Thanksgiving

This weekend was pretty fun! In germany they dont have our thanksgiving, but my host mother thought it would be cool to make a thanks giving dinner that we ate on sunday. I had a friend over that day too, so he got to experiance thanksgiving dinner aswell! We ate some hog, and pumkin pie! So I was pretty satisfied. It was a fun time, and enjoyed by all!

Also on saturday there was a piano even for the childen at the music school that I take lessons from, and the piano teacher is a friend of my mother and he asked me if I would come and make a video. So I spent saturday afternoon filming children playing piano for their parents. It was pretty crazy to see some 12 year old kids playing Bach and Beethoven. There is going to be another thing similar to the one on saturday later in the year, or the start of next that I will play in.

Ive been working at piano for about 6 weeks, and Fritz, my teacher, said that Im learning at a faster than normal rate, so thats pretty encouraging. Ive been pretty good at understanding the theory, and Im getting my plaing skills tuned in now. About two weeks ago I found a friend with a keyboard collecting dust, that I took off her hands and Ive been practice almost every day. It pretty fun.

Life

After the week in Latland, and the few days in Byern, I started really geeting in to the flow of things. Ive been pretty busy with what does not seem to be a whole lot of anything now that I look at it! I go to school everyday, and after school I end up with a good chuck of homework. On the weekends I try to keep my self intertained with partys, going bowling, playing cards with friends and things of that nature.

Last weekend was Holloween, but here the people know about it but they dont really do anything. The kids from the town where I live did a walk around the town with laturns with the fire department and what not. I was told the they do this ever year and that it hast nothing to do with Holloween and it just happend to be on the same day this year.

I wrote my first class test last week, and that was pretty tricky. The concept is pretty straight forward, we get an tast to write about and we write. Its the same idea in every class, writing in math class I can try and kindof get my ideas across. Last week we had one in German, and I got pretty much no where on that one because we had to read a text and analyze it, wich is alittle over my level at this point.

Life goes on, and Im still enjoing it!