TV church is bad!

Austin, December 5th

Today I wanted to try something completely new for me, watch church service on TV! But -OH MY GOD!- I couldn't do it. I really tried 3 defferent channels. But once they sung so bad that I changed, there was the minister, well, incredible. He cried a lot, then he made stupid jokes, then he cried more and talked about sins. He said, if our grandfather was a sinner, then was our father a sinner too, and so are we. Our grandfathers sin is our sin too, blablabla... What is he talking about? Why should my grandpas sin be mine too? And then he talked about sins. I absolutely don't agree with what he thinks what everything a sin is. Even when he says the same thing five times, it wont make me believe what he says. And then he started to cry again and I switched channels. I don't need a stranger talking bad about my grandpa (probably I missed the beginning of his speech and he talked about something else too, but what I heard was more "Mist" than I can handle with before lunch). The next terrible choir. I changed channels to something funny.

I used to know my minister, the last few in Germany I met sometimes in private, and the one from the Cowboy church I al least talked to once, but a TV minister is to unpersonal for me. That's why I like going to little churches for service and big churches just to look at.

Homework

Austin, December 4th

Another week over! And the semester is soon over too, so I have lots of work to do, especially US History, I didn't do much of my notebook stuff the last weeks. But today I had plenty of time for that.

Donuts!

Austin, December 3rd

In Spanish I turned finally the homeworks from almost a month ago in, at that day was the Exchange student breakfast and so I wasn't in Spanish class.

In football we did our last baseline test. Two different kinds of weight lifting, the coach told me that the bar weighs 45 pounds. Now I understand how I had 245lbs with just a little more then 4 times 45pound weights.

In multimedia I decided that I will creat the Scarface poster.

And in my last class, theater, we watched movies. And I watched Jessi putting her makeup on, I just watched, this time I didn't put it on my face. I was a good boy this time, I didn't even wore Sallys cat-cap for a long time, it was to warm, so I put it on Tiffanies head. In the end Alex wore it, it looked really 'sexy'.

Later I made dinner, meat loaf, Gary told me what to do and I cooked. Then Loran and i went to the gym. And after a long good workout I bought a dozen donuts at Dunkin Donuts. I heard a lot about Dunkins, but I think I like Krispy Kremes better. But better than nothing, I feel like I haven't had donuts for months!

Second day

Austin, December 2nd

Baseline test part two. Squats and bench pressing. I have my new personel record for squats, 245 lbs! I don't know how they count the weight, because I had just 4 45 pound weights and some smaller weights. 4 times 45 equals 180 pounds and the rest wasn't so much, but maybe I read the numbers on the weights wrong, who knows?

In English I presented my poster, it looks really great, everyone said that. I was happy that I didn't really had to say something, the teacher just wanted me to show the poster and to say who the people are, no questions from her or a long talk about why I did what.  

Then we wrote a little test about 'the Crucible' (I didn't read it!) and watched then a part of the movie, the part with the most answer to the quest.

Base line

Austin, December 1st

We started to test our base line tests for our off-season training today. The coaches want to know how fast we are, how agile, how strong and compare then in a few weeks how much better we got.

We started with 40 yards running and shuffle run. I'm not the best of the team, but by far not the worst. Actually I think with under 5 seconds for shuffle I'm pretty good. And the 40 yards in under 6 seconds, but I want to get that under 5 too. 

In multimedia we had to decide for two poster and until friday we have to decide which of those two we will create in the next two weeks. I really want to do the Star Wars poster, but I dont know any little boys here, who could pose for Anakin Skywalker. My second poster is Scarface, this one looks pretty cool too.

In theater we played. That what Alex, Jessi and I rehearsed was a bit short, so we added short before we played much new stuff. So we had to improv again, improv theater is really fun. Alex was a surgeon who don't really care about surgery, Jessi was a surgeon who don't speaks English and I was the smart guy. t wasn't our choice, the characters were given, we just choose that we want to be surgeons. And right before we started we asked Tiffany if she wants to be our victim 'Arnold Schwarzenegger'. Maybe a bit weird that a girl plays Schwarzenegger, but it should be fun for us, and we really had fun. Jessi had so many ideas what she could misunderstood that I hardly could sto her from doing mistakes and realize at the same time that Alex cuts Arnold-Tiffanies eye out to look if it's really red like in the Terminator movie. I came to late, somehow he lost the eye and Jessi stood on it, and -smart as my character is- I run away, I really don't want to see Schwarzenegger angry because one of his eyes is missing.
Yea, we had really fun on the stage.
Most of the day I spent with doing to English project. It was a lot of work, but but the result looks great, in my Version of the Crucible play Johnny Depp and Keira Knightley the main characters John Proctor and Abigail Williams. I looked hours for pictures I could use, but in the end I used just two of them. Gary wanted to help me and he changed most of my desogn, but his looks better, or better, the design we found in the Internet. He helped me to draw the poster, I would never be able to draw a knot so good as he drew it.