END OF NOVEBER

Now that the end of November is coming and I have only 17 more days until I come home, I decided that I should update you a little.

As the majority of people know who read this it was my birthday this month and I just wanted to say thank you for all of the cards and packages that I got, it meant a lot to me.

I had a birthday party for my birthday, and me and some of my friends went out to dinner and a movie on the Saturday the 17^th, because we can't go anywhere on Sunday which was the actually the day of my birthday, we went to this little Italian place called abella Italia, and I had some pizza, and some taramousue desert, then we went to see “American Gangster”, and it was really good I got lots of pictures.

Then we had family night last Friday…….. and that is when our “families” get together and do something as a family (other people from the school, with staff members as parents)…………. But our parents had been gone for three weeks so we had no parents for family night so we had to join another family, and we joined this family and there dad was German (that is important to the story) and we played sardines (which is were one person hides and everyone else tries to find that one person, and when they do they also have to hide with that person) and we played around the castle on the main floor, and one person hid in the stables(which you weren’t allowed to go and hide in) but like half of the people playing found him and we were just hanging out and got really bored so we decided to have a pillow fight with the couch cushions and pillows, so we had a pillow fight, then we wanted to make a fort, so we went into the lounge and used all of the furniture(which there is 6 small tables, 8 couches, and like 20-25 chairs) including cushions, and we took some of the sheets from the laundry and made this fort (it was massive) it had three sitting rooms, and 3 tunnels it was amazing. But then the dad, Lukas wasn’t too pleased with our amazing fort, and he was getting mad and after we finished he blew up and kick in one of the chairs, and yelled at us in German, so we took it down, and went in and watched the “wedding singer”.

Then on Sunday the school had set up and American flag football game for us students to play, and I played in that, but it had rained the week before and at night, so the field was very muddy, and then we decided to play tackle football, but only if the girls wanted to, so we played tackle football for a little bit, then after the game died down we decided to have a mud fight, so we did that for maybe a half an hour, and that was super fun, I got so muddy, I stained my nice white shirt, and I had mud everywhere, you have to see a picture I was covered in mud. It was pretty much the most amazing thing ever. The only bad thing is that we completely ruined the football pitch

Oh and then some of the boys decided t play a prank on one of the most up tight guys here, and he is very anal about his stuff and he is very cocky, so they took his bed, his mattress and his baskets of clothes and his other stuff and remade his room in stables down stairs. And then when he found out where his bed was, he came down and found his bed, he was really, really mad, and he said the f- word and broke a bench that was out side. It was really mean but funny.

This last weekend we went to the Trafered Center, which is a huge mall so I got lots of Christmas shopping done. This mall is the hugest thing ever, it’s maybe double the size of the Clackamas mall, and it could fit the Lloyd center and Washington Square together in it. The food court is made to look like the French quarter of New Orleans, and it is, also made to look like the food deck on a cruse ship, and it had a dj and a dance floor and a little pool as well, and the mall had a movie theatre, a laser tag place, and an arcade in it too. It was huge.

Until next time

bri

november update

Ok so I am sorry that I haven’t been updating this regularly but I have busy with school

I have had a couple of assignments and one test so far, I did really good on my paper that we had to write I got an A on that I didn’t do so hot on my Luke test which is kind of a bummer, but its ok I’m planning on doing better on the next test

Ok so a couple of weekends ago I went to Scotland for the travel weekend, which was four days away from the school, and nothing was planned out for us except the transportation there, other people went other places but they had to pay for there own transportation. Me and 5 other girls stayed in a mixed hostel in Edinburgh, and that was an adventure in its self, because there were 8 German guys 20-25 years old staying with us in the hostel……(the hostel could fit 16 people in it) and two other couples. So were getting ready to go out and have dinner and they all show up and start taking shots of some popular German liquor, and asking us if we wasn’t some and we said no we can't we are in bible school so them the whole time that they were there they thought that we were nuns and monks, which was fine by us…… so the first night we were all a little scared to go back to the room so we tried to stay out late and get back after the Germans got back but we didn’t make it, we came back to the room at like 2am and the Germans came back at like 5am and passed out, and snored really loud all of them and at different times, but all was good except they liked to walk around in tidy whites, so that was a little awkward but they were really funny and they didn’t try anything which we were all grateful. What else I mainly went shopping while I was there, and I got this really nice dress for a pound( two dollars)so that was pretty sweet, and I got some other things as well. I went to see that castle, we didn’t go in but we walked around outside. I got knighted while I was there, and I also go a picture with a guy that looked like Mel Gibson’s character from braveheart and then he was telling us what he’s known for, and it was a tattoo on his bottom and we were all like ya ok what ever, then he showed us, so we got mooned in Scotland, and the funny thing is that it was true, the same dudes bottom was on a key change. So that was funny……. And then we saw an anti-American anti-war protest, so I became Canadian for the weekend, so I wouldn’t die. But other than that is was fun lots of good memories from Scotland.

What else after lectures I go and I play either indoor soccer/football, or floor hockey….. and I have never had so many bruises, but I love it. Um it’s getting colder and colder each day and supper cold at night, I have resorted to wearing many, many like 3 or 4 layers and having 3 blankets on my bed and sleeping fully clothed which is very rare for me.

Um I can't wait to come home for Christmas, and see everyone, what else I’m not really getting fed that much and I feel like I’m constantly hungry, so I’m always snaking which is not a good thing. And they hot water is not more or at least in the conference hall where my room is, so I’m taking cold, really cold showers which is not always fun but it defiantly wakes you up…… and I think that I have a new shower record of 30 sec to 3 min, because that’s bout all the hot water you have. And event thought it’s almost my birthday it doesn’t feel like it still feels like Halloween should be the next holiday not thanksgiving, and then Christmas, I can't wait for some good home made cooking, food with flavor, and real bacon, and real eggs……I don’t know but I can only stand so much of food being made in bulk.

Oh and we are doing a Christmas program and I’m singing in the choir, and I’m also helping out at women’s conference called chosen, so that should be fun.

Until next time