Thursday in Deutschland, European beach adventures!

Published on July 23, 2004 By Michemily In Travel

So, for Thursday, the 22nd? My hostmom gave me a ride to school and in class, more guys had decided to argue against having a one hour lunch instead of two, so Liz said, "Do you like chocolate?" I don't think that will work. Then, in the middle of class, she said, "Can we please ban the sex and drugs and stuff like that?" I felt dumb that I hadn't said anything earlier, so I agreed, and all the guys totally protested, but Ulli said, "How about we at least talk about it less, not every other word?" So there was some kind of compromise. One of the guys told us during lunch that he went to the "tutor" last night and they "smoked the Huka". We asked him what that was, so he explained, and I thought it was sad that she had chosen to do that to teach the kid about German culture. Liz had brought bread and meat and cheese and let me have a sandwich. She is so awesome. I just think she's used to being a mom. When she talked to her husband, he said that her little boy had run outside and yelled, "Mommy, where are you?" to the Universe. They were reunited here today, though. This weekend we have a lot of homework. We have to write two essays (one about what we've done in Germany and one is our own fairy tale) and study for a quiz and do some worksheets and read some stories, etc. After school, my hostmom picked me up and we drove to the beach. I asked her before I got in the car if I should change there or if there was somewhere to change there, knowing perfectly well that a boy had just said the Europeans probably just change on the beach. She missed the right beach, so we went to a different one next to a tourist town, and there were people with their beach basket ma-jiggers everywhere! I asked her where I could change and, of course, she said just on the beach. Yikes. I told her I didn't want to, so I went into a bathroom at a cafe. Wow, I saw a lot of nakedness! At first it seemed so weird to me. Shameful. I couldn't believe that girls would lay out on their backs without tops on. No way! I didn't even know that's what it looked like!

But since it was normal for everyone else, it became normal to me too. (As much as it could - I don't want to see that!) It did make me wonder a bit, though. This is a weird thing, so be warned. How is that a turn-on when it's an everyday, normal thing? There was this cute litte naked boy with curly blonde hair deep in the sand, patting little parts onto a sand-structure. He was so cute I took a picture of him, but made sure I didn't get his . . . nakedness. Hee hee. My hostmom talked to this girl she knew, so I just sat there in my one-piece with swim shorts. Then we walked along the beach and went into the little town. She bought me an ice cream cone. It was SO GOOD! I got lemon and raspberry. Yum! Then we went back and she talked to some lady and they talked about me for a bit and I just sat there and started to get cold because of the wind. I would have gone in the water, because they had this big blow-up playground out there, but I felt stupid and they said the water was cold. One dude went in and said I should go in, but I didn't know him and it was just weird. Maybe next time. We watched him jump on the blow-up thing and fall off and we laughed. Then when he came back, he said I should have, and now that makes me think of what Suzanne J said about taking risks and getting out of your comfort zone or you won't have as much fun. Whoops. Next time, Suzanne! Then we went home and I kept falling asleep. I asked her how you said nap and had to explain with my head on my hands. She said, " Nekkerchen" or something like that. So I went down and napped, then ate a bit, then went back down and realized the alarm clock is off. I put in a new battery, but that just stopped it, so the old one went back in, and it looks fine now . . . strange. It took me forever to fall asleep. I kept thinking about what I needed to do Friday, and I should have just gotten up and written it down. Oh well . . . I can sleep in on Fridays!

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