Soccer Champions and Homecoming!

Hey guys,

I've got some great news for you. We just became soccer champions! We won the league being undefeated until the end! A big shoutout to all my teammembers, thank you for making this an unforgettable soccer season. Together with out last game at home, Senior night came and we - as the leaving Seniors were announced and they gave same fact about each player as well.

Jeremy - Me - David - Alex - Tyler

And then, even more exciting, HOMECOMING weekend came. I already had my date - Josie. So on Monday everything began with the Spirit Week, starting with fake-injury-day, character day, college day, class T-shirt day and ending with blue and gold day (which was my favorite).

Seniors at the Pep Ralley!

 

As well as the Pep Ralley, there was the big football game on Friday! We had a lot of fun there and the icing on the cake was that our team actually won the game! Everybody was in a good mood and we drank a hot chocolate after because it was very cold outside.

 

On Saturday there was finally the actual dance. Everybody dressed up, the boys usually in a suit and the girls had beautiful dresses. Josie came over to my house to pick me up, we exchanged the corsages and took a couple of pictures. Our dresses matched and I really enjoyed how we looked together! After that being done we drove to the Somerset mall to meet all the other students and to take more pictures.

 

Josie - Me

 

 

Before we went to the dance we ate at a restaurant with some friends. Around 7 we arrived at the school - I was kinda nervous.

 

But as soon as we stepped onto the dancefloor, we had so much fun dancing together. The dance? - very American. It was all about grinding.

At 10 in the evening it was over - unfortunately.

 

 

That's it from those two speical events. It's getting cold in Michigan, today we will probably have the last warm day.

Basketball season is underway as well, we already had a couple of open-gyms and tryouts are going to be on the 10th of November.

 

Alright guys, I try to keep you updated.

All the best, Erik!



Quick Update

Hey guys,

actually I know that I'm very lazy and I don't post very often - well, sorry about that!
School-wise everthing is going perfect, I'm getting pretty good grades and I keep improving my English without actually noticing it. Our Soccer team is successful too, we are undefeated in the League and are heading for the League Championship, I'm excited for the playoffs too!

I'm writing this post from New Orleans, where we currently are, because of a wedding going on in the family. I really enjoy being here, we are fleeing from the cold weather in Michigan :)!
The actual wedding will be on Saturday, till this time we will keep exploring the city and its people. I love it! It's a lot different from Detroit, Chicago or New York!

In the picture, me and my hungarian brother David!

Homecoming is coming closer too, excited for that as well, I have got a wonderful date and it is going to be a lot of fun!

Allright guys, that;s it so far. Stay tuned!


Erik

PS: I will now start to add pictures regularly!

School, Sports and Activities

Hey guys, coming up with a qiuck update for you!
First week of school is over! Time passes to quick! I love the school here, the teachers are awesome, so relaxed and much more personal than in Germnay. The highschoolspirit is everywhere. Lot of people are coming to our soccer games, teachers are wearing t-shirts of their school and footballgames are big highlights as well! I get along very well with my classmates and enjoy every lesson.

Soccer season is going to be perfect. We won every league game so far and are on top! I hope we can keep that up and win the league this year!
Last weekend we have been to the Detroit Zoo and to the Arts, Beats and Eats festival. I enjoyed that a lot. Looking forward to the next weeks.

Stay tuned guys!

Sports and stuff

Hey guys, I got some good news for you! After the first days acclimating myself I experienced a lot. My hostparents took my to Detroit and showed me around in the city! I liked it a lot. In the end we had dinner at the Hard Rock Cafe - good day!

In America there are the highschool-teams for sport, that's different than in Germany. I was able to attend some offseason conditioning for soccer before the tryouts began. It was pretty hard and exhausting Before you can do sports you have to get a physical form which is about your health and fitness!

After I got it we had tryouts. I had to cut off one day of the tryouts because we wanted to go on a trip to Chicago, I still made it into Varsity team. If not, it would be kind of sad for me.

I already mentioned that I went on a trip to Chicago on the weekend. We went there by car, it took us 6 hours to get there! We did a lot of sighseeing and it was simply amazing to see such a big city again, after I had already seen New York!

Back in Clawson, it were only a couple of days to our first game, it will be tomorrow. I will be playing defensive midfielder or center mid. I'm so excited!

Stay tuned guys! See ya!

Erik

New York and Hostfamily

Hey guys,

my exchange year just began! Our flight to Newark was pretty comfortable and safe. The hotel was awesome including a pool and a fitness center. We hadn't much time to use those things but you know it was pretty cool.

We spend two whole days in New York City where we saw the main sights like the Empire State Building, Times Square, 5th Avenue, Broadway, Statue of Liberty and so on!
They also offered us some time for shopping.

I got along well with the other exchange students and we had a great time I will never forget.

Yesterday I arrived at my hostfamily. Clawson is a nice city with a lots of things to see and to explore. Sport-facilities are right around the corner. I'm sure that this year is going to be awesome.
I try my best to keep you updated regularly.

Erik

New information, feelings etc.

Hey guys,


I just got a package from my host-family. They sent me two t-shirts, a music-mix and playing cards. I was really happy about that, the t-shirts fit perfectly, the music is awesome and I like everything a lot. A big thank you to my host-family!


In the last days a new "newsletter" from AIFS arrived. They gave some information which belong to the flight and also some general information about being an exchange student, living in another family etc. 
All in all I think AIFS did a good job in preparing us for our year abroad. If you have questions it does not take long until they give you an answer. 


There is also something about my feelings:


In the last days there is always that strange feeling overcoming me, when I drive by something I'm used to, which is familiar for me.. won't see all these people and places for one year.

I mean there are just 22 days left, then I will take my flight to Frankfurt to meet all the other exchange students from AIFS. From there we will finally go to New York before each of us will go seperated ways.

That's it so far.. I don't know whether it makes sense to write in English, because my relatives might not understand what I write. I will think about that, what about writing a translation next to the English version?

I'll see.. 

Stay tuned, 

your Erik.

Preparation Days

Hey guys,

as I have already announced, every further post will be in English, although my language is not perfect yet. I consider it a good deal to start writing in English now.

On Sunday we had our preperation meeting in Berlin Wannsee. It was pretty informative and was a lot of fun because of the other exchange students who attened the course as well. We laughed a lot and exchanged our experiences we had so far.
AIFS is a really good organization, it was no fault to decide for them. They gave a lot of essential information. The whole thing was from 10-17.

I also already know in which hotel we will be during our stay in New York.

http://embassysuites3.hilton.com/en/hotels/new-jersey/embassy-suites-parsippany-PRNNJES/index.html

It looks AWESOME.

Can't wait.

Erik