Goodbye Family Hello School

Hi everyone J Im writing to you from the car. When I get internet I can then post this to my blog. WOW! I have a lot to fill you in on. So lets start where I left off last which was Thursday night. We ended up just staying at Elizabeths until late and then went back to Erikas. At Erikas we watched CSI in German. It was pretty funny. On Friday we did a lot. In the morning we woke up and had our breakfast again. Every morning Erika and Hanz make this homemade juice with oranges, grapefruit, apples and other fruits. It has a thick almost smoothie texture and its awesome! Im going to miss not waking up to that tomorrow morning. After breakfast I showed them pictures from my friends and family back home then we drove to Uncle Jaksch and Tante Annas house (Uncle Jaksch is my Omas brother). My Unlce Lothar was there too. As usual we just sat around the table and talked until lunch was done. For lunch they served…. Duck! Yuck! I felt rude turning down the soup with the ducks heart, liver and etc. in it but I couldn’t bring myself to taste it. Since I turned that down I had to try the duck. It was bad enough that I was going to try duck but the piece they gave me was like a chicken leg. I hate mean on the bone if you didn’t know that about me. Overall the duck wasn’t really that bad but I had only 2 small bites. My lunch consisted of a dumpling and a few bowls of salad. Something interesting about their salad is that unlike ours, it doesn’t have tons of veggies in it and you dont pour dressing over it. I think it might just be something my family and people in the area do but their salad is shredded lettuce with an oil based dressing that they make from ingredients like pickle juice, a little German mustard and things like that. Its very good. After lunch we walked to the house next door that Lothar and his son Lothar bought. Their doing a, “flip this house.” Right now its absolutely disgusting and theres nothing in but broken concrete and dirt. After that we left and went and looked at my first castle. Its called Schluss Egg. It was super cool. After we went to Helmuts house (another one of my cousins) and visited with him. After that we were off to the hospital to visit my cousin Franzie. He will be in until Monday because he has to have a bi-pass on his foot. We went back to Erikas then and ate a quick dinner because we were off ot the theater for a play. It ended up being a lot of fun. I only understood parts of it but it was easy to figure out what they were saying. It was a comedy with ten sepearte acts and half way through there was a break. At the break you could buy these little papers rubber banded shut for .50 each. When you opened the ticket it either said something like better luck next time or it had a number. If it had a number you would take it to the tables with prizes and match your number to the prize. I won two bottles of wine! After that we went home and we watched the German Mardi Gras on T.V. It was so cool to see how close our Mardi Gras at the Rosemont Convention Center is to the actual one here. This morning we woke up and Elizabeth came over. We got an early start and drove down to Passau. I love it there. It has much more city life and rush than Deggendorf. We walked around downtown Passau and looked in the stores then went to the Dom. Its an old church with the world oldest organ that they still play time to time. The detail inside the church was impeccable. We then drove over through the mountains to a restaurant called Blass. You wouldn’t believe the view! It sat on a mountain that overlooked the entire city of Passau. We ate Palachinka there. They were so yummy but not as good as my Omas J Well now were on our way to Linz. 41 km to go. Im so excited to finally get out tonight. Spending these past few days with my family has been great but Im ready to “fly from the nest.” Ive been doing well with communication except when people talk with their Bayrischen accents. Then it sounds like a whole different language. Its funny how a dialect of a language can make it sound completely different. There are quite a few things here that I notice that are different from America like their houses, their hospitals,their street signs and lights, and obviously the people. Somethings are the same like the music. The first day I was here I felt right at home when the radio was on. The first song I heard was by the Beach Boys, then Nsync and then Adele! Well we will be arriving at school soon so Ill right again when I have internet. Oh and Ill catch up on all my promised skype sessions. Miss you all especially Mister Kyle Fred L