update #9 - Las Vegas

days count: 102
The past weekend, I went to Las Vegas with my friend Selina & her host parents. Selina lives near Sacramento, in northern California. They picked me up on Thursday after school and it took us about 4 hours from my house to the strip in Vegas.

I think the past 4 days were probably the highlight of my exchange year so far, because Vegas is just an amazing city. People thought Selina & I were sisters and that was kinda funny. 
 
We lived in the house of her host dad's cousin, and it was huuuuuuge. 
We had our own room and shower and stuff and we had so much fun. On friday, we just looked at the different hotels (like Venice, Paris, New York, Rome, Stratosphere,…) so we could see the casino's, and in the evening at about 9 PM, Selina's host dad took us on the top of the Stratosphere tower, because there are roller coasters.
But before we went up there, they took us to the "Welcome to Las Vegas" sign.
 
The roller coasters up there were amazing

the free fall tower

the stratosphere tower

On Saturday we went shopping at the Rome mall, but before we got there we had lunch at the hard rock cafe in the New york part of the strip. We were by ourselves and it was kinda scary because there are weird people in Vegas.

 

Both of us bought so much stuff, like sweaters and jackets and stuff for the winter. The days went by really fast and I was really sad when we left. I had an amazing time and Vegas became my favorite city on earth so far. 

I'm so proud to call this girl one of my best friends

update #8 - Mount Sac

Days count: 94

Last sunday I started collecting leaves for my leaf project in biology with another foreign exchange student from Denmark. We just walked up the street in which her host family lives and everyone is in Halloween mood and I think that's amazing. People decorate their houses in the craziest ways.
Actually not much happened in this week either, but we had two important cross country meets. 
The first one was the first league final day at Independence high school in Bakersfield on Wednesday and the other one was the National competition in Los Angeles on friday. 

Mount Sac XC invite from 2015

This is the biggest XC meet in the United States of America and in the world. It is called Mount Sac and it is at a College in Los Angeles county. All the grades got separated but there were still about 200 people in one race. The course was 2.9 miles (=4.6km) long, which is pretty much. The weather was really hot, when we were running it was about 30 degrees celcius and the course had many mountains, so it was hard. 

This is the course we had to run

On Thursday I went to the movies with my host parents and my two host brothers. We watched 

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. 

Today, my host parents are going to take us to an "Oktoberfest."

There are 5 more days until I'll go on the trip to Vegas and I'm so excited.

JV girls

update #7 - first quarter

Days count: 85

I'm sorry for not posting since like two weeks, but nothing's actually happening…
We got a kitten, her name is Rey and she's literally crazy. She's running around and she's loud and sometimes she's annoying but cute tho, she's sleeping on my chest and stuff. I love her, even though I hate cats. The grandparents of my host siblings got puppies, they're almost as cute as our kitten.
On the weekends we're just hanging around and watching scary movies and stuff and during the week we're obviously going to school, doing homework and studying for tests, tomorrow the first quarter is already done. 

Yesterday after practice we went to Jack in the box and Sonic's after school, we got food and drinks and after that we went "off road"because she has a truck, means we went over a dirt road, like there were holes in the floor and stuff and it was pretty scary, but fun tho.
It's getting pretty chilly here, every morning is colder than the last one and the nights are freezing. Still feeling like I'm not making any progress in my English skills *sad face*.

Okay now everyone who's trying to text me on WhatsApp, listen up:
my phone basically hates me, I can't update anything in my AppStore, that means my WhatsApp doesn't work. Everyone who has an iPhone can text me on iMessage (Messenger) for free, like you don't have to pay anything if its not an SMS, my Facebook Messenger, my Instagram, Skype or Snapchat. 
I'm really sorry, it's not working since like almost two weeks, so I'm not trying to ignore anyone or something like that, it just doesn't work, I can not get into the App. I'm trying really hard to work on it, lol I just suck haha.

The Homecoming dance was so much fun btw.


Okay I have no idea what to write because there's nothing special happening, sorry for this lame update…
I hope you guys are doing good over there, can't wait to see you again

update #6 Homecoming week

Today is my 70th day in the United states & I've been in Tehachapi for exactly 2 months. 

Last weekend I've been to a surf camp, all the exchange students from Bakersfield, Lancaster and Tehachapi could sign up for. On friday afternoon, after we got out of school, an IEC (=International Exchange Coordinator) who lives actually in Bakersfield picked us up and we spend the night at her families house because we were supposed to get up really early on the next morning when they took us to Avila Beach, CA. But on friday night we went to the big Kern County fair (kinda like Basler Herbstmäss haha) and we went on some rides and ate Churros and pizza.
On  Saturday morning, we had a 3 hour drive to the beach and this place was exactly how I expected California. Surfing is awesome. I could do it forever instead of school. Actually it's kinda hard in the beginning but it's so much fun. We saw some seals and the waves were huge. 

the kern county fair

On monday our homecoming week started. Homecoming is kinda like to welcome back the students at school, so they dress up every day ( Monday: Movie-and-chill day, Tuesday: Angels vs. Demons, Wednesday: Mathletes vs. Athletes, Thursday: Freshmen; Avengers, Sophomores; The Hunger Games, Juniors; Jurassic Park, Seniors; Harry Potter, Friday: Warrior Pride day). On friday morning there is a big parade with cars and they decorated them with the different themes that we had on thursday, so there was an Avengers car, a Hunger Games car, a Jurassic Park Jeep and a Harry Potter car.

On friday night there was a big Football Home game. Basically no one was watching the game, everyone was just hanging out with friends and talking and stuff. They figured out who homecoming king and queen is, they played music and the cheerleaders made their stunts. No one cares about the game and no one knows the rules of football, the people just cheer all the time, but the Tehachapi Warriors actually won 28 : 00 against Bakersfield North. Tomorrow is the homecoming dance and I'm so excited for it.

the jurassic park truck at the parade