Chriskindlemarkts

This weekend was the first weekend that I went to some Chriskindlemarkts. On Saturday I went to the Chriskindlmarkt in Rosenheim with Magdalena and some friends from school. It was very pretty and festive. We had a look around at all the differnt stalls, and ate some Schmalzgebaeck and drank some Kinderpunsch, which are very traditonal Bavarain things at Christmas time. It was just a pity that it hasn't started snowing yet.
On Sunday I went with my host mum, dad and sister to the Freilichtmuseum Glentleiten Chriskindlemarkt . The day was so beautiful and warm, very uncommon for late November in Germany. The mountain view there is so beautiful and it would of been so much enjoyable if it was snowing but I was glad to have one warm day where I didn't have to wear my winter jacket. There was volks music singing and trumpet playing and we looked in all the old houses, some which dated back 600 years or so. The stalls were also selling so many different foods and drinks, as well as many hand-drafted ornaments and decorations.
All in all it was a very good weekend, as well as a fun introduction to Christmas time in Germany.

Deutsches Schulleben

Die Schule ist sehr anders als zu Hause. Es ist eine Wirstschaftsschule, der Unterricht ist sehr verschieden zu dem in meiner Heimat. Die Schule beginnt um 5 vor 8, aber ich muss um 6 Uhr aufstehen. Ich finde das nicht gut, weil ich dann sehr müde bin. Wir haben drei Stunden und dann eine kurze Pause und dann drei weitere Stunden. Ich verstehe den Untericht nicht sehr gut und deshalb fällt es mir manchmal sehr schwer, dem Unterrichtsstoff zu folgen. Auch sind einige Schulfächer wie beispielsweise Betriebswirtschaft oder Übungsfirmenarbeit für mich absolut neu. Aber ich mag einen normalen Schultag erleben. Die Schule ist um 10 vor 13 Uhr zu Ende. Wir haben den halben Tag frei. Das ist besser für mich, weil ich so meinen Aufenthalt hier in Deutschland viel besser genießen kann. :)

Elisha Romeril

Unser Tag in München

Samstag, 19.11.2011

Elisha, Steffi, und wir (Anna-Lena und Magdalena) fuhren am Samstag nach München in das Olympiazentrum. Wir sahen die Olympiahalle, die Olympiaschwimmhalle, die BMW- Welten, Sea life und den Olympiaturm. Anschliessend fuhren wir dort hoch und konnten ganz München von oben sehen. Es war ein sehr lustiger Tag.

Anna-Lena und Magdalena

Deutschland

Germany this year has been a different experience from last year. This year it's not so much about sightseeing, but about experiencing normal German life. It has been really fun though. I have learnt to horse ride, we have gone to ice hockey and soccer matches, gone to horse competitions, and a lot more. The weather I have not enjoyed so much and I am still holding out for it to snow! Also not understanding the Bavarain dialect has also been annoying! But all in all it has been extremely worth while.
Elisha

Return Visits

The first weeks are over, and I've finally settled in. More reports to come soon. Greetings to everyone who is reading this blog.

Elisha

The end of this beautiful exchange draws near !

First of all I want to thank everyone who gave me this great chance, my teachers at home, the teachers from Bright and my families.

Last week I was at the ocean in Apollo Bay with my class, it was beautiful and I saw Koalas and was surfing in the ocean. On Wednesday we all camped near Koalas, we had a beautiful campfire and I found many friends over there. It was a great trip. I have one more week with my host family and friends here, I'm very sad that it will soon go back home as I've really settled in well here.

But I'm looking forward to be able to report personally everything.

Yours,
Jennifer

Apollo Bay

Hi Bonnie

How are you? We are fine. We were at a camp last week. It was in Apollo Bay, that is in Australia. It was so awesome. We set off on Monday and drove six hours in the school bus. We slept the whole way. After we had driven many curves, we saw the sea. It was such an amazing view. Everyone was put up with students from the class, only we had to stay with a teacher, because her daughter is at our ages and she speaks German and there were not enough exchange students. Charlie and Jamie were put up with a boy. At the beginning I thought "Oh my God!", how should this work. But the boy was very cool and nice and so everything worked very well. After we introduced ourselves, we went home and unpacked our stuff and went down the street to meet the other people again. We went for dinner and went with the feet into the sea. On the next day we went bush walking: 20 km in five hours! It was so hard but it was also very beautiful. We saw kolas and walked with our feet through the mud. Half way through we made ​​a stop at the coast. It was so fantastic. In this letter there is a pictures of the coast. When we came back, we had dinner at the beach. It was really great. After this we visited a lighthouse. It was such an amazing view on the top of the lighthouse. You could go around it. The best day was Wednesday. We went kayaking. IT was so much fun and was not as easy as you could imagine. Fortunately, we all had wetsuits because the river water was ice cold. After this we went down the street for lunch. Then we went surfing. It was so hard but we had so much fun. We put all our stuff in the bus and went to the place where we camped. We unpacked our stuff and set up our tents. And then we saw a koala in the tree directly above our tent. At 7 o'clock we went to our dinner place. We made our own pizza. It was so awesome. Then we sat around the camp fire and ate marshmallows. We all went to bed very early because the last days were very exhausting. The next day we went mountain biking in the bush. It was so cool, but you had to concentrate all the time because they track was very dangerous. In the afternoon we could choose between shopping and surfing. We did a little bit of both. On the last day Dakota and Jessie slept in our house. It was so cool. When we drove home the next day as early as 9, we were very sad because the people were so cool and it was so beautiful. The bus ride was very funny and the time passed quickly. On the way back we halted at McDonald’s.

Yours 

Jennifer and Gesine

PS: Too bad that you were not there.