Monat: November 2012

Happy Thanksgiving to everybody, who reads this while it is still Thursday, November, 22. I´m sitting in the couch after a awesome day with the Playford family in the little town of Merrill, Mi. The food was incredible and kind of overwhelming. So many different to try and almost not enough space in the stomach. This week was really unusual for me. We had a different schedule in school, because it was the end of the trimester. First day was review first hour, exam first hour, review second hour, exam second hour, review third hour and the first day of the week was over. The second day was filled with the exams and reviews for third through fifth hour. It went pretty good in all the exams, but the final scores are not public yet. As well the swimming season started this week. The tryouts were monday-wednesday and the final decisions about the team are on monday. The tryouts were hard and really tiring. The schedule is tough and missing practices unexcused will result in get kicked off the team with the second violation. We have two personal off days, though. These are like excuses for absence. Tomorrow is „Black Friday“. It is an insane shopping day with sales and big discounts everywhere. Everybody tries to save as much money as possible and some go shopping from tonight 12 am or meet at 3:30 to go shopping. Another thing, that just started is Christmas season. Trees are selled and the streets start getting decorated.

After more than two weeks without the possibility to write here I use the election night to write again. The last few weeks were very busy. Homework, Studying, Reading, Homework and more Homework. The last weeks of the trimester will be insane with finishing a book, learning two chapters about World War II, having big tests in  Physiology and last but not least the four final exams for this tri in all my classes except the PE Class. I´m not really complaining about the amount of work, it just will be a big part of live until November, 21st. The three day week before Thanksgiving will be important with tryouts for the Swim and Dive Team. A big topic in the last week was the hell Sandy. We weren´t really effected by this storm, which means a lot rain and fast winds, but instead of NJ of NYC with floods and up to 60 feet /20 m water in the subway for more than 48 miles/ ca. 70 km it was nothing. All in all the weather is heading rapidly towards winter. This morning it was about 25°f/-2°C and the grass in front of the school got hoarfrost on it. The election is still going on and there is yet not a real tendency to a candidate. It´s like a election night in Germany with debates, updates of percentage points and counts of electoral votes. The magical barrier of 270 is not reached yet. Another big thing coming up soon are big decisions for the Graduation and After Grad Party. The decisions have to be done due friday/next Thursday. I didn´t think, that the school needs so long to plan everything and that the distributors of graduation clothes and things need a so long lead time. Anyway will I try to keep up with writing again.