Hi everyone, yes, I'm finally writing an other post, I can't believe it either! I don't even know where to start, there are so many things I want to tell you about! So, I hope you have some time, because I guess this is gonna take a while.
I will start circa 4 weeks ago, at my choir concert. My choir, Women's Select, sang four beautiful songs: America from West Side Story, Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child, You Raise Me Up by Westlife, and When I Am Silent. Besides that, I had the amazing opportunity to sing one out of three solo's in the whole concert, which was an honor to me. I chose to sing Only Hope by Mandy Moore, which is in the movie A Walk To Remember. In the evening of the concert, we all wore the same black dresses and met at school for the last sing through with all choires together. the choire room was really crowded with all these students in formal dresses and tuxes and I felt like I fell into an American High School movie, once again. I was nervous, the auditorium was full. More than 400 people were in the auditorium and the stage suddenly didn't feel like the most comfortable place to be right now. Firt we sang the 4 songs with Women's Select Choire and then I sang my solo, alone on stage with my friends watching and, even worse, listening. I felt like I was dying, but after the first seconds I enjoyed it a lot and had a great time! It was an amazing feeling to see, what the choires and then I myself had archieved with all the hard work we put into this evening. I still can't really believe that I sang in front of all these people, but I guess it really is true, that in your exchange year you have the opportunity to explore yourself completely new. And I did that! I mean, I run Cross Country! Who in Germany (myself included) would ever have thought I might actually enjoy running races?
After the concert, fall break started! I had one week to sleep, write essays, hang out with friends and spend time with my family. My family and I went to Anderons Farms to visit a haunted cornfield and buy a pumpkin. I've never seen something like this before. We waited till twilight and then went into the cornfield. There were these humans dressed as funny and gross creatures, like werewolves, vampires, and, worst of all, a clown with a chainsaw. I am so terrifyed of clowns, and then this guy comes up to mom and me and comes closer and closer while we stand in the corner and dad and kaylah had a great time laughing about us :D I guess my face looked quite funny!
Halloween was such a great experience. Kaylah and I dressed as vampires at school; we had pretty cool teeth and capes and wore black dresses. Our make- up was terrific! Once at school, it was not scary, but I was laughing so hard the whole time. A really tall boy from the volleyball team was dressed as a giraffe, an other boy as a french maid with a very very very short dress, one girl in a Dirndl dressed as a "german". Then I saw a banana, a lady bug, Charlie from Top Gun, and so many more creative costumes! It was kind of sad though that some girls seemed to use Halloween just as an excuse for barely wearing anything.
In the evening I was Trick or Treating with Kaylah, Emma (as Sharpay, she looked so cute!), and Kaylah's boyfriend Cory. I love Reese's peanut butter cups!
After that I went over to Sydney's and we talked basically the whole night.
OBAMA!
For everybody who didn't know: Barack Obama was elected president of the USA! I am so happy. i almost started crying while he was giving his acceptance speech, it was just amazing. It was such a great feeling to be part of history here in the US. I have an Obama Sticker and whemn I get a car and my license when Icome back to Germany, that will be the first thing I put onto my car! It is so incredible that finally there is an African American president in the United States. My history teacher was so nice to write a quote down for me. It goes:
Rosa Parks sat
So Martin Luther King could walk
And Barack Obama could run
And our children can fly!
I love this quote. I just wanted to share that with you.
Some kids at my school that were republicans, were really upset on wednesday after the election. When we watched the speech in class, some of them went out in the hallway, because they took it very personally.
Last week I was running with Valentina in the freezing cold. We were really proud, that we worked out in the cold, so I pormised her to mention this on my blog. :) We also went shopping in Park Meadows Mall. I bought a hat at Urban Outfitters and Jacob thinks it looks ugly, and my mom thinks it looks like my great aunt's hat. I love it! We had a great time drinking a Starbucks and doing come Christmas Shopping. She is just an amazingly nice person.
I am going to go to Hawaii next spring with YFU! The best is that I alredy know three really really nice people that will go there together with me, a girl from my VBT, and a German and a Danish boy I met here at a YFU sleepover and spend some time with. I am so much looking forward to that. We're going to visit Pearl Harbor, go snorkeling and sailing and surfing and just be in HAWAII!!! I can't believe it yet.
And then, even better, I also will spend time with my lovely American family in Orlando, Florida. We will go on a family vacation and spend some time at Disney World and at the beach. I can't wait! I love my family, they make me feel home. It is going to be great to spend Christmas with them and New Year and - I can't even put into words how thankful I am.
As you all can see there is no reason to worry about me - I'm still the crazy person that took off 3 months ago. I probably gained some weight, but also muscles :) I'm faster at running, I can speak English much better and fluently, I cut my hair about 20 centimeters and dyed it red (just temporarily, don't freak!) and love hippie clothes. I learned how to switch the monsterous TV on and off withoiut breaking it, how to use the microwaves at school, how to open my locker. I am more orientated and organized, and I learned to plan and to be less spontaneous, because I always have to rely on someone with a car when I'd like to go out. I still want to go to Kenya when I grow up (I joined the extreme World Concern Club, we're supporting an orphanage in Kenya, isn't that amazing?). I still dream about traveling all over the world and I still laugh at girls that carry little designer purses, whoese purpose in life is to be liked by boys and wear so much make up that they can't change their face expression. I am still Insa.
I love you so much. You meen so much to me.
Don't forget me.
Take care, Insa
I will start circa 4 weeks ago, at my choir concert. My choir, Women's Select, sang four beautiful songs: America from West Side Story, Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child, You Raise Me Up by Westlife, and When I Am Silent. Besides that, I had the amazing opportunity to sing one out of three solo's in the whole concert, which was an honor to me. I chose to sing Only Hope by Mandy Moore, which is in the movie A Walk To Remember. In the evening of the concert, we all wore the same black dresses and met at school for the last sing through with all choires together. the choire room was really crowded with all these students in formal dresses and tuxes and I felt like I fell into an American High School movie, once again. I was nervous, the auditorium was full. More than 400 people were in the auditorium and the stage suddenly didn't feel like the most comfortable place to be right now. Firt we sang the 4 songs with Women's Select Choire and then I sang my solo, alone on stage with my friends watching and, even worse, listening. I felt like I was dying, but after the first seconds I enjoyed it a lot and had a great time! It was an amazing feeling to see, what the choires and then I myself had archieved with all the hard work we put into this evening. I still can't really believe that I sang in front of all these people, but I guess it really is true, that in your exchange year you have the opportunity to explore yourself completely new. And I did that! I mean, I run Cross Country! Who in Germany (myself included) would ever have thought I might actually enjoy running races?
After the concert, fall break started! I had one week to sleep, write essays, hang out with friends and spend time with my family. My family and I went to Anderons Farms to visit a haunted cornfield and buy a pumpkin. I've never seen something like this before. We waited till twilight and then went into the cornfield. There were these humans dressed as funny and gross creatures, like werewolves, vampires, and, worst of all, a clown with a chainsaw. I am so terrifyed of clowns, and then this guy comes up to mom and me and comes closer and closer while we stand in the corner and dad and kaylah had a great time laughing about us :D I guess my face looked quite funny!
Halloween was such a great experience. Kaylah and I dressed as vampires at school; we had pretty cool teeth and capes and wore black dresses. Our make- up was terrific! Once at school, it was not scary, but I was laughing so hard the whole time. A really tall boy from the volleyball team was dressed as a giraffe, an other boy as a french maid with a very very very short dress, one girl in a Dirndl dressed as a "german". Then I saw a banana, a lady bug, Charlie from Top Gun, and so many more creative costumes! It was kind of sad though that some girls seemed to use Halloween just as an excuse for barely wearing anything.
In the evening I was Trick or Treating with Kaylah, Emma (as Sharpay, she looked so cute!), and Kaylah's boyfriend Cory. I love Reese's peanut butter cups!
After that I went over to Sydney's and we talked basically the whole night.
OBAMA!
For everybody who didn't know: Barack Obama was elected president of the USA! I am so happy. i almost started crying while he was giving his acceptance speech, it was just amazing. It was such a great feeling to be part of history here in the US. I have an Obama Sticker and whemn I get a car and my license when Icome back to Germany, that will be the first thing I put onto my car! It is so incredible that finally there is an African American president in the United States. My history teacher was so nice to write a quote down for me. It goes:
Rosa Parks sat
So Martin Luther King could walk
And Barack Obama could run
And our children can fly!
I love this quote. I just wanted to share that with you.
Some kids at my school that were republicans, were really upset on wednesday after the election. When we watched the speech in class, some of them went out in the hallway, because they took it very personally.
Last week I was running with Valentina in the freezing cold. We were really proud, that we worked out in the cold, so I pormised her to mention this on my blog. :) We also went shopping in Park Meadows Mall. I bought a hat at Urban Outfitters and Jacob thinks it looks ugly, and my mom thinks it looks like my great aunt's hat. I love it! We had a great time drinking a Starbucks and doing come Christmas Shopping. She is just an amazingly nice person.
I am going to go to Hawaii next spring with YFU! The best is that I alredy know three really really nice people that will go there together with me, a girl from my VBT, and a German and a Danish boy I met here at a YFU sleepover and spend some time with. I am so much looking forward to that. We're going to visit Pearl Harbor, go snorkeling and sailing and surfing and just be in HAWAII!!! I can't believe it yet.
And then, even better, I also will spend time with my lovely American family in Orlando, Florida. We will go on a family vacation and spend some time at Disney World and at the beach. I can't wait! I love my family, they make me feel home. It is going to be great to spend Christmas with them and New Year and - I can't even put into words how thankful I am.
As you all can see there is no reason to worry about me - I'm still the crazy person that took off 3 months ago. I probably gained some weight, but also muscles :) I'm faster at running, I can speak English much better and fluently, I cut my hair about 20 centimeters and dyed it red (just temporarily, don't freak!) and love hippie clothes. I learned how to switch the monsterous TV on and off withoiut breaking it, how to use the microwaves at school, how to open my locker. I am more orientated and organized, and I learned to plan and to be less spontaneous, because I always have to rely on someone with a car when I'd like to go out. I still want to go to Kenya when I grow up (I joined the extreme World Concern Club, we're supporting an orphanage in Kenya, isn't that amazing?). I still dream about traveling all over the world and I still laugh at girls that carry little designer purses, whoese purpose in life is to be liked by boys and wear so much make up that they can't change their face expression. I am still Insa.
I love you so much. You meen so much to me.
Don't forget me.
Take care, Insa
