After the first week of school I am glad to have weekend. Practices are hard. Much harder, than I thought they would be. And one can guess now, what happened 😉 . I finally made the team together with another 34 swimmers and 5 divers. Swimming is very time, that I have not much time for anything except homework after practice, and powerconsuming, that I fall asleep on the couch at night, when I watch tv. My new courses of the trimester are CAD, which is a drafting program for engineers, Psychology, which is one of the most interesting classes I ever had in school and Introduction to Calculus. Intro to Calc seemed hard the first days, but all in all it is not much harder than the german math classes. I still have Aquatics for Fitness, which is the replacement for morning practice. It´s much better to do this in first hour, instead of starting at 6:15am and be done at 7:15. As well I have American Studies B. Mr. Dekuiper is still awesome and now he has three exchange students to make fun of. One from Mexico, one from France and me. It is hilarious. Our swimming practices are twice a day on weekdays and once Saturday. All together it is like a 17 hour job. We just don´t get paid 😉 . The Scheduloe with practices and meets is tight. We have almost the whole christmas break practice and even on my birthday is practice from 8:30 am to 10:30. The weather is getting colder and we are usually now at 31°F/-1°C in the morning.