The Christmas Story of Ellie in Germany.:)

Imm Backkk!!! Ohh my ladies and gentleman. I gots lots to say. I´ll try to keep it short:) 
Sooo.. Christmas is already gone.. Wow.  So letss see where to begin... where i left off i guess is a good spot! 
 I cant remember if my last blog was before or after the Christmas concert.. eh ohh well. So. Christmas concert was very fun. my favorite was the O Christmas Tree which everyone sang a verse in a different language.. like 10? crazy. So that was all good. my beautiful voice was unfortunately drowned out by all the others. haha 

So I think i mentioned the advents calender before... guess what shape the chocolate was on the 16th? A LION!!!!!! I was soo happy. like you have noo idea how happy i was. A LION!! 


Dec 21. CHRISTMAS BREAK!!!! so on the last day of school heres my highlight: my politics class had an advents calender also that we had been doing for the last month. a partial face would come on the screen and you Had to guess the politician. Pshhh like i had a chance. so then i decided to just yell OBAMA everytime. He was bound to come on sometime. i mean seriously. Annd I was right! number 24. Obama. i was a champ.:) 

my first impression of the north sea...

the beach with sarah and annina!

on the 23 we left for Baltrum. A little island in the North Sea in Western Germany. Google it! Ohh myy It was so pretty there. with the beaches and all but it was cold and windy. Not gonna lie was rather afraid of the big waves. But really you cant just throw this land-locked iowa girl on a little boat on the north sea!!!! so the first days I kept a good distance away. I gradually got a little better. I even collected sea shells!! I also took more pics than you wish to see. We stayed in a guest house. A family lived in the basement and they rent out the top two floors. They were very nice!! the family took me to many places and showed me all around it was great. Christmas was nice. Just being with my host family ya know? I even ate fish! i think I ate more in that week alone than my whole life combined. literally. So then on the 31st we went home. Having spent the rest of the week exploring the island, walking on the beach, playing an endless amount of card games and Phase Ten. It was wonderful. 

I couldnt make a snow angel.. so I made a sand angel:)

The "sisters" :))

So we drove for about 6 hours or so. I got back to Germersheim at 11 at night. Just in time to make it to Julia's to celebrate New Years Eve or here Silvestor with Ollie, Eileen and Sophie. At midnight the sky here was completely full of fireworks. Everyone is allowed to set them off. It was great! I set off a couple small things. Bottle rockets and such. we went to bed at what 7? after watching the ball drop in New york! (i made them) :) it just wasnt new years without that!

Tomorrow I leave for Hamburg!!! to visit Kendra and Caroline!! Cant waitt!!! Hamburg!! The lion kind Broadway is there!! ahhhh!!! ok i should calm down.. 
I found out that I will be going to Halle for about 3 weeks from march to april! ok google it:) now. Im excited for that!!! 

So thats basically all I did. Now how do i exactly feel about it all... Well I came to a realization. "its just not the same." youre probably thinking.. well no shit Sherlock! but really. christmas was great, new years eve was a blast. but its just not the same as with your life-long friends and family. I wouldnt change this past holiday season for the world.:) it will just make the holidays to come just that much more special. Ok that was a bit sappy. deal with it. 

Soooooo nowwww... I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas season and I hope your new years is off to an excellent start:) Those reading this in school heres a shout out to the teachers! Oh and I saw some hampton- dumonts formal pics.. I LOVE THE SPARKLY DRESSES!!! and all the boys were lookin sharp! Cant wait to see all the prom pics:) but that isnt for a while. Ok thats all I got! Tschüss!! 
-ellie