at school...

right now in the library at school, after being utterly bored in hisotry and understanding nothing. history and geog are the boring-est subjects on earth. i fell asleep to the teacher's voice which sounds to me like a never-ending spell...

anyway school finishes early today at 1pm usually it's around 4pm... so im going to a neraby historical town to see this oh so famous cathedral there while my host sister studies hard for her test at home hehe

it seems to me that there is a extremely large number of test here, but there is 2 weeks holiday starting from next week!!oh god, no waking up early. or maybe not. going with my host family on saturday to the host dad's parents place like 3 hrs away from here in the south :)

oh and one more thing, I WANT TOASTTTT!!!! back at home, i'd think every morning, "what, toast againn??" but how i miss it now, the bread here is good but imagine eatind bread roll with cheese or ham every lunch and dinner..

well talking about meals, the eating pattern of my host family is quite weird. they don't eat breakfast, then they bring bread rolls with them to school, then lunch at around 4 pm and dinner 4 hrs later...

AND they drink way too much coffee, like 5 cups a day...

since I'm in yr 12 here, (there are 13 yrs of school in germany) there are so many free periods, plus if a teacher is sick or away, there are no substitutes n it's a free :D

everyone is busy revising for the big chem exam next period... i think i will just take a look at the test paper and attempt it a yr later ...

math was bad at the beginning, i mean i haven't even learnt the harder functions and u r telling me to do calculus. or calculus in german???

but right now its ok coz i simply learnt to sub numbers into the formulae hehe

lived a week without internet!! + HEIDELBERG!!!

im sooooo sorry i haven't posted for the past week, that's because i cant access internet, plus there is an 1-hr limit per person everyday .... and the photos take so long to upload...and oops i havent posted about school but nee perhaps later.

of course, a minor reason i havent been able to post is that im having too much fun:)
every saturday i have decided to go to one new city, since last weekend went to mannheim, yesterday i went to HEIDELBERG!!

I LOVE HEIDELBERG!!! it's the MOST BEAUTIFUL CITY I HAVE EVER VISITED!
the mountains, the streets and the CASTLE is breathtaking. but damn the transport i was so frustrated coz they just happen to choose yesterday to have trackwork arghh>.<

but then again I'm one lucky child :)once a year in heidelberg there is the autumn festival, and it happened to be on yesterday teehee:D and omg i almost sweared when i saw the market, the pedestrian street is the longest in europe, and since both sides are covered with stalls plus the normal shops, u can imagine how much my feet hurt by the end of the day :D

but since the things in heidelberg is twice as expensive as things in other parts of germany, i didnt buy much NOT gosh i spent the most since i have arrived, went shopping at H&M, then bought souvenirs!!!! they are freaking expensive... bought more postcards and bought of course a hoodie with heidelberg imprinted on it! (how can i not, it's my fav city:)

next week i m gonna take the awesome boat ride along the Neckar..quite romantic alone^^.
i wont be able to post lots of photos today coz i have a feeling my one hr limit is up soon :( i i have so far taken nearly 1000 photos XD

anyway HAPPY HOLIDAYS GUYS!!!! work hard and have fun:)
missing everyone <33

Saturday adventure part1

I'm so proud of myself. around noon I decided to not waste away my time trying to interpret the german sheets i got from school and so I took the train (or more like the street tram)to this city called 'Mannheim" an hour away from home. of course i did some research on wiki travel on what to do, see /eat... and here was my following list:

- Mannheim Palace (University of Mannheim)- Mannheimer Schloss
- Wassterturm (Water tower)
- St Sebastian's Church
- Lusien Park
- SHOPPING!!!: Breite Strasse, Kunststrasse, Kapuziner planken
- Markplatz (Market place)
- Paradeplatz
- National Theatre
- Eat 'Doener' at 'City Doener' across the train station

so i did all except national theatre, the park and I'm not sure about the church, i went to one but not sure if that's the St Sebastian's Church

omg i shall start with the Doener..apparently it's like almost every german's favourite food, after sausage and beer I think and so i decided to try it..

it's GIGANTIC!!!

then i walked to the 'wasser turm' and the garden surrounding it is so pretty~

then on my way to the shopping streets, walked through this posh looking plaza, and saw these expensive-looking very beautiful boots :)

there are soooooooooooooooo many shops along these streets, my feet hurt so much by the end of the day.

im too amazed by the number of choices and didn't end up buying anything except a postcard :)

and omg i love H&M, they have such large range of clothes, and oh i went into this other shop not knowing it's one of those posh ones, and I was nearly gonna try on one, THEN i saw the pricetag, and dropped my jaw and quickly went out lol ^^

then i took the tram to the uniersity of Mannheim or the Mannheim palace:

Wurstmarkt part 2 !

like i said the Wursktmarkt is awesome, i walked around like 5 times but there were just soooo much things to do/eat/try i just don't know wwhere to start

in the end i just decided to go on the ferris wheel (Riesenrad).. since I thought it's the least scariest out of all rides although it's been so long since I'd last been so high up...

some random pics:

WURSTMARKT!!! part 1

It's like the BIGGEST event of the year and the biggest winefest in the world! so I'm so lucky to come here just in time for the festival, went at night with my host sister and it was seriously AWESOME, the fair I mean, and there are SOOOOOOO many people i had to hold hands with my host sister so that I won't get lost
Practically 1 in 2 teengers smoke, or maybe not, i think it's EVERYONE. and all the people my age or younger than me are drinking alcochol straight from the 1L bottle, and there was glass everywhere on the floor. don't know where to step...

And just to show that I haven't forgotten my chinese tradition (moon festival):

a view of the full moon from germany :)

and no, I didn't drink. just a sip~
and now people I need to go to school! my first day. Wish me luck!

tschuss^^

to be continued...

1st day

so too much to say, so my blog posts are gonna either be super long or extremely short.
host mum picked me up at airport, and during the drive home, it was so foggy it's like the scene in harry potter where everything is like white and misty. apparently we went past the Rhein...

then went to this 125 yrs anniversary of my host dad's company, there was free food and performances and hier ist meine erste deutsche Wurst!

my fisrt german sausage :)they eat so much meat, always meat. I'm full after having one and super full after the second but people seem to be able eat much more than that...

i love the small town get-together atmosphere, everyone just dancing to the music, and chatting having a beer

oh and I love german houses, they have like 4 or more levels and the house is divided into half, so i have a bedroom and bathroom myself :)

and looking out from my window:

btw i meant to post this like 3 days ago but youtube want upload my video so i decided to give up and try later...

at sydney airport...

exactly 38 minutes till I get on the plane...nothing much to do, so I'm using their free internet stand to blog sth, awkward there are people behind me...anyway only arriving at Frankfurt 6 am in the morning tomorrow (which is like 3pm aussie time~)

had yummy big bowl pork katsu don just then, and after having an emotional (not at all )farewell with mum, actually my tears were due to my heavy lack of sleep so can be easily misunderstood. it's awkward in front of the departure gate, everyone is like kissing and hugging each other.

apparently there is this huge "wurst market (sausage market these few days ) at the place I'm staying so host family taking me there straight after arrival... going to school on monday. don't know what to expect...hope i don't become a loner, nah actually i just hope i don't use english too much or not at all.

to celia: that 'genau!' is stuck in my head now, along with ur wink - thumbs up expression~

should go board now, on the plane I should REALLY finish reading the german phrasebook and figure out something to say when I get there..

tschuss ppl! ^^
and just to rub it in, good luck for yearlies! mwahahaha..