Heute schreibe ich mal wieder in Deutsch. Einfach so weil ich gerade mal wieder gerne eine Ausnahme machen möchte.

Ich ging wie immer montags zum Campus Life und lernte ein paar neue Leute kennen und hatte einen Haufen Spass. 

Dienstags war dann die Schule mal wieder ausgefallen. Grund war Eisregen doch von Regen oder Eis war keine Spur auszumachen.

Doch es war ganz nett mal wieder ein Schulfreier Tag eingebaut bekommen zu haben.

Am Mittwoch hatten wir ein weiteres Wrestling Dual Meet, welches wir knapp verloren. 

Ich bekam leider kein Match doch konnte den andern zusehen.

Und nach einem ereignislosen Donnerstag rollte Freitag der 13. heran und der Tag war dennoch ganz passabel, glücklicherweise bin ich nicht abergläubisch.

Am Abend ging ich noch für eine ganze Weile joggen, etwa 16km. War sich wirklich gut anfühlte.

Am nächsten Tag dann, also Samstag, fand ein weiteres Wrestling Turnier statt. Und wie mir dann mitgeteilt wurde als ich da ankam war es ein Varsity Tournament.

Das Turnier endete für mich 2-2 und ich wurde das erste mal gepinnt und gleichzeitig pinnte ich auch das erste mal jemanden. Dieser jemand war einer meiner Teamkameraden gegen den ich ein Match hatte.

Es war ein sehr langer Tag.

Und dann bleibt nur noch der Sonntag übrig. Es war ein etwas entspannter Sonntag, wir gingen bei Applebees essen und am Abend ging ich noch Basketball spielen was eine Freude und ein guter Abschluss zur Woche war :)

Finally, my first wrestling match and back to school

The week started with a long meeting with Ann my Liaison and we talked about the world and past and future and whatever else there is to talk about while sitting in a Chinese Buffet.
On Wednesday we had to go back to school.
My schedule changed a little bit but not a whole lot.
The new day starts out as before with homeroom, then engineering and after that calculus. In calc we have a new teacher, she seems to be a nice lady :)
My third period class got changed from speech to advanced PE, so from now on I will just do some more sport and play some games in this period.
The rest of the day didn't change,  but we also got a new english teacher.

On Thursday we had another Wrestling meet against the Belmont high school and they have a really good wrestling program so our team didn't win too many matches.
And after that we had to carry the wrestling mats upstairs. That's a real team building activity since it takes like 15 people to carry one of them.

Friday was a long day, during the school day I had to take several pre tests.
After the school day we had a little calmer practice and talked a lot about the night before and the two upcoming weeks to the conference tournament and the tournament the day after about which I will talk some more in just a second.
After the practice I met 3 of my exchange student friends which are hosted in Kendalville but came to Huntington for the girls basketball games and cheered in the JV game.
It was good seeing those girls again since it's always great being around other exchange students and since we didn't meet for a while we had lots and lots to talk.
I also got to know some new people during the basketball games and this is another one of my favorite things to do :) So a great evening all in all.

Saturday was the big day.
Finally my first wrestling match after being out for so long.
It was a JV tournament in nearby Wabash and I wrestled 3 matches and won 2 of them and lost the one in the middle really close.
The tournament took over half of the day and I wrestled my last match at about 3pm and the tournament started at 9am.
The whole thing was pretty exciting for me since I never before faced an opponent in any kind of match like wrestling. It definitely is an experience and will remain with me for a long time.

On Saturday and Sunday night we went to eat at friends and family's houses which was really nice and I enjoyed.
I also taught the Swiss game Jass which is really similar to the here popular Juker or Junker or something like that :D
That was definitely a lot of fun.
And then another week was over...

HAPPY NEW YEAR

May your 2017 be your best year so far :)

My last week of the year of 2016 I actually mostly spent not being in Huntington.

After a good practice on Monday I went to Plymouth until Thursday.

I stayed with a spanish and a swiss exchange student and their host dad.

We certainly had a good time and saw a bunch of movies in those days, some in the movie theatre with friends and some at another house.

We also went to see some basketball games since there was a tournament between different schools played. And as a really funny coincidence the Basketball coaches from Huntington were there to see some teams play so I said hi to them real quick and it was kind of funny :)

On Wednesday we went to Notre Dame University in the afternoon with two other german exchange students and went ice skating for about 2 hours. That was actually a lot of fun and a little hard at first since I was twice on rollerskates.

On Thursday after a few fun days I came back to Huntington and on Friday I had to go to the school because the Wrestling team had to run the concession stands for the basketball tournament. Since there wasn't a whole lot to do we also watched some basketball and I saw the Huntington game. They ended up losing but it was a good and close game.

On Saturday I was back in Plymouth and stayed the new years eve night. So I rushed into the year 2017 with a few exchange student friends and and other friends and that was great :)

The next morning I went walking the dog Champ with Andreya and then had breakfast with Alvaro, the spanish exchange student since out other friend was still in bed. And then it was time again to return to Huntington...

And that was my last week of the year 2016.

Now I am ready to experience a great 2017 :)