Fort Worth Stockyards
The best about this picture, it’s not edited.
I build this trumpet lamp out of two old broken lamps, and I have to say, “I’m proud of me!” =D
You remember my last post when I told you my next post would “probably be on Sunday with some pictures”?  -  Well, this is now more than 3 weeks ago, but these weeks were so eventful that I never had time to post something. Now I finally took some time to tell you about these weeks.  Battle of the Axe As I told you in my last post we had the Battle of the Axe on November 21(for description please read last post). Well, to cut a long story short, we had a BIG Pep-Really in where the coach made a short speech with the axe in his end, that ended with “If you want the axe, come and get it!”, whereon the whole gym began to cheer and to scream, and we won the game (49:24), so the axe stays in Sherman for the next year. Paintball/Amazing Race There isn’t much more to tell that we played paintball and the Amazing Race. For the race we had to go in teams and then we had to do tasks like pile up hay bales and eating really hot pepper (I really like hot food but these pepper killed me). All in all I had a lot of fun this day. PAINTBALL =) This is the face we all made after we ate the pepper. Halloween The next weekend was Halloween. Over here this is a really big deal: the little children go from door to door and yell “Trick or Treat” (Süßes oder Saures!) and the kids in my age make parties. I was really inventive and bought some “Lederhosen”. The party was fun, although I got out of my pants because they weren’t very comfortable. Six Flaggs Tom and me went there with the Moseley family the Sunday after the Halloween Party. Six Flaggs is a big park with rollercoaster and all this stuff. But like everything in America it’s way bigger than the parks I’m used to from Germany. Mr. Freezer: My favorite roller coaster. Here is a link for a video link of the roller coaster: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6fsvQ4K4SM Shopping  The next Saturday I went shopping with Melanie, Hannah, Mikayla and Isa in Frisco. The easiest way to safe money is to not buy anything, and this is exactly what I did. So I just went with Isa from store to store and watched her spending a lot of money, which was also fun.  Bowling Last Saturday I went bowling with Mikayla, Jenna and Vignesh. I’m not sure but I think the bowling alleys in America are build different, because for some reason I made a few strikes, and whoever ever went bowling with me know that I’m definitive not the best. After this we went to the movies and watched “Puss in Boots”. I think it’s a great movie, and whenever you guys in Germany get the opportunity to watch it, do it.  Again paintball This Sunday a message woke me up that asked me if I wanted to play paintball with Jannek (another German exchange student who lives close to Sherman) and some of his friends. They didn’t had to ask twice, so pretty soon I was again on the field playing paintball, this time in shirt and shorts. That was a less good decision because it’s not a good protection, but it was fun again. So this is my last month summarized, the next big events will be Thanksgiving and then Christmas and New Year’s Eve. But let’s hope I can write my next post before the 2012 begins.

You remember my last post when I told you my next post would “probably be on Sunday with some pictures”?  -  Well, this is now more than 3 weeks ago, but these weeks were so eventful that I never had time to post something. Now I finally took some time to tell you about these weeks. 

Battle of the Axe

As I told you in my last post we had the Battle of the Axe on November 21(for description please read last post). Well, to cut a long story short, we had a BIG Pep-Really in where the coach made a short speech with the axe in his end, that ended with “If you want the axe, come and get it!”, whereon the whole gym began to cheer and to scream, and we won the game (49:24), so the axe stays in Sherman for the next year.

Paintball/Amazing Race

There isn’t much more to tell that we played paintball and the Amazing Race. For the race we had to go in teams and then we had to do tasks like pile up hay bales and eating really hot pepper (I really like hot food but these pepper killed me). All in all I had a lot of fun this day.

PAINTBALL =)

This is the face we all made after we ate the pepper.

Halloween

The next weekend was Halloween. Over here this is a really big deal: the little children go from door to door and yell “Trick or Treat” (Süßes oder Saures!) and the kids in my age make parties. I was really inventive and bought some “Lederhosen”. The party was fun, although I got out of my pants because they weren’t very comfortable.

Six Flaggs

Tom and me went there with the Moseley family the Sunday after the Halloween Party. Six Flaggs is a big park with rollercoaster and all this stuff. But like everything in America it’s way bigger than the parks I’m used to from Germany.

Mr. Freezer: My favorite roller coaster. Here is a link for a video link of the roller coaster:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6fsvQ4K4SM

Shopping 

The next Saturday I went shopping with Melanie, Hannah, Mikayla and Isa in Frisco. The easiest way to safe money is to not buy anything, and this is exactly what I did. So I just went with Isa from store to store and watched her spending a lot of money, which was also fun. 

Bowling

Last Saturday I went bowling with Mikayla, Jenna and Vignesh. I’m not sure but I think the bowling alleys in America are build different, because for some reason I made a few strikes, and whoever ever went bowling with me know that I’m definitive not the best. After this we went to the movies and watched “Puss in Boots”. I think it’s a great movie, and whenever you guys in Germany get the opportunity to watch it, do it. 

Again paintball

This Sunday a message woke me up that asked me if I wanted to play paintball with Jannek (another German exchange student who lives close to Sherman) and some of his friends. They didn’t had to ask twice, so pretty soon I was again on the field playing paintball, this time in shirt and shorts. That was a less good decision because it’s not a good protection, but it was fun again.

So this is my last month summarized, the next big events will be Thanksgiving and then Christmas and New Year’s Eve. But let’s hope I can write my next post before the 2012 begins.

I just wanted to announce that I’m still alive. Since my last post is a little bit longer ago I decided to write something, so that you know, that I’m still alive. In the last month nothing really big happened. School is still easy, people are still nice and life is still good. The weather cooled a little bit down, so now, it feels (in my opinion) really good. Right now I’m in our backyard, sitting in one of these benches that are swinging a little bit (I don’t know how you call them). I wouldn’t describe our backyard as very beautiful but I really like it. A new planted tree in the middle, the sun is shining, it’s quiet and I can just relax.  This Friday is “Battle Of The Axe”. It’s a big rivalry between Sherman and our neighbor town Denison. I would compare it with the “Revier-Derby” Dortmund vs. Schalke in Germany. It’s called “Battle Of The Axe” because the winner will have the “Axe” for the whole next year, till the next game. So it’s the biggest football-game in the season, even bigger then the homecoming-game.  The next big YFU-Event will be this Saturday: the Paintball-Game. Every exchange student in my area and their host families are invited to come together to play paintball and to do the “Amazing Race”. I still don’t know what the “Amazing Race” is but it sounds fun, so I’m looking forward to this weekend. The next time you’ll hear from me will probably be Sunday with some pictures from the weekend.

I just wanted to announce that I’m still alive.

Since my last post is a little bit longer ago I decided to write something, so that you know, that I’m still alive. In the last month nothing really big happened. School is still easy, people are still nice and life is still good. The weather cooled a little bit down, so now, it feels (in my opinion) really good. Right now I’m in our backyard, sitting in one of these benches that are swinging a little bit (I don’t know how you call them). I wouldn’t describe our backyard as very beautiful but I really like it. A new planted tree in the middle, the sun is shining, it’s quiet and I can just relax. 

This Friday is “Battle Of The Axe”. It’s a big rivalry between Sherman and our neighbor town Denison. I would compare it with the “Revier-Derby” Dortmund vs. Schalke in Germany. It’s called “Battle Of The Axe” because the winner will have the “Axe” for the whole next year, till the next game. So it’s the biggest football-game in the season, even bigger then the homecoming-game. 

The next big YFU-Event will be this Saturday: the Paintball-Game. Every exchange student in my area and their host families are invited to come together to play paintball and to do the “Amazing Race”. I still don’t know what the “Amazing Race” is but it sounds fun, so I’m looking forward to this weekend.

The next time you’ll hear from me will probably be Sunday with some pictures from the weekend.

Cause of my very interesting French and Biology lessons I got a new activity. I’m drawing everyday a picture, that looks like and makes as many sense as this one. =)
Homecoming After a long time of waiting and many preparations, was the day of the Homecoming-Game and the one of the Homecoming-Dance.  Like mentioned before, on the day of the Homecoming-Game, it’s the tradition to wear your Mum or Garder, which was given to you by your date for the dance. Basically this thing is really annoying, cause you wear it all day long in school, and while the game, but, yeah, it’s tradition. A friend of mine commented it like this: “At first, you feel a little bit gay, but then you think: Dude, I have a date!” =) Isabel and me with Mum and Garder  at the stadium  The schedule on the day of the Homecoming-Dance is as follows: First, you go with your date or your group somewhere to take pictures. Then you go somewhere to eat dinner. Then you go to the dance at the high school. And finally you go to an After-Party.  Mikayla and me went to a small but nice park to take our pictures. Then we went to meet our group (two other couples) at the “Texas Roadhouse”. After this we went to the dance, and then to an After-Party in an Karate-School.  The pictures are really, really good, just as the food, the dance was okay and funny, but not that amazing, and the after party was also fun.  Mikayla and me   All in all, homecoming is a really cool, but expensive (312$/231€), tradition.

Homecoming

After a long time of waiting and many preparations, was the day of the Homecoming-Game and the one of the Homecoming-Dance. 

Like mentioned before, on the day of the Homecoming-Game, it’s the tradition to wear your Mum or Garder, which was given to you by your date for the dance. Basically this thing is really annoying, cause you wear it all day long in school, and while the game, but, yeah, it’s tradition. A friend of mine commented it like this: “At first, you feel a little bit gay, but then you think: Dude, I have a date!” =)

Isabel and me with Mum and Garder  at the stadium 

The schedule on the day of the Homecoming-Dance is as follows: First, you go with your date or your group somewhere to take pictures. Then you go somewhere to eat dinner. Then you go to the dance at the high school. And finally you go to an After-Party. 
Mikayla and me went to a small but nice park to take our pictures. Then we went to meet our group (two other couples) at the “Texas Roadhouse”. After this we went to the dance, and then to an After-Party in an Karate-School. 
The pictures are really, really good, just as the food, the dance was okay and funny, but not that amazing, and the after party was also fun. 

Mikayla and me 

 All in all, homecoming is a really cool, but expensive (312$/231€), tradition.

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