Tower Of Power

I started my dance lessons a few weeks ago! We have lessons every Monday evening and at the end we have something like prom, but we actually dance have some idea of what is going on! I'm pretty excited about it and its a pretty good time. Last week was the "middle party" so we were dancing for something like three hours and learned about five different dances! It good stuff, I enjoy it.

Also in the last few week my host Brother had his 18th birthday, and in Germany that is a pretty big deal; it means you can drive, buy hard alcohol, and vote. So here we its always a big party, I would say we had four parties for the one birthday! First we had a small party with the close group of friend, then a party with the extended family, then one with the road bowling team, and last we had on with about 75 people with a DJ, kinda of an all out deal! It was pretty crazy, my host brother got a used car from his parents and I got him a pair of carbon-fiber racing shoes to go with it!

And last weekend I went to Hamburg to hang out with some other exchange student friends of mine. The friend that I stayed with lives out side the city but we take a subway from his neighborhood to the city center and we can meet up with people from all over and just go to a café and get something to drink and relax. Its a really cool reeling to be able to do that too! Saturday evening we went to a "Tower of Power" concert. They are a pretty cool band from California that was working there way threw Europe before moving on to Asia and Japan! The played some pretty heavy funk beats, a little James Brown style!