First Thoughts

I do not know any German, a few sentences here and there, but not much at all. So all day I hear German and I sit there trying to understand what they are saying, but i basically sit there and just smile every once in while. My host mom or host dad will translate for me in public and at home they will speak englisch to me. But it is still frustrating. Good news though, I am enrolling in a school, seperate from my normal school, that is simply to teach me deutsch. Its 4 hours everyday, and i will be with a bunch of other students who dont speak German. Wir kein sprechen deutsch. thats probably not even right. So i will go to a normal school (Ignaz Günther) taking subjects such as french, italian, englisch, history, musik, math, sport, chemistry, econ, biology, and ethics. And that is from 8.35 to 12.00 but since I am going to the German school, I will not go to afternoon classes at Ignaz Günther. I will have 1 hour break until I go to my German learning school, Peters Gesurau. My days sound like they will be very busy. I also learned when I switch host families, I will also switch schools. So I already have 3 different schools planned for me! The more the better, I guess. I will make a post about german schools compared to american after the first week.
Rosenheim is such a wonderful city. It is beautiful. It is such a european city as well. I saw it for the first time today, and its probably the nicest city I have ever been to. Once i get a chance to take some pictures of it I will. But theres a river that runs right through the middle of the city, they have stone streets, lots of German looking buildings, a beautiful tower in the middle, and the city is just amazing. Driving is really strange though. First everyone has a BMW, Audi, Volkswagen, Porsche, Mercades, or mini cooper, all the cars are german. The others are Hondas and other sorts of small cars. I probably have seen less than 10 american cars. Everyone drives super fast, and as soon as there is any room in front of them, they put the pedal to the floor, and gun it. Not to mention they almost have to slam the brakes when coming to lights or signs, the car next to you is close enough usually to reach out your window and touch. They all drive really close together and will manouver around things very fast, and everything is chaotic to me. Throw in bicycles and motorcycles and pedestrians wondering around the streets, and it seems to me like we are going to crash every time we drive.
My host family lives in an old farm house (400 years) and they completely remodeled it. They also have many buildings around their house, that is on their land. Here are some pictures

Kitchen

Entrance

My room

Family Room

My home

Building by my house

Bridge

Very old chapel on the yard

Garage? it is an old barn and they park cars by it and there is art stuff inside it

Building attached to my house, My host moms Ceramic shop

There is another building on the land, and i think someone lives in it, but i forgot  who.

Rotary is very different here, in Germany. It is only men, and they all dress up in  suits and ties, not all but the ones who do, you can tell are the important ones. Still it is Rotary, and I went to my first meeting today for lunch. I had some weiner schnitzel and carbonated water. It was....interesting, but it wasn't terrible. I was able to eat most of it. 

Tomorrow is the first Rotary Gathering with the other inbounds in Augsburg. I am really excited to go! I bought a train ticket to get there. I will write about it when i come back.

Tschüss.