Thursday, August 18, 2005
OK. So, I don't know what to tell you. Once again, it seems like I have soo much to say and so little time! Well, actually I have all the time in the world, since none of you are on msn...it must be about 3am there. It is just a matter of selecting specific things, because I wouldn't want to bore you with every detail about it. Or maybe...I would...Mwahahahaha!
OK. My last few days in Bavaria have been spent at school, huddled up into the smallest ball I can make, because it is so cold. I swear, it is ALWAYS raining here! It never stops! I am thinking that I might get over it, but you never ever know, now do you? I take back that statement, right now it isn't raining, but for about the past week I have been enduring winter-like weather. It is not the funnest thing either. I sit here and imagine what it would be like if all this rain was going to Australia, geez, that drought would be broken in about a month!
Right now I am kind of upset. One of the members of our class is going to go home. Here I will call her Katie for privacys sake though. I will start from the beginning. I met Katie before school started, and she introduced me to David, who is now a close friend. We catch the same bus to and from school and we talk about some really deep things.
I have been over to Katie's house and I met her family, and they seemed nice. I think, from what I have been told, that Katie's family back home have been having some trouble, and she is really upset that she can not be with them right now. Also I think that her host family have been a bit, well, I don't know, they haven't included her properly. So, I think it may have been last week, but then again, it could have been the week before, she was in class, then we had a break and she came back form the break a little late. As soon as she came back, she showed no one her face and had her head in her arms the whole time. She was obviously crying. After a while Petra took her out of the class and talked to her, and they were stilll talking at lunch. She loked really upset, but later she seemed fine, so I thought that she had worked it out.
Other people have said that whenever Katie laughed or anything it seemed like she was faking it, not really happy, and that she never seemed happy. I think that on the bus while we were discussing things she was happy though, but I think my unobservantness is coming out.
Also I think that she was like the backbone of her family back home, so being such an important member than leaving, your family is bound to miss you.
I hope that I can keep in contact with Katie anyway, because she ids a great person, and I am saddened that I will never see her again.
I don't want her to leave. It is a feeling like, us, as a group, have failed, and I personally have failed because one of our own is leaving us to go back home. I don't actually think it is my fault though, don't go getting all worried!
Ceciley was talking about one of her experiences today in Orientation class, how the bus driver looked at her and closed the door on her and rove away just because she is an African-American. And she had to wait over an hour for the next bus! When she was talking about that she started crying, and you could tell that it was a really big thing for her. But she just kept on talking like she wasn't crying, or embarrased to be crying or anything, which I think is amazing! I was teary in the eyes and so was everyone in the room, because it was a really big thing, I can't believe that someone would be so horrible to do that to someone just because of their skin colour!
Today after school our group met the mayor of Passau, which was really cool. He told us about the history and about the town hall, which is such a beautiful building! Then we went shopping, and I can say I made my first major purchase, which was a beautiful (and cheap!) necklace from some random store! It was a great afternoon. I was also looking for a notebook of some description, because I want to buy one for everyone who I meet to write messages for me in it, and to give me addresses or something. I wish I had done that with you guys, but I have that great collage Nikki made! Maybe you will send me something like that for my b'day...(hint, hint...) ;)
I am loking forward to going to Schönebeck, but I am also nervous. I don't think there is anything to be nervous abot specifically, but about everything. I hope my family is nice, and that I don't find it too hard in school. I hope that I make lots of friends and that I fit into my family. I hope that you guys don't forget me either. because i will be back soon! Think about it, a year is not very long.
NOw I shall teach you about German. They have four different cases, each used in different situation kind of things. They are nominativ, akkusativ, dativ und genitiv. Each case contributes different words for the different definate articles and personal pronouns. Wow. German is hard. You also have to conjugate words and add different endins, then there are the spereable prefixes.
I will now say something...
Meine Schule ist kleine. Can you guess...it means my school is small.
Ich habe Geschwister. Ich habe zwei Brüder und einen Schwester. Mein Brüder heißen Peter und Alec und meine Schwester heißt Carina.
Wann stehst du auf? that means when do you get up? (aufstehen is the word for to get up. As you can see it is separable, the 'auf' part goes to the very end of the sentence, as with many other words.)
Was ist das? haha...thats an easy sentence. what is that?
'Genau' is a good word. everyone here uses it alot and i like it. It means exactly, that is right, yes, many things. But when I get back I am going to introduce that word to the English language single-handedly.
So my last days in Bavaria will be spent hopefully full of things to do. Tomorrow my class is having a party, and then on Friday we are havibng a scavenger hunt through Passau, whihc should be fun! I am not really looking forward to the train ride though, 8 hours cramped up with no one to talk to but myself... I think I might brush up on my German Grammar with the bok we have been given. I might even go so far as to ask Andrea, the teacher, to give me some work or something to do on the train. On second thoughts, maybe the book is enough.
I have one thing to askl of you thgouh. PLease PLease Please do NOT reply anonomously. I want to know who says what, and I am thinking that the person replying anonomously is either Mum or my sister.
Nice long post, so I will go now.
I mis y'all, the usual...
Love always,
Vera
Vera was here at 3:23 AM
