Springbreak 2k17

Springbreak didn’t even start right away. During the winter we had some off days because of snow, cold or fog (I’m still amazed that something like this happens) so we had to make up 3 school days.

Nothing special happened and I just went to school Monday through Wednesday and Thursday we were supposed to have a Track meet. I was really looking forward to this since it would have been the first meet I could run. But Indiana weather decided that it wasn’t a good day for a meet and let it rain and we had thunderstorms as well as reported tornado touchdowns all over the mid-west, not in Huntington though.

Friday we went to buy a „toy“. So I got to go to a gunshop for the first time since I have been here. Well not the first time actually, but the one I was in in Nashville didn’t have any guns in it.

Im still amazed by what can be bought just over the counter and we had a good laught when we saw the target throwing machines having a ruber tube around to mark the radius where a person could get hit in the leg.

Then the weekend flew by and we had spent some time in Fort Wayne too.

On Monday we did some work on the bookshelf for the downstairs and it’s crazy how many types of different little tools can be handy for such a thing. I enjoyed building somethign with my hands again since I haven’t really done that in quite a while.

Tuesday was a good day too. Dad and I went to Chicago. We spent about 5 hours in the Field Museum which was really impressive and had a great amount of different exhibitions and pieces in those. I really enjoyed the ones about the dinosours, the meteorites and the different tribes of central and south america.

After our museum visit we took a walk into downtown and paid „the Bean“ a little visit and spent some time outside in the sun before we had to get on our way back to beat the rush hour traffic.

On our way back I got dropped off in Plymouth where I stayed until Friday.

I’m glad that I could spend some time there. I always enjoy being with other exchange students. We talked an awful lot about our exchange which is coming to an end and what we experienced and learned. We also went to the movies and saw Kong. All in all we thought it’s a good movie and it has real pretty sunset pictures J

We also went running in the rain and wind.

After coming home on Friday I went to Fort Wayne again with my liaison and after lunch we had some fantastic ice cream.

And then the weekend came again. This weekend we went to Cincinnati. We went there for a surprise birthday party for my mum but she didn’t know about it until all the children and her siblings welcomed her. It was a lot of fun and I got to meet her siblings for the first time as well as see all my hostsiblings again, which is really nice since I only saw the ones living a little further away once so far.

We spent the night in a Hotel and today we went back to my hostbrothers house for breakfast before we went to downtown Cincinnati where we walked around in the beautiful weather and warm sunshine, had a good lunch and fantastic ice cream after and then it was time already to say goodbye and head home which means a 3 hour drive. And just like that springbreak was over and I will be going back to school tomorrow.

The only picture I took in Cincinnati...