Niagara Falls!

Ive done a lot of fun stuff the past weeks, and of course the major highlight was last weekend on the Niagara Falls Trip.

Before that however, I got my progress report from school (which was okay), I went to a YFU post arrival orientation (and made a fool out of myself by asking too much about whether I could date 15 year olds or not after turning 18) and I went to another fair with more people from school (Danielle & Dominique).

So, the really interesting stories are from last weekend.
It all begun on friday morning when Rick dropped Tim an I off at Sears in west Hartford at 9 30 in the morning. There I met Tim Dawson, Daniel, Theo, Greg, Marie, Daniel, Anni and several other kids I knew from the area again. Immediately upon entering the bus we were welcomed by 20 kids from the southern part of Connecticut and New York. After stopping in several other towns there were NO free seats by the time we came to Albany in New York state. I slept for an hour or so, and socialized a little the rest of the trip. Sometime around seven in the evening we arrived in Buffalo, got a local host family (ca. 30 kids per house) and had a huge party!














(Patricia, Greg, Lisseth, Daniel and me)

The next day we went to a native american museum thing and a couple of American battleships and a submarine. There we had a tour and basically got to know people better :)















Afterwards, we went to see the Niagara falls at night:















I also figured out that the best way to sleep on the bus is to sit next to someone you can lean on:















The next day we went to see the falls during the day, and we went on the famous boats and a trail under the falls where the water actually hit us (no pictures of the latter until Mike uploads his pictures on facebook):















(Daniel, Me, Milan, Kosta, Carla, Mike, Hugo (?), Jessi, Svenja and Ida from right to left)















That evening we just hung around in the street where all the host families lived. The guys played some football first, and then some soccer. After a while the girls wanted to play too, so we made new teams: boys against gays and girls. (Yeah, I did initiate the gay thing..) Unfortunately, this wasn't very succesful because most of the guys decided the GG team was the best and most interesting to play on (GROUPHUGS!).

After that we basically just hung around; sang some singstar, played some basketball, had a campfire going and talked. The next day we all slept alot on the bus :)

It was a GREAT weekend, thank you to everyone I met for making it special!

And then a less good experience; I had a crosscountry meet yesterday, and I did REALLY bad. Afterwards I broke my ipod by dropping it on the floor, and I forgot my wallet on the bus home. People say bad things never come alone :)

This weekend I'm going hiking with Nick, Chris, Angela and Lauren I believe. I might go to a halloween party too, but thats a bit far away so I'm not sure.

See you later!

Yeah, I'm slow.

So, another long time has passed, and it feels like it hasn't been that long at all.
Days here literally fly by. I'll try to make a quick schedule for what I do during a day:
06 00: Get out of bed, eat, run to the bus.
07 15: school starts after me spending like 20 minutes hanging around doing nothing because the bus is so early.
14 10: school ends, and 20 minutes later crosscountry starts.
17 20: Back home: take a shower and relax for approximately 15 minutes before dinner.
19 00: Usually done with dinner, time to so homework. Usually takes at least 2 hours.
21/22 00: go to bed.

Anyways, I've done MANY interesting things since last time, and I'm not even going to mention all of them.

The best part of the weekend almost two weeks ago was Julia's birthday party in Willimantic. That's pretty far away, so I had to sleep over at my Area Reps house. Her host daughter, Anni, is also the one who introduced me to those friends. Here's a picture that describes the night:















After that, I went to the Big E with several other exchange students. It was awesome too. The big e is a so called fair. It's basically a tivoli combined with farmers products and small shops were people sell stuff they've made. The big e was, as the name implies HUGE! I probably saw like half of it in an entire day.

Last week nothing much happened. We had a crosscountry meet against St Paul. They were not very good so we placed out five best guys in front of their first.

Last weekend Tim and I hung out with Nick from church and his friends Angela, Molly and Lauren. We watched a movie, and after five minutes we switched to a tv show, and five minutes later we turned the thing of and talked instead. On Saturday Tim was sick, so I went out with Nick and Chris (also from church) We went to Middletown and saw a small concert in a coffee shop. Afterwards me met Molly and Angela and walked around in Wethersfield.

On sunday I went to another fair with Manuela, Joanna, Emily, Megan and some cousins of Manuela. The fair was a lot smaller, but I still enjoyed it! We saw lamas, sheep and 1000 pound pumpkins and a very funny tiny animal. It was like a mouse in size, but could kinda fly and climbed very well on people.

Yesterday our team was defeated in the conference for the first time this year, but I don't feel guilty. I did my VERY best. Rahm, the other team, were just too good. I'm still really soar today, but fortunately all the pains and injuries I had before are slowaly disappearing.

Now I'm going to watch the vice presidental debate and do some homework; always on the move :)

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