Simplicity

An exchange isn't a year in your life, it's a life in a year.

Frohe Weihnachte

Merry Christmas! I hope everyones holiday were great. and also a happy new years to everyone too :D My Christmas was nothing special, just a nice few days spending together with the whole family. Which is exactly what i wanted. Friday night (23rd) we went to Rosenheim and went to the Christkindlmarkt, its a giant christmas market, where a bunch of local vendors sell crafts and food and good stuff.There was so many people there, and there is where you buy the famous glüweihn, i spelled that wrong. but its like a hot wine, and its verry good on cold winter nights, and its really important in german culture for christmas. But the market was cool and it was a good way to spend the first night of holidays with my family.

Christkindlmarkt

The next day was the 24th, which is actually when most of the Christmas celebrating happens here. We went ice skating together, and then to Church, after we came home. Then we opened presents and had a small meal of weiß wurst and kartoffel salat. (white sausage and potato salad). The next day the 25th we just spent the day together and had a big meal of a roast of some sort, some bavarian beer, dumplings (bavarian), and more potato salad. Was really nice to be together with the family for 2 straight days. Here the Christmas is really celebrated on the 24th like i said, and then the 25th and 26th are the two feast days of christmas. 

Christmas Feast Day no. 1 meal

Today I will be going to an Ice hockey game in Rosenheim with some of my old friends from there. Rosenheim has a proffessional team there. Tomorrow i think i am planning a trip to Wasserburg. New Years i think i am going to Munich to spend the new years with Exchange students. And after that I think i will be going to Frankfurt to visit my former exchange brother Jan. He lived in my house about 4 years ago, and he is from Germany. Cant wait to do that. Have a happy holidays and happy new years

What is life?

Wow, for the strangest reason I have been having some very strange conversations with the most random people lately. Well not strange, but probably something that can only happen while on exchange. Firstly my two  host fathers, Exchange Students from Mexico, New Zealand, Finnland, Brasil, and some random German people that I have met. Everyone of them, somehow results in us talking about life. Like the essentials of it. I have no idea how that happens, is it just a coincidence? I started with politics with my two host dads, and both of those times it ended in a talk about what is to be foreign, and the meaning of foreign. What do you define as foreign? and how do you view it? Why different people think different ways? (i.e. Americans vs Germans vs Chinese) We also talked about what is the meaning of wealth? money? happiness? and i have had very similar questions arise when i was talking with my exchange friends. Its so breath taking to be in a different country and here the thoughts of people from other countries. It really is soo amazing to hear somethign other than what americans think about the world. It makes my mind race. For some reason I have this urge to want to talk about these things all the time, and to ask people what the really want to do in life, what do they find valuable and important. While the people in america are pretty much the same mindset and ideas, I want to hear the voices of the other parts of the world. I am so thankful to be on exchange to be able to do that. This absolutely fascinates me, and it makes my mind truly go crazy. I have been thinking about this one subject for months. I also have for some reason the urge to write sort of a life motto, Maybe a paragraph of my simple thoughts of life, and what I believe. Now that I think of it, when I first stumbled upon this subject and viewed it in an intelligent matter, was last year in my English class. Ill give credit where it is due, Mr. Michalec was really a great teacher, and I am glad i was mature enough then to actually give this subject some thought. To think about this whole overarching goals of life is really fascinating, and I find it even more interesting to hear about the goals and views of people from all over the world.
So far my life motto, is at this. and i think it would of been interesting if I wrote this before I came, and now, and at the end of my exchange but nonetheless, I will start now.
I believe in life, one should strive to acquire happiness, and really do whatever it takes to get that. That is the ultimate thing, and one should not take into consideration what another person thinks of them. It is your life and your only life to live, make the best of it truly. I also believe that one should really just relax in life, and not worry over the little things, and be open truly to everything and anything. While my goals arent that different from the average persons, that of getting married and all that, I also want to be a person that after I pass away in life, that people remembered. I want that I did something worthy enough that people will tell my story.