What a wonderful world....

Austin, October 10th

The time is running, one fifth of my stay is already over.

Two months ago I left Germany, my friends and my family.

But I don't really miss them. Not yet. Here is still too much new for me, too much to discover, too much I've not done yet. I don't have time to think about what I would do in Germany right now.

Hmm, probably I would get up right now, it's 2:12 here, that means 9:12 in Germany. So, Good morning everyone!

This day started very relaxed at the boat. Watching a movie, but it was so boring, that we somewhen wanted to go in the water. But the air was cold, the water not much better, so we dicidet to go somewhen else, it's not worth to risk to get sick.

Now we had the difficult decision: Going to the gym, home or staying at the boat. I wanted to go to the gym. A little bit workout and then sauna. Then we eat something at a McDonald's and now we are home again.

I waited again for a message that Miranda is at home. Like I later heard she sent one at about 1, but somehow her phone don't sent itr, or my didn't receive it. So I stayed awake until 3:30.

But I could sleep until 10 so it's no problem, I have my almost 7 hours sleep.

For breakfast we wear at 'Mighty Fine' or burgers and fries. Then I bought my khaki pants for gameday, finally, the half of the season is over. And I found a nice shirt. And they had really cool leather jackets. But they were a bit too big, and very expensive. But I like them, they look great. Loran bougth two shirts, too.

 

In the afternoon Miranda picked me up. We went to her house. It's huge! We wanted to watch Crank 2. Or I wanted, she let me choose. But something didn't work, so we watched Little Frankenstein. Well, we don't really watched it, we baked cookies. Huge cookies.  

I especially liked our 'M':

Don't look like a M anymore, huh? But it was one. We ate it together. It was really fun.

Later we decided to see a movie. The only movie I really thought would be interesting was Easy A. But I saw it before... So we flipped a coin. My favourite method to make decisions.
So we went to Easy A. She didn't know the movie, and I had no problem with watch it  a second time.
The drive to the cinema was fun. The road is seldom used by someone, so we didn't had to take care of the street so much.
Hmm about that following I thought a long time. I don't want to write to much about that. No details, they are not your business. And I agree with Miranda when she says it's kind personel. But I think I should mentioned it, because it was something I really enjoyed.

So let's see how I can write it.
When we reached the cinema we left the car, I came to her side of the car, beacause she had to take something from the backseat and so I waited for her. We mad a bit fun, like the whole time and somewhen we just stared in the eyes of each other. Well, she wore sunglasses, so I'm not sure where she looked at.
And she just said 'do it'. In fact she said it twice, because I didn't understand what she wanted from me... But the second time it was clear.

We kissed...

Take a break

Austin, October 9th

Miranda wrote me at about 1am. She said she had fun at the game yesterday. The Ranger won!

It's crazy that the band was at home just at one! They have a competition today, so they had to be in school at 8:45-ish.

But I could sleep as long as wanted, an I did. I really needed some sleep. So I stood up at 11, made myself some scrumbled eggs. And recocnized that I'm alone at home. So I watched Scrubs, eat the eggs and some donuts and chatted with some old friends in Germany.

Then I found a message in my cellphone. Gary is at the pool. Loran is working.

Just when I wanted to join Gary he came back. And when we wanted to leave again for swimming, Loran came. So we waited until we changed clothes and we three went together to the pool.

The water was ICE COLD!

I pushed Loran in the water, then I juped into it, before he could push me in, too.

I swum two lines and left the water. Too cold.

So I just lay down in the sun and fell asleep. Unfortunately a leaf fell right under my clavicle. Now I have a white mark, Loran said like one of these stickers on bananas, where the leaf was. Looks funny.

For dinner we had meatloaf (its like a huge 'Frikadelle'), potatos and corn. Yummi!

Then we watched 'Big Daddy', a funny movie. Like the most of Adam Sandler.

Now we want to leave for the boat. I haven't been there for ages.

Oh, I just got a text message. I don't understand what exactly the rues are. But Vist Ridge has a 3rd place for their first music piece. Congratulation! They just played the second time and wait for the results.

Friday

Austin, October 8th

Almost 1 o'clock am. I have to go to bed. Miranda went just to bed, too. So I don't have to wait for more texts. Colleen and Brittany are in their beds, so facebook gets boring, too. And I have school later, I need some sleep. Goodnight.

This morning I didn't feel good...
But during the day it was better.
In the school bus I wrote some texts to Miranda.
In Spanish we had a sub. He talked first about maskots of College football teams, and how boring the University of Texas mascot is... Some of the students wanted to hit him for that.
Then he told us of the best football game he ever saw. Guess which game it was.
How should you know, most of you weren't there. It was the game Vista Ridge vs Cedar Park from last friday. It was really a good game. But it could have been better. For example when Cedar Park didn't got the extra point just seconds before end of the game.
 We should have watch a Disney movie in Spanish, something with three cows and a ranch... but something doesn't work, so we watched it in English. Nobody did really take care of the movie. We had a quation sheet, but somewho read the solution for everyone, so I had much time to talk or write some more texts...

In football class we were in the weight room. Like every friday. And after that we were in the study hall. Watched a video of the last game. The sub was right, this was a great game. We played really good.
Then I talked to the guy next to me.
knock know. Who is it? Banana!
I didn't get the joke. What means he with banana?
Miranda wrote me soetimes, because she was is bored. And I wrote back.

After class we should stay for some minutes, because our Headchoach wanted to talk to us. Because of drinking alkohol at weekends. We have following rule: No alcohol during football season.
He said he heard again about plans of some players to party and drink. And this time with names.

In Multimedia we started using photoshop. It's an great programm. I'm looking forward to learn how to use all these functions. But just working on the computer is somewhen boring. So I wrote some texts to Steffen and Miranda.
The guy who used to sit in Multimedia next to me left class, and the girl at the other side had to do some assignments (homework), so we didn't talk much.

In lunch Steffen and I sat by some guys from the Marching band.

In Theater class we had a sub, too. The guy from this morning again.
We watched this movie, Cast Away. The beginning was kind of boring. But in the end it got better and better. Or worse and worse for the main person, but that made the whole story interesting. This time I answered the questions all by myself, if I knew the answer. I couldn't always pay attentions, I tickled Tysha, talked to dam, wrote texts to Jessica as long as she sat to far away to talk to her, and to Miranda, until she had to go to bad practice. She is in the marching band and they play tonight at the game.

By this way, I wrote way to much texts. Some hundreds in this week. Miranda and I sent each other about 200 messages since we know us. And thats last Sunday.But if I'm bored or not allowed to speak (like sometimes in Study Hall after football practice) it's a easy way to keep busy and I can get known the people around me better.

After school Loran and Gary picked me upa n we went to Joes Crab Shack. We had shrims, crabs, corn, fries and some other sea fruit stuff. It was really good.

Later today Gary and I went to Krispy Kreme Doughnuts. While we watched the donut production we got two donuts for free. Then we bought 12 other donuts. They have no donuts with chocolate filling... But Strawberry and Custard, whatever that might be, tast good, too.
We ate some there, but the rest is for tomorrow. Donut breakfast! I'm so looking forward that I can't sleep. And I promised Miranda I will stay wake until she sent me a message from her home. So I'm still wake. It's almost 12. This school buses are so slow.
Whatever, it's friday, I can sleep tomorrow.

A whole thursday without football

Austin, October 7th

What the heck?? My alarm clock rang at 5 am. Just like yesterday. Why didn't I changed the time yesterday? Stupid...

So I feed the cats and had breakfast. The cats tried all the time to 'sit' on the table too. Then I went to bed again.

In Algebra we wrote a quizz. Way to easy. Everyone says Algebra 2 is hard, but even the little bit I didn't learned in Germany is easy to do...

And because Cedar Park cancelled our game, the Black team had not practice. So the coaches could focus on the Red and the Varsitys teams. And it was boring. I did a bit for history, played some games on the Ipod of somewho. Or wrote some text messages. But it was still hard to stay wake.

In US history we wrote something like a travvel jounal of a south european, traveling to America. The teacher told something about a group of old immigrants and new immigrants. I'd prefer to write about the old ones, because they include Germans, but our topic was the new group. South Europe, East Europe and Asia. But all in all it was boring, too.

In English class we had an sub (Vertretungslehrer). We wrote a quizz about the book we read in class. But actually I don't know what it's about. I'm always so tired in the 4th period.

The sub said my answers look good, but he don't know the book either, so I doesn't mean anything. This guy was a funny teacher.

Later some of girls in that class took some photos.

It's stupid to be so tall in a country of small girls. Well, actually are in all countries most of the girls smaller than me. But I hate it, it I'm the very tallest in a picture.

After school I took the bus home. It was a long boring drive. 45 minutes, because we had to wait forever at the middle school. And then Mrs Charity almost forgot to stop at my street.

For dinner we were in a pizza restaurant. Hawaii pizza. yummi!

And then we went to Schlotzskys, originally for ice cream. But then we ate there pizza, too. Then I got a ice.

Later Gary and I watched a recorded episode of Glee. Much better than the last episode. There they sund every other minute something from Britney Spears. And it sound everything same...

This time it was about religion. Way better.

But I still prefer Scrubs, that we watched after Glee.

And I wrote much more texts. (SMS are in the USA called text message or just text). Mainly to Miranda.

100 %

Austin, October 6th

I told you, my group made a great pantomime play in Theater class, didn't I? We got 100%!

It's nice to get good grades just for having fun.

And in Spanish I got a 96 in conjugation of stem changing words. We did it at the computer. In 5 minutes we should conjugate as much words a possible. A programm gives us the word and tells how it should be conjugated, like, I, you, they...

My first try was a 93. We were just allowed to reach one comuter grade in. I wanted to make a better grade, so I deleted the 93 and tried again. But this time I was under time pressure, I forgot that it's wednessday. Rangertime... the classes are shorter to have time for 29 minutes sensless sitting around.

My grade was worse, so I tried again, but the bell rang. Crap, I have no grade to submit... I have to come back after school to do it again.

So I came after school. But I had to wait 45 minutes for the teacher. At least I wasn't the only one who waited for her. If I was, I had left after 20 or 30 minutes...

But I waited, and now I have 96%.

But I missed half of the football practice. Because i have no game tomorrow, it's not as bad as in every other week. Soon after I arrived at the field, the x-receiver of one team wanted to rotate with me. I play the plays, he plays three. Puuh, it was hot. I run the whole way to the locker rooms and then to the feld and then I had to play. I was in every little break at the water machine.

Onother good thing about no game tomorrow: I could go to the gym with Loran. Normally I don't do that on wednessdays, or at least no hard workout, because I want to be fit for the game. 

Later I chatted with two girls from my school and did homework until almost 12pm. And now I go to bed.