The first school day

Hey you people!

Today was my first school day and I have to say even the classes itself are (probably) a lot more easier than in Germany, school is a lot more exhausting and strict in USA. You have no break till lunch except for the 5 minutes between the different classes (and you spend them running to your locker and then to the next class. IF you are able open the locker...).
And you have to do homework every single day...

But I think I will like school here. I like the people here. The teachers are very nice and the students are also nice, open and interested in getting to know me. I think I will have a LOT fun with them!
Haha OMG today the Orientation Meeting at the beginning.... It was awesome!

I'm excited about gym class tomorrow. I think we are about 7 girls and 27 guys (or something like that I'm not sure). And of course about all my other classes. I have a lot of Junior or Senoir classes (Chemistry, Psychology) and Algebra 2 and gym class are also half Junior half Sophomores. But I have no clue who is in my grade and who not (I'm so bad at telling how old smd is... AND remembering names).

Yeah I think that's all for now... I think it's for the best if I go to bed soon. Tomorrow is going to be a loong day. And the day after that, too :D

So I wish all my friends a great last week bevor school starts and my family all the best!
Miss you all :*

Football

Hey guys!

Bevor school starts I went to a few Football games from my High School. We have three different games: the Freshmen games, the V.J. games (the guys from my grade) and the varsity games (these are the actual Football games. Usually the most players are Junior or Senior).
Of course we won all three games last Thursday and Friday!

My hostdad explained me the rules a week ago when we watched the Packers game and I think I understood the most things. Somestimes I was kinda confused but then I asked one of the girls and boys (and I was told that I understand the rules even better than most of the girls here!).

SO... I really like Football (I think it's more interesting than soccer but it's hard to compare. And of course it's always more fun if you actually know the people who are playing and when you watch the game with your friends) and I thinks it's gonna be a great school year! Two more days...

See you then
Fraansi (I didn't know that it's so hard to say my name right... :D )

School starts soon

Hey guys!
I just came back from school (picking my classes, getting my locker, introducing myself etc).
So I will probably have English II, Chemistry I, Algebra II, US History, PE II, US Government, Sociology, Working with Children and... Student Leadership (what means i`ll be in the Student Council).
Next Monday I will get my Schedule,
Wednesday is an Orientation Meeting and Thursday is Picture Day!

One of the great things being an Exchange Student is that I get all the nice teacher.
And everybody else is nice to me too :)

                              
me in my new Maroon Student Counselor T-Shirt


So that`s all for now. <3

(This weekend is shopping weekend!
I`m so happy and exciting)

My First Week

A lot of things happend this last week.
There was the Waterfront Festival where I met some people from my future High School, on Monday I painted my room, yesterday I went to the Kmarkt for some shopping (they have a lot of interesting stuff there...), I met some kids from here,yeah and lots of other stuff...
And of course I took many pictures ;)

Because I don't  have the time to write everyday a whole sory about all the things that happened, I decided just to post some pictures and let you know what I'm doing.

Sorry but I don't want to write more (I know I'm very lazy...) but I have a app so that I can post via cell phone some stuff :))

Bye for now
Franzi :))

PS: And I'm not fat yet! I'm so happy *-*
For those who don't belive me here a picture of me :D

Zoo and Iron Mine

I just came back from our tour today. We went to the Iron Mine in Iron Mountain. It was very cold in there but also very interesting (Yes, I could understand something. Not all but quite much!). After the guided tour I bought some souveniers and I took something like a Iron-Stone (I don't know exactly what it is - it looks like a normal stone) with me from there. Maybe I will send it to my family by mail or I will keep it for myself. For lunch we went to a restaurant (I forgot the name already...) and bought some American sweets afterwards.

Maybe I will go to the Waterfront Festival with a girl from here later. The festival goes on till sunday, tomorrow there will be a firework and on sunday a parade.
Next week I will paint my room (in white and pink) and I hope I'll get to know some other kids from Menominee High School!

Love you all
Franzi <3

Welcome in the United States - My first day

Me with my hostparents on the airport of Green Bay

Yesterday I finally landed in America.
My first impression?
Everyting is bigger, fast food stores are everywhere, people are very friendly and there are lots of meat and fried stuff to eat. I'm going to be so fat next year...
My hostfamily is very nice. Today they took me to a soccer match of my little nephew Ty and showed me Menominee and Marinette. And all by car! Apparently american people drive a lot. And everybody has a big Chevrolet ;)

Right now I'm very tired. No wonder - in Germany it's about 3 AM! Tomorrow we will go to a zoo with Jack and next weekend there's the waterfront Festival with a parade, firework and so on.
My school year starts in the end of August so I'll have time to improve my English a little bit. I'm so excited what school in USA is going to be like!

Everything is great here but I already miss my family and my friends! Fortunately we have Facebook and Skype. If anybody wants to Skype with me just ask me! I'll miss you all <3

Visum

Hi! :)

Heute ist mein Visum mit der Post gekommen!
Am Donnerstag war ich im Konsulat in München für das Visumsinterview. Zuerst hatte ich ein bisschen Schiss, dass die da alle nur englisch reden und ich dann nur die Hälfte verstehe. Aber im Konsulat waren dann alle sau nett und die meisten haben auch Deutsch gesprochen.
Bevor man das Gelände betreten darf, wird erst kontrolliert, was man alles dabei hat (alle elektronischen Geräte, Getränke, große Taschen, spitze Gegenstände usw,... darf man nicht mit hinein mitnehmen) und ob man überhaupt einen Termin beim Konsulat hat. Dann dürfen immer zwei Leute in das Kontrollhaus vor dem eigentlichen Gebäude und werden durchsucht. Wenn alles passt muss man sich in einer Warteschlange anstellen, an dem die benötigten Papiere kontrolliert werden. Dann muss man Warten und sich danach wieder in einer Schlange anstellen, wo dann Fingerabrücke genommen werden. Anschließend heißt es wieder Warten bis man aufgerufen wird, an einen der Schalter zu kommen. Dort wird man befragt (das war der einzige Angestellte, der Englisch gesprochen hat), zB. warum man in die USA will oder wo man da wohnen wird, in welche Jahrgangsstufe man geht und was man nach dem Auslandsjahr machen wird. Dann ist man auch schon fertig und kann wieder nach draußen gehen.
Das hat alles auch nur ca. ne halbe Stunde gedauert und die meiste Zeit davon musste man eh nur warten. :)
Also das war alles ziemlich einfach und ich bin jetzt auf jeden Fall bereit für die USA!
Hier noch ein Foto vom Visum in meinem Reisepass:



Jetzt sind es nur noch knapp 38 Tage, bis zu meinem Abflug!! Ich hab zwar noch immer keine genauen Angaben zu meinem Flug (außer dem, was mir mein Gastdad erzählt hat), aber die werden hoffentlich die nächsten paar Tage noch per Post kommen ;))

Ich wünsche euch noch ein schönes Wochenende! :))
Bis nächstes Mal Franzi <3