Home, Sweet Home

Its been already one week since I arrived at Berlin. Berlin - My hometown where I used to belong.
What have I done so far? I met some friends, ate all the food I like and relaxed at home. At the first day it was quite unusual to be at home. My bed is suddenly so small and the view of the window in my room isnt the same.

Berlin Kudamm :D

I dont know why but in some perspectives I prefer Torquay. There is no rush, the people are a lot more friendly than here in Berlin and there are more beautiful landscapes.. I asked my friends how they are going on with their A-Levels, they are working hard and getting good marks but I cant really imagine to come back here to Berlin after this exchange year and work as hard as they do. I got way to lazy in Torquay and the best would be to graduate there since I only got A and B marks in my subjects but my parents wont allow this... Unfortunately I dont have lots of time, so I will only upload some pictures of the food here and write a bigger one back in Torquay. Merry Christmas and a happy new year!

Duck :3

Noodlesoup

Döner :D

Paella :D

At my chinese restaurant :3

Irish Herp Pub :3

Farewell, My Fellas

Sitting in the sixth form room, dont know what to write, dont know what to feel...
Its gone so quickly, I will return to Berlin in 15 hours... I was so happy two weeks ago but now I cant feel anything.. Except sorrow.. I made so many good friends here and now I should leave them? I know its only for three weeks but the imagination that we have to seperate all in a half year is really really difficult to imagine.. I mean three of my good friends here are leaving Torquay forever. They are staying in Germany after Christmas.. And its really sad.. We had yesterday a really nice farewell evening with them.. 14 people came and we ate first at the Chinese restaurant Oriental Touch, then we went down to the beach for some fun :)

All of my good friends :)

I was so sad to say goodbye to them.. But I cant change it.. Everything comes to an end. Thats also a reason why I didnt wrote blog for such a long time.. I wanted to spend every free minute with them.. But thats not the only reson, I was also sick... I had fever, and I somehow catched a cold.... Then the internetconncetion of my hostmum broke, so I lied in my bed, ill, without internet... Greaaatt...-.-

Farewell evening.. :(

But I am feeling great now, full of energy but I still cant believe that I will go tomorrow... Im gonna miss my friends here for sure... I will have a nice evening with the internationals, then Paul will come over to my place and we will play the night through until we have to go to the coach station at 4:30...-.- What kind of sourcery is this?! So early in the morning...-.- My plane is leaving at 13:30 and I will be finally in Berlin at 15:30 :D
Its gonna be amazing, I cant wait.... All the food, all my friends, all the old locations I used to go when Im bored... :D So.. I will also write blog while I am in Berlin ;) I think its really amazing how my blog developed.. :D I have about 2300 visitors, most from Germany and England but also a lot from America and some minorities from China, Sweden, Poland, Spain and Ukraine :D

Party hard ;)

Sooo... My beloved friends.. See you in three weeks again and to Kayley, Sebastian and Laura.. I hope I will see you soon again, I wish you everything good in the future!!! :)

My beloved Mira <3 :)

Cutie Lucy :D

Gonna miss you, Kayley :(

Surprise Party

Lucia had birthday on Wednesday, so Mira and I decided to arrange something big for her because she turned 18.. o.O We had some different thoughts but in the end we had the best idea ever..!!
So, we planned to make a surprise party for Lucia at my place. It was soo awesome but let me tell you every detail :)

Happy Birthday Lucia :D

First I asked my hostmum if its possible to celebrate her birthday at my place and she agreed which is really impressive in my opinion.. I mean she even allowed us to drink some alcohol :O So we asked close friends of Lucia here and they all agreed.. The preparation was really exhausting.. I asked Kevin to buy me champaign and Cider but it didnt worked at the first time.. We went to Tesco and I helped Kevin to carry the alcohol. Unfortunately the cashier wanted to see our IDs.. Kevin is obviously 18 but I didnt expected that they want to see my ID as well.. So I pretended that I forgot my ID but it didnt worked.. They didnt wanted to sell us the alcohol because we were in a "group" and everyone has to be 18.. Bullshit... Really.... That pissed me off the whole day...-.- So I told Kevin what I exactly wanted and he went to the same Tesco after some time again... First and most important thing done... I also bought lots of soft drinks, sweets and every other utility you need to make the party roll :D

Only the half of the things I bought..

The day came nearer and nearer and without realizing it was Friday. I stood up in the morning, cleaned my room and went to school. We also prepared a cake and a birthday card for her, with a little text and Happy Birthday written in different languages.. There was only one question.. How could we get Lucia to my place without her noticing that something is going on? Mira had the idea to pretend that we would do math at my place.. To be honest, I didnt thought it was a great idea but it worked :D She is so naiv, thats kinda cute :D
So, after school Mira went with Lucia home first and I went home with all the guests. Oh right, I didnt mentioned the guests.. Let me quickly list all the persons who were invited: Mira, Tora, Erik, Lisa, Hannah, Peter, Sterre, Jimmy :) We hided everything suspicious and after Mira and Lucia arrived I opened the door and led them into my room where everybody was hiding... Lucia entered my room and everybody jumped out and screamed happy birthday!!! :D

Champaign! :D

Her face was so hilarious and she was speechless... :D
We talked a lot, had a lot of fun and the most important thing - Lucia was happy :)
We ordered pizza from Pizza Hut for dinner and luckily we got a 40% discount because our bill was larger than 35 Pounds.. :3 After eating pizza and cake we went back to my room and somehow we started to snuggle :D We snuggled a long time while hearing some really enjoyable music.. It was soo good.. :D The time flew by and without noticing it was eleven o clock.. Time for everybody to leave.. I went to Eriks place for sleepover, we talked a bit and went to bed then... Amazing day really.. :D Can happen anytime again in my opinion :D Oh right, by the way, the countdown is on..!! Only 10 days left until Berlin :D

Awesome start in a day..

Its getting darker and darker in the morning.. :(

10 People on my bed? No problem ;)

The first step to groupsnuggeling.. Someone lies on the ground :D

And the rest lies on the person :D

Dont ask me why I am so red here..-.-

Jonas friends visited him for some days and brought him a .. Döner :D

We have 9° here right now.. o.O

3 Month Recap

Here we go. Three month in Torquay, six to go :D
Its so hard to imagine that I am already 90 days here. Without my family, without my German friends..
So many things changed in these 90 days... I gained a lot of new friends from whole over the world, I improved my English a lot, I learned so much about the English way of life and I started to live on my own without my family.

Torquay, England, some landscape pictures :D

I can still remember the first day. I arrived at the airport, stoked, didnt knew anyone around the airport and started to talk to people who are also from my organisation. With most of them I kept the friendship, its so incredible... They are so amazing its like we have been friends since ages. I am sure that I will keep the friendship even after this year!! :)
Some of them are leaving Torquay forever after Christmas, which is kinda sad.. Florian got the opportunity to go to America for the rest of the year and of course he would like to but its not sure whether he is going or not. I hope he wont go but of course I want the best for him since he is a really close friend of me..
I also heard that Westlands will get some new exchange students after Christmas, so I am really exited to meet them.. Christmas is also coming, the christmasmarket in Berlin are already opened and I wanna go there soo bad... 16 More days until home.. Cant wait.. :D

Dinner at my hostmums place.

There is nothing really happen here in Torquay, after school I am always in town or in the gym and in the weekends I barely go to Exeter or Plymouth anymore because I lack on money...-.- I spend way to much here, I have only 50 Pounds left until Christmas.. So I have to spare my money... Lucia has birthday on Wednesday, she will turn 18!!! :D Which also means... Nevermind :D I will give you report about this some days later :)

Nero after school :)

Is that a fire? Or only smoke? o.O

Coursework, Christmas Market And News

I dont know why but I started to bring my laptop to school since Monday. Sometimes it is really boring so I can write blog or do homework on it.
But I also discovered something really interesting. If I turn on hotspot from my iPhone I can also use internet which also means that I can play League of Legends. In school!! :D I spread this idea around my friends and they liked it. Now they are playing sometimes during free lesson. I really want to but I think socialise with people is more important, yet I used to play sometimes xD 

Instagramaddicted :D

3er premade.. :D

I have every free period with Mira and Erik together but sometimes they are going home after lesson so I am sitting in the sixth form center alone and cant do anything. I cant leave school before all the lesson ends, stupid white house rule... I also discovered that making notes during the lesson with my laptop is much more easier than with my hand. It is quicker and if the teacher makes any mistakes I can easily correct them and safe them in a file. So from now on I will bring my laptop everyday to school it is so much better. I was also asked from Nikki, my coordinator here if its possible that a German girl can stay at my hostfamilies place for 3 weeks after Christmas.. She will attend to Westlands as well and I kinda like that idea :D

Awesome, typical English dinner :D

My childish side comes up and I wanna prank her xD She will live with Jimmy and me but I will pretend to be a Chinese. So whenever she talks to her family on skype I can understand everything and she wont notice it :D Of course I am joking, I mean it can to terribly wrong. I will try to support her and be a nice hostbrother :3 I also got a Russia exchange student for 2 days at the last weekend because his school was flooded due the terrible unstoppable rain here... He is really nice and it is really sad that he already left us.

After a lot of rain finally sunshine..

So how am I doing? :) School is fine, math is getting really complicated now like in my old school and we are learning things Ive never heard of, so I am more interested now. Sociology is still really really interesting, we are currently watching a German film called "Die Welle" :D English language is also really intersting now, we have to write a coursework until Christmas. I chose the topic "Vegan - Need for meat?" and I nearly finished my work. Nothing really changed here. My friends are still the same, I was with Mira and Lucia in Exeter on Sunday. Mira wanted to buy a Jack Wills gilet so we decided to join her. We discovered a Christmas market behind the Jack Wills store and I was stunned. There is a German Bratwurststand, where Germans are working!! :D Amazing, isnt it?? :)

yummy :D

Like I mentioned before, the weather was really really annoying the last week. It rained the week through and the raindrops even felt into my room due a small hole in the roof...
But I read the weather report for this week and it seems like that it will be a sunny week!!! :D
22 days left until Berlin... I am counting the days down already, cant wait for it :D

Doing "homework" in Nero :D

Rainy rainy day... Yet we went outside for Chinese all you can eat :D

I gave Laura private math lesson :D She did really well :3

Psy or Bieber? :D

Hilarious how Jimmy is eating xDD

Homesick...

Berlin... Miss you soo much after 80 days...
Only 29 days left, then I am able to be home.. East, West - Home's best :D
After some discussion in Nero with my international friends about our home I started to realize how badly I am missing my friends, my family, German and Chinese food and of course Berlin...
I really hope my depressionphase is over soon, I hate that feeling... In addition with the typical English weather my mood is changing soo quickly..

Main street :)

Sometimes I feel like in heaven, its soo fun here, hanging out with friends, enjoying schoollife, training in the gym, chatting and skyping with friends... But then, when I have nothing to do... I suddenly start to think about the meaning of life, what I want to reach with it and other depressing things.. This sucks... Three days ago I discovered a snack bar where they sell original German sausages... I was walking by, earphones with some really good music plugged and then I read "Bratwurst" and "Currywurst"... After a dew steps I stopped and realized it then... What?? They are selling them here?? I runned to the snack bar and saw the prices... 3,5 Pounds for one Bratwurst.. Sooo expensive.. Nevermind, I ordered one and ate it with soo much enjoyment.. The taste.. Like those which are selled nearby my house in Berlin.. Soo delicious... :D

Ready for Christmas?

I went to Nero and shared my discovery with the other Germans, of course they went there and bought one as well :) I want to get rid of beeing homesick as soon as possible.. An exchange year is meant to be away from home, I have to bear this.. Otherwise I wont have fun here and I wont enjoy the year... So from now on, I will think positive, its only 29 days until return :D

Hot Chocolate Milano in Nero :D

Nevertheless, I had some funny days here.. You might be wondering why I didnt blog since last Monday, there is a simply reason :D I didnt had any time nor desire to write.. I was so busy the past few days, I got soo much homework and of course I didnt finish any of them :D But yeah.. I started and now I have nearly all of them.. I still have to write a sociology essay, my English language coursework and lots of mathstuff... :/
I was in Exeter again, training in the gym is really funny because my friends are there as well and they have a sauna.. :D I have never been in a sauna before, but then I tried it together with Erik and Mira and I love it :D
Its soo good after a hard workout, I can feel my muscles growing.. :P I was weighing myself in the gym and they also calculated my body fatpercentage.. I am right now 57,5 kilos heavy and I have only 8% of fat in my whole body.. Thats really low compared to an average 16 years old boy..
Mira also showed me instagram and I love it :D I love reprocessing my good pictures with instagram, its so much fun and it looks so much better... I will show you only pictures from instagram in this post which I made the past few days :D

Thank you for showing me instagram :D

So, I will get tomorrow my other math exam back, I really hope that its marked with an A.. :)
My next post will be out in... Well depending how exiting this week will be, but I would never let you guys wait too long ;D Enjoy your school, and see you soon ~

Mira :3

Sexy Tora :D

Edo :)

Florian :D

Myself :D

Do I look like Psy here? o.O

Pfaueninsel in Berlin :D

My favourite one... *__*

Also not bad :D

Torquay... :3

The cliffs.. :D

Shanghai... Not Torquay xD

We found this in Exeter :D