hey!

I hope you all had a nice winter-break. Mine was perfect.

We spend the main time of the holidays in Albany, NY with the family of my Damian. After a long ride we arrived in Albany and there our first task was to trim and decorate the Christmas-tree. Therefor the motto was: "All in white".

After the week we had to leave and so we went to the Niagara Falls and we spend one night there.
These Falls are really great. It was a pleasure to be there and to take some good pictures.

At the end we arrived safely in Ypsilanti. Early to bed and the next day was for unpacking the presents from Germany. --> Again, thx for that!!

Then it was New Years Eve, but that is a whole different thing how you celebrate it in the US and how you celebrate it in Germany. No fireworks, No lead pouring. But it was nice. We invited some friends and played some games.

Yesterday, I went with a new friend of mine and his dad skiing. It was a lot of fun!! I really enjoyed it.

So all in all I had great holidays and I am looking forward to the next ones.

I wish you all a merry Christmas and a happy New Year.

Hello, folks!

So, thanksgiving is long ago and in this time there happened a couple of things:

• Last week in our french class we had a pretty cool street-art project with sticky-notes.

•  Then we did have two swim meets. At both meets we got the second place. 

Thanksgiving...

Thank you America that you have such a awesome, great, and nice tradition. And thanks to my family for this big meal and the nice evening.
I will never forget how much food we had and how good it was. It was really funny yesterday and I hope it wasn't my last Thanksgiving.
Before we started to eat, Tarik told us about the first Thanksgiving and why we are celebrating this in America. Then was the time that everybody needs to say "Thanks" for something in the last year and what he wishes will happen in the next year...
Let's eat...

Unfortunately, I don't really remember all kinds of food we had, but let me try it:
-turkey (10.74 lb)
-stuffing
-corn
-carrots
-green beans
-vegetables (Brussels sprouts, cauliflower,  broccoli)
-cranberries
-bread
-quiche
-pumpkin pie, carrots cake,...

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Our visit in the natural history-museum:

[...]whose broad stripes and bright stars[...]

That is the beautiful fall in Ypsilanti. So the leaves are very colorful and the sun is pretty deep.  So many colors, here, and this brightness make it to a real optical pleasure.  But unfortunately, it becomes colder and colder and I think it doesn't take this much time till we will have snow, here...
And I am very excited how this will look like...

This is a real international guy:

My brother...from the Dominican Republic and India, born in the USA, wearing a Germany-hat and the flag of the United States of America.

I love him!

I think everybody knows the film: "Charlie and the chocolate factory", but have you ever thought that there are "Wonka-candies" in the reality...?!

  

Thank you to YFU and to all my international friends. This was the best Halloween-Party I ever had.
We had so much fun and I looking forward to the next party...

 Only that you know: I am in the right of this picture and I went as a computer-wizard.