sledding

sunday afternoon some people from church and i went sledding up on a hill close to where we live. it was a beautyful sunny day and we enjoyed beeing outside. it was just a blast!

here you see some crazy people (my 2 friends Angela and Janina) sledding down the hill. the ground was frozen so it was a fast ride!


of course we had a couple of little accidents too :-) it was still fun!









this week is full with study time because next week i`ll have some of my exams. i think i will be ready by then but it`s still a long way to go...

good morning

it`s saturday morning and i`m more or less ready to study all day long. school is tough at the moment because we have exams in 2 weeks. last year i only had 3 exams and just one of them was a lot of work. this february i`ll have 7 exams and 4 are quite some work. i`m not the kind of person that likes to sit down and study every minute i can..
i`d rather have some time off to enjoy the weekends. but it a couple of weeks it will be over! yeah!

but abong all the things i have to study there are some real fun ones - music history :-) it`s so interesting to see why the composers composed their pieces the way they did. it all makes sense as soon as you know some of the background. i wish i had more time to study things like that!

when i woke up this morning i looked out my window and it looked like this:



isn`t that cool? i love it!! even when it`s a day where you just have to study - how bad can it be when it starts like this?? :-)

JoJo

shock

1 week has already passed since my last entry.
right now i`m pretty shocket because on the way home from school something really bad happened. i always go to school by train. today all the sudden the train went "chooo choooooo" and then made an emergency stop. but before the train lost speet you could hear the dead sound of something that hit the train... we drove over something. as we later learned it was not just something but a person... we were all so shocked!! fortunately it was dark outside and we couldn`t see anything!
we sat there for one and a half hours and had time enought to think about what had just happened... goodness.

but let`s talk about other things now.

my sister left for cambodia this week. she arrived well and is already settled in a little bit. tomorrow she has her first khmer class (that`s the language they speek in cambodia). i`m very happy for her to have the chance to do something like that even though i will miss her a lot during that year.

today, a friend of mine left for china. brave ladies huh?!

all right, "talk" to you later. JoJo

winter

all right. now that we all know this thing IS working - here some more pictures (i`m just showing the ones where it actually does look like winter). this winter is NOT what it`s supposed to be. usually this time a year there`s snow everywhere, it`s cold and you have to wear heavy clothes, gloves and boots. winter this year is all confusing. it`s more like fall - rainy, quite warm and... NO SNOW... :-(
over christmas my mom and dad and i went up on a mountain where the feeling of winter was all around us! it was a wonderful day and i enjoyed it a lot!



just so you don`t forget what i look like. one more :-)



but now, school started again and i will be pretty busy over the next couple of weeks. i have some exams in early february and then i`ll be in an internship in a school for another 2 weeks.

and very SOON, i will be in CA!! can`t wait to see all my friends again!

Test

let`s see if this thing is working :-)