends back home still keep in touch pretty good... I talk to Leona almost every day because she goes out of her way to talk to me at a good time for my time zone. I talk to all of my other friends on myspace or aol a couple times a week at least. They all say they want to visit but I know none of them really will. Except maybe Leona, she wants to come back after schools over because she loved it here so much.

When I was at home I used my cell phone sooooooo much, but here I hardly ever use it. Because it is prepaid, and totally expensive. The first couple months I was using like 50$ a month for the phone, but now I use it a lot less. I just text people when something’s up because it’s cheaper than calling.

Okay so now about the food... My host mom and grandma cook lunch every day, so I come home from school to a warm meal. I don’t even know how to explain the stuff they cook, it is just good normal stuff... Always some kind of meat with rice or noodles or potatoes or something. Oh and there is ALWAYS some kind of gravy or sauce to put on things.

The dog Lucky is still really dumb and he still eats my shoes... He went to the vet the other day and they said he needs to lose 5 kilos because he is too fat. The birds are still really loud but I am getting used to it now. The cockadoo Chica can talk a little bit, but in German of course...

In May I am going on a trip all over Europe with Rotary. Courtney and Erika are going too of course. We will be on the bus for 20 days, driving all over Germany, France, Czech Republic, Austria, Switzerland, and the Netherlands. I can't wait for that...

I talked to my Rotary counselor today and he told me he might have found a new host family for me. It is not final yet but I will most likely be moving soon. The family he has for me has a daughter that was in Argentina last year, and that’s all I know about them so far.

I am working on an online American History class right now which is going good. Slow, but good... I get lazy after school and I don’t feel like working on it, but sometimes I'm just in the mood for learning.

I've been eating peanut butter with a spoon lately because I have absolutely nothing to snack on... For some reason Germans have no snacks in the house, and I am forbidding myself from spending any more of my money on food because I've used so much on food already...

Well next week I have no school so I am happy about that... I don’t have any plans yet but I am sure I'll be hanging out with Erika and Courtney at some point because we haven’t hung out in a while!

That’s all the random things for today.. I gotta go to sleep!

xo

Boring weekend.

Nothing interesting happened this weekend. Friday I hung out with a friend at his house all day after school... We didnt go out or anything that night because nothing was going on. Saturday I stayed home all day and night and did absolutely nothing. Today I am still sitting at home with nothing to do. Probably gonna work on my online US History course for a while. Then tomorrow gotta go back to school!

My counselor has been looking for a new host family for me for the past couple weeks. I asked him for a new one because I'd like to have a variety of the German culture. That isnt exactly the reason why I'd like to switch but thats what I want him to think... Usually rotary exchange students are supposed to have 3 host familes during their year and they want me to stay with the Weikerts all year! I was talking to a girl in my class named Verena the other day at school about it, and she offered to host me. She talked to her parents and they want me to come over for a night to meet me and stuff. If they decide yes, then I can tell my counselor and he will have to check them out and make sure all the conditions are right for me to live there. She wants to come to America for a year after she is done with school and I told her she would always be welcome to visit us for a while but I will be in college by the time shes coming so I dont know about her coming to live with us.

okay thats all for now.
xoxo, megan

cool icon!

this reminds me of myself :)

HAHA

xoxo

2 things...

i just decided that i want to go to buffalo wild wings on the way home from the airport. because i really really really miss that restaurant!

oh and thanks for the card mom, just got it today!

Carnivaaaal!

On Sunday Courtney and Austin (exchange student from Kentucky) were in Ulm... We were planning on just hanging out and shopping or something but it turned out that Sunday was the start of carnival in my city. Its like a big festival where everyone dresses up and acts crazy and fun and they call it fasching. I am pretty sure that it will be lasting for a few weeks and we get one week off of school for it in the beginning of February. But anyway, it was sooooo much fun! But I lost my retainer this day which is a real bummer...

Impact Concert

Okaaaay so I am going to try and update more from now on! Even though I have a lot of time to write in here, I am just too lazy to actually do it. On Saturday night I went to my friend Julian's concert. His band is called Impact and they are actually really good. Not my kind of music, but still good. It wasnt like a reeeal concert, because they arent famous or anything, it was just a local thing. Here are a few pictures from that... Julian is the one with the short hair on the guitar.

more random new pics of Ulm.

some stores in the city.



me and leona by the church.



part of the city again.



the rathaus. which is townhall in english i think.



ulmer münster of course!

Pictures

marc and lukas talking... leona me and julia hugging in the back.

marc, me, julia, leona

leona me and julian

erika, me, and leona

julian and oli. crazy german boys

julia and sonja. crazy german girls!

me, julia, and leona on new years eve

Leona's Visit

Sorry I havent updated in so long! Leona has been here the past 9 days and we have been pretty busy... I dont think I wrote about Christmas yet... All I did all day was sit around and watch movies. We didnt celebrate at all on christmas day. I got to webcam with both sides of the family which was really cool!
Two days after Christmas Leona came. The first night she was here we went out with some of my closest friends and she got to know them. Pretty much every night was something new, but nothing very interesting, just hanging out with people and stuff. During the day every day we were in the city, walking and eating and shopping and stuff.
New years eve we were at my host cousin Julia's house, she had people over for dinner. Then we all went over to a boy named Fitzel's house and hung out there. A little before 12 we went outside and stood on a hill and watched fireworks. It was snowing and cold so we went back to Julia's house after fireworks and we hung out there the rest of the night. My host parents picked me and Leona up at 3 and then we went to sleep.