Microsoft... Word.

FINALLY!

My computer has been down for nearly a week, and just yesterday I fixed it with the help of the German Army Computer Guy who lives right below my family's apartment.

AVG decided that I didn't need some necessary Windows files and deleted them. I am now running on Windows XP Professional German edition until I can replace or repair my normal Windows XP Home.

I have been so busy this past week! Where to begin?! I'll keep it short, I promise... I still have a little bit of homework :-)

Last week, and again today we visited two different groups of German students from all over the country who are doing some seminars about the US. All of them are very interested in the US, its people, and its culture. Many have already studied for a little while, if not a few months to a year somewhere in the States... and those who haven't really want to. They all have good English, so we spoke English with them to enhance their cultural encounter with Americans. It was a very good time. We played frisbee with them!! It was an AWESOME GAME... I love when you balance the teams out just right; the game pace and play is so much fun.

We visited Cologne again last week. There we saw a museum all about Cologne... learned about its history and saw some historical items. The tours are fun, but I brought my laptop with me... long boring story; basically I was just looking for help from anyone... so it was a drag to have to carry it all over with me.

Today, as a lesson, we had AIB Olympics! It was awesome... our team lost overall, but we had a few good wins. The last event was awesome. We were given two apples, and had to split our team in half and try to barter/trade with townspeople/businesses to come back with either something more valuable than the apple or very funny. My group tried to trade the apple for some books, but the booklady didn't want it if it wasn't an organic apple... we weren't sure if it was, and didn't want to lie, so we kept going. We then traded it for a pretty good sized sunflower. No one would trade us anything for the sunflower at all... we tried people on the street, and businesses... we even tried trading it for bones from the butcher, and go for the funny points... no go. We decided to go back to the booklady who was so happy we returned that she let us pick out one book each. We returned to school with four books, expecting to win at least the most valuable prize, but we picked out pretty funny books anyway; one had a super creepy lady on the cover, and the book is called, "Playing with small children and babies." We lost, but it was an awesome time.

I can feel my German getting better and my English getting worse. It is awesome sometimes, and horrible at others... like for instance when I am writing a blog entry :-D

That's it for now... I need to do homework... I will post pictures tomorrow if anyone's interested. As always they will be on Facebook and only the good ones will be on here :-)