Hi everyone,

First, I want to say that I am sorry I still don't have pictures...the website is not liking me alot at the moment, so I will put most of them up on facebook, and I sincerly apologize to those of me who arn't friends their. I will try my best to get it to work soon.

Secondly, there's only one more week of break and I am excited. I will be heading to Germany and Luxembourg with another host family from AFS because my host parents work the whole time and thought it would be boring to sit at home alone all week. It's a little wierd though seeing as I just got back from Germany for the day yesterday because we drove two hours to go to a huge indoor heated pool resort called Titisse Neustadt. It was really cool because it's a new facility and there are three completely different pools. One of them is pretty much a sauna, the second you feel like you're on some tropical island, and lastly my favorite was an amusmant one with 21 different waterslides, a giant wave pool, diving boards...well you get the point. I have to say the whole thing was really cool, but the one part I thought was the wierdest about my day yesterday was that as soon as you drove over the bridge boarder between France and Germany(for some reason there was no customs either) was that you were overwhelmed with German, and I am proud to say that I understood nothing=) But it was really cool, and everyone we talked to were really nice and spoke in English for us, so I had to translate for my family. All in all it was a good day.

Lastly, the beginning of this last week I was in another city in France spending the week with one of my best friends Eriko, a Japanese girl also with AFS. And because her host mother is a EPS teacher we had a lot of outdoor activities. Every morning we would go hiking in the mountains when it was snowing, and we always climbed to the summit, and let me just say the views wre amazing! And it was actually alot of fun, and I don't think either of us were cold. I am also now proud to say that I climbed more then 300 meters up a mountain in two hours more then once.=) Excercise for vacation finished...Just kidding=) What was even better was at the top of the summit you could see the German boarder and the Alps mountains in the distance. We had  a lot of fun. When we wern't hiking, we practiced our french, I learned a little Japanese, and we made desserts like brioche(this really good sweet french bread) and crumbles (the same type of crumble that we have in the U.S.).

Well still hoping everyone there is good. And sadly like you guys I think I can say I am sick of all the U.S. election things. It's following me here too!! Something new on the elections is on the news every night and I get asked about what I think almost everyday. Not to mention there's even posters and some advertisements in the cities...I hate politics=p well that's all for now...
I have talked enough.