Susie's Pictures

May 2, 2006

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Americans

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Bach's Church

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Basel

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Berlin Wall

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Cool Castle

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Disney Castle

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Dresden

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The Group at Potsdam

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Heidelberg

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Judisch Gedanstate

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Leipzig

(Ala, me, Volker, Birgit)

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Marina and me

 

 

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Our Spring

February 26, 2006

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I'm on the French border!

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Nancy

 

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February 25, 2006

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Karneva/ Fasching in Saarbrucken

 

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Saarbrucken Skyline

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Messing around with Host cousins and host sister Ala

February 8, 2006

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Krombacher brewery

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 My Bday Face

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 Fooling around with host sisters Helen and Siri at In the Ghetto

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Saarbrucken City Hall

 

 

My first opera. on February 4th

 The Magic Flute by Mozart in Siegen

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Pamina sings her anguish at Tamino's silence

 

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  Pagageno is tricked into thinking the old bird hag is his bride- to-be

Dog sled Racing
January 28, 2006

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January 25, 2006

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First Host Family Schön in front of the waterfall

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Celebrating New Year's with Fireworks

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Pictures of New Year's Parade in Austria

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Snow Zombie!

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Hiking with My New Host parents in the woods, we came across this  perfect, quiet place

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Me and My new host parents: Ulrike and Dirk Gaumann

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My host sister (who doesn't live at home) Alexandra (Ala)

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My new room

 

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My host-parents and -grandparents going for a walk. Uli's  parents came down for her birthday.

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A dance for the birthday girl

January 23, 2006

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Family in front of Christmas tree, singing Christmas carols

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Our Christmas dinner

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Beautiful Austrian view from Gastein

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Me getting ready for a day of snowboarding

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The same waterfall in Bad Gastein 

except frozen over

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Frozen skyline

December 21, 2005

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Budo Elements (Kedo or something like that)

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The kids and I on a giant turtle. (Who'da thunk they'd find a giant turtle in the middle of Germany?)

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ITS SNOWING!!!

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Marina and I in Denmark

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Having fun on the beach

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A perfect morning in the sun

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A blanket of white

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Concert Night (steph and I)

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The whole Chorus class

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Sledding with Corina and her dog

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Ice skating with some friends in Netphen

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Fun with other exchange students at the Rotex Weekend.

December 19, 2005

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Local mall getting ready for christmas

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Local city preparing for the holidays

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I just love old fashioned cannons ;)

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The Rapunzel Tower looking castle

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A family photo
November 20, 2005

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Picture from our bus of the road in Thorn. A bit too close for comfort

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Picture perfect Farm house

 

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The cathedral in Thorn

 

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The alter from the back of the cathedral

 

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Two of the coffins with skeletons in them from 1700's

 

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Humorus bone from a Saint

 

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Walking through Thorn

 

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My 3rd Host-father

 

 

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My 3rd Host-mom and sisters (I forgot to bring my camera to take photos of my 2nd Family)

 

Photos of the Jazz Festival in the City Galerie

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The Birthday table (along with the cake I made)

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Constantine having fun

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The whole family sitting down to the Birthday Lunch

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Me horseback riding (My host-grandmother took the picture. That’s why I don’t have a head J)

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St. Martin

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Kids and Parents getting ready for the Parade after St. Martin

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Some older kids with their torches

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A traditional baked man with a pipe (special for this time of year)

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A perfect picture of Autumn 

(my host-sister took it)

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Carl-Friedrich and Caroline playing around for the camera during some sibling bonding time

 

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Me with my red hair
October 29, 2005

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Herbst Markt

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View of Köln from the top of the Dom

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These are the stairs I had to climb up (509) with traffic both ways

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Charlie Chaplain in front of Dom

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Chocolate Fountain!

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Inside the chocolate factory we learned how to make chocolate

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Lollipops of the Köln Dom

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 Really cool pic of Köln from the top of the Chocolate Museum

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All of the Exchange Students from District 1810 during Rotex Weekend

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One of the Activities for building team work during Field Trip

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Group Photo of the eleventh grade of FJM

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The never-ending Risk game

Pics of Mock Trial

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Our Mock court room

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The Students who organized and narrated the whole thing

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Opening Arguments (For Smoking in School)

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Pretty Autumn Picture from Youth Center

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An impressive goodbye from our counselors
October 15, 2005

 

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Castle from the Side

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Cool Suit of Armor inside the castle

 

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Model of Water Wheel from Museum

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Paper making machine

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Anne, Me, Julia, and Corinna getting ready to ride

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Shetland Pony Finnchen. He's so cute!

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ready to ride

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St. Michel's Cathedral

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Hamburg Skyline

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Some wierd buildings in Hamburg

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Police building over the Harbor

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Fooling around in Museum outside of Jesterburg

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Anne, Julia and I in front of cool Statue in Hamburg

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Rathaus (City Hall) of Hamburg

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Ponies eating under a bright moon

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Corinna's House

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View of one of the lakes in Hamburg

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Interesting fountain in Hamburg

October 2, 2005

Some picture of chairs from Freudenberg Chair Festival

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Old Couple made of some sort of paper mache

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A HUGE chair hanging from someone's house

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Chair made of Milk cartons ( They've got the whole shabang:  skim, whole and chocolate :P)

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A heavenly chair right next to a beautiful fountain

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 A "Jean chair" Made partly of stuffed jeans and the rest  painted to look like jeans. It was amazing.

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Traditional Resteraunt that looked very German in Köln

 

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One of the windows in the Cathedral

October 1, 2005

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Siegen Oberstadt at nigh

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Steph and I are hanging out at a Class Party

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Street in Köln (The old mingles with the new)

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Authentic German Dolls

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Me in front of the Köln Dom

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Another view of the Dom (Cathedral from times of Roman Occupation

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View of Historic Freudenberg from atop a hill

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A close up of the city that is known for being a village of  old German Architecture

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The Under Castle of Siegen

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A deer right outside my window when I came home from School

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Class Party at Cafe Hett

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I taught all the girls how to play Pool. It was so much fun!

September 23, 2005

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Marina and I in trying on traditional German clothes 8/12

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"Strandkorb" renown in Germany all over beaches.  8/14

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Hanging out at the beach with Marina next to a really wierd statue  8/14

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I'm enjoying the rare warm weather. 8/14

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Marzipan in the shape of eels. Icklich!! EW!

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Marina and I driving to my new home!

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Austria Scenery 8/17

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First day meeting the kids and some random dog from the hotel. 8/17

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Sightseeing in Gastein. This waterfall is a major tourist  attraction. 8/18

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Gastein: A city built into the hills = no set skyline :)  Extremely beautiful

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We had fun with archery shooting at foam animal (I won second  place. hehe) 8/20

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Hehe! Look at me!! I'm shooting a goat-thingy in Austria. lol. 8/20

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Murder Mystery Dinner night. The woman in black is the sister of  the murdered guy. We think she's the one who did it.

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A traditional horn salutation in honor of my host-grandmother's  birthday. Very interesting. Usually played at fox hunts.

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View of Siegen from my street. The orange/yellowish building is  the lower castle. Beautiful view

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My house in Siegen. I have my own room, bathroom, and entrance.  It's an amazing house.

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My friend, Dunya. She's my dancing buddy. Together we go to  dancing classes and clubs. She was an exchange student in Oklahoma  last year.

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Annika and I hanging out at my house. She's really nice and  helped me meet a lot of people in Siegen.

 

 

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Some friends I met at a youth group: Annika, Steph(I think), and  Lena.

 

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Unfortunately :/, my host mother's family own the local paper so  I've been displayed. lol

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