Monat: Oktober 2012

The last week was awesome. Hailey did her Stateqalifications in the 50yds in 0:25.03 and the 100yds in 0:55.33 tuesday at Jenison High School. So she can swim at the statefinals the 50free, the 100free, the 200free relay and the 400free relay. She wasn´t, however, the only one, who qualified for the state finals. Adrianna did her 100fly in 1:00.1 and Dakota her 50free in 0:24.83 at thursday. Both are members of the Rockford Swimming and Diving Team. Thursday, as well, was Senior Night at Rockford Highschool for Girls Swimming and Diving and the Girls Volleyball Team. Unfortunately they lost versus Grand Haven. The same night, although, the Detroit Tigers eliminated the Yankees in the afterseason playoffs. They won 4 games and the last was like a punch in the face for the Yankees! Their best pitcher let Miguel Cabrera do an two point homerun and another two point homerun for the Tigers. At least they won 8:1. Friday was opening night for Flat Stanley. The show at the Civic Theater, which Andrew and Amanda take part in. It´s a great show. Saturday we went to 24hour Theater at the East Grand Rapids Highschool, which is a challenge for Writers, Directors and Actors. The writers write a play in 12 hours and the Directors and Actors have 12 hours to perform it. It was awesome! After that we went to a haunted Cornfield. It was really scary, but great performance of the actors and builders. For example there were „cornfed clown“s, who chase you or little girls, who started screaming. Yesterday night I cooked aspargus soup. It was very yummy. Just used sour cream instead of fresh cream. As well we went to the movies and saw „Perfect Pitch“. It’s such a great movie! This week will be busy with two tests and a few shows of Flat Stanley.

Homecoming was awesome! Hailey and me got driven in a Lincoln 😀 to a friend´s house for dinner and had a lot of fun. The school was decorated great in the theme of „Haunted Homecoming“ with spidernets, zombies, skelletons and coffins. Unfortunately the DJ quit 15 minutes before the dance and the „substitute“ DJ came 1.5 hours later, so the music the first 90 minutes was not really good. All in all, however, it worthed the high ticketprices  and the skipped sleep ;). Although I just knocked myself some hours ago out I had no headache and felt great. The afterparty at Adrianna´s house was nice. We watched the Disney 🙂 Movie „Spirit“ and played a bit pool. I got to bed at 3:30 am and I´m still really tired, but it was a great night. The pictures are online at : https://picasaweb.google.com/108204582564821266521/ExchangeYear201213?authkey=Gv1sRgCMiYt_DT6prcwgE . School is keeping me busy with assignments and tests and the weather is getting colder with 2°C/36°F in the morning.

{:de}I love Physiology and Anatomie, but this class is just a bunch of work in a very short time. This week and next week will be a lot to do. We have a big project in American Studies, we read a book in English called „Of Mice and Men“ . A really nice book, which deals with migrant workers. And at least we had a big tissue identification test thursday, a really big tissue test next wednesday and a article-assignment is due thursday. All in all very stressfull, but not impossible. This week, however, was awesome. The colour of the leafs is like gold and the weather was bright and only a bit cold with 37°F in the morning. The Homecoming week with all the Themedays and the Seniornight in Waterpolo. We won 15:1 vs Grand Haven. Go Rams!!! Friday was the Homecoming-Footballgame with Tailgating and so on. We won 49:7 and the first Touchdown was after a great pass in the Running after the first kickoff of the guests. INCREDIBLE!! And yesterday I got a really nice and totally fluffy blanket. Today is Homecoming day and it is like Home. 45°F, it rained the whole morning, there is coming more and there are still grey and deep clouds. By the way I had a little secret for the people, that are not on facebook with me and live not in Belmont, Rockford or Grand Rapids. I´m going to homecoming and used all the opportunities. I got a date, will do pictures, go to the dance. Some pictures are on the Album ;). And pictures from the game and the headache i got while i went down some stairs and jumped against the ceiling. I knocked myself for 1/10 out and fell down some stairs. But everything is ok and I´m cooling it with ice. A picture is online, too ;). The Homecomingpictures will I uplaod in the next days.{:}{:en}I love Physiology and Anatomie, but this class is just a bunch of work in a very short time. This week and next week will be a lot to do. We have a big project in American Studies, we read a book in English called „Of Mice and Men“ . A really nice book, which deals with migrant workers. And at least we had a big tissue identification test thursday, a really big tissue test next wednesday and a article-assignment is due thursday. All in all very stressfull, but not impossible. This week, however, was awesome. The colour of the leafs is like gold and the weather was bright and only a bit cold with 37°F in the morning. The Homecoming week with all the Themedays and the Seniornight in Waterpolo. We won 15:1 vs Grand Haven. Go Rams!!! Friday was the Homecoming-Footballgame with Tailgating and so on. We won 49:7 and the first Touchdown was after a great pass in the Running after the first kickoff of the guests. INDERCREDIBLE!! And yesterday I got a really nice and totally fluffy blanket. Today is Homecoming day and it is like Home. 45°F, it rained the whole morning, there is coming more and there are still grey and deep clouds. By the way I had a little secret for the people, that are not on facebook with me and live not in Belmont, Rockford or Grand Rapids. I´m going to homecoming and used all the opportunities. I got a date, will do pictures, go to the dance. Some pictures are on the Album ;). And pictures from the game and the headache i got while i went down some stairs and jumped against the ceiling. I knocked myself for 1/10 out and fell down some stairs. But everything is ok and I´m colling it with ice. A picture is online, too ;). The Homecomingpictures will I uplaod in the next days.{:}

Saturday was a nice day with no stress after a very short night with only 5 hours from 3.30 to 8.30. I got a bunch of Homework done and started playing guitar. Very exhausting for your wrist and you get horny skin on the fingertips. This moment I´m trying to learn Country Roads. It´s very hard to increase the speed of gripping the accords. Sunday was awesome. We went to a really nice restaurant in East Grand Rapids to celebrate Robyns birthday and to have diner before we went to the Grand Awards of all Theaters and Colleges of Grand Rapids and the area around. The presentation was great with lots of great actors, that showed parts of plays, that were performed during last year. School keeps me busy and I´m excited for homecoming on Saturday. Later more about this topic. Today was college day in the homecoming week, so we should wear something of our favourite college. GO MSU!!
This is the link to the Album with the latest pictures:https://picasaweb.google.com/108204582564821266521/ExchangeYear201213?authkey=Gv1sRgCMiYt_DT6prcwgE

This week was great! The Swimming-Sets for competitive are still a challenge and I´m sure they will be long in this status for me. But I love it! The activity wakes me up and I get in shape for the swimmingseason. American Studies is still awesome with Mr. Dekuiper as teacher. English not my favorite like all languages you have to take in school. Manufacturing Engineering is great started a few days ago with cutting of our drawings. Means telling the computer, how the cnc-machine has to cut which parts how deep and with which tool. That´s much more fun than draw things. And Physiology is just great like all Scienceclasses! Just got done with a lot of skits about all different kinds of tissues in our body. Yesterday we had a shorter day, because the Homecoming King and Queen were elected. The stage for all nominees was like a Abiparty decorated with stuff about „haunted homecoming“ like Halloweenstuff. Very nice! And there were some surprises for the Homecomingcourt, who got elected as King and Queen. Our homecomingqueen started crying for joy. Very emotional. This weekend and yesterday is and was a waterpolo tournament and I went to two games. The JV-team lost, but they played vs a Varsity-team, so it was not too bad. And our Varsity guys won 16:6 vs Grandville. GO RAMS!!! Later that night I was in the movie „Looper“ with some friends. A great movie and very insrutable like Inception or The Source Code. Why I am telling that in past tense, because it is 1.45 am in the morning and I should go to bed ;).

The system with trimesters instead of semesters have advantages and downsides. On the one hand you have more opportunities for your schedule and the ability to try more classes to figure out, which part of education you like, but on the other hand there are tests and projects in less time then in a semester-system. These characteristics of the trimester-system have a big a big influence on my workingstint and time for other stuff. Every other week a test in American Studies or Physiology and sometimes two in one week additional to homework and project assignments create a condition of constant studying and getting ready for performance reviews. Could be that this sounds a bit like school is my life, but it is not. Another option is that the teachers expect „less quality“ (attempt to describe it) in homework and I´m just a perfectionist and could pay less attention on school. This does not mean, that I should not care about school. Anyway my weeks are busy and my weekends are busy too. Sunday I was at church, I got a new phone, had a bit swimming practice with Hailey to get in shape for the swimming season, worked a bit at ROK Systems, my dads company, searched for an article about body and bodysystems and did a bunch of homework. Sounds impossible, but I did it. But if success is the result of work, it worths it certainly. In aquatics fitness I´m doing pretty good. Just started yesterday the training of the grils swimming team. Much harder then the stuff I did before, but I will getting used to it. For example : 400 yard pull (freestyle without legkicks) in 6 minutes and this 2 times or 3 times 150 yd kick (only legs freestyle with board) @ 3 minutes. Monday was another waterpologame vs Grand Haven. We won both, although the JV-Game was with 9:7 tighter then the varsity game with 13:5. A big thing is going on today night. The Presidential debate for the election 2012. Very interesting and a bit different to our debates before the big elections. Just the last minutes seen. A bit strange, how open they advertise for their own programs and how blantaly they criticise the other. We will see, how this way to the elction will be.