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Robi's
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May 28, 2006
Sunday morning we went out on
our Yacht to Elliott Key.
It was sooo nice, cuz we could relax after 4days of b-day partying!!
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Tough life as an
exchange-student from Rotary!! *lol* *jk*
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May 27, 2006
3rd of my b-day Party!! But before we went partying we went up to Davie
for our Bye Bye b-b-Q!!
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A lil gift for my 18th b-day!!
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There must be something funny!!
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It is Henna making her
bubbles!!
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It really looks funny!!
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Saturday night we had Dinner at
Taverna Opa!!!
It was one of the most amazing
things in my whole year!!!
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I got another b-day cake, but that time w/ matches on top!! *lol*
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May 26. 2006
Birthday Party on Friday with
1st host-family, standby-family, best-friends+family, counselor and
exchange-students. Thanks again for all these people who made it
possible for me to stay here one year!! THANK YOU!!
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001: my b-day cake!!
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002: finally I found a little
present in that giant box!!
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003: It was a rlly nice valet!!
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004: Thank you Kitty!!
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005: John Witty, his mom and
I!!!
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006: Jade, Henna, Kitty, I and
Jaymee
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007: my cake w/ candles
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008: John, Mrs. Barrett and
Mrs. Witty
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10: make a wish!!!
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I went to Prom'06 on April 22, 2006
Prom was sooo amazing my group, over 30 people, had a stretch
Hummer and a normal stretch Limo and 4 Hotel Suits in a Hotel on the
Beach!! It was just incredible.
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My date and I
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My second date Tracy, me and Katie
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Waiting till everybody is coming!
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Me and a couple girls!
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Katie and me in the Hotel
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The view from our Hotel-room out of the 27th floor!!
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Tracy and me like angels!!
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Susan, Robin and I went to see Rob Uncle's cars.
He is a car-collector and had over 38 Ferrari's which sold or traded
in.
But now he has one of only 3 Ferrari's in the whole world.
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My mom came to visit me from 5/1-5/9!!
I had not really a lot of time with her, because I went to Bahamas, but
she still had a great time here w/ the Shelleys and the GSE '06 team.
My mom and I went with my host-family to check out our 'maybe' new
boat.
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April 25, 2006
Another night we went out to dinner
with the GSE-Team The Group Study Exchange Team from District 1020 in
Scotland.- and we went to HOOTERS!!
They have really good legs there!!! *lol*
It was so funny there...
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She's really got legs!! We saw
her/them!! *lol*
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Martin and I
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Gordan, Susan and Rob
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I wish that pitcher was mine,
but I only got a Coke!!
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Heather
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Heather and I, I can't believe
that she just turned 19!!!
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Heather was showing off her
model-skills!!
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Robi's Scuba Diving Pictures
! I'm sorry for the quality of
the pics, but you have to see it by yourself, otherwise it is not so
beautiful like real-live in 50ft.!!!
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Alright, lets go..!!
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My dive-instructor and I
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I'm exploring the underwater
life
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I saw a lot of fish and Corals!
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My dive-instructor Sara
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The current was so strong that
we had not to move, we were drifting all the way!!!
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Sara
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The dive-shop, in which she
works!
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Me, after a wonderful dive!!
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April 24, 2006
My Parents and I went with the
GSE-team (The Group Study Exchange Team from District 1020 in Scotland).-to the restaurant "Taverna Opa" for
dinner. We had soooooo... much fun!!
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April 22, 2006
Ilaria and I went to my Rotary
Club of Miami for a big lunch with 4 other Rotary Clubs!!
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Frank, Mike, Ila, me and Rob
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My mom would say now, that I
look like my dad!! And she is right... I look like him and thats good!! *lol*
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April 15, 2006
And I went fishing with one of my best-friends. We caught 8 Dolphin (not
FLIPPER, it is also called Mahi Mahi) that day, and I caught my first 2
Dolphins, which were both over 7lbs.!!!
I also met the mayor of 'City of Coral Gables' Don Slesnick, who can speak
German!!!
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April 13 - 14, 2006
Kitty came over Spring-break to
visit me!!
We had an awesome time!!!
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We also went to the Rotary-Club of Miami, which is my host-club, for
lunch!!
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April 8, 2006 - Spring
Break
I went scuba-diving
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March 25, 2006
I went with my best-friends
wake-boarding!
The day was sooo amazing, the
first time that I was staying on a wake-board!
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Myself
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Our little Zodiac!! Little, but
fast!!
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I'm going wakebording!!!! *juhu*
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Andrew, he is my host
brother from my first family and a best-friend!
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It was so much fun, because we
were most of the time in the water and not on the board.
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Me
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Another really good friend of
mine, we are going out almost every weekend for fishing and other stuff!!
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Andrew our Pro can do it!! We
couldn't stop him from turning his laps! and not only that, he was jumping
all the time! He is really good!
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Robi bids farewell to Marcos
February 24, 2005
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The Shelleys and I took
Ilaria, her mom from Italy and her host-family, the Newman's, out on our
boat to Miami-Beach for lunch!!!
February 19, 2006
Pictures taken by Mike
Newman
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Ila her mom & Rob
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The place where we went for
lunch
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Susan & Rob my
(host-)family
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Ila's mom and Ila
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David, Patricia and Ila's mom
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Ila's mom and Susan
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Myself *lol*
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The only castle in Miami, it is
called Viscaya
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Just a beautiful day to go out
on the boat
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Miami HEAT Arena and you
can see Miami still growing
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Pirate-boat
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Ila
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Ila's mom
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Miami a big tourist place
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Nice houses on Miami Beach
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Shakira's house (she is a
singer)
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This is really Al Capone's
house!!
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Popular sport in Miami *lol*
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Me, Ila, Patricia, her
mom and her host-brother
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Susan and Robin
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Shaquille O'Neil's house!!
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Ila and I trying to look
like in the movie Titanic
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The airplane which crashed in
Miami on the way to the Bahamas!
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Stiltsville, that's the house
where we maybe going with the exchange students!!!
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Ila and her mom
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Robi was a a Miami Heat
Game!
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January 25, 2006
Robi and Kitti Visit New York
City
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A view of Uptown New York City
from The George Washington Bridge
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The George Washington Bridge
(which links New York and New Jersey)
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One amazing building out of
thousands
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Incredible view in the streets
from NYC
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This is the view from our
hotel-suite!!!
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Times-Square
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Kitty @ Times-Square
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We went also to the Empire
State Building
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That is the awesome view from
the Empire State Building
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Kitty & I on top of the
Empire State Building
You can see Staten Island in
the distance
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A view of NYC facing South
Kitty couldn't believe that we
were really in NY!!
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Another beautiful view of the
George Washington Bridge & Alba's hometown
(Fort Lee NJ)
"Go Bridgemen!"
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ROCKEFELLER CENTER
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Kitty and I in front of the
Rockefeller Center
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Susan and Robin in front of the
Rockefeller Center
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Kitty smiling by 12F
(like -11 Celsius)
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Grand Central Station
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The New York Library
(also in the movie "The Day After Tomorrow)
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World Trade Center before 9/11
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The rest of the World Trade
Center is now staying there as a memorial
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Kitty was really sad, when I
told her that we have to go back!!!
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Kitty & I waiting for our
airplane to fly back to Miami
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January 14, 2006
Robi & Kitti Go Skiing
in Pennsylvania
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Kitty & I
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Dining table with excellent view over the ski-area
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Downstairs, the pool table
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Susan (host-)mom
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Kitty and I with our
"big" Ice-cream
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Breakfast by Ms.Piggy's Restaurant
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Kitty is drawing a picture
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Susan & Rob
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Kitty and I cooking for 10
people
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The group
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The food I made for them (Bauernfruehstueck
= farmers breakfast)
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Kitty is cooking
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I'm cooking
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Dining table, looks like in a
hotel
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January 8, 2005
Robi Celebrates Christmas in
Miami
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Rotary-Meeting, exchanging
banners with the president Jair de Almeida
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My host-dad's 1965 Porsche;
this car is now almost 41years old and has only 72000 miles down
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Us in the front of our
house
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I was thinking of buying
it, but our seawall is not so long! *lol*(It looks really good with me,
right?
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Pictures from my neighborhood
in Christmas time!
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We had a surprise-party for my
"host-sister in law"
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Christmas Day
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Rudolf is coming!
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Eddi in the snow

We had snow, but this was
not cold and a "little bit" different than in Germany!
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Presents for everybody

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Present from my first
host-family
"The Mercers"
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Robin and his awesome guitar
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This is my Knuffel-Wuff whose name is Eddi von
Gransebieth
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Got some more pins for my
jacket and another surprise, but you'll see next time, when we are wearing
our jackets!!
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Scarlet got also a lot of
presents, most of them are toys.
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Another present for me. This Christmas
was really awesome!
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Yeah, somebody had to play the reindeer.
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The whole family was like a
real, like my family, for me. They are all so nice! Thanks a lot for
everybody who gave me this chance.
I wish everybody a Happy New
Year and a lot of fun for the next 5-6months!!
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January 3, 2005
Robi goes to the FSU
Seminole "Noles" game at the Orange Bowl
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Pledge of Allegiance

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to
the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with
liberty and justice for all.
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That's me, in the huge Dolphins-stadium, in which they played the
Orange Bowl this year!
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Orange bowl: my ticket for the club level!!!
We were staying there at the stadium to 1am in the morning!!!
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Group push-ups by the NOLES, with over 100 player
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And over 300 people were playing in the FSU(Florida State University)
band!! It was amazing!!
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8 people from the army landed on the field and 5seconds later 3 Jets
flow over the stadium.
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Halftime show:
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She was the singer
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It was a really awesome night!! FSU lost the game in the third overtime.
Thanks Robin, for taken me to the Orange Bowl.
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December 21, 2005
Robi, Ilaria and Marcos go to
Miami Metro-Zoo
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Me, Ilaria and Marcos in the Metro-Zoo
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Roy, is it him?
It was really funny in the Amphitheatre of the Metro-Zoo.
Ilaria, Marcos
and I thought we saw Roy in this theatre!! What do you think???
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Ilaria and Marcos
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It must be a really tough life in a Zoo in Miami.
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Me and Ilaria
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Me, Ilaria and Marcos
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this was a really awesome elephant-ride
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It looks like I'll try sushi
(my mom will be proud of me) but it is
only a turkey wrap.
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Me, Ilaria and Marcos
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December 20, 2005
On the 20st of December I went with Marcos to Miami-Beach, we had an
awesome time there!
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Marcos is trying to pose like a photo-model
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I'm trying to pose like a photo-model
The end result, both of us got the first prize! *lol*
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After swimming and shopping we got hungry and decided to go to the
TROPICAL BAR "MANGO".

We didn't really know, what we expected in
this BAR, and then...
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After this pleasant shock we had to cool down

Marcos
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and me
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...and then, our waitress
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These are the other waitresses behind the bar
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Miami is really a dream, everything looks exactly like in the movies. On
the street to Miami-Beach they filmed the movie "Bad Boys 2".
And I saw on the the way to the beach the houses from Madonna and
Sylvester Stalone and next to my neighborhood is the house from Bob
Marley's mother. All this sounds perfect to live here, but not if you have
5 Hurricanes per year. And you see a lot of signs, they look like
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For me it is unbelievable to have 87F on the 20st of December...
...but not for Marcos, because at this time in the year, when we
have winter, Brasil has summer.
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It looks funny for people, who don't live here.
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This is me and my car, with which we drove next day with Ilaria to
the zoo
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December 18, 2005
We had an awesome boat parade in Coral Gables by the sea. Eighteen boats
decorated with lights, Santas and Mickeys, drove up and down the canal.
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Our decorated boat with Pluto, Mickey and Goofy
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Son Jud with wife Jennifer and kids
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December 8, 2005
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It is Christmas time!!! ..,but
wait, where is the Christmas tree??

Here we go, our 11 feet tall Christmas tree is decorated with over 1000
lights and 100s of ornaments.
It is so so beautiful. I love it here!
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November 25, 2005
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Marcos, Mayuko, Henna, Conny
and I
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Conny
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This is our boat we went with
to Key Largo
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My host-dad Robin(Robert) and
Marcos on our boat
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Key Largo, in Key Largo Anglers
Club
The whole weekend was so beautiful!
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Marcos by sunset
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Me by sunset
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November 11, 2005
The Interact-Club from my
School!!
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We had a big meeting with
most of all members,
to clean the beach.
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That's my group!!
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 A
friend of mine (Krysten) found with her family a puppy, the Sunday before Hurricane
Wilma
hit Miami, in the front of Publix in a box!!
She has still no
name, but she is sooo
cute!!!
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Two of my friends in
Germany. Tami&Anna
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October 31, 2005
Halloween was not so scary, but
really funny!!
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Before we went sugar
treating!!!
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Devin as Steve Urkle (guy from
an old TV show), he was crazy!!!
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The whole gang. Me as an
UM-fan and Andrew as Luigi.
I'm
not very creative in customs!!! lol
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After sugar treating and a lot
of candies we needed a massage!!
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September
28, 2005
My first
college football-game
Miami
Hurricanes against Colorado
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"Tailgating"
Before the game it looks like a big camping place!!
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The biggest helmet I've ever seen
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Bill Beckham, a Rotarian, went with his family and I to
the game!! Thank you Bill !!!
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His son and my friend WOODY !!!
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The biggest stadium I've ever been
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It was soooo hot!! it felt like 120F without the wind
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The team in white is from Colorado and the other team are the
MIAMI HURRICANES
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WOODY is real fan!! funny shirt! next time when I go to dentist I will
wear mine
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Miami-cap.
*lol*
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Me
waiting in the half-time in the shadow
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End-score: The CANES won!!!! juhu!
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September 23, 2005
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: After 6 weeks we are too each other nearly like brother and sister!!!
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This was in the Disney-Park, we
had a lot of fun, really!!!
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My complete homecoming outfit!!
Now I have finally everything together!!
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Ilaria and me
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I'm ready to go
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Mayuko, me, Ilaria, Leslie,
Jean-Yves and Florian
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Riding in style
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We're on our way! Turn up
the music...
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I saw my first school-football-game!!!
Palmetto Senior. High School vs. (I forgot it)
Palmetto won 49 to 7
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Blue is the color of my
school.
all
boys had a blue chest and a blue back!! This was really awesome!!
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One of our cheerleader-teamIn
the background is our school-team and In the front you can see our second cheerleader-team
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My (host-)brother turned 11
on the 9th of August
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This is my little.... ehhm
sorry..big brother Russ!! *lol*
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His birthday cake, the cake was
so good...
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Our dog Cody thought the
same!!!
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Eating makes me so tired.
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Our swimming-pool a paradise
for animals?!?!?!
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"...this pool is better
than the pool from the neighbor!!" *smile*
"... ok lets go to
the next."
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August 20, 2005
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Early in the morning by Coral Gables
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I caught two lobsters
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10 lobsters
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