Week # 3

And I have successfully completed the 3rd week. I can't say it was as exciting as last week, but I did still have fun. School was....eh..what can I say? I just don't like school, so sue me.

So I was asked by some friends if I wanted to go swimming after school, of course I said yes, I mean why not? So we all met at the town square on our bikes ready to take off, we rode, and rode, and rode some more. Turns out the lake they were going to was in the next town, a grand total of about 25 miles round trip!! That doesn't sound bad because you all have cars back in the U.S. but get on your bike and ride 25 miles in 94 degree weather through the woods and hills, tell me how good you feel after. ( Especially if your outta shape like me!) We get to the lake and the water is waayy too cold for me, so I stayed on land and played volleyball with some of the others who came. It turned out to be pretty fun, and I guess the ride wasn't too terrible, I am gonna have some major leg muscle when I come back. Then on Thursday the school let out at 11:30 and we all went again, all I need to do is run some and I could say I was training for a triathlon.

The Rotary club of Stendal has arranged German classes for Poliana and I. We didn't have to pay for anything, so that was really nice on their part. I get out of some classes at school too, so when is that ever a bad thing? So for the next 10 weeks we will have intensive German lessons, on top of school, and being immersed in the language. So I fursure have no doubt that I will be fluent when I come back.

Tonight (Saturday) there is a huge party that I will be attending. There are like 3 people who all have birthdays within a few days of each other, and my host brother is having a going away party before he leaves for Argentina next week. So they combined all of them for one huge blowout party. I will tell you how it goes later.

Next weekend I have a Rotex weekend in Hannover that I am definitely looking forward to. (Rotex is an organization of people who have already been on exchanges. They help guide us and give us advice and so forth. They also plan out fun things for us to do while in Germany.) All of the other exchange students in the district will be there, so tons of fun heading my way. Only sad part is that my classmates are in a local band. They are having a battle of the bands type of thing on Friday the 28th. I was invited to go and was really looking forward to it, but it turns out by the time they play I will be on a train to Hannover : (.....

I signed up for dance classes here at the school, but I do not like them whatsoever, they just aren't as good as Mrs. Lee's dance classes, but I will stay, because friends are there and in January they are going to Austria for a week. They will be taking skiing lessons in the Alps, so I can put up with some ridiculous dancing for that right? Yes, yes I can...hahaha.

Alright, that's all for now, I'll update some more later. But it looks like I am making this a once weekly update. So maybe that's what I will aim for, once a week updates, lets say on either Saturday or Sunday you can all check an see what I did that week.

Ciao!!
Amanda