Powderpuff-Football und Bonfire

Da nächste Woche Homecoming ist hat meine Schule heute ein Powderpuff Turnier veranstaltet und anschließend ein Lagerfeuer.
Powderpuff-Football ist wenn Mädchen Football spielen. Wir haben aber ohne tacklen gespielt, also ohne aufeinander schmeißen und so. Es war eher wie "fang den der den Ball hat". Es gab 4 Teams meins war das blaue Team. Im ersten Spiel hatten wir keinen Plan was wir machen und haben leider verloren, aber unsere Gegner hatten auch mehr Ahnung von Football. Mich haben die Regeln ein bisschen verwirrt weil sie mir ganz anders vorkamen als wenn ich bei den boys zugucke, was auch gestimmt hat. Aber das zweite game hat mein Team dann gewonnen sogar sehr hoch, also waren wir theoretisch 3. Platz. Es ist so schwer diesen Ball zu fangen, das sieht bei den Jungs immer so einfach aus! Aber es hat richtig Spaß gemacht wenn man versteht was man tut.
Danach wurde dann das Bonfire angezündet, aber viele sind früh gefahren so wie meine Familie.

Der Style in meiner Schule

Da meine Schule sehr klein ist und jeder so gut wie jeden kennt ist der Style nicht ganz so schlimm wie ich erwartet habe.
Viele Austauschüler dessen Berichte ich gelesen habe, haben gesagt das die Leute so gut wie jeden Tag mit Schlafanzug in die Schule gehen.
An meiner Schule ist das eher geteilt. Es gibt die Sportler die ihre Sportsachen gleich morgens anziehen. Dann sind da wirklich die Leute die mit Jogginghose und Schuhen die aussehen wie Hausschuhe zur Schule kommen.
Dann sind da aber immer wieder Tage wo sie sich richtig aufstylen und Kleider tragen.
Ich habe auch einmal mit einer Freundin über den Style gesprochen und sie hat gesagt das (mein) deutscher style viel süßer ist. Und sie nicht über ihre Klamotten "cares" (mir fällt das deutsche Wort gerade nicht ein.)
Ich habe auch mit einem Jungen darüber gesprochen und er hat gesagt das er sich sehr um sein Klamotten kümmert (?) also das aussehen seiner Klamotten. Und ich finde das sein Style sogar relativ "normal" ist, ich habe ihn auch noch nie mit Jogginghose in der Schule gesehen und er trägt keine Cowboyboots, aber ein paar Schuhe ist ziemlich weiblich meiner Meinung nach, ich glaube deutsche Jungen würden nie solche Schuhe anziehen.

Ich habe mich bisher noch nicht ganz angepasst, ich fange langsam an auch mal eine Jogginghose oder Leggings anzuziehen. Aber meine Oberteile sind trotzdem noch sehr deutsch 😁
Heute habe ich mal ein Caro-Hemd getragen und mir haben ein paar Leute gesagt das ich amerikanischer aussehe, ist zwar genau das was ich in Deutschland auch tragen würde, aber hey ich sah amerikanisch aus!

Das war mal ein kleiner Einblick in die Mode weil ich gerade Lust dazu hatte.

From Sleepovers and newspapers

Hey guys!
This weekend I spend one night at Courtneys house. She is a friend of mine and I got to see her house for the first time, actually it was the first other American house that I got to see from the inside. We also visited her grandma to play romy royal or something called like that. Later we went to a bonfire from one of the show choir kids, it was a little boring after a while so we drove to MC Donalds and hat a midnight snack and then went home. I showed Courtney some german music and she didn't expect german music like that. When we got home we went to bed, but we talked some hours before sleeping. In the morning she brought me to a place where we met my host mum.

We had another sleepover from Monday to Tuesday at her fathers house (her parents are divorced). I came with her after school and there was a little trouble because we forgot to take another friend she usually takes home. So we went to her house and had to get back to school to get the other girl. We drove a long time, cause it takes around 25 mins to get to school. On the way back I showed the other girl some of the german music too, and I think they enjoyed it even if they didn't understood a word.
When we got home again we had supper, it was soo delicious. It was a steak with kind of fried potatoes and salad.
We watched Pitch Perfect, because I hadn't been watching it before and I love it,  love the music. We had ice cream and lots of popcorn, I really love the salty popcorn now and I always eat too much of it. After we finished the movie she showed me a video of the show choir show from last year, it was so funny! I got told a lot about it and now I could see how they were singing and the boys were dressed like girls! I am really looking forward to be part of it.
Then we went to bed early because there was school the next day.
The next day we got up for school and picked up the other girl and drove to school.

After school I had another CrossCountry Race and I meet my new host sister who came back from her 9 month stay in Australia. Yet I haven't talked a lot to her but she seems really nice and her laugh always makes me laugh too.

I also was in the newspaper today! It was a picture of me running in a race, my face is a little weird but I am in the newspaper! And one day my coach told me that they said my name in the Radio too! I can't really imagine why but it was something about cross country, I feel so famous 😁
They pronounced my name wrong but I am pretty sure that they meant me because there aren't so many Nikes!

Exchange student meeting

I already am for one month with my host family and more than one month in the United States. It doesn't felt so long yet, I feel like getting out of the plane was only like some days ago. So many things happen every day, my life is really busy!
Last Saturday there was a meeting with other exchange students. They've not been only from Germany, also from other countries like China, France and Finland.
First we visited an ropes course where we had to do different team building exercises. The first exercise was playing soccer with a huge soccerball, that was more to get to know each other and have fun together. Then there were four wood things with strings between them to build a net. We got told that we are robbers in an museum and we need to get out of the museum before the police comes without touching the laser, what were supposed to be those strings. But every time one person got through a hole it closes and nobody else could go through it. That was the hard part of the exercise so we had to look for the person who fits best through every hole. And not everyone can get through the whole by himself cause there were some holes that have been 2 meters over the ground. We had to carry eachother through the holes without letting go and touching. The group didn't accomplished that exercise because we were so many people and we planned a little bad.
But therefore we did the last exercise very well. There was a wood bar 2 meters above the ground and everyone had do go across it with help from the others, but everybody who wasn't over it had to stay at his side. So we had to help us getting up. This also was a lot of fun!
When we finished our exercises some of us went to an international fair to eat something and afterwards we were part of a parade, where we represented aspect foundation  (the organization). I had to carry the German flag and gave the kids who were watching candy and office cards.
There was also one girl from Germany and when I first started to talk to her on German it felt really strange and I felt like my voice sounded so different! I wonder how it will be when I get back to Germany. But that don't means that I already think in English, no most of the time my thoughts are still german, but it's getting better.

I hope you can understand what I'm writing, I am writing in English because I wasn't in the mood to write german, idk why.

Today I run my third CrossCountry race and it was awesome! Last time my time was about 35 minutes and this time I finished the 5 km after 30 minutes. So I improveed about 5 minutes, I am soo proud!

Lots of love to my german friends and family and whoever reads this,
Nike ❤

Erstes CrossCountry Rennen

Ich hatte heute mein erstes CrossCountry Rennen! Ich habe zwar seit zwei Tage eine fette Erkältung, aber ich bin trotzdem gelaufen. Es war ganz schön anstrengend diese ganzen steilen Hügel hoch und runter zu laufen und ich bin als letzte ins Ziel gekommen, aber wenigstens habe ich die ganzen 5km durchgehalten und habe nicht wie andere Mädchen nach ein paar Kilometern aufgehört!