That is a scene of our school musicalhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daBOghkpYRs&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Musical:)

Well, I decided to continue my blog:) I haven't written anything for a moth so yeah the last month was pretty busy! I participated in the school musical and had loads of rehearsals. The musical we did is called "Annie get your gun" and the basic plot is a manly girl meets a arrogant guy, wins a shooting match against him, is in love with him and joins his tour(he is part of a show company), they fall in love while she becomes more girly to become the type of girl he likes, they fight when Annie makes a spectacular trick and he(Frank) is scared to loose his job in the show... They join two different companies, see each other happily again, fight again, shoot against each other again and Frank almost wins because Annie uses a manipulated gun because she realizes that it is more important to her to get back together with Frank than to win the shooting match... They sing a romantic song together and boom happy-ending:D
Joa I was in the orchestra pit so I never saw the whole show but they did not have to many problems:) one evening the mikes did not work well for the first hour and another time the actors had something weird in their face which was never fixed and I have no clue what it was... But everything was really professional! They had so many lights and the singers: just awesome! I loved it! Even if we had 4 hours rehearsal after school on somedays it did not bather me cause I just love musicals and each time we had a rehearsal I saw something new:D the music was about 110 pages long:D so no-one expected the orchestra pit to be perfect;) 
Well participating in a almost professional musical was a thing a really wanted to do even if i have not done it in the way people would expect one to do: on stage. Orchestra pit was pretty awesome! It must have been more than awesome to be a main character on stage!;D

Day(s) of midyear orientation

It was in Van Alystene a town about an hour north to where I live. We were about 40 or more exchange students and had a lot of fun! It started with a sleep over on friday and went on till 3pm on Saturday. Friday we had so much to talk about that we did not even get to watch the movies! The guys played with the different kinds of balls like you would expect them to do and the girls sat or stand in little groups and talked. Of course we also ate a lot of food like chips, m&ms and cupcakes. For that reason I was stuck in the kitchen for a while. Most exciting was to see the girls I traveled with again and some can actually understand your problems! The meeting reflected our year, we thought of what we would have done different and thought about our goals for the upcoming 5 month. A guy tried to teach me how to throw a football again but well I am just not skilled enough to do that! Man that's really hard! But fun:DD oh and we got pancakes for breakfast and not like German pancakes, like fat American pancakes:P with loads of sirup and ice cream:D our lunch was pizza or lasagna and healthy salad:D the meeting went by soooo fast! Impossible! After the meeting I went home showered and went to the dance from church. Maybe my 5th or so... After 3 you can not count any more so September, october, november, Dezember, Januar:P I was right it was the fifth:P ok the dance went by too fast but might have been the best one of all 5! First of all there was a reason that there were more guys and second of all were all people or most people in a good mood:) but you won't get to know the third reason. Sry:) well that was an AWESOME day and thank you to my hostmom to give me a ride and participate in the meeting and thank you to the church leader who let me participate in the dance:)

How is swimming going?

Actually pretty good:) I did not swin this week so we were just called in for 8:15am and next week 9am at school isn't that awesome? That means I can sleep till 7:45 every day next week! Was willste mehr, ne?:D yeah and since the season is over I gonna take teen-leadership for the last 9 weeks. And we went to IHOP on Tuesday cause it was national day of pancake and plain pancakes were free:) IHOP is like a breakfast restaurant where most people go to to eat pancakes:P
Oh and about 2 weeks ago we hosted a meet for which we got out of school early and I did not even swim and that was fuuuun! What I did? Putting the right stickers on the right medals, eating and talking about girls stuff with 3 other girls:D oh and we took the time once but it did not last long:D the meet was pretty long but since I did not swim I have nothing to complain about:)

Start spring semester

It went pretty well till know. I passed my history test with an 80(maybe 3-) and hope I passed my English test which I took today. My teachers are pretty nice. My english teacher always sits in class and says: "awkward silence. You can talk it is ok I want you to talk..." and she is relaxed unless she grades... You get like 2-5 points off for each comma you miss and each word you spell incorrectly... Seriously when they would do that in Germany I would have gotten a -10 on some tests! But we wrote only less than half a page on our test so it should not be too bad:)
My history class is less boring than I thought and people around me are nice. It just gets annoying when the teacher comments too much on me being a foreigner... For example once he pointed on a us map and ask what is there and I was the one who told him it is Chicago and then he always says: "don't let the foreigner tell you" or sth like that. Yeah but the teacher is fun and half of the class time we talk about everything else but history:) today we talked about how to become very rich and I found out that the ALDI person is the 10th richest person on earth:D Jo that's what our history class is like besides when we look at power points.