Our new Home

Sooo.. it has been a long time since my last post, but it was really stressful!! And fun ;) 
Okay, so before we came over here, my friends made a surprise "saying Goodbye" party. 
I was really surprised!! We had a lot of fun that night, but it was sad, because I knew I wouldn't see them for a very long time. They gave me also a gift. A book where they wrote something in it and some put photos in it, I love it!! The next day my Parents gave a goodbye party. That means 2 nights partying... 
pretty cool :D. But we still had to pack a lot. 
More than one week before we left I moved to my grandparents, since we hadn't that much left at home. And the morning we left, I got another surprise. It was 5:30 a.m. when I went outside to put my luggage in the car, and 4 of my friends were standing there with posters they made. It was just awesome!! And then we really had to say Goodbye. This was so hard and sad because I have amazing friends and I didn't want to leave them :( . 
At the Frankfurter International Airport came the hardest and saddest thing I've ever done! 
To say Goodbye to my grandparents!! We had such a good relationship to them, they lived 3 min away and I were there often after school, or at the weekends. It was really sad.. but we knew that before. 
Oh well, After we landed in Raleigh we went to our Hotel, we stayed the first 2 weeks there and then we moved into an apartment. Well, my mom and me because my sister was visiting her host family from her exchange year in 2009 and my dad was in Atlanta for his work. So I had to haul all the stuff into the apartment on 2nd floor. And it was so hot outside. 
Since we didn't bring furniture with us my mom and me had to sleep on air mattresses. I think we had to sleep on them for almost 2 months. My Dad has to work a lot in different States so most of the time he isn't at home.. 
But one day we went to Ikea and bought a lot of stuff. This was so cool :D.  

The whole Start here was hard. Take the school. We went there to ask to register me and they said I have to take a Test first and we have to go to WCPSS. 
So we went there and waited a very long time, but then we finally were on the row, but we forgot to bring something, so we had to come again. This time it took even longer, but we didn't forgot anything and they registered me. 
Then we asked for the English test, twice, and they said it's going to be taking at School. 
So we went to the School on another day and I chose the classes that I wanted to take, but then they asked us for the Test and we told them that they said it's going to be taking here. 
Well, it wasn't. I had to take the Test at the WCPSS. 
I wasn't really surprised that it didn't work as it should be, but such things, you just have to take with a smile :). 
So we made an appointment for the Test, I took the Test I went back to the School and this time everything worked. This was on a Friday and on Monday was my first School day  so I was really excited and I looked for the Rooms with my Mom, after we were done. 
For the first Semester my Classes are :
- Sculpture and Ceramics
- Theater Arts I
- Marine Ecology
- Civics/ Economics
and for the second Semester:
- Algebra II (well, I think so, II or III ;) )
- English III
- Healthful Living
- Microsoft Power Point

But the first Semester is almost over and the Classes were really fun! Now I'm excited for the next Semester, though I'll miss some of my Classmates. 
The whole thing is exciting, because the School here is waaay different than my old School in Germany!!! 

This is our Mascot
Home of the Falcons

I don't do any Sport yet, but I'm thinking of trying out for Softball in Spring.
But I went to Young Life Club and this is so much fun! One of my leaders can speak German and she was in Germany before. All the people there are really nice and I like it. :)

 Yeah.. and now we are more than 4 month here and it's really cool, though I miss my friends and family still really bad. 
But I think we're going to visit them next summer. 
Actually we were thinking of going home for Christmas, but it wouldn't have been worth it, because I only have a little bit more then 1 week off. 
Buuut the cool thing is, that we're going to NEW YORK!!! 
I'm sooo excited!!! I've never been in NY before but I think it's going to be awesome!! :)
And the best thing is, that there's a Handball tournament over 2 days and there will be some German Players, too. 
So yeah.. 

I wish everyone Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!! :)

The last 3 weeks in Germany began

In the last weeks happened a lot.
I had my Graduation from school. That was very cool. In the week before last we had a spirit week that was so amazing.
On Monday we masquerade as Hippies. On Tuesday we came with pajamas pillows to school. On Wednesday the boys wore dresses and skirts and put on a long hair wig, they looked so funny :D .
And the girls wore boy clothes, it was amazing.
On Thursday we looked like we'ld came right out of the trash.
And on Friday it was Beachday. We came in shorts with towels and water pistols.






That was on Monday.

In the last week we had one special day. It's a tradition in Germany. All pupils from 10th grade "attack" the school. The day before we mask the windows with paper of our school and decorated our assembly hall. the next day was a "regular" schoolday for all the others so we (the 10th grade) get together at our school in the morning and waited for the other pupils and teachers. We listened to music and had fun. At 8 a.m. we went into the assembly hall and played some games with the pupils and teachers we prepared first. Then we showed a video with photos and videos of our last days at the school we took before.
It was just an amazing time :)
The next day we were in a theme park called "Heide Park". That was so cool. There are some great rollercoaster.
On Friday was Prom..
I sat over 3 hours at the hairdresser!!  That was soo long..
But at the end it was worth it.
So after hairdresser I got ready for the church service. After that we went to school and got our diplomas after some beautiful speeches of our classteachers. I was really glad with my diploma. Then I had to hurry up. I had to change my clothes and jewelery and then we drove to the promparty.
It was really good and fun but also sad.
At the next day my sister had prom. That was also really cool.
Now I'm out of school and I have summer vacation.
I went on some birthdaypartys and met friends, but most of the time I grab my stuff into boxes.
For some days we put an announce in the newspaper that we sell our furniture. That was for today.
So some furniture is sold and our house is a little bit more empty. But that's good.
I'm really excited about living in the USA :)