Pre-Euro Tour Rambles

  Tomorrow I will be heading off on the grand adventure known as EuroTour with around 90 fellow exchange students.  I will do my best to have a blog post but I can guarantee that pictures will posted on my Shutterfly site: Journeys Across the Globe (see link in side bar).  Because of Easter holiday and EuroTour I don't have school for a month - yikes!  I'm a bit worried about going back because I will have missed 2.5 weeks.  At the end of March Laura headed back to Finland, her exchange over (she was with a different program) and we had a wonderful going away party for her, it's going to be sad going back to school without her.  My German has improved by leaps and bounds.  Frequently people will be speaking and it takes me a while to realize that, though I understand them, they are not in fact speaking English but German.  My English has also deteriorated and I often struggle to remember basic words.  And I dread when the English teacher asks me to define a word because now I just sort of nod and say "it's sort of like... you know..." because I forgot how to define it.  But all in all my exchange has been going peachy and I am not looking forward to July 25th because that means the end of the best year of my life.

Paris!

4.11.11 - 6.11.11

In November Rotary had a mandatory trip to Paris... How cool is that, a mandatory trip to Paris.  There was no reason other than to let 90+ exchange students enjoy France's capital city.  It was fun and crazy to say the least.

The Itinerary

Highlights from the Trip:
-Sleeping on the floor of the bus on the way to Paris
-Going to the Louvre
-Seeing the Mona Lisa at least 2 times (one due to running around the Louvre without a map)
-Trying to locate famous pieces of art without a map and then later using a French map with Noora
-Finding out elevators are really good at helping you get unlost
-Seeing part of Hammurabi's Code
-Walking through Paris
-Eating street food on the steps of the Opera
-Buying a mini 2x2 Paris Rubik's cube key chain
-Seeing the Eiffel Tower at night
-Seeing the Moulin Rouge from the outside
-Buying and eating a baguette while walking around Paris
-Versailles
-Trying to walk to the end of the Versailles garden with Sarah
-Taking a boat tour on the Seine
-Walking around the Eiffel Tower
-Eating a Nutella crepe in front of the Eiffel Tower
-Wandering around Paris and ending up in a non-tourist area - enjoying Paris at it's best
-Going to Notre Dame de Paris - dream come true, though I did resist singing a song from The Hunchback of Notre Dame
-Sleeping on the floor of the bus again, it's a comfier than trying to squish in a little seat

There was more space than there looks...

My Speech in English

Hello. My name is Hanna Fischer and I'm from Boise, Idaho in America. Boise is located in the western part of the United States. I have been in Brandenburg for three months. I'm eighteenyears old and I have finished school, after twelve years, in America. My father, Todd, is an engineer and a Rotarian. My mother, Karry, works in the library. My sister, Ida studies hydrology at college in California and she is twenty-one years old. I am in the eleventh grade at the Domgymnasium and am learning mathematics, physics, German, sports, history, art and English. My favorite subjects are math and sports. My hobbies are reading books, horseback riding and writing novels and I am a Girl Scout. I have already visited Berlin, Eisenach, Quedlimbug, Speyer, Heidelberg, Cologne and Duisburg. I found Cologne Cathedral, the Cathedral of Speyer, Heidelberg Castle and the Wartburg interesting. I like Döner and the architecture in Germany. I love Germany! 

The German Original:
Hallo. Ich heiße Hanna Fischer und ich komme aus Boise, Idaho aus America. Boise liegt im Western von U.S.A. Ich bin seit drei monaten in Brandenburg. Ich bin achtzehn Jahre alt und ich habe die Schule nach zwölf Jahren in America beendet. Mein Vater, Todd, ist ein Ingenieur und ein Rotarier. Meine Mutter, Karry, arbeitet in der Bibliothek. Meine Schwester, Ida, studiert Hydrologie an der Universität in Kalifonien und sie ist einundzwanzig Jahre alt. Ich lerne im Domgymnasium in der elften Klasse Mathematik, Physik, Deutsch, Sport, Geschichte, Kunst und Englisch. Mein Lieblingsfächer sind Mathematik und Sport. Meine Hobbys sind Bücher lesen, Reitsport und Romane schreiben und ich bin eine Pfadfinderin. Ich besuchte schon Berlin, Eisenach, Quedlimbug, Speyer, Heidelberg, Köln und Duisburg. Interessant waren für mich der Kölner Dom, der Dom von Speyer, das Heidelberger Schloss und die Wartburg. In Deutschland mag ich die Architektur und Döner. Ich liebe Deutschland!