Two weeks later... sorry guys

It seems that my wonderful ability to keep a blog/journal/diary/anything of that nature is finally showing itself. Last weekend my host family took me to Rosenburgschloss. Schloss means castle and Rosenburg is the town that it was in. It was such a gorgeous day, the weather was perfect, and the castle was very pretty as well. They have a falconry show twice each day so we got to watch that and it was really cool to see all the birds. Plus the setting was beautiful. This past week the other Ammi's (American exchange students from Minnesota) were in our class because their class, 7A, had gone to Cambridge for some intensive English courses. We had a great time and during Latin we got to hang out and do nothing in their "Ammi Klasse." I am now in the full swing of their German classes as well and it is starting to help me a lot with vocabulary. This past Monday was my first day of Ballspiele. Professor Platte, the coach, also play softball in St. Pölten and she offered for me to come play with her whenever I like. I'm kind of excited to see how softball is in Austria. I'm sure there are going to be some differences. Then on Thursday I was so excited because I finally got a good workout in. It sucks so much, because the fields and tracks are always locked unless a teacher has a class out there. So the only time that I can use the track is when we are out there for our Sport lesson. For the first hour of Sport we got to throw javelins which was really cool because I've never done anything like that before. It was a cool new experience. But during the second hour our coach let us choose between soccer or volleyball so I asked her if I could run instead. It felt so amazing to work out again and I just wish I could do it more often. I hate not exercising everyday like I used to have to do back home with softball. (I never thought I would say that, but it's true.) Tonight Marlene K is taking me to a disco in Loosdorf (the next town over) and then I am going to spend the night with her. Tomorrow night Chi Chi has invited me to a party in St. Pölten so I will be there. Next weekend I am going to go visit Jackie for the first time in Wien. Her host dad is taking us to some fishing thing that is supposed to be really cool. I'm excited because it will be something totally different and I'm sure funny to see. After that we're going to go shopping, or at least looking, and then meet up with some of the other exchange students in Wien. Hopefully I'll update again before I go to Wien, but just in case... that's what I'll be doing.

I miss all of yall, but I am loving it over here. It was actually kinda cold today, but I think it was because it was a little overcast. But still, I'm going to have to retire my short sleeve shirts pretty soon. And that means I'll need more long sleeve ones :)