My Week in a Nutshell

Faithful readers,
I have not written a worthwhile post in 4 days. Please forgive me. So now I will attempt to catch up before HELEN ARRIVES IN 8 HOURS!!! That's right! Helen is coming to stay the weekend, and I will be picking her up from the airport in 8 hours. Maybe that's why I can't sleep right now.... Hmm. So, here we go. My week in a nutshell.

Monday - Breakfast. English lesson. Lunch. Rode bikes with Wilhelm and Levin 8 km around SchiederSee - score! It was absolutely beautiful. And I was positively sore in limbs I hardly ever use once we were done. Dinner. Bed.

Tuesday - Breakfast. English lesson (which was the story of David and Goliath, told by me, translated by Alwina). Lunch. Badminton with Elias, Lionel, and Alwina. Haven't played that game in YEARS. It was random, and super fun! Dinner. Walk with Alwina and Elias to get ice cream downtown. The couple that owns the ice cream shop travels here from Italy for half of the year, so the ice cream is homemade and superb :)

Wednesday - Breakfast. English lesson (the story of Joseph - Part 1. Because that is a long story!). Lunch. Bumped the volleyball (that's right! They found their volleyball!) in the backyard with Wilhelm, Elias, and Lionel. Highest bump count - 21. Yeah, we're almost to pro level. Dinner. Went to "bed" early because we were going to do so much Thursday. I stayed up playing Angry Birds, Rummikub, and Scrabble on my computer instead of worthwhile things like sleeping and doing devotions. What awful things to neglect.

Thursday - Quick breakfast. Left the house at 8:15 am to drop Levin off at his grandparents' house and drive 3 hours to Bremerhaven. In the car on the way, I played Go Fish, 31 (it's a card game), the ABC sign game, and the "Oma went to Paris, and in her trunk she took..." game with the boys and Alwina, because Wilhelm was driving. When we got to Bremerhaven (FINALLY), we had a picnic lunch in the back of the Duecks' car while it was in the parking garage. I will never forget that. Then, we paid 0,50 E (pretend that's the symbol for euros, please) to go to the WC (bathroom). After all that, we were finally able to reach our destination - the Klimahaus.
For those of you who don't speak German or live in Germany (which would, I think, be all of you), Klimahaus means "climate house." Basically, this man traveled around to 8 different countries all located on the 8 degrees and 34 minutes longitude line (I hope you know what that means, because I don't). In each country, he followed around one family or person to get to know what their life was like. Then, he came to Germany and built this amazing house to show the different climates in the countries and raise awareness of planet conservation. I took over a hundred pictures, but some of them didn't come out very well because it was dark. Anyway, you had to be there and experience it to appreciate it fully. The countries were: Switzerland, Sardinia (a small island off the coast of Italy), Niger, Cameroon, Antarctica, Samoa, Alaska (I know that's not technically a country, but bear with me), and Germany. Here are some of my favorite pictures from the trip. In order of my favorite "rooms."

So yes. It was very fun! Obviously, I will be posting more pictures on Facebook soon, but that is all I have for right now. Anyway, I have to be up in less than 3 hours, so I should probably try and get some sleep.

More later! :)

PS: Get Your Chips Tartared. (Sorry...it's really late. haha)

PSS: How do you say, "I hate being a night owl, and I just want to go to sleep already!!!!" in German? hahaha You know who you are.