Thursday, October 05, 2006

Germans!


Last Friday, Lee & Diana picked up our exchange student from Germany. Her name is Leonie, and she's very nice. Her English is very good, and she has been a pretty easy guest so far.

Diana is experiencing more High School stuff than she normally would. The first night the students arrived, there was a home football game. Leonie wanted to check it out, so off they went. I dropped them off and they got a ride home with another host & german student. Diana hadn't ever been to a game before.

The next day was Saturday, and we went to a Harvest Festival (kind of dull, but it gave Leonie a chance to see a little of the town & try our great ice cream). That night there was a pool party at another host family's house, so I dropped them off there. There were 40+ high school kids there (yikes!) and that was Diana's first big boy/girl party.

On Sunday, a local pilot flew groups of 3 german students at a time for an hour-long flight. We were actually scheduled for 9:00, but it was too cloudy, and she eventually got to do her flight from noon to 1:00. After that, we had to get stuff together for a pot luck dinner, held at our big park on the river. Connor enjoyed throwing rocks in the river a lot.

Then on Monday, school started. Leonie followed Diana through her schedule the first couple of days. I had to go to a Girl Scout leader meeting, but Lee took Leonie with him to get some groceries.

Tuesday we had our regular Girl Scout meeting. I'm not sure what Leonie actually thought of that. I have some wild & crazy teen girls and there's a lot of giggling and silliness and eating. I actually had the scouts figure out a craft to do as a kind of get-to-know-you thing. So they all had canvas bags, sequins, puff paint, felt, googly eyes, etc. to stick on with sewing, tacky glue or hot glue. Everyone made a unique bag. Some of the girls got it all done, others are still working on them. After that, we had spaghetti. Mary was impressed with Leonie's use of a tablespoon to wind her spaghetti on her fork. "I love how Leonie does it right, and we're all just slopping spaghetti on our faces!"

Wednesday all the german students took a tour of our mill and museum. Leonie thought it was a little long. Leonie's best friend (also an exchange student) came to visit. I dropped Diana off with them at our outdoor mall for a couple of hours. They had to go to Claire's, Dollar Tree, and the Spirit store. That's a temporary Halloween store. Since they don't do Halloween in Germany, it was a lot of fun for the german girls to see it.

Today Leonie got her own schedule of classes. She's checking out Beginning Acting, Foods, and other elective classes. She said she enjoyed that today. Then after school, she went along to the Japanese club meeting with Diana. Speaking of, in her downtime, Leonie loves reading Diana's manga. She's currently going through Full Metal Alchemist, one of Diana's favorites. They aren't familiar with that one in Germany.

Tomorrow we'll go to the big mall in Eugene so Leonie can check out Hot Topic (so she can get her own FMA stuff. Whoo Hoo!

:)

2 comments:

keeka said...

Sheesh! Finally!

Anonymous said...

i miss her.... nae