Christmas and my last days in America

Haii Everyone :) Im sorry (again) that I didnt post something for a long time but I finally found some time to write something ...

I think Im gonna start with Christmas:
As you know the Americans celebrate Christmas the 25th of December not the 24th but they also have something called "christmas eve" its "Heiligabend" in germany and they just go to church but dont get their presents yet.  My Hostfamily and I went to my hostmoms parents. since they have so many family members they have to do it on the 24th because otherwise they wont have time for the other family :)
We ate (as usual) and the kids unwrapped their presents. After they were done we ate christmas cookies and after a while we drove home.
The next day we unwrapped the present under our christmas tree and I got like 2 blankets and pillows and a minnesota sweatshirt AND MEASURING CUPS :) No I can bake american recipes in Germany !
Okay after we were done we went out to the farm and got more presents :) The whole family was there so it was crowded and loud but it was fun ! :)

The next big thing was New Years eve...well for us Germans it is a big thing but the americans dont even make fireworks...theyd go to bed at 10ish and the next morning they would be like: Happy New Year! Well since i wanted at least a little bit fun at new years eve my friend julia from Germany came over and we had a lot of fun :) we stayed up til 2am and had a countdown....

Well and we had school again January 3rd....
We also went to Chanhassan its a Dinner theater. We watched the show Hairspray it was AMAZING and we had soooo much fun. If you dont know what a dinner theater is : you sit at a table and eat and during your eating the show starts. So you watch and eat its sooo much fun ! :)
That was one of the best experiences EVER *__*

                                             my Lasagne


And I think the weekend after that we had a nother Aspect meeting in the MALL OF AMERICA
Its a veeeery huge mall with roller coaster in it and so on.

Well and thats pretty much it :) Just 9 days left and I ll leave...

Love you all !

I am soooo sorry ! :)

Hey guys ! I am sooo sorry that i didnt write for a looooong time but i will tell u know some things about my musical performance and thanksgiving...

We had our musical performance the November 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th and 13th i think :)
So we had 5 ! performances and it was sooo much fun ! Every day we had full house and it seemed like the audience wouldve liked it :) I had so much fun behind the scenes to change dresses and talk to the other people behind the scenes ! I had to change my dress 4 times but there were a few characters who had to change more often ! I miss the musical and it was such an awesome experience !!

The days between that and Thanksgiving i was in the movies "breakin dawn" with a couple friends and Julia was at my house and I had school of cause ! But last week we just had 2 days of school because of thanksgiving and a teacher parent conferences. So I just chilled at home and we played games and watched movies...

Thanksgiving was at November 24th and the amricans are just thankfull for their land and everything so they eat to show that :) Since it was Grettas birthday on the 21st we celebrate thanksgiving and her birthday on the 25th (Friday) The whole family came to our house and brought a lot of food and presents of cause. So we had full house with roun 25 people i guess.

Sadly i dont have any pictures of the food cuz i was so busy eating it haha.
We had mashed potatos, corn, turkey, gravy, vergies and normal bread and cinamon bread that my hostmom and me made the day before :) It was sooo yummy !!

After Thanksgiving was over we put the rest of the christmas lights up and we pulled the christmas tree up! And if u believe it or not THEY DONT HAVE REAL TREES ! They are just PLASTIC ! :( that is soo sad but its pretty smart cuz u pay 60 bugs one time and u can use the tree every year :)

thats pretty much everything i can remember haha and i am sorry that i didnt write in my blog i have just so much to do :)
Love ya all !! Vicky :*

Halloween preparations, Movies & Wedding

Hey you guys ! I am so sorry that I didnt write for a long time but I had too much to do.

I will start to tell you about the 7th of october : I was carving pumpkins at Grandma Debbies with Gretta, Westin and Candice. First we had to pick a pumpkin and after I took the biggest pumpkin of all we had to carve them. That was so much fun, I just put my hand in it and tried to get everything out of it (that was slimy I can tell ! ) But still it was so much fun. Then I decided to cut a funny face in it and Ill show you guys later how my pumpkin looks like :)

The following weekend (14.10 - 16.10) was a lot of fun too ! :) I went to the movies at friday with a couple friends (Julia, Allison, Kevin and Garrett) and we watched "footloose". But it was not very easy to decide in which movie we should go cause there were too many...but after a while the Americans decided that the germans (that was me and Julia) shall decide which movie so we chose footlose. The movie was pretty much fun cause we talked the whole time about all kind of things but the movie. Haha. The movie was done at round 11:15 pm so we went home after it and I went to bed.

The next day I had another wedding but this time my hostmom asked me if I would like to ask Julia if she wants to come with us to the wedding, so I asked her and she said yes :) The church was very small and it had FLATSCREENS !! Unbelievable! After the church was over we went to the house of my hostmoms mom for a couple minutes and then we drove to the PARTY ! I have to say the food was delicious : Mashed potatos, corn, meet and for desert DAIRY QUEEN ice cream. We danced the whole night til our legs got sore and they played a lot of country music. ( I start to love coutry music! ) We also danced a few line dances , with that I mean dances everyone knew with simple steps it was awesome! After we got home at 1 am we went to bed but Julia and I werent very tired so we talked a little bit til we fell asleep.

Sunday was pretty boring instead of the skyping with my family ! And it was my big brothers birthday too so that was quite favorable that we skyped on that day. Because of my brothers birthday my Grandmom and other friends and relatives of the family were at our house so I was able to talk to each of them. That was funny :) haha

The school week is pretty much as always: School til 3 pm and after school Musical rehearsal.

So this weekend we had MEA that meand we had no school on Thursday and Friday ! So my hostmom and I went shopping down by the cities in an outlett mall. I bought soooooo many things and we had soooo much fun ! The highlight of that day was eating supper at "Mongos Grill" and it was sooo delicious !

On Friday we went down to my hostmoms mom and we made cookied (yummy) and at 8 pm Julia picked me up so we went to a haunted house in sauke centre. That was funny and not scary haha ! I asked the persons in the house "whats your name ? Is it fun to work here?..."  I had to do that because I didnt want to get scared and I had to go FIRST because Julia and her hostsister didnt want to go first...and after the haunted house julia and me went to Dairy queen :) haha I JUST LOVE IT

We went to my hostdads parents on Saturday cause we all helped cleaning the barn. That was kind of fun too but my arms got sore and i got blisters on my hands...but still...I had a little exercise haha :)

And today I just did nothing , so pretty boooooring, and tomorrow is school....AGAIN ! -.-
Thats pretty much it. Talk to you soon guys ! Love ya all :*

 julia and me at the wedding

 at the wedding

 

Shooooooping *__*

at dairy queen after the haunted house with julia :)

Mongooooooos *__*

Homecoming, Wedding and Aspect Meeting

Hey guys :)
Last week we had homecoming and it was awesome ! Why does my german school not have something like this ?! It is so cool ! Well, the week was crazy cause the whole school was dressed up and stuff ! So we had different themes each day and on friday we all were dressed in the school colors purple and gold. In the 5th hour we had a prep fest and after that we had a parade ! It was so much fun to sit on those big car trailers and to throw with candy :) The musical group had its own trailer and we all had to wear our new musical shirts ! They are so adorable! After school we had musical practice and after that I went home to get ready for the footballgame and the dance afterwoards. The footballgame was so much fun ! I went there with my two german friends Johanna and Julia and my hostdad and my hostsister Gretta :) The dance started round 9 pm and ended at Midnight ! We danced the whole night and it was AWESOME !

On Saturday Candice, Jason and I went to a wedding. We stayed there til 00:15 and Candice and I danced so much that my legs hurt !

And today I had a meeting with my organisation at the Missessippi headwaters :) The weather was so freakin nice outside and it was soooooo warm ! So I finnaly met Lea again , it was so good to see her and the other exchange students. So after that program was finished Viivi (the finnish exchange student) , her hostdad , an italian exchangestudent and his hostmom and me walked a little bit around the headwaters and we took pictures from the orange trees , they are so pretty !

So I hope you can believe how tired I am right now :) Thats why I just put some pictures underneath and then Ill go to bed :) Good night everyone !! Vicky

 Allison and me with our pretty anything goes shirts

 On the trailer :)

 Isaak and me :)

 Me and my DUUUUUDES :)

 Gretta and me at the Footballgame

 The GERMANS ! :)

 At the wedding , me and my hostmom Candice :)

 Lea and me at the Headwaters

In the forest with the exchange students :)

News from Vicky :)

Hey guys

I'm so sorry that I didn't write for a long time but i just don't have many time 'cause I'm allways busy :) That's good though !

Okay, well where can I start..Oh I know...
I was sick last weekend that was not very much fun so I haven't done many things except sleeping and eating bananas ;)
But I was at the Pioneers day alltough I was sick :) You can watch old traktors and they have a parade with them. We also ate something called: "Tacco in a bag" It is soooo delicious!! And after that I had two friends over : Julia and Viivi , Julia is from Germany and Viivi is from Finnland. We watched High school musical and ate Pizza :) (As you've probably noticed I eat the whole day ! Just kiddin' )

So that was quite everything I did on my weekend...I also stood home on monday because I didn't feel very well but I was back in school on Tuesday.
The week was as normal as a week in school can be...same subjekts every day and after school I have musical practice . That is soooo much fun !! We've learned a new dance for the song "Bon Voyage" 

Yesterday (Friday, Sept 24th) my german friend Johanna and her hostsister had a sleepover and they invited me. It was so much fun, first we went eating in a gas station, after that we went to Wallmarkt and bought candy and then we drove to Johanna. It is soooo cool that 16 year olds are allowed to drive, I think they should change the laws in Germany ! So Ashley (johannas hostsister) drove us the whole time :)

Today Candice, Gretta, Westin and I put Halloween stuff in the house and in front of the house , it was fun! It's not even October and they start decorateing for Halloween !! WEIRD !! :)

Next week is Homecoming and I am soooo excited ! We don't have stuff like that in Germany ! They dress up every day and they have different themes like favorite Music star or dress up day. It's like the "Mottowoche der Abiturienten in Deutschland" :) And Friday is the Homecoming dance but we don't know yet if we have to dress up or just go in Jeans and Tshirt ..Oh and we (the musicalgroup) has to perform a dance on the parade :) FUN ! :)

Here are two pictures :

 Me in front of a ... i don't know what it's called :) Sorry

Westin, Gretta and me in front of our Halloween decoration :)

First Week at High school :)

Hey Guys :)

My first week at High school is over and I can say one thing: I love High school !! The people, the teacher, the locker just everything !!!! At my first day at School I couldn't open my locker 'cause I didn't remember how to do the combination :) So I had to ask people around me everytime when I was trying to open my locker :) But they were all very friendly and did it for me :)

Everyday I have the same schedule that's kinda boring but it's good to see the same people everyday so it's easyer to get to know them :) I've already found friends , they are soooo nice and crazy but they are awesome !! :) After School I had to try out for the musical and I've sung "take a bow". It was sooooo awesome on stage and I love it! I had my little fanclub they were sitting in the front rows and they were shouting my name ... :) It was sooo funny ! After singing we had to act a little bit that was fun too :)

Today we had our last audition so they can decide who get which part in the musical :) I'm so excited to know what I'm gonna play !! Oh by the way the musical is called: "Anything goes"

Sadly I do not have pictures for you yet but I'll  make some and then I'll post them ! Promise !

And the Homecoming will be soon !! The musical group will perform on the homecoming , I'm sooo excited !! At the and of the Homecoming there will be a DANCE !!!  OMG :)

Well that's everything I got for you right now !

Bye bye Vicky

The first days in my new Home Minnesota, Melrose

Hey Guys ! I hope you are all fine in good old Germany :)
And of cause the one who are in America :)

I first want so write a little about the flight :
So we were 5 people from Germany who are gonna live in Minnesota so we all were in one plane :P So we arrived at Newark and a lady told us we had to go to the Check in right beside her...so we stood in the queue and wait...but then somebody told us we have to go to another Check in , which was far away :) So we took the little train and went there...
As we finally checked in we had to wait roud 3 hours til the flight starts. So we sat down in the waiting room .... the flight was still good, a liitle windy but we all slept in the plane so we didn't care about that :)

After round 3 hours flight we arrived in Mineapolis, Minneosta and we were all so excited so meet our hostfamilys so Lea and I went hand in hand to the familys :)
But my family didnt made it to the airport , they got lost so the hostfamily from Lea took me and we met my hostfamily at one parking place near the airport :)
We arrived at 1 pm and we all were very tired :) I got one welcome blanket with the Words " Welcome to amerika victoria! jason, candice, gretta and Westin ! Sooo sweet !! :)

The First day in Melrose was quiet boring :) I went to candices job with candice, she works in the high school I'll go to , thats quiet good because I had a few first looks at the high school :) so we were there the whole morning and i was very tired :) After that we went to the farm from The grandparents :) and i met them :) they are all soooo nice and friendly :)
and for dinner we had enchiladas ( i don't know how to write them correktly) :)

Today I was able to sleep a little bit longer so I'm not tired :) We went to the fan again and we bring Gretta and Westin there so Candice and I went to the town and she shows me the "city" After that we went to the school again and I got my classes and my locker :) It's so crazy to have a locker OMG :)
My classes are : US History , English , Foods (yummy) , Geometry, Study Hall and Concert Chorus :)
And I'll try out for Musical and maybe Cheerlading :)
So those were my first days in Minnesota :)
Love you Guys and Mama and Papa am meisten!!! :*

 Lea and me in the plane :)

 My shedule :)

the blanket :) 

Thats the Street I live :)

My new High School :)

And in the afternoon we eat Dinner and we played a liitle with the kids :)

 Gretta :)

Westin :)