Monday, December 12, 2005
To be honest, I don't really feel like unpdating right now, but it seems to have become a routine for me now.
The past week has been OK for me. I guess you could say that.
On Tuesday I went to a funeral, it was sad. I didn't really know what they were saying, but...it was sad anyway.
Thursday and Friday I went back to hockey. It is such a release now, to play hockey. I get home and am so buggered that I feel like just curling up and sleeping. But then I go to hockey and I have this kind of energy, it is so great. I am playing really well here, better than I have for a long time. I love going to hockey now.
Yesterday was a busy day, compared to the ones I normally have. I got woken up at 8am by Nina. I point blanc refused to get out of bed. Who gets up at 8am on a weekend?
Me. I got up. I ate breakfast and cooked Pavlova and ANZAC Biscuits. They turned out OK actually. I baked a trial Pavlova, on Thursday, and it turned out so bad. But this one...it wasn't bad.
After that, I ate lunch and then we hopped in the car and drove to a birthday party. It was so cold. We drove for about an hour, the whole time Dagmar whining about how bad she felt. It ended up with Nina holding her down and covering her eyes.
When we finally pulled up to the house, we jumped out of the car and ran to the house. Basically we ate cake and drank tea, then talked alot. What happens at every party.
We left there at 5pm, drove back to Schönebeck and dropped off the Grandma. Then we went to another party. Interesting. This one was Dagmar's sisters birthday, the other one was...I don't even know the connection!
On the way out of Schönebeck, there is this corner, where you go on to turn onto the highway. In the dark it is really dangerous, because when you drive it looks like the traffic is coming from straight on, and there is no corner. Well, there is a corner, and obviously smeone didn't know that, because their car went straight there and down into the ditch behind it, and into a tree. We saw it, and I think we were the first people there. We dorve on a little further, parked the car on the side of the road, got our jackets and ran back. It looked really bad. Dgamar stayed in the car, but Nina, Oliver and I went. When we got there, the poeple were sitting in the car and didn't want our help. They had already called the police and insurance people. So we went back to the car, being careful this time, because on the ground was all ice, and it was very easily to slip over.
When we got there we explained the story about many times. Countless times.
At that party we sat around and talked, once again. We got dinner and talked more. It wasn't a fun party, it was all adults except for Nina and I. Sad, hey? I played on the keyboard for a bit, got some notes and played some songs, and Nina, being the anti-social thing she is, went upstairs and watched tv, and did homework. I realised she wasn't there after a while and went and joined her. It was so boring, but the movie she was watching was this horror, and that was cool.
An hour later, it was late and we got to go home...finally.
It was so cold on the way home, even in the car. I was about to freeze. Anyway, when we got inside I crashed, once again. I couldn't do anything more, I was tired.
Next day, got woken up early...again. But this time it was only 8:45. That is almost a sleep in now! I had to put the cream and kiwi on my Pavlova, which took about an hour in total, with this and that. By that time, I had to get my nice, freshly washed clothes on and then we had to go to Magdeburg. This was at 10:45.
Oh yeah, this baking and stuff was for a Y.F.U Christmas Party. It was great fun.
I love being in Sachsen-Anhalt, this region is one of the only ones who get regular meetings and thigns. It is great.
We got there at about 11:20, which was actually quite good timing. It was so cold, and we couldn't find the right building. Oh well, too late now.
When we got there I put my food down and put some labels on it. Everyone was really surprised at how good it looked. :D
We then sat down, got welcomed, the normal. I had to introduce my food, which was hard, because...what can I say about it?
It was great fun watching these unfortunate people trying to cut the Pavlova. It was almost impossible. LOL. It was so hard.
There was some good food there, and some...well, not so good. The whole time people were trying things at the tables, I could see everyone holding their hands over their mouhts, like it was bad or something? Well, don't blame me!
It was great though, my food was the first to go, so obviously it was a favourite. That made me very happy! Someone even told me something like "It is because you are a novelty, coming from Australia." Ohhh...great.
When Margit Niemann, the über-betreuer, saw my food, she just looked straight at me, because I am the only person from Australia in the whole of Germany. Also when Janina, my betreuer, saw it, she just said, "Looks like someone's been baking Pavlova again." She really wanted me to make Carrot Cake, but...I didn't. She was in New Zealand for a exchange year, so she knows all these foods.
I was sitting next to Robert and Jana, the guy from Latvia and his host-sister. We are really close. It feels like I have known Jana for ages, even though we have only seen each other three times, but we are like best-friends. And Robert...what can I say? He is such a sweetie, who can not like him? Well,
not me, at least. We are like best friends too. He is great.
After the food came the songs. The plays and the theatre pieces. It was fun, watching these people singing and stuff. the prize was an international cook book, which was OK. Nina did what she normally does, and showed off her "talent," if you could call it that. There was some really amazing things though. Two girls on the piano, that was so beautiful, and one on the piano one on the flute, that sounded great too. They also did a play, Snow White, with the guests from YFU near Berlin, who wanted to do a Christmas party next year. It was funny though.
Then she tried to make me get up there and sing. When I told her I didn't want to, she just didn't understand it. She bugged me for the whole day. I
don't care about it anymore, I am over it.
It was great fun, we just hung around and talked for alot of the time. I love just hanging around and talking to people. Janina, came and talked to us as well. She is cool, and she is coming to my school tomorrow, to talk to my class-teacher. I think it is totally normal though, she has already done it with Pablo. She also said that if I want we can meet up next weekend, and do something in Magdeburg, so I think I will take her up on that offer.
Now I am sitting here. Nina really wanted to go, just so she could go and spend time with her boyfriend again, so therefore the parents made us leave. It was a bit of a pity, I would have loved to have stayed a little longer, talk to these people who I never see anyway. But the parents never do anything to upset their little perfect daughter, so we left. Damn.
I am sorry, long posts are not fun. I am going to post more often. I promise. I will try!
BTW, I will try and get some more pictures up on my MSN Spaces site, so I will tell you when they are up.
I am going to go and play my clarinet now.
I have only 13 sleeps till Christmas. Counting down the days till the school holidays. It is so unfair that everyone back home is already on holidays. NOT FAIR. What is that ad, not funny Jan? Or what? I have forgotten.
Vera
Vera was here at 2:40 AM
