I kinda forgot to post a blog last Sunday, so I will just make up for it today and cover both weeks.

The week before the past one my friends snail had babies and she told our foreniscs teacher about it. And it happened that she said that snails need a day to get each other pregnant and our forensics teacher said the "Oh, I wish we humans could" and it was quite funny.
We also had a so called community service on Wednesday. So we jumped in the school buses and drove to a skate park and a playground. So we split up in two groups and one painted the skate park while the others spread out some new wood splitters things on the playground.
After we were done one dude found a little baby car thing in the woods and it came as it had to be and we drove down the ramps with it.
It was a fun morning all in all.
On Friday I went home with the school bus for the first time. And exactly that day we had to do a fire drill in the buses. So we all had to jump out in the back of the bus and then sit back in and go home. Americans are funny with all those drills. The past week we had a tornado and then a fire drill. And we will have one drill every month. If I think back to Switzerland, the only fire drill I ever experienced was in 4th grade and once last school year the fire alarm went off and the teachers would just continue to teach and nobody evacuated the building.
Last Saturday it was Kiaras Birthday, so we had a bunch of people here at the house and it was nice seeing them :)

In the past week we had a morning football practice. We started at 5:45 am and it was freezing cold, but it was a fun practice, and after the first 10mins we got warm from the movement.
And on Friday the game we prepared for two weeks took place.
It was the first sectional Game and since we lost it after a hard fight the football season is now over.
I am sad that this great time is over, but I am also excited to go on and try new things.
Playing with the football team was an amazing experience. It was so much fun playing with all those great people and getting to know them. They made me love the game and being excited every day for going over to the field and practice hard.
I want to thank all the players and coaches for making the time as great as it was.
Yesterday on Saturday Mike and Chris and I went for 18 holes of Golf, and we drove them and I like the carts quite good. We all didn't play too well, but we definitely had fun and laughed a lot. Since it is fall we sometimes had a hard time finding our balls even on the fairways because there are so many leaves on it making it hard to see the difference between a ball and just a leave.

This was short version of my two weeks with the little funny highlights.

I wanted to share some pictures from Chicago.

If you want to see all of them, go to this link:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3Ua12wvlmNibHJTN0R0eDlMUzA

But here are some pictures from Chicago if you don't want to see all of them.

This week was my fall break, so I didn't even need to go to school, which was nice :)
We still had football practice though.
So my day basically looked something like this every day but Friday: Getting up around 8:30 and working out for a while. Mostly I went for a run around 9:00 and then did some other exercise.
Then I ate something and either did anything I had to do or just watched some Sport in the TV.
Then from 3:30 to 6:00pm we had football practice and I really had a fun practice week and could run a lot.
On Wednesday Karolee took the day off, so we went eating at Applebees, and I had another burger with an Egg in it, which was great, and we went for some clothe shopping.
Friday was special too since we had team breakfast with the football team and a little walk through. It was fun hanging out with the guys as always.
In the evening we went up to Berrien Springs, to sleep up there so we could get on the train for Chicago early.
Since you can't know, I went on an AFS trip to Chicago with about 35 other exchange students from all over the world.
So on Saturday, after a super fun evening Friday and going to bed at 12:00 in the night, we went to the train at 6:45.
The train ride was about 2 hours long. After everybody was awake it was fun just having conversations with all those awesome people from all over the world.
Then in Chicago we first stopped in Millenium Park and the Bean, a silver piece of artwork, before we headed to out double  decker bus for a sight seeing tour. Our guide was a funny dude who loves films so he told us a lot about films filmed in Chicago.
The City is quite impressive to somebody like me, coming out from a city without skyscrapers...
I enjoyed the ride and ducking because some bridges were that low above our heads. All in all a great time. On the pier we could get off the bus to take a picture of skyline, with the taller buildings disappearing in the fog it looked great.
After our bus tour we went to the watertower and ate all we can. As always, I ate way too much.
The afternoon we spent with shopping, or people like me who don't like shopping would just hang out in the Millenium park or play golf in the simulator in a sports store.
Doing so I actually met two other guys, I don't even know their names, but they were good sports and one of them actually has a handicap of 9, which is quite good.
Shortly before meeting with the whole group again for dinner we went to get some popcorn in a popcorn store, the corn was quite good.
For dinner we had pizza, but it was a special pizza. It was really thick and the tomato sauce was on top. It was pretty good though.
After dinner it was time to go on another fun train ride. We were all tired, but it was fun having all the conversations with the awake people.
We got back at around 1:30 am and went straight to sleep.
Today we then got pancakes for breakfast and could spend some more time with each other before everybody left to go back to their homes.
In the evening I talked to my family back at the other home for a while and ended my week  with watching football and baseball.

I hope all my mess writing made any sense to you. Some pictures should follow soon.
And a fun fact here, I probably took more selfies on Saturday than in my whole life, I even did a selfie marathon with the whole world, meaning I took a selfie with all the exchange students :)

One day late, but better late then never.

My last week started with a great football game even though we didn't win it. But it was a fair and close game and it was great fun playing it.
Tuesday we went to a fish eating thing. It was all you can eat and it was in our church. After we ate we helped for a while before we went home.
The week then continued sort of usual without any special events.
Friday we had another football game, well this one was a Varsity game and it was the pinkout game, basically a game you wear pink for cancer awareness. And we won this game 27 to 0 I think. We were pretty excited about that, because its our second won game.
It was a great night but a really cold one on the sideline.

The weekend was pretty exciting.
Saturday started out with Mike and me going to the Mens Breakfast with the guys from church.
We got to know two older guys, one of them swam in college as he told me when I mentioned that I probably start swimming after football. The other one is an Indiana Basketball Hall of Famer, which is pretty exciting!
We had a great Breakfast.
In the afternoon I started mowing the grass before I went to my friends house, which Mike and I had trouble to find, where I got to know her mother and siblings which was quite funny.
From there we went to their aunts house where a bunch of other related of them came to and we had dinner and carved pumpkins and played some ball Games. It was a funny evening.
After that we sat around the camp fire and made some smores and talked a bit and stuff. It was nice hanging out with all the guys and I had a great and super cold evening.
Sunday was exciting too. After church we went to Marion to the 1812 Festival and it was a neat and informative place.
In the evening we watched two movies before I went to bed.

recreation of a battle in 1812, what a mess those battles were...

Pink for the Pinkout game

This week begun with us having Picture Powerpoint Presentations.

I held mine about Switzerland, since that's quite easy for me and I even could use some of my own pictures.

The week wasn't too exciting after that.

Except that I ran about 8 Miles in an evening, I think it was on Tuesday. But those miles made my legs sore the whole week. I have no clue why that happened.

The rest of the week was without anything special as far as I remember.

On Friday we had another Football Game. We went to Leo but lost the game. But the worst wasn't the loss, but that three players got injured.

For my part, I missed another PAT but made one and got my kick offs more or less on the spot they were supposed to be.

So all in all not an exciting week, but then it got exciting. Saturday came by and I ran my first full Marathon! That means I ran 26.2 miles or 42.2 Kilometers.

Karolee brought me up to Fort Wayne and we left before 6am since my start was at 7am.

After I got my stuff checked in I got over to the starting line to dive into this adventure.

There were just so many other runners and it was amazing to start with all of them.

First we ran a Lap about 3 Miles long, then the 10K lap followed by the halfmarathon lap and the final 4 Mile lap.

I the first 10 Miles felt really easy but then my knee started to make trouble. 

by Mile 18 my knee started to hurt really bad and it took way longer than all the times before to go away again. I couldn't help it but I had to cry sometimes when I thought I wouldn't be able to finish it.

But when it got better again and I started on the 4 Mile lap and completed the first mile of the lap I speeded up again going with anything left in my legs. I caught up to all the slower 4 Mile people and had to pass an uncountable amount of them.

It was a super fun run, the best I ever did even though the track was just on Fort Waynes streets. 

Every time I finished a lap I ran straight into the group running only that distance and it was so motivating seeing all those people with handicaps and from all ages groups and all speeds. It was beautiful seeing all those people just running and doing their body something good.

Also in all different Neighborhoods the people would basically having a party and cheering on all the runners. And there were a bunch of bands along the track playing some music. Also, crazy for me, there were many people offering "beer shots" for the runners. I didn't take on, that probably wouldn't have ended well in several different ways...

Also some people cheering on the runners would have sings like "faster, the beer is getting warm!" or or other funny slogans like "on a scale of 1-10 you are a 13.1" ( on the half marathon distance since a half marathon is 13.1 Miles).

I had a great time running even with all the pain which should be expected when running this without even preparing for it...

The finishing bit was through the Parkview Baseball Stadium. I never thought that a Baseball field is that big if you run or basically sprint through it with all you got left. I crossed the finishing line with a time of 4:34hours. It isn't the best possible time. But I was so glad that I could achieve my huge goal of running a full marathon before I am 18 years old that I just cried while finishing it with the first cramps in the whole race.

I got a finisher medal handed and then, after I got my clothes changed and met a great guy who also ran his first marathon that day, I got some post race food and met Mike to come home. My legs were so tired I had serious trouble sitting down or getting into the car or out of it again.

But I was super glad I was able to run this race.

Today Sunday my legs feel way better but my right hip and knee is hurting a bit. But I am sure I will feel as good as ever before with some more rest and time.

Ya and thats about it. Not an exciting week but probably one of the most exciting days in my life happening all in one week... Kinda crazy.

Here are some pictures of me after the marathon and my medal, I probably was never that proud or happy just because a little piece of metal...