Tjaaa... da hab ich mich wohl eine Weile nicht gemeldet. Upps.

So if someone was actually reading my blog and waited for a live sign from me. I'm really sorry. I'll give you guys a short Version of my coming home and my summer + Autumn so far.

Saying goodbye to my Host Family was horrible. Like i don't even think I cried that much when I said goodbye to my real Family. Maybe it was because I always knew that I was going to come back one day.

I still plan  to go back one day, if everything goes well I am going to visit them around Easter.

Me and my parents are fighting a lot after I came back. It has probably a lot to do with the fact that I don't always do what they say or the way they want it and that I sometimes just think whatever they wantor say is simply not right and they can't handle me not giving in immediately in an argument.

 But besides that my summer holidays were great. I don't know I just hope other teenagers have the same problems. I mean like I don't even do it on purpose.

 

We ( my Family and I) went to Italy for two weeks and even got to see Venice!!! It was beautiful!

 

 

After that I got a job in a supermarket in my town. The Job isn't really fun but I earn enough money now so I was able to start my driving license.

School started again as well and I have to say my new year isn't as horrible as I thought. I actually have to say I like most of them a lot. But I also have to admit that I should have done something over the Holidays because it is so so hard know. Like the teachers expect so much more from us know but thank god the marks I got till now are ok some , for example in english are really good.

 

It is getting dark so early now! Like I went to School today at 8 for my forst class and when I came back at 4:30pm it was getting dark again, which really is somewhat depressing.

I think that is all from me for now... I don't know what more I could add.

 

 

omfg!!!! I am going home in 5 (!!!) weeks!! I can't believe it! The time just flew away and really I definitely am looking forward to see my family and friends again but I will miss everything here so much :(

Its like whenever I left home I was sad but I was also excited and I knew that I will always come back home. When I leave Ireland I will never know if and when I come back and it would never be the same like now again. It is really sad but I am so grateful that I got the opportunity to come here and to meet all these wonderful people on this wonderful country <3

But my parents said that maybe next summer we come to Ireland for like 10 days or something and that would just be soooo awesome!!! I hope they really mean it!

I swear guys, I am so tired I could fall asleep right now. My sleeping routine is definitely destroyed after that holidays. I wasn't even partying everyday its just that I always stayed up long and slept even longer the next morning :\ And I can't say that school is so exciting that I'd wake up from it :D

My holidays were really good. My family came over and we saw a lot of places and even though we had our arguments again after only two days like I wasn't away at all, it was really good to see them again, because I did miss them a lot especially over Christmas.

And even though I went to Clones the day before I picked them up at the airport I wasn't tired at all somehow I was just too excited to see them :)

Just my mum has the talent to embarrass me completely!! Like I had a hickey from Clones when she saw it first she didn't say much and everything was ok but then when they met my host family, my host aunt goes "Did you see Germaine's boyfriend yet?" as a joke but for whatever reason my mum thought that it would be funny to answer " No but we've seen her hickey!". And like everyone was in the kitchen at that moment. My host aunt, host granny , host brother and one of his friends.... -.-

I have to say that I don't really miss them now, because hey, I see them again in 8 weeks! That's insane if you ask me. That's only two months :O I don't really want to go home.... everything changed at home like your friends and stuff and we more or less just settled in here and now we have only that little time left?!

The rest of the holidays I just met my friends and went to the pub but it was nice :) I really enjoyed them :)

Holidayyyys :) finally:)

Last week was st. Patricks day. We went to the parade in Dublin and then stayed there over night. It was very nice and there were so many people from so many different countries!! We also met some germans :)

The only bad thing was: It was extremly cold. During the parade I couldn't feel my feet anymore, which is quite normal I guess when you are standing outside watching a parade for 3 hours. Thank God it was only raining a little bit :)

Tonight we are going to Clones again, like always on the last Friday in a school term.

And TOMORROW!! my parents are coming over!! I am so excited I can't wait :) well I am quite stupid because I am going to Clones and basically I don't have to go to bed then because I would have to get up at 6 am anyway to take the bus at 7:30. But I don't want to miss something I mean everyone is going :)

Macbeth

Today we had an English trip to see Macbeth and it was actually pretty funny because it wasn't just the play it was like a special production where they didn't show all of the scenes and stopped in between to explain what is meant by what they said and all but they did it with a lot of humor :)

News

Today my parents got a letter from EF saying that I will come home on the 6th of June. That's in 3 months and 11 days!!! I can't believe it! If course I want to go home again but hell I will miss my family and friends here. !!!
The letter also said that there will be a goodbye "party" in Maynooth where the Camp was held. I think it is a good idea but when u say goodbye to my host family I will be so sad and upset that I first don't want to go on a party from EF with a lot of strangers and second I don't want to wait one more day until I see my family in Germany just to spend one more stupid night somewhere near Dublin. I mean what is the point of that ??? Why can't they send us home straight away??? And I mean I know EF like. I bet it cost extra anyway!!! It would really surprise me because they basically NEVER to something for free. I mean they didn't tell us before and i don't have to pay it because my host mum thinks that this us the stupidest rule ever but they expect us to pay 10€ a week for lunch even if it is just a slice of bread or otherwise buy it by ourselves!! I mean how stupid is that?? The families get 500€ a month and the third meal is not provided in this?? So I just hope it'll be optional because I really don't want to go there after I said goodbye to my lovely host family!!! I will miss them so much I could cry right now when I just think about it!! :'(

It's Friiiiiday!! well I am not going out tonight but still, i can sleep long tomorrow and dont have to go to school!

My mid term break was nice, except of the fact that my hostbrother had to go to hospital to get his appendix out. I feel so sorry for him because he seems to be really sore.

I went ice skating I think it was on the Sunday two weeks ago and it was so nice!! But I still have them blisters from the skates -.- It was really sore and I was running around in the house with my socks only half on the feet, because they kept sticking in the wound.You now when you have a wound and it is kind of infected and the yellow/white stuff is coming out of it?? very disgusting! I was so stupid !! I felt that the blisters opend and stayed on the ice and when I finally went of to get plasters I after I got them put the skates on again and continued ice skating for an hour or something. But it really was fun :)

Now we have school again since a week. Same shit as before :P

And now the most important: MY PARENTS ARE COMING IN 29 DAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am so excited and I can't wait!! It is so weird now when I am counting down the days I start missing them and want to go home to meet them and all my friends! I didn't really miss them a month ago. I mean of course in a way I always miss them a bit but now it is like "come here now!!" and I really miss our german food! Schnitzel, Bratwurst,Doener, Spaetzle.... ( I know some of them are not actually "german" but I used to eat them in Germany so for me it is my "german food")

But on the other hand I am so afraid of going home and I can't believe that I go home in about 3 months!! It feels like it is going over to fast and I am so afraid that my english won't be so much better when I a, back because I am speaking so much german here! I mean my friends and I we try to speak english with each other but as soon as you want to say something what you don't want to hear everybody you start to speak  german again! And I don't want to leave my host family!! I just feel so comftable here now and I got used to everything and now I have to go home again?? That sucks!

But anyway, I will try to make the rest of my time as awesome as possible! :) At least then I have something to remember :)



And there she is gone for good :(( We don't have to talk about the Goodbye at the airport it wasn't very nice but I am very thankful that her host parents took me with them to the airport!! It meant a lot to me somehow.
Here some pictures from our last day.

This morning I woke up and WOW!! Snow.. and not just a bit it was like 10cm or something!! Well, it was raining now, so much of it is gone again but still, when it started snowing last night I didn't expect anything to stay!! It was so bad that some school buses couldn't come. But we were still enough students in school to have proper lessons ... so I hope that it will snow tonight so might not have to go to school tomorrow:))

Double Business in the first two lessons is not that nice... I actually hate Business..it's just sooo boring!! But even if not... when I woke up today and I saw all the snow I ran down with my camera immediately and took pictures::)) Like a little child :P

My coordinator is going Ice Skating in Belfast with us next Sunday and because EF is paying 15€ we just have to pay 1.20€. I think that is brilliant!! I am so looking forward to that!!

Oh F***.. Antonia is going home TOMORROW!!!  This is going to be hard! Sorry that I am posting here so much about how sad I am and that everyone is going home, but really that is the only exciting thing happening at the moment.

Although we have midterm next week and then I am going to Clones :P They have Pubs there where they don't really ask for ID and they also have a disco where you normally get in without problems. It is really good even though I wouldn't put my glass away there because there are soo many people and obviously most of them are really drunk and you never know. And I am so glad that my Coordinator actually allowed me to go there. I mean of course I am still not allowed to drink but at leats I can go to the disco with friends and I don't have to be home at 11!!

And at the end of the midterm I think I will go to Dublin once again.:)) we will see and after that I will post things that are more positive than the last ones :P

Collin is gone now :(( Well, I know that I'll see him again in Germany but still it is very sad because it is ever going to be the same like here again. He really was one of my best friends here. Antonia is going next Saturday and I will bring her with her host family to the airport.

Since I am here I appreciate Germany so much more. Don't get me wrong!! I love it here and I love my host family and friends and all of that. It is just little things that happen and then you are like " Thank God I am German and we do it in a different way!" I started to listen a lot to German music and all of that. But it is not like that I really want to go home. I actually wouldn't mind staying a second year but my parents don't allow it. Anyway since I am here I noticed that these little things you do at home or other people do for you that are normal to you so you just take them as granted, but when you are going into a different culture you start to miss them. And if it is just a hug from your mum!!

But no matter how bad my homesickness is or how much I am going to miss Antonia and Collin I'll be always glad that I have the chance to experience this here!! And I am so thankful that I got such an amazing host family. They have their mistakes, but I couldn't imagine a better one for me!!

Only 60 days left!!! Then my parents will come to Ireland!! When they are here I haven't seen them for about 7 months!! But it feels so much less to me, because I have such a great host family and great friends here.

Time runs so fast!! I can't believe that I will go home in less than 20 weeks!! I mean I really miss home but it will be hard because I settled in here and I will miss my "second home".

It was snowing since 3-4 days in Monaghan but until Sunday nothing and with nothing I really mean nothing) stayed. But on Sunday evening and Monday evening a little bit stayed on the ground. It was mostly gone, but it was enough for a wee snowfight with the kids outside :) It was so funny even though the snow was very "icy" and when a snowball hit you it hurted a bit.

I hope it is going to snow more so maybe we won't have school then, because the school busses won't go then. Here it is not like in Germany. They don't need to have them "winter wheels"... most of the time it is not snowing anyway and when it snows it is not staying for long. 

On the weekend Antonia had her last sleepover at my house.. that is so sad!! We really became close to each other and I will miss her a lot. I mean I know that I will see her again in Germany but it will never be the same as it was here. I can't just go over to her house and see if she is there. Same for Collin.. he is going the day after tomorrow!! This feels so weird!!

But anyway... I am still happy here and on Friday I'm going to Clones to the disco... it will be fun I think :)

And again one week is over. Nothing exciting happend, I am just really, really tired for no reason. I just need hours to actually fall asleep and when I sleep then it feels like it is just 10 min and then the next schoolmorning is there already!! My hostmum always thinks now that I am sad or fed uo or something. She is probably worrying because Collin the german boy living in my street and one of my best friends here is leaving in 8 days and Antonia is leaving in two weeks :( Maybe that is one of the reasons why I am so quiet in the last time even though I didn't mean too!! Because I feel good after all!! I am happy!! :D:D ( lesson is overnow >D)

ohh God... had my first day of school today -.- and I want to have Holidays again already. I just hate getting up early in the morning and my sleeping routine is completly destroyed ! But anyway... I did good in the christmas exams ( as far as I know... Business results are still waiting for me..). So it was an alright day. I was in dublin on Saturday and finally got a new webcam ( mine was broken). what else... well..it is rainig at the moment ( what a surprise in Ireland :D:D) Thats pretty much it I can say about the last few days:)

R.I.P. Jason McGovern

On New years eve this young fella was found dead in his friends house. He was out in Omagh Co. Tyrone partying and it is not completely clear but some person assaulted him twice. He went home and over night he died, because of that!!! He was from Emyvale Co.Monaghan and went to my school (before I was in Ireland). I didn't know him but I think that is so sad!!! How can people do that to each other with no reason???   I just hope that his family finds the strenght to go trough this time and that the persons who did this to him will get into prison!!!

Rest in Peace Jason!!

http://www.facebook.com/RipJasonMcgovern?fref=ts

http://www.rte.ie/news/2013/0102/jason-mcgovern-omagh.html

December, December....a whole lot of events..and no post from me...

Oh my God!! I didn't realise that I wasn't posting in my blog for over a Month!!

So I am going to write a "December summary" now, because December was actually quite interesting with Christmas, New years eve etc. :)

At the beginning of December, the 2. actually I finally turned 17. It was really nice I got a camera from my parents and I had a nice small Birthday party in my host families house.Antonia and Collin made a really colourful cake for me! I was happy like a little child but it was just so cool :D:D My Birthday was on a Sunday, but we didn't have school the next day so I could celebrate it on that day, which was quite handy.

 The amazing cake. and yes it tasted good! :)

and me...

Then from the 4th to the 7th  we had our work experience. I did mine at the hair dresser "Che Veux" in Monaghan town. They are really good hair dresser and really friendly, but I have to admit that I was really bored,because I couldn't really do something and on Tuesday and Wednesday there were hardly any customers. Well, it has its good side, because on the first day the one girl that works there practised here styles on me and on the second day I got my hair done ( Highlights, cutting...) and got 10€ off the full price :) Friday was better because there were two other girls from college and so at least we could talk a little bit because one of them was my neighbour :)

That is how I looked after the first day:)

"Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. So love the people who treat you right, forget about the ones who don't and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said that it'd be easy, they just promised it would be worth it.

- Unknown"

We also had our Christmas exams and I really have to say that it was not as easy as all the exchange students thought!! I mean History was really good and science was "easy" as well, but Math... :O In the lessons it was always so simple and I had 90% of all tasks right but then in the exams I was sitting there like "WTF?? What do you want from me I have never seen these type of questions before!" and as you can imagine I felt pretty stupid because when someone asked me about school in Germany  I always was like " Oh well school in Germany is harder and we are so much further in Math...". But Thank God it was not just me... I asked around and quite a lot of the exchanges AND Irish students felt the same .. 

Then Christmas was there and I actually enjoyed it, even thou I am so glad that all that is over now. Before that I was really panicking because I was so afraid of getting homesick, because for me there was no was to celebrate Christmas for the first ( and hopefully only time for the next few years) without family without missing them. The point when I really just wanted to book a ticket home was the 22nd or 23rd, I was at Antonia's house and we watched "Home alone" ("Kevin allein Zuhaus"). Did you ever watch it?? Well basically the boy is home alone in the time before Christmas because his family did a mistake and didn't notice that he is not in the plane. He has fun and is doing everything he normally wouldn't be allowed to but on the day before Christmas he goes to "Santa" ( some man dressed up as Santa) and wishes that his mum will come home for Christmas. Then on Christmas day he goes downstairs and his mum really came home. That was the moment when I just wanted to go to my family. Just for a few hours to hug them and to say merry Christmas. Thank God I had Antonia. She is a great friend and without her.. who knows maybe I would have went home..... So we celebrated our own "German" Christmas on the 24th in the evening and unwrapped our presents from our parents together and played Monopoly:). And on the 25th, the actual Christmas Day in Ireland My host family and I went to their Granny's house and it was really nice!! I felt like I couldn't eat for the next few days but it way so delicious!! I wasn't homesick that day at all I just enjoyed it. Everyone in this family is so nice to me!! I am really lucky that I can live with them!

Antonia's and my stunning Christmas tree :)

I love you Antonia!! A pity that you are going home in a few weeks. But we will see each other in summer so, Roll on Summer!!! <3

And finally, New years eve!! This was just great in my opinion. We (Antonia, Eva, Charlotte and me) went to the shamrock and then Eva and I went to the "Forum", that is a disco here in Monaghan. It was really fun, except from the part that my host mum forgot that Antonia was having a sleepover at mine so we had to share a bed and no...I didn't sleep. at about 7 am I went downstairs to get at least 3 hours of sleep on the sofa but I just couldn't sleep!!! Well.... the next night I went to bed at 10 :D:D

 I bought them purple extensions up in the North:)) I just think they are amazing ( and they were so cheap :D:D )

That is how I looked on New years..well... I did my hair better and everything.. that picture was just to show my mum what I am going to wear :)

But December was also the time of saying Goodbye to some students. I really hope that they will have a great time at home and had an even better time here in Ireland, so as I still have it. Some of them I am really going to miss. Most students actually went home over Christmas, but a lot are coming back in a few days or are already back.

But Hello !!  I get a neighbour on Saturday!! I hope he is good craic, because Collin is going and it would be just nice if he would kind of "replace" him as a good friend.

Antonia's host dad took us to another trip before Christmas. Again to some Cliffs. They are called "Sliabh liag" and they are supposed to be the highest cliffs in Europe. It was a little bit foggy so we couldn't see the top but it was still pretty amazing. Here are just "some" pictures :)