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Hello everybody,
Some month have passed by since my last report and I want to apologize
for that, but I am just having such a good time, that I forgot about
it….
But finally here it is :-) Wow, where should I start? Christmas:
me and my hostfamily went to Nashville for the Holidays because
my Hostfamilys daughter lives there. I did not really know what to
expect, because everbody I told that I am going to Nashville, was
laughing and just said: haha, have fun. But when we arrived there I
couldn’t understand why, the people were friendly, everthing was
different-but in a refreshing way And I loved the cold weather,
one reason was because it reminded me of Germany and another reason
was, that I finally got to wear my nice new Hollister-sweatshirts..
lol! We did a lot during the short period of time we spend in
Nashville. I got to see the country-music hall of fame and the grand
old opry, I found that quite amusing, because there were the funniest
looking people :-). Oh and the best about my whole
Nashville-experience was definitely the hotel we were staying at. We
had a suite, and that was just awesome.
Christmas was really
different for me here, because in Germany you open the presents on
Christmas eve and not on the 25th, and everybody that knows me, knows
that I do not have a lot of patience.
On Christmas eve,
after a delicious dinner at the hotel, we (my hostparents, their
daughter Jessica, her friend Hannah and me) went to the movies and
watched “familystone”. It was not quite what we expected, so my
Hostdad felt asleep during the movie, eventhough he always denies it
afterwards (haha, I love you bob) I really thought that was a perfect
Christmas, and I have build such a good relationship with my
hostparents, that it is going to be really hard to leave!
In the end of January, we all (the exchange students out of 6990 and
the ES From Jacksonville) went to seacamp, and that was just
AWESOME. We lived in little cabins with little matrasses out of
plastic that drove me crazy :-) We went out on boats, everybody
had their own wetsuit (the water was freeeezing), so then they let us
go snorkeling and I was so proud when I thought I caught a
jellyfish in my net and I told everybody, but then after I swam
back to the boat, with a big smile on my face, they were applauding
and said: “good job conny, you caught a plasticbag!” My
roommates at seacamp were another experience. I was sharing a room
with two really nice girls from Michigan. But at night I found out why
nobody else wanted to stay in this room: Because they were snoring
like elephants! I tried everything, a pillow on my head, cotton wool
in my ears and I even tried to roll her around! Well, at least I
really enjoyed the DAYS at seacamp.
Another weekend my hostfamily and me went down to the keys, and they
surprised me with a “dolphin-swim” for me. I think that was about the
coolest thing I have ever done in my entire life!!!:) The weather was
excellent and at first the people who work there told us basic things
about dolphins, like you can not touch their stomach or back fin,
after all the basic stuff I finally got to go into the water with the
dolphins!!! I was so excited, the dolphins were pulling and
pushing me around, I was patting their back and even had a spitfight
with them, for the next two hours after that I had a big smile on my
face (I still do :-) )
Weeeell, what else is new? The last weekend was the first outbound
orientation and it was great to get to know all of them( I am so proud
of me, I still remember all the names). That was a really fun weekend.
Javier (outbound 03/04) was there and he brought his surfboards, so
Lorina, Belen, him and me went to the beach and he tried to teach us
how to surf. That was really cool and I always wanted to learn
that, but it was tougher than I thought. Lorina was the first
(and only!) one standing on the surfboard, after that Belen and me
tried, and that is not even worth writing about it;) But we had
a great time! Wow, that’s hard to believe, it is already March and in
4 month I am going home, I can not believe it, time has been passing
by so fast and I feel more and more home. My hostfamily is great (they
were from the beginning) and school is fun, the people are nice and I
find more and more friends everyday, but the best thing about school
is, that Belen has changed schools, so now we are Both attending
Douglas and we have the best time together. She is as crazy as I
am and everyday is awesome and just so much fun!
Conny Kleint
Parkland, Florida :-)
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