9.26-9.28

Hello to all! Another couple days have once again passed on by. This week has overall been really good. I woke up on tuesday and was getting ready for school, when my host brother came downstairs and was like "do you want to go to an amusement park" So, i was like well...i would love to but i should really go to school.... Ummm NO. just kidding. So of course i said yes. The park is called Heide Park and it is just outside of Saltau, which is where we had the first rotary weekend. So, we left around 7:30 ( we being me, my host brother steffan, his girlfriend and two of his friends) and it took about 2 hrs to get there. Well for those of you who know me, you know that i dont really like rollercoasters all that much. But anything is better than school and i wasent about to wimp out. So we arrive at the park and go straight for the rollercoaster named Colossus...Now this wasent a small rollercoaster parading around as a big one just because it had a cool name. This rollercoaster held the Guiness Book of World Records for the biggest drop for a wooden rollercoaster!!! So in true American style i saddled that rollercoaster up and waited for what was to come. All i can say is that after you ride the Collossus you come out a changed person...and when you ride it twice, like it did, well...
Overall, it was an amazing day. i had so much fun and got to practice alot of German. Wedneday and Thursday were normal days as usual. My german is slowly coming along. Sometimes it doesnt seem worth it. but i know it will get better. I have a 4 day weekend coming up and i am so excited for it. I need the sleep and the relaxation.

Machts Gut,

Tyler

Berlin!!!!!

It has been one month since i began this journey. Some moments i wonder, "where has the time gone" but many times it seems more like a year than a month. My days consist of emotional rollercoasters; this is without a doubt the hardest thing i have ever done. Yet, for every forgetable moment i have two unforgetable moments. this is one of those times.

This last weekend i had the opportunity to travel to Berlin. I left on Friday afternoon and arrived in Berlin around 7 o'clock with 25 other exchange students and two rotary leaders. We then traveled to the Berlin Youth Hostel, which was so nice. Then we had dinner there at the youth hostel and after that we went into the city. And so began my falling in love with the city of berlin. It has such an amazing feel to it. Perhaps something that can only be accomplished by the rich history and the historical events that took place in the city. We walked around the Brandenburg gate, and the parliment buildings. After that we went to a local brewery/resteraunt. It felt so good to talk in English and actually have a personality again. I has some great conversations with some of the other exchange students.

We woke up early on saturday and began our touring of berlin. First we went to the Bundestag (the parliment building) and got a personal tour. We actually got to go inside the room where the parliment meets and debates. It was so cool. After that we walked through Potsdamer platz, which was basically no-mans land when the wall was up becasue the wall ran right through it.

We then took a bus to another part of the city where we went to a museum that is called "the story of berlin" They did a complete walk-through of all the major events in Berlins history, from its founding in the 13th century to today. I absolutly loved it. We then had some free time to shop and get something to eat if we wanted to. We then travled back to the hostel, ate, and then left to see Blue Man Group. We had front row seats. The show was really good.

Sunday brought another early morning and more sightseeing before we left. We travled to a train station where an underground civilian bunker is still in tact. We walked through it and learned all about the history behind the bunker and what it was actually like to be there during a bomb raid.

Overall, it was such an amazing weekend, which is exactly what i needed.

Well, one month down and 8 to go. I know thats not the mindset i should have but it feels good to actually be farther into my exchange. I have 3 weeks of school and then a two week break.

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Those are some of the pictures from the weekend. I hope enjoy them and that everyone is doing well. Talk to you soon

Tyler

9.19.06

25, 25 days....Where did the time go. Thats right folks, i have been in Germany for 25 days.
Today was another good day. I had art for 2 hours, which is pretty much my favorite thing because i just sit there and listen to my music and draw things like paper and strings. Yes we have spent 4 hours drawing a string. After that i had two hours of English, where i have become to class expert on the English language. I am constantly being asked "Is that right....Would you say it like that? ect. But near the end of the class the teacher asked me if i wanted to come and sit in front of the class and answer some questions about America and talk about sterotypes that i had of Germany. This was such a fascinating experience. It was really interesting to hear their questions about America. The general feeling that i have gathered from most Germans is this; a very strong dislike for Bush administration but a general love and desire to come to America.
But we won't dive too deep into the foreign policy decesions of the Bush administration and their subsequent consequences.
They all laughed at my sterotypical view of German food: bread, cheese, meat and beer.

Overall, it was a great experience and so interesting to hear their opinions about America.

Things i Miss: Ice Cubes, Chipotle, the bean cycle, driving... Thats just a few

And life goes on...so, here's to the fast times

Tyler


PS: go to this website to check out pictures from this weekend.

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Rotary Weekend in Wolfenbuttel

Guten Tag all my stateside friends.
Well another week down here in good ol' Germany. This weekend i had another rotary trip in northern Germany in a town called Wolfenbuttel. I left Friday afternoon with my host dad, brother and Luis (the brasilian exchange student in my town) My host brother came on the weekend with us because he is a member of Rotex. Which is a group within rotary made up of people who went on exchanges a couple of years ago. They were the ones who hosted the weekend. We arrived in Wolfenbuttel around 5 o'clock and hung out, ate and took a walk around wolfebuttel at 2 in the morning because all of us exchange students slept at a school in the Gym and it was really hot and smelly so none of us could sleep. So, i finally got to sleep around 5 in the morning and then the Rotex people kindly got us up at 8 in the morning. I awoke on Saturday day morning and was in a bad mood and feeling pretty homesick. Saturday was kinda boring and i was a little annoyed with everyone. But i took a nap in the afternoon and felt better after that. Saturday was very long and once again i didnt get to sleep until 4 or 5 in the morning. We left Wolfenbuttel around 11 on Sunday morning and i didnt get come until 5 in the afternoon. It felt so good to be "home" though. I had dinner with my host family, laughed alot and then watched 24 with Phillip. Thank you Jack Bauer for not only saving the world but promoting international friendship! But overall the weekend was ok.

I woke up on Monday to overcast skies and cooler weather. Finally! i have been waiting for cooler weather. Today was a really good day. I talked to alot of people at school, in german of course, and i went into the city with the other american and a girl from our class. We had a good conversation and i enjoyed some delicous pommes (fries) I came home after school ate and then decided to read a little before i went to sport (PE) so i read and then i fell asleep on the couch. When i awoke i was my face was sticking to their leather couch and after realizing where i was i rememberd that i had sport. Well, to put it simply, i slept through soccer. Whoops. I dont really care though becuase sleeping felt amazing.

Overall, i am doing very well. It is a constant rollercoaster of emotions from an overwhelming excitement at the possibility of learning another language to the low of missing family and friends.

Well i must go becuase i have been holed up in my room for close to 2 hours and hunger is calling me once again to the kitchen. Love you all and talk to you soon

Tyler

9/15

Hello everyone!

3 weeks down and many more to come. I am getting ready to go to Wolfenbuttel on another rotary weekend. I am so excited to see everyone again. Today was hard but the weekend is going to be amazing. It helps to have something to look forward to.

Last night, this girl named Kim arrived at the Taeger household. She was the first exchange student they had back in 2000. She is 22 know and just graduate from college. She is going to be living in France for 9 months but she is here in Muenden until Sunday. We had a great conversation about being an exchange student and she gave me hope that the best is yet to come!

Well i must finish packing but i will talk you all soon and in the words of Mr. Nelson...

Have a great weekend, buckle up, get your foot off the gas and God willing and if the river doesnt rise I will see you on Monday.

Tyler

9/12-9/13

Well, to all of you waiting for the update on the quality of German "mexcian" food... your not missing much. I knew it was a problem when all the people i went with ordered ribs and wings and not mexican food. But i decided to forge my own path and try tacos. Well, perhaps in this situation i should have followed the crowd. I received 3 hard shell tacos with filled with carnitas and kaaese (cheese) on top of alot of lettuce. Well, at least i can say that i have had mexican food in germany.

Tuesday was another day of school. I wont bore you with too many details but on Tuedays i have 2 hours of art and then 2 hours of English. So, tuesdays are very very good. I love my art class because i can actually understand what is happening. After school i read alot, took a nap and then i went to soccer at 6:30. It is really good to play but it is also a little frustrating because there are only a couple guys who work hard. So, it is a little annoying to be one of the only ones working. After that i came home, ate and the went to bed.

Today has been really good though. I actually had a full conversation in German at school. During one of the Pause (breaks) where everyone usually eats and just hangs out. I think it is really annoying because its 20 minutes long, which is too long to just sit around. but too short to actually do anything. But anyways me and this girl Ulga walked around and talked, which was really good. I was very excited that i actually had a conversation in German

Today was a short day for me, i was done with school at 11:30. So nice.

More to come. Thanks so much for all the comments. I love hearing about everything and how everyone is doing.

Tyler

Rotary weekend in Soltau

Hello everyone.
It has been a little bit since my last post but all is well here in Germany. This past weekend we had a rotary trip to Soltau (dont ask, i still dont even know where it is) There was about 50 exchange students student from all over my district here in Germany. Luis and i took the train at 1:05 on Friday afternoon and met up with some other exchange students in Gottigen. Then we took the train from Gottigen to Hannover and met up with alot of other exchange students. We had a blast on the train but i think everyone else hated. You see when Germans ride the trains it is very quiet and not alot of people talk. So, we kind of stuck out. Well we finally arrived in saltau and met the Rotarians who would be hosting us that weekend. My family lived on a fully functioning pig farm. They had about 1,000 pigs and believe me you could tell by the smell. But they had an amazing old house with a couple barns and a good amount of land. They were so welcoming and nice. After dropping our stuff off at their house we drove to the meeting in Saltau. It was in this old barn. We ate, talked danced and had a great time. We got a ride home from our host brother in Soltau who was 18. When we were driving home he was like "are you hungry" So i said i was and he said we would stop and get something to eat then. Lo and behold we pull up to the local Mcdonalds. I thought i had left American fastfood! But i was very hungry and i was not going to pass up a little grease. I ordered a Big Mac with Pommes (fries) and a cola.

We woke up the next morning and i walked down to breakfast and was greeted by a wood burning stove, cold weather and a typcial German breakfast. I must say, i half expected Laura Ingalls to walk around the corner. After breakfast we went to the Sud-see Camp, which was a camp ground just outside of town, which is one of the top 10 campgrounds in europe. We mini golfed, did archery, ate, talked. It felt so good to speak english again. I felt like i actually had a personality again. It was so nice.

We got up on sunday and went to another old barn and had breakfast, took pictures and said out goodbyes. We will see each other next weekend for another rotary event but it was still hard to say goodbye. On the train ride home i met this amazing girl from Namibia. She was an Au pair in southern Germany on her way to Frankfurt to visit her sister. We had an amazing conversation about life, faith, philosophy, our impressions of Germans. It is so crazy how you meet people sometimes. Well i have to go. i have to go back to school for sport, which for me is Soccer. Then i am going to Gottigen with my host brother Philip to go to a Mexican resteraunt. Yes, you read it right, a mexican resteraunt. I will keep you informed on that experience.

So to sum up my time in Germany thus far...I am eating Mcdonalds and Mexican food. Weird? Ya i think so

Go to this link to see pics from the weekend

http://hs.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2000105&id=1076310090&l=8ec43



Cheers,

Tyler

9/6-9/7

It is well into September now here in Germany but the weather is refusing to let go of summer. For the past two days we have had wonderful weather but of course as i am typing this the sky is getting dark and the mercury is quickly falling. Well lets see. Yesterday was school as usual, nothing special. For every class i tell myself i will focus very intently for about 15-20 minutes and try to understand as much as i can. For classes like math and phyics this lasts much less. After this i usually just sit back from exhaustion and let my mind wander or i look of german words. After school i relaxed for a while and then i mowed the lawn. Came in, relaxed some more and then watched two episodes of 24 with my host brother. The first season is amazing! But i cannot wait for Lost to come in the mail. Thanks mom :)

I got up today (thursday) a little later because i didnt have to go to the local bakery and get the bread. Today is my longest day in school i have 8 classes, which is really hard to stay focused through especially when you end the day with 2 hours of Latin. I didnt have soccer today because the team had a game in Gottigen and louis and i couldnt play because the havent finshed doing all our paper work.

I will be gone this weekend on a Rotary event Soltau and Walsrode. (I have no idea where they are) so i will have a much more exciting update on Sunday night.

Bis spater

Tyler

9.5.06

So, i kinda messed up on my dates and the labeling of my blog, so for all of you who were wondering if perhaps Germany didnt have the 2-4th of September I ensure you it was my error and not that of the Federal Republic of Germany.

So i awoke on Sunday around 10 to the wonderful sound of rain. Nothing like a lazy sunday accompained my the light fall of rain. I ate a light breakfast and then i lounged around the house. Then me, Jurgen, Philip and Louis went to Kassel for some good ol' sightseeing. Kassel is a beatiful city that was partially destroyed during the second world war. They have alot of museums and a couple castles. So we visited these, got some lunch and then drove home. Then that night we went to a BBQ at the house of my host moms best friend. She has 3 boys that all went to Brazil on there exchanges. She is sooo nice and the food was excellent. Some type of meat, wurst, bread, salad, tomatoes and mozzerla flavored in something and then ice cream for desert.

I awoke Monday to another day of school, which is becoming increasingly harder to attend. It is very hard to work up the motivation to go to a place where
A. you uderstand very little of what is said
B. You have already completed school and thus it doesnt matter of you do.
C. You can barely make it through a lesson without falling asleep (that doesnt help the lazy american sterotype)

But i survived monday and met some really nice girls who i went and got lunch with. Because every monday i have sport after school so i didnt have time to go home.
I came home and watched 2 episodes of 24 with Philip and then i went to bed.

And finally i am caught up to today. Another day of school except tuesdays are better than mondays and i have art for 2 hours, which is actually going to be very cool. I left school early because i had my first rotary meeting today. Everyone was really nice and we had a pretty good meal of soup and a pot roast type meat thing with rice. I didnt have to speak which was very relieving. Some physics professor gave this presentation that i understood very little of. I came home exhausted and a little down. But i had an excellent conversation with Inga about Christmas and our love for the holiday and how it has changed for me as i have gotten older and then she told me how they celebrate and i told her how we celebrate it. Overall it was very good and just what i needed. Then i found out that i wasent going to soccer tonight, so i took a nap for about an hour and a half. So i am refreshed, alive and taking life one day at a time.
My German is slowly coming, life is adjusting. It has its ups and downs but i still am loving Germany and am so thankful to be here.

So...CHEERS. Heres to life.

Tyler

8/31-9/1

Well, believe it or not i have been here for a week. I must say that it feels like alot longer but i think i am finally getting into a routine. I woke up a little earlier on friday so i could get to school and find out what classroom my latin class was in. But I come to find out that it is the regular latin class that meets on Friday not Latein fur ausfanger. (Latin for Beginners) So, on Fridays i get to sleep in, which will be an excellent way to end the week . School was fine i guess. I understand very little of what is happening so that makes it very hard to concentrate and stay awake. Especially in math and phyics. They were boring in English so you can imagine how much fun they are in German. ;) After school i just came home and relaxed because i was completly exhausted from listening to German and from socccer practice the night before. I slept in a little bit on saturday and then i went to Gottigen to visit my friend Phillipp who was an exchnage student to FCHS my Junior year. We walked around Gottigen and did alot of the tourist things. Gottigen kinda reminds me of Fort Collins. Then we got some lunch-I ordered and paid on my own. I was very proud of this.

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Click on that link to see some pics from my trip and some pictures of my town. Then i came home and Phillip (my host brother) was having alot of people over to watch Germany play Ireland in the Euro Cup. I must say that i felt very european sitting around watching soccer and drinking a beer. They were all really nice people and very patient with my German. Plus most of them speak perfect english. Then we went to the local bar/hangout/club-which turns in to Disco on the weekends. I saw some people from my soccer team and school so i talked to them a little and then we danced for a while. Everyone was like "let me see your American moves" so i did my best to represent us well but i cant promise anything.

Well its raining again but Me, my host dad, brother and Luis-the other exchange student are going to Kassel to do some sight seeing. So, i will let you know how that goes. Keep the comments coming and I hope everyone is doing well and enjoying the end of summer.

Much love

Tyler

The first day of school

Well i cant remember the last time is was really nervous for the first day of school. But today i was extra nervous. But despite all that i survived and made it through. It was very different from what i am used to. (What did i expect, FCHS?) I am in the 11 Klasse (Junior year) which means that i stay with the same people all day long and instead of the students moving the teachers move. so i began the day with Herr. Besserman, who is a hard but fair teacher (or so i have been told) He seems like he has a very dry but very funny sense of humor. too bad i understand very little of what he says. then the next teacher came in for History of Germany from 1945. i really enjoyed that class because i could kind of understand what was happening. There is another exchange student in my class from Kentucky, his name is clayton and we sit together. The teacher passed out this worksheet with a list of important historical events in germany and you had to put the date next to them when the events occured. Clayton and I did better than a good portion of the class, which was really funny. Then we had a break where alot of kids go and smoke but it is also a time to eat. So, i pulled out my little Coke lunchbox and at the bread and meats that i made for myself that morning. Then we had english. Which is going to be easy, obviously. then we went to physics, which i hated in english so you can imagine how hard it was in German. Then i got to leave school early because Luis(the exchange student from Brazil) and i went to gottigen with his host dad to get our Visas. Gottigen is an amazing city. I loved. It has a university and kinda feels like fort collins (maybe thats why i liked it)We got some really good Ice Creame while we were waiting for our Visas to be done. So, I guess i am officaly in Germany. I then came home and got ready for soccer. Yes, I know you all thought i was all washed up and could never play again. Well i am here to say that i am once again playing soccer. However i am complelty out of shape and i am so exhausted. The guys are really nice though. Well that is all for today. i am sooooo tired and i have to get up for school tommorow.

8/30/2006

Well its offically the last day of "vacation" for me. I begin school tommorow at 7:45 AM.
The weather today has been very fickle. First it is beautiful, then it rains, then the sun comes out, then it rains. But i slept in today and awoke to an empty house because Inga had a hair appointment. I enjoyed the time alone though. i " read" the newspaper, which consists of me going straight to the comics because they are usually the easiest to understand. After that i watched some TV. Horse sports are huge here, I watched the one where they ride around and jump over bars. I dont know the name. Dan, maybe you could help me out with that? After that we had lunch. Homemade (everything is) Tomatoe soup and Reismilch. which is rice and milk and then you put sugar and cinnamon on it. Then i was sitting out on the porch reading and enjoying the sunshine and it began to rain. however, it wasent all bad becuase i took some pictures that i really like. So enjoy! After that my second or third host mum, sister and Louis (exchage student from Brasil) came over and we went and walked around Muenden. They are both really nice and i understood alot of what they were saying. There are some brief moments of clarity and then its back to understanding very little of what is said. However, those moments are very encouraging! We then went back to their home and i found out that my host dad is a Pastor, so i guess that is good. We had apple cake and played super nintendo. I then when and went to the grocery store with Steffen. he is such a cool guy. A funny thing about german grocery stores is that you have to pay a euro to unlock the cart and then you get that euro back when you bring the cart back. Life is good here. Please send me E-mails or comments, i love receiving them.

love Tyler

8/29/2006

"I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want."

I wish Paul would have expanded on his "secret" but perhaps it is different for each one of us.

Anyways that was just something that was on my mind.

I awoke this morning to sunshine streaming through my window and the realization that i was actually in Germany. WOW! how lucky am i?

Inga and I went to the bank today and set up my account here in Muenden. I meet my third host mom, she was really nice and funny. Shes has 14 year old daughter and she is a big skier. I guess the sterotype carries over here in Germany too. Oh, your from colorado, Do you Ski? So we are going skiing sometime this winter. Then we went and had some more passport pictures taken because mine didnt work because i was smiling in them. Whoops. No smiling. Then we went and met one of Inga's friends, Bea. She just recently opened a used book store but she also sells wine, coffee and "drinking chocolate" (you take warm milk and then take a special piece of chocolate and melt it in the milk) AMAZING! We came home and had an excellent lunch of salad and quiche. Me, Inga and Steffen sat out on their back porch and taked for a while. I then decided to take a couple of pictures of my house. I only got a couple taken and then it began to rain. It is cold here. Even with the sun up today, jeans and a jacket were needed. This is my type of weather. Call me crazy but i dont think i will miss the 300 days of sunshine that Colorado has.

Ummm...let see. My host brother and i went to the local hang out spot last night and i met alot of his friends. He is a very intelligent person, thus is friends are very intelligent. They all speak perfect English, German and some other language. They were all really nice but it is hard to understand them because they speak very fast. We are going back there on Wednesday.

Regen, Deutsch und kaffee

Rain, German and coffee. i think this sums up the day well. It is currently 5 in the afternoon here and i am sitting at the dinner table listening to classical music while Inga is reading on the couch. It has been raining for most of the day, which i love. I woke up this morning around 10:3o, had a quick breakfast of nutella and bread. Americans have peanut butter, Europeans have Nutella. Once again i think the europeans are doing better than us. nutella is much better than peanut butter, so perhaps i will give my jar of peanut butter away to some European who will love it because it is not nutella. Inga and I then went to my school were i found out my classes and received my student card. (like an ID in american schools) I am taking 31 classes a week, which is a very good amount. I am taking latin, math, physics, biology, philosophy, soccer, history, geography, english, german and some other stuff that i cant remember. So i am really excited to start school but also really nervous. Then we went to the registration building where i had to register that i live in Hann Muenden. Then we came home and had a wonderful lunch of fish and kartoffeln (potatoes) We talked for a while and i spoke some Deutsch with steffen und inga and i understood alot of what they were saying. A small amount of encouragement in the frustrating world of learning another language. Then Steffen und i watched collateral...not a good movie, i would not reccommend it. Life here is slowly beginning to take shape. German makes me exhausted though because i am constantly conentrating on the simplest conversations. I get frustrated and upset at myself that i dont know more. But so ist das leben (so is life) and i will work hard until i am fluent. however, i am busy every single weekend in September. I have trips all over Germany and then the last week of September i am going to Berlin with the other exchange students. I cant wait. I love hearing from everyone, so please leave a comment and tell me how you are doing.

Tyler

First Full day in Germany

Well my first day in Germany was amazing. i am truly blessed to be in such an amazing town with an amazing family. feel free to remind me of that after i have a bad day. Anyways i was allowed to sleep in today, which felt so good. i woke up around 11 and took a shower, unpacked and then went upstairs. my room is in the basement thus the reason for my going upstairs. i love the privacy of the basement and i have my own bathroom. i went upstairs and got some coffee from the most amazing coffee maker i have ever seen. praise God for people who take coffee seriously. this thing proably costed more than a, well im not sure but it looks expensive. you get the coffee one cup at a time. it grinds the beans right before and then brews in a matter of seconds. my life is complete, i ask for nothing else ;) so i think i had 6 cups of coffee today. we had an amazing brunch/lunch/dinner around 12:30. i had the best scrambled eggs of my life. I keep telling my host mom that everything is excellent and she is like "you always say that" But everything is really excellent. they had the most amazing rolls, which i gladly hade 4 of. (Hargan family you know what i am talking about. ) I had salmon, nutella and butter on these rolls and fruit. it was a great meal. my brother (philip) and i then spent a couple hours exchanging music, talking music, playing music. it was great. he is such an amazing guy who is really patient with my german and speaks great english, very smart ect. then my friend phillipp who live near goettigen, and who was an exchagne student in fort collins last year. we then walked around my town with my host mum and i took alot of pics. we came home and had a good conversation about soccer and life. then me phillipp, philip and steffen went to a turkish resteraunt and got Kabob, which is kinda like a gyro. it was really good. we then went to a concert in a neighboring town to see a band called taschen billard. they were really good. then we came back and sat around talking. my german is bad. lets just flat out say it. i can understand alot though it is just frustrating not to understand everything. but i wll get better. my goal is fluency by christmas

love you

Tyler

Second Update on Germany

Well here I am. I arrived in Germany around PM on August 26th. I had a long trip and i was so happy to see my host family in Hannover. The Detriot airport was suprisingly nice. i enjoyed a overpriced piece of pizza from little ceasers, a vanilla latte from starbucks and too many games of hearts on my laptop. the trip overseas was very comfortable. the food was decent, the movies were great. i didnt sleep but the flight went fairly fast and we landed in amsterdam an hour early. i quikly excited the plane and made my way out of the airport. i bought a rountrip ticket to downtown and back and then i began my first solo excursion of a european city. Surreal? You have no idea. the pictures i'm attaching are all from this little expedition. I ate at this nice resteraunt (see pictures) where i enjoyed a pancake and a cup of coffee. ummmm it hit the spot. After finishing the meal i realized how exhausted i was, so i made my way back to the airport. After a brief nap there it was time to go to Hannover. As i was boarding the plane another rotary student walked up to me. She was at the airport the whole time and i hadent seen her! She was so nice and easy to talk to. Her name is kelcey and she is in a town near mine called Helmstedt. We landed in Hannover in less than an hour. i met my host family and they are such amazing people. I was greeted with a giant hug and a huge smile. We had an amazing conversation on the ride home and over dinner. I am so excited for the year to come. I love you all so much.

More to come tommorow.

Love, Tyler