German family and friends/Easter

Dienstag 3 Apr - NIGHTPARC. After recovering and sleeping a lot on Sunday and Monday I finally decided I should do something and get out of the house. I met up with a friend from school, Laury, and we just talked about the weekend and relaxed at a coffee shop. Laury had organised a little night out which I wasn't too sure about because I was starting to get sick, but the I thought to myself I am only here for a year why the heck not! So the night started off going to his house, meeting his mum and his dog (the biggest dog ever which resembles Nero a little bit), opening some red wine and listening to some German music. Then a few of his friends came over too and we talked, they are awesome people, and then headed to a club where supposedly everyone our age goes, Nightparc. Once inside I actually knew a few people surprisingly, I caught up with Ditschi and Johann (who was one of the first German guys I met), danced and talked with them :) It was a pretty good night just developing more friendship and dancing, a lot of dancing.

Mittwoch 4 Apr - EASTER EGG HUNT. Since Roy was a young boy he has been slightly deprived from the ultimate Easter experience, no easter eggs and no hunt only receiving an apple.. I decided it was my duty to organise an Easter egg hunt for him!! With the assistance of Laury, Laury's friend (Daniel), Katie and Katie's host sister I successfully organised an amazing Easter egg hunt in Laury's backyard. We made little paper baskets for the eggs and then we were ready to start. Laury, Daniel and I hid the eggs in especially hard spots. After running around like little kids for about half an hour Roy and Katie finally found every Easter egg. Katie found 35 and Roy 40. Roy was soooo happy that he won and I awarded him with a special prize, a Lindt bunny, though I was more excited when the Kinder suprises had Lion King toys :) The excitement finally died down a bit and we were all eating Kinder surprises when Luca (soon to be host brother) and Naima (Luca's girlfriend) arrived, we shared our stash and talked a lot. The weather was pretty nice so we went for a stroll along the beach, all in all a very cute day.

Freitag 6 Apr - MUM AND DAD IN ROSTOCK. Peter, Karin and myself picked Mum and Dad up at the Rostock harbour after the Ferry trip from Denmark. I was actually surprised when I saw them that I didn't cry or get overly excited, maybe since being here I have controlled my emotions (highly doubtful but maybe) - but when I did see them I felt a lot more relaxed than I've been as from then on it felt like I didn't need to try as hard as they are my parents and know everything about me. The day involved Peter and Karin showing us around Rostock, visiting the old city with its churches, cobblestone streets and rich history in the museum. We then had dinner at "The Old Western" restaurant with Peter and Karin, we talked forever and ate nice meals together - I didn't realize how good Peter and Karin's English was until they were in deep conversation with Mum and Dad.  After a nice day/night we both headed home, Mum and Dad to their hotel and Peter, Karin and myself to Roggentin.

Samstag 7 Apr - MEETING ALL THE HOST FAMILIES. In the beginning of the day I took Mum and Dad to the Rostock Easter market. After looking at every stall, Mum buying many wooden Easter egg ornaments and of course the shop at H&M, we meet up with Peter, Karin and Susi. They took us to a chocolate factory/shop then we headed to the Zeug's (my second host family) house for a BBQ dinner.

Off to Berlin, laters all!

Gotta love being an exchange student

At the moment I am extremely excited!! It is school holidays this week, next week I am travelling with Mum and dad/seeing Corinna, the week after that I am on Euro Tour with 150 exchange students for 3 weeks. SO MUCH FUN :) andddddddd i've booked 4 days in October in London with my two school friends, super excited!

31st Samstag Mar - My Hawaiian friend Katie, who lives in Ribnitz - a town about 20 mins away from mine, came to Rostock! First, her host parents dropped her off and after jokingly insulting me about my height they left. We drank tea with my host parents, talked about the life of exchange students and after 5 minutes they absolutely loved her! We quickly got ready and then headed to the train station, where unusually the train was late - very unlike German trains.At Hauptbanhof (Main station) we meet Roy and that's when our exchange student day began. We walked around the OsternMarkt (Easter market) laughing, speaking in foreign languages and just being annoying exchange students, so much fun. 3 euros later we were on a ferris wheel almost peeing our pants and laughing hysterically as an employee spun our basket around and around and around.. so dodgy! I finally broke my bubble tea virginity with Katie, and I was sadly disappointed... I expected it to be a hot tea with bubbles in it but no it was on of those Chinese easyway drinks with chunky fruits in it or so called "bubbles". 

After buying supplies we ended up at Roy's  house having a cute exchange student dinner together. Luca (Roy's host brother/my soon to be host brother) and his girlfriend were home so they ended up coming out with us to Bar Fuss and Stubnitz :) Now we had a big group of awesome people and the night was looking extremely good. Once at Bar Fuss we meet up with Lauri and Vincent (guys from school), we stayed with them and just chilled. However about 2 hours later we ended up at one of their friend's parties, no idea how we got in/invited but it was hilarious and everyone loved us we were "the exchange students".

 Finally we ended up at Stubnitz, I was really nervous that Katie wouldn't be let in as she is 16/she would be sent home at 12am as there is a curfew here in Germany but all was good! The boat was packed with people and the music was awesome, I lost everyone about 5 times and each time I did I met new people and each said that they loved Australians for their chilled nature and they also mentioned something about our killer animals.. Love being Australian! At about 3am I was getting worried/tired so Katie and l ended up going home by taxi and then just crashing when our heads hit our pillows. Once awake we realised how much we smelt of smoke (people smoke inside the clubs here!) and found bruises we didn't know how we got, but it was so worth it - best night. Katie absolutely loves Rostock now so she will come back all the time which is awesome! I loved having her here and I'm glad I have a girl exchange student living so close and especially since we get along so well too!

Also sorry about my English grammar, it is shocking, learning German has screwed it up majorly haha