Yesterday: Am Thie and Shloss Today: Autostadt

Yesterday we went to the school's track, dropped off our partners and left for Am Thie gymnasium. We got there and were met by three girls from the last exchange, I remembered two of them from Biology class, but they didn't remember me, dang. We went into the school, it is a pretty modern building with air conditioning, thank God. We went to French class after that and watched Moulin Rouge in German, which was really wierd because I thought the movie was trippy in english. We left there and took break. We met a girl from Tennessee who was staying for a few weeks, like us. We talked about the south and I think that made everyone a little homesick. We then went to English class, we were asked questions about America and how we live. We then went to another break and talked with Tennesse girl and Sophie some more. We left for home, Pia talked to me about sport events, and how alot of kids had to go to the hospital from heat exhaustion. We went home and ate asparagas soup, and later waffles with applesauce, which was really good. I crashed for about half an hour, and Liz and Nele came to go with us to Blankenburg Schloss. We got there, it is a whole castle full of tunnels and caves and rooms built entirely out of the top of a mountain! All of the walls were sandstone, the castle was in ruins, probably from a war back in the middle ages. We went back and immediately Lorenz took me to his Jazz practice. I heard them play, and we then left to go see the play. On the way, my bike tire popped, again, I think it's all the beer and Currywurst...We walked to the school and watched probably the wierdest play ever. It was about teenage love and some other things I won't get in to. We walked outside and chilled with Lorenz's friends, who all spoke english really well. We walked back home, grabbed an Erdbeer Eis (Strawberry Icecream) and got home in time to watch Greece play Switzerland. Barbara and I talked more about Dalton.

I got to wake up later this morning, because Pia was on a Track team trip. Barbara took me to the bus station, and we went to the Autostadt. I slept on the way over. We got there, it is a HUGE city just built for making cars and designing. There were exhibits from all Volkswagen companies, Audi, Bentley, ect. We designed our own cars, looked at all the new tekkie stuff they had (jealous, Mark?) We went on a guided tour of an Volkswagen assembly line, which was really cool. We had some currywurst at the restaurant there, then left to go home. On the ride home, I fell asleep. When I woke up, Katarina fell asleep and basically fell on my shoulder, not a great wake up. We left and went to the Venetian for, you guessed it, Eis. I couldn't remember where exactly the house was, the streets all look the same, so Mi and some other girl swung me by there. When I got home, Barbara took me shopping, we went to the German version of Wal-Mart and bought things for Mexican tonight. We got back, and I think I am going to watch the Czech-Poland game tonight, or go for a run.

Tchüss