Thursday, August 5th, 2004 My host Mom's voice is horrible. Poor lady. She says she got her cold from Bettina's competition where it rained so much they had to leave. Ullie forgot that I asked to take the test early, so she didn't have it ready. She kept apologizing, but I was glad because now I can take it on Tuesday. All the passive tenses are confusing. After school we went to the Hauptbahnhof and changed our tickets and then Matt called his dad and had to change his Munich ticket...

Our group decided to combine the stories we read to act out for the closing party. It's going to be so funny. Brad still hasn't given me the music with which I'm supposed to accompany him, and I haven't gotten my music from Mom yet. Yikes and a half since I'll only have Tuesday to practice now. That really is BAD. So I woke up early this morning. I had a horribly sad dream. In it, we were at the cabin, and Amy was getting married there. I was a poker dealer (probably because Ray plays...

Wow, so Matt and I got pizza during lunch, but it took forever and I feel like everywhere I've ever gone I ended up with a feeling that I didn't quite understand the salesperson or I didn't say the right thing. Especially when the workers look at each other like that. Yikes. So we ended up with one pizza instead of the two we ordered. It was good! Mmm. Then after school we went to lots of Reisebüros (travel agencies) and asked about trips up to Oslo (supposedly by ferry they are about 1...

Monday, August 2 I finished redoing my essay on the way to school. I got an A on my speaking exam! During lunch, Matt and I bought käsebrot and my chocolate milk was way too chocolatey, so I put water in it. I checked my email and was ticked by some rude things written to me, but after I wrote back, I decided not to send it. I didn't want to stoop. Tanya got ANOTHER job! No way - at NY & Co. She's decided to transfer to BYU - whoa - and wants me to come also (we had talked about doi...

Sunday, August 1st Well, the bus took forever this morning - it turned out we had all been looking at the times from M-F. It only comes once an hour and we missed it by five minutes. Then the bus didn't go as far as Molfsee, so we walked from Rammsee and then my hostdad offered a ride. We got to church at the end of sacrament meeting. My hostdad picked us up after and we all enjoyed a nice time in the garden. I fell asleep in the lazy chair. Then we went to the beach. There were a l...

We arrived in Berlin at 5 in the morning. The guy who was in the compartment talked to us and told us to call him up later and we could go get some food or something. We paid 50 cents each to go to the bathroom. We saw the tower of a church with the top blown off from World War II, so we walked over there and looked at the outside of it. It was the Kaiser Wilhelm Gedächtnis Kirche. Then we ate at Mcdonald's. While we were ordering, something else looked good, so we'd order more. The gu...

We arrived in Berlin at 5 in the morning. The guy who was in the compartment talked to us and told us to call him up later and we could go get some food or something. We paid 50 cents each to go to the bathroom. We saw the tower of a church with the top blown off from World War II, so we walked over there and looked at the outside of it. It was the Kaiser Wilhelm Gedächtnis Kirche.

Friday, July 30th We both got to the train station on time (luckily) and said good morning to our friend at the desk. Matt got a sandwich and I got cheesebread (I love the taste of crispy cheese). With a eurail pass, you just have to hope there are open seats and sometimes sit between cars unless you reserve. We got to Amsterdam in the afternoon and that is not good. We had a number in the 1 and a half hour long info line. We took a taxi to Anne Frank's house and it was neat but depres...

Thursday, July 29th, 2004 Whew! I went during lunch to wake up Matt, but knocking didn't work. So I left him an apple and a note. I realized that my classes have been so EASY. I probably could have handled a higher class if I had just reviewed first. Because everything we have done so far has been review. We had speaking exams, and I totally blanked on what I was going to talk about, so I just improvised and did fine. (I found out yesterday I got an A). I'm so sick of these bic pen...

Wednesday, July 28th, 2004 Last night was crazy. I had all these nightmares about things going wrong, especially with picking up Matt. Then the mosquito/fly/torturer woke me up all the way. I couldn't go back to sleep and it was 1 in the morning. I sat there, listening to some John Mayer music when I heard THE BEAST. I tried to kill it, but it got away. I could still hear it when I fell asleep, this time protected on my arms by a jacket and my face by bug spray. I woke up, had more ...

When I was leaving Jan's office, there were two guys by the door. I waved to the one I knew (he gave us the tour of Kiel) and pulled on the door. Whoops. So I pushed on the door. Whoops. Then they said in German that it was locked. I stared at it. Finally the one I didn't know came over and unlocked it. Then I pulled on it. Whoops. Then I pushed on it. Success, finally, but I felt so flustered that I said, "Thank you, see ya" instead of, "Danke, tschüs". I had been studying na...

Tuesday, July 27th:Pretty sure I realized today that I only put postage for a post card IN Europe, not out to the USA. I was so disappointed, I kept thinking about it. Dang it! IT made me want to cry, because both cards were so perfect and they cost a euro each! One of them was my marriage congrats/wishes to Amy. Too late now. She goes through the temple today and gets married Friday. Well, we went to Lübeck. The old churches and buildings were cool. One - St. Mariens, was where ...

Monday, July 26th I rode the bike too fast again. Ryan and I talked again on the way and decided to go to the Freilich Museum today. In class, I was excited to turn in my Märchen. We got the exam back and I had Ulli minus another point that really shouldn't have been given to me. During lunch, I went to Jan's office and asked him about accomodations for matt. We figured out a cheap dorm! Yay! Then I wanted to get a döner, but there wasn't time, so I went back and met Ryan so I coul...

Sunday, July 25thMy host sister and I found the church, yes, it is a full-on church, and she said her mom would pick me up, and if not, I should take the bus back to the Hauptbahnhof and back out to the countryside. I walked in and saw many from the program. I sat in the back by the couple with the little boy named Ethan. I understood very little, but got the main points. There were two sister missionaries from Utah. In Sunday school I followed none of the discussion, but kept up with th...

Saturday, July 24th We had breakfast around 10 and Mom - I saw that raw meat spread about which you told me - as soon as I saw it, I hurried and put marmelade on both of my pieces of bread so that they wouldn't ask and if they did, I had an excuse. We went to the Bauhaus - a smaller version of Home Depot. I swear they're owned by the same people. There were big oranges signs, and in the same font as Home Depot it said, "The Home Store". Then we went to the Markt - kind of like Salt Lak...