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Lorina's Christmas Report December 22, 2005 |
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Christmas Report An important Bahamian tradition
is JUNKANOO, a parade like carnival with big costumes and a lot off music
on Christmas and New Years. I’ll be rushing in it with my Rotary club
January 2nd. It’s funny
because I’ve never even seen Junkanoo and now I’m in it, but it’ll
be an experience. We already had our first practice and I learned how to
beat the drums what was really fun. It hit us on the 24th.
We were prepared, had shutters on all windows and had enough water and
food. Power and water went out at 9 in the morning. The storm was a bit
scary or at least the sounds but it wasn’t too bad. Around 4 o’clock
everything was over and we went driving to see all the damage. We were
lucky because our house was alright but in some areas the damage was
really bad. Water came back
after 3 days, power after one week. It really messed up my mid-term-break
because it was boring but I should be glad that nothing more happened. It
was definitely an experience and my parents at home were much more scared
than I was. Now I know how to work a generator and how to survive without
water and power. Since November there was so
much to do so little time but I feel much better. School is alright because
everybody is nice to me but I’m still too quiet and I can’t help it.
Most subjects are easy for me and my English is getting better. At first I
didn’t really realized it but know it’s easier for me to talk English
than to talk German. When my parents call I really have to think about
what I say or translate from English to German.
I still can’t talk “Bahamian”
or I don’t use that little bit I know because it sounds too funny
if I try, but I want to learn it to sound like everybody else. I took part in a Cover girl
competition of a local photo studio. We had three different shots; one in
the studio one in a phone booth and one underwater. I didn’t want to win
but only the pictures and it was a lot of fun. I almost started to like
modeling ;-) In December was, of course, our
Disney Trip. THANK YOU ALL! It was definitely one of the best weekends
ever! I wouldn’t go to Disney on my own because I don’t like that
everything is so fake but with the right people it was so much fun. I feel
like a different person when I’m with the other exchange students, so
much more self-confident so much more like I want to be. When I came back from that trip
we already had a Christmas tree and one day later our exams at school
started. For more that one week I had two exams everyday. Some were hard
for me because they were about everything from the last three years. I
don’t have the results yet but I guess I did pretty well in most of
them. I was kind of exhausting to study that much in such a short time but
luckily our Christmas break started right after the exams. So now I have a
bit more time to write reports ;-) get everything ready for Christmas and
relax. But soon I have to start packing because after New Years, in less
than two weeks, I’ll change families the first time. I’m really
excited about that but then I’m really nervous, too. I like my first
family and they made the fist half of my year a great time (Thank you so
much) and it’ll be weird to meet them when they are not my family
anymore. Love,……
Lorina |
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