How to explain this?

Well here will be a post of how I have been. Exchange is exhausting. mentally, emotionally, physically, everything. Simply stated.
 Mentally, Hearing a different language all day, it overloads your mind with so many new sounds and words. Now I am taking Italian in school (They are in their first year of learning it, so I can follow), and that would be language number 4 for me. A bit crazy. And also all the other subjects in school, in a different language. Trying to make plans with trains, and meeting other people, trying to figure out how much money you need for weekends, it all overloads your brain. I am struggling to write this post, haha, to actually think coherently and write a comprehend-able post.
Emotionally, exchange is a rollercoaster, not a fun one. One day you feel on top of the world, you feel like youve mastered german, and that you have so many friends, have a bunch of plans, have money =P, and the next its the complete opposite. All of sudden you feel you know zero german, that you feel really alone, and you cant stop but thinking bad thoughts, and it naturally makes you a bit homesick.
Physically, Well even if I dont go climb a mountain, (which I have already climbed 3) Crazy...I still feel extremely tired everynight, and waking up the next morning sucks. =D
From what I understood, this part of exchange is apparently the worst. The part where you get over the initial hype of everything, the part where you are not yet fluent in your host language, and when the holidays start, where homesickness is suppose to hit hard. Added on top of that to my situation, me switching cities and schools, new people, new friends to make. Well we will see how it goes. But I am ready. But still being an exchange student is not easy at all. easily the hardest thing I have ever done. Not having anyone to really fall back on, well you do, you have rotary, and your host parents, but really essentially you are alone. And at age 16 while it feels extremely liberating to be Parent free in a foreign country, it is also a bit uneasy, and overwhelming at times.
But I wont let you forget, this is also the best decision I have ever made in my life. While I dont go writing on here every single little joyous moment of my exchange, still understand, it is simply put as amazing. The people you meet, the things you see, the places you go, are all once in a lifetime opportunities. And my personal favorite, other exchange students, really by themselves no matter how bad your situation is, make everything better. They are truly the greatest friends on the world, and it makes me soo sad to think I have to leave them in 8 or so months. And also to let you know, the good moments overwhelmingly outnumber the bad ones. While exchange is not always glamorous and fun, I truly believe after you do this, there is really nothing I can think of in life that would be harder than this. I should post a picture also, Here it is with some really good exchange friends, Left to Right, Me, Angi (Ecuador) Julia (Brasil) Victor (Mexico) Bianca (Brasil)

Ich soll etwas schreiben

I should write something really, I have been such a bad blogger recently. Well lets just start anyways. Changed cities. I moved from Rosenheim 100,000 people to Aschau 5,000. It is certainely a change getting used to. Rosenheim is about 35 minutes away by train. My new city is very nice, but soo quiet. I was spoiled a bit with my last city, being as big as it is. I believe the 3rd largest in my rotary district. But nonetheless, I am here now. And my new city is directly located between two mountains, right under neath them. So as you could imagine, skiing is huge here. I look forward to trying that. Also the strange thing is, It is November 23rd, the temperature everyday is usually 0 or below Celsius. ( 32 or below F ) and there is noooo snow. SO strange. There is frost every morning, but never snow. It is soo weird, and also, almost every single day it is foggy, and the sun only comes out for a few hours in the afternoon. I also switched schools in my move. So far so good. My new school is soo big, but in general they seem to be more open towards foreigners. My other school, I developed a group of friends but the other people their seemed to be hesitant towards me. Here every where I go, people are introducing themselves and saying hi. I know the first week, I will be popular, because I am the new kid, and it usually goes away after a week or so, but its still fun. Also this school is not as focused on a sole thing of education, it is a more general school. My old school was focused on music and languages. I also took another trip to Wasserburg, with of course the exchange students there. Was an amazing weekend, hundreds of pictures, and memories that will last a lifetime, and a few souvenirs, was one of my better nights so far here in Germany. Deutsch is coming along well, I speak it everyday in school with people, and most of the teachers, I understand about 50 percent of whats going on in school. And in general conversations with people I understand probably about 75 percent of what is being said. Thats if they are speaking high german. If they are speaking Bavarian, forget it. If you dont know, High German is what is considered as the normal german. It is taught in schools, and is used throughout Germany. But here in Bavaria, there is a very famous dialekt know as Bavarian. It is German with a very heavy accent, slurred way of speaking, and many completely different words. It simply is a different language. But My goal is to learn high german first, and then if i ever can master that, I will start to try and master Bavarian. Well thats whats been going on.
Tschüss

ich bin berliner. I wish...

Well if you havent figured it out yet. I went to Berlin for a week with a bunch of exchange students. and.....It was amazing. simply stated. But why try to artistically and creatively describe it with a bunch of fancy words, when simply amazing is perfectly suited.  I also went to Augsburg again on Sunday afternoon before going to Berlin. And I also was in the beautiful little city of Wasserburg on Saturday evening. Was a pretty fun week. with many things. I learned alot about myself, and everything. When I find myself having the most fun, I also find myself thinking about the values and true meaning of life. I have no idea why this happens, but its kind of cool, and sometimes us exchange students sit down and have a beer, and talk about everything under the blue moon, and sometimes they are actually really deep conversations. These are the little things about exchange that I love. Its not just that your in another country, another culture, different people, and all that fantastic stuff. You explore the meaning of life, and what it means to really live in this world. You find your place in the world, and you discover what kind of person you really are. I have grown more in these last 8 weeks than I have in my entire life. I left a young 16 year old boy that had not a clue what the world was like. Only perceptions of what I thought it was like. While now I am only 7 weeks older, I have a small glimpse of this world, and I want to see the whole thing. I want to go out and really live life to the fullest. I know I am only just starting and this experience is already so amazing. But now I will share what I did for a week, in my favorite city in the whole world.

Brandenburg Gate International Style

First, I always wanted to live in a big city, Now I know I need to live in a big city. Its soo fascinating, the sites, the smells, the sounds. Everythings just captivates me. I love it. Everyday is truly another adventure. Not a single day is similar. Berlin in particular is fantastic because of the amazing history it possesses. It was the center part of most history dealing with WWII. I am a bit of a history buff, and I loved actually seeing where some of the most famous events in world history took place. The Berlin Wall was amazing. Just standing there and picturing what it was like only 22 years ago for people to so divided by a single wall. One wall separated two completely different societies. Its really a magnificent sight. After that going to Check Point Charlie, and the history there.... I could go on and on and on. I love it, all of it. And I think it is so cool to actually be there at look at these things firsthand. We also visited a Prison on the East side of Berlin, and the stories we heard there were amazingly vivid. And it really wrapped it all up nicely together, our tour of the east side. The other days we went to the Brandenburg gate. Was pretty amazing. Some exchange students saw justin timberlake in person. And we took many group photos of course. While we were posing our whole group in front of the brandenburg gate, we had our flags out of course. And randomnly a bunch of other people who we had no idea who they were, started taking our picture. It was pretty funny. After that we did our normal ritual of the Macarena. Hhaha, ever since we had a halloween party in the bar of the hotel, at every attraction we go to, we do the macarena dance for about 30 seconds. Everybody always stares, but its still funny. We then went to the Jewish Memorial from the Halocaust. This was a bit depressing, but the way they constructed this memorial was fantastic. The feeling you get while walking through it, makes you feel a bit uneasy, and this was the intent of the memorial. We also went to the Bundestag. Which is the German parliament building. pretty interesting, got to go to a dome on top of the building which had a nice view of berlin. We also went to a television studio, and got to play around on their set, and film our own miny news segments. We went to a Blue Man concert, that was soo fun and entertaining, I strongly recommend them to anyone who likes to be entertained, haha that would be everyone. ohh what else, we went to Potsdam, were the Big 3 met. and had conferences. That was fascinating as well. Everything was amazingly interesting. Well maybe not all the museums we went to, but that was partly due to the fact of long lasting parties the nights before. As you would expect we didnt sleep much all week. We were in BERLIN, why would we sleep. And also, every night was a party as well. wherever we could find a place to party we did. in the bar of the hostel, on the streets of berlin, in the bahnhof, in a burger king, at the club of course, in our hostel rooms, everywhere. We made the most of everynight, usually going to bed at 5 or 6. But berlin was super, there are too many things to write about and go into detail over, so i think this was a good summary. Very random, and probably not so coherent, but its my blog, and I dont care about grammar or writing rules =D. half of them I forgot, because of German. And if you dont know already German grammar, is a (explicit word)

here is a sentence correctly written in German and then followed by an exact english translation
Ich kann nicht heute abend mit meine freund Computer spielen.
I can not tonight with my freind computer play.   why not    I can not play computer with my friend tonight

But nonetheless. German is coming along, I can read and write pretty well, speaking also. But understanding people is still my biggest challenge. But i am determined, Seeing that 7 weeks ago I didnt speak a word of german, and considering where I am now, I feel like I have been doing a good job. Well next week I switch host families on tuesday, which means new school, new city, pretty much new everything. Its a fresh start I guess, whether I want it or not, I am not sure, but its coming nonetheless.

I am pretty sure I will be going to a Bayern Munich game soon, cant wait. Also this weekend I am going to Freising to spend some more time with exchange students, and then on Sunday I am going to Salzburg to see Hitlers Eagle Nest. Should be fun.