Basically...

School is the definition of amazing! I adore every single person in my class and they are extremely helpful. It's really silly I know, but I was walking home the other day and one of my classmates yelled at me from across the street and told me have to a good afternoon. It made me happy! They are all like that though... everytime I see someone from class they stop to talk to me or smile and say HALLO. I feel kinda bad though because almost everyone in the 7th year knows who I am and they say hi to me, but I don't ever remember meeting half of them. Today I got to meet the other "Amies" (American exchange students from St. John's Prep in Minnesota). It was Harold, Dan, Andrew, and I never caught the fourth guy's name. They are really cool and I am going out tonight with them and some of my classmates. Tomorrow night is the Matura Ball which is basically like prom so I'm really excited to get dressed up. I still don't know for sure what my weekly schedule is because the first couple days this week were mixed up and I never understood when the teacher read it out loud to us. His name is Herr Profesor Pilecky by the way, and he's awesome! I know I promised to upload some pictures of my school, but I haven't really had time to take any yet. I took a couple today, but I want to upload them all at the same time, so give me another week.

It is so cool, because on Monday even though we are scheduled to have school Herr Profesor Pilecky planned an outing for our class (7D). We are skipping lessons all day and walking around the city. We are all bringing a sack lunch and then we're going to play beach volleyball and soccer somewhere near the Danube. Apparently it is common for teachers to plan these sort of days during the school year. My teacher also had the brilliant idea to take pictures of each of my classmates and print them onto a sheet with their names for me. It was very nice and I now know all of their names. Their are 28 students in the class, but we split into two groups for about half of our lessons. In my group there is only one other girl, Katarina, and she is super nice!

Last night while I was shopping for school supplies one of my future host sisters called to see if I had plans. She picked me up and took me into town to get some eis (ice cream) and then we walked through the city and down to the Danube. It was a really great evening.

Oh, another thing. It is already starting to get cooler here! I have to wear a light jacket and scarf when I walk to school in the morning. And at night I sleep with all the windows closed and socks on... it is so CRAZY! Everyone here thinks that it's awful how hot Texas is right now and can't believe that it doesn't get cold until late into the year. It's really kinda funny. I also keep forgetting that I am older than all the students in my class. The 18 year olds are usually in the 8th year class, but that is the year that they take all their insane tests so the Direktor and I felt the 7th year class would be best for me. Whenever someone learns that I am 18 their eyes get really big and they think it's the coolest thing ever... it makes me laugh. They also think it's really cool that I am finished with school back home and that I have been driving for two years. The other night I met the daughter of my host mom's friend, Rosina. She wanted to know if our school buses were really yellow... I guess I never really think about things like that, but everyone over here has an image of the USA from the movies that they have seen.

But basically, I love every second of school! I don't ever want it to end.