So i'm just warning you, i have SO MANY PICTURES and this is a LONG entry.

AH! i'm starting at the end, though, or i guess i'm starting at the present, aka tonight. so yesterday i got this call from some girl and she was like oh, do you wanna go to the cafe with me tomorrow? and i was like ummm...ok..? and she went through this whole speal explaining who she was and how we met and how we know each other and i STILL had no CLUE who she was! so i met her and her friend in the cafe and we talked about human cloning, political issues in german, the one euro jobs, the lack of social security, etc. i really really enjoyed it, and they invited me to go to this like Russian disco with them. supposedly it's like 10000 times better than the german Discos, so i was like oui ok! haha but on my way home, i was crossing the bridge on my lovely bike (i STILL have to find a name...) and i saw Minden's Messe (or minden's fair thing) and it was so bright (tonight was the opening night) and cool and cute, so i had to take a picture! i hope i get to go next weekend!ok so last night (to this morning! haha i haven't been to a birthday party sleepover in AGES!) was Mona's BIRTHDAY PARTY!!!!!!!! YAY! Here's everyone. they're like obsessed w/gangsters and always ask me what a gangster is like b/c im from memphis, so i taught them that BLOOD thing you can do with your fingers. we took a gangster picture, and i tried but then i started laughing. haha mona (she's in the doorway) is the only one who actually LOOKS gangsteree. the hair does it i think..bahaaa

so then we had to take about a ZILLION random pictures, because as the foreign exchange student i deem it's my DUTY to take a zillion pictures, and gina took THIS ONE! HAHAHA and it just kind of amuses me. i duno what's goin on. but ok they were all like amazed that i had this sweatshirt that was from the school swim team. they were like O M G YOU GUYS GET SWEATSHIRTS!! thats SO COOL! and i thought about it, and i was like yeah, man that IS pretty cool.
THATS the view of the full moon from mona's driveway.

so in the room where we slept was this freaking awesome like loft thing with a bed on it. so random, and it like overlooked the whole room and you had to climb a ladder to get into the bed! i slept there! IT WAS COOL!!!!!!! and now i want one. so katta and mona are trying to do the Grudge face because we all watched it the night of the halloween party, but i guess i didn't quite get the memo because im not trying.
this picture amuses me SO much. you don't know how many times we had to try to take it, because i'd get the mustach and then she would then we'd both start cracking up and then the girl would take the picture. but WHEW rest in peace, because we have our pretzel mustach picture
we went kegeln. it's random and weird and kinda like bowling but not. in fact, i secretly thought it was a little bit more fun. we played this one game where you roll the dice, and anytime a 6 is rolled, the person to the left of you has to run AROUND the whole long table, roll a FAST kegel ball, then RUN back AROUND the table and start rolling again. aww it was so hallarious. my shoe came untied, and i FELL when iw as running around the table. did the game stop? OF COURSE NOT! IT'S KEGELN!. that means its pretty dern hard core.

katta and me. haha goob
ok so yesterday we were drinking coffee, and josephine pulls out this kite thing that she made out of a plastic bag, and they start like running around and around with this plastic bag trying to make it fly.
me and OPA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! at coffee trinken time!
so on wednesday, we didn't ahve school at all, and steffie my cool neighbor asked me to go BOWLING! haha so i went it was fun, too. so here's us all bowling. and at my halloween party all the girls from the 10th grade class met my foreign friend from quebec and now they're all OBSESSED with him because he speaks only french and has a lip ring. AH how?! i just don't get it and prolly never will...

BUT as it turns out, rami (the guy from canada from the PREVIOUS paragraph...) LOVES BOWLING SHOES, TOO! so we had to take a bowling shoes picture! awww cutesy. mine are the ones with the totally black toe. MAIN they some crunk shoes!
and on tuesday i took my camera to class and tried to take some pictures, but this is the only one worth while. haha it's lilly, she's a goob too and i really like her. this is a side of her not everyone gets to see, so if i were you id be proud.
so there's the last week or so, all wrapped into a few meesly paragraphs and such. it's going quite well as of now. While of course, i get the whole sick plack im going to die right now feelings, they usually don't last very long. Considering the fact that i'm somewhat swarmed with random work like government, econ, college apps, essays, letters (theres SO MANY nov. b-days!!!!), german learning, english homework for school, math hw for school (yah ha i actually have to do it- he calls on me AT LEAST once every class period now that he knows im not stupid), etc etc- it's not difficult to find things to do, and a lot of time my mind is taken away from sad thoughts. i hope that's ok, i dunno, but at least i'm not feeling like a bowl full of boogers or anything. i figured id give you guys some deep insight or something. so there it was!

I LOOOVE YOU!