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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)