The first week of school went pretty good. It was not really easy to get back the routine of waking up at 5:40, but meeting friends again was great. We had two swimming meets this week at home. The first was a home meet with West Ottawa and we literally destroyed them. The final score was 69 for WO and 219 for us. This Saturday we had our invitational swimming. There were four other teams from west Michigan. It went great for us. We made first place and had a lead if almost 200 points to second place. A little update on my times. My fastest hundred is now a 0:58.15, in the 200 free is with 2:10 about 3 seconds faster than before break, and my 50 free time dropped to 0:25.58. After the long days with four hours of practice during break, the after school practices seem much shorter. Unfortunately here we don’t get snow again after new year. A bit more about recent sport events and games. After the end of College Football season, which ended with an awful defeat of Notre Dame in the Championship game from Alabama, now there is almost every day one or more Basketball games on tv. In high school is now basketball season, too. The Games are very exciting and Rockford is pretty good. We just defeated Forest Hills with about 20 points in lead. The only thing, that is recent and interesting too, is the weather. This is already the second season with a winter, which doesn´t really feel like a winter. We just had 50 degrees again and it rained. Almost like home. Finally I updated the picasa album. It’s under the the link: https://picasaweb.google.com/108204582564821266521/ExchangeYear201213?authkey=Gv1sRgCMiYt_DT6prcwgE