New Year's Eve and Sledding Party! :)

Hi everyone! :)
Here is the next post, as I promised! :)

My New Year's Eve was really good!! :D I went to a party at a friend's house. We had a lot of fun. We had snacks (Chocolate Chip Cookies, Sugar Cookies with Frosting - really good *-*, chex mix and a lot of other stuff) and later pizza :D We played some games, had music and watched New Year's Eve shows on TV! After the countdown we just hung out a little bit and then we went home. One of my friends stayed overnight at my house! :)

With Jonna ♥

Fun! :D

I hope you all had a wonderful New Year's Eve and start in the new year, too! :)
I´m just putting the text from Facebook on here instead of writing something new :)
So here it is:
" This wonderful year is almost over...! Doing an exchange year was the best decision I could make. It´s such a great experience and I´m so thankful for all the people who helped me becoming this dream true! This was the best year of my life! heart emoticon Thank you to my new family for letting me become part of your great family. I´m so happy to have you and really appreciate and enjoy staying with you!! heart emoticon THANK YOU! smile emoticon I´m looking forward to spending the next year with you!
Have a happy new year!!"

My new year didn´t start that good though, because I got sick again. Same thing with my stomach again so we saw another nurse and she gave me some medicine and now I´m better! :) And I can enjoy the American food again! :D By the way, the food here is soooooo good and I like way more things than I used to in Germany! :D *-* But I don't know how I will survive without all this good food when I get back...??? :(  I don't want to go anyway!! I don't want to leave all the amazing people here and especially don't want to imagine living without my lovely family here.... :(:(:(:( ;(;(;( But I'm not thinking of going back right now!!! We have so many things we want to do before I have to go back and I´m pretty excited for all that!! :) :D

On Saturday I went to the dance competition at the high school with mom! :) I spent the morning with baking! :) I had a sledding party at our house in the night! I had a bunch of friends over and we had a lot of fun! :D We had pizza and some snacks and played some games and of course went sledding in the dark! It was really fun :D

Erika, Broolyn, Briel, Aleah, I, and Sophie! ♥

Selfie <3

 I also went to some hockey games, baskekball games, and wrestling meets with some friends!! :)
And I started Power Yoga again! It's really fun! :D Can't wait till Track starts :D Only a few more weeks :) But before that I'm going to Phoenix, Grand Canyon, and Las Vegas with mom, dad, and Grace :) *-* Soooo excited for the trip!! :D ♥

Yeah that was pretty much all that happened! :D
School is going pretty well! :)

I´m doing great and really love my family!!! ♥♥♥

Hope u r doing good on the other side of the world!! :*
Loves,
An-Ka :)

My American Christmas! *-*

Hey guys!

I´m so sorry it´s been so long since I´ve updated my blog! :( There was a lot going on between Thanksgiving and now so I decided that I write more little posts instead of one looooong one! ;) I start with the time between Thanksgiving and Christmas!

The second trimester started the Tuesday after Thanksgiving! I already told you all my classes. I really like the classes - they are all interesting and pretty much easy! And less homework!! *-* Sadly, I missed the second week of the tri because I was sick :( I also had my first experience with an American doctor! :( I had a stomach ache, felt dizzy, ... so we went to the doctor after a week. He said it was virus. It eventually got better over Christmas! :) We hoped it was the last time we have to see the doctor while I´m here!!!!

Our Christmas Break started the Monday before Christmas. Kyle came home Tuesday night! It was really nice to meet him. :) Then was Christmas! *-*
We baked a lot the weekend before Christmas. We made Oreo-balls (OMG!! They are the best*-*), pretzel sticks, pretzel rings with Hershey kisses and M&Ms, Snowman-sugar-cookies,... :)

Wednesday:
We had eggbake for breakfast! :) Mom and I basically spent all day to make appetizers for the evening. We made a lot of different things: Ham and cheese sandwiches, deviled eggs, Feta/Tomato bread, different dips, roll-ups, ... Then we went to church at 4:30 And it was a candellight service - it was beautiful! We all got a candle and lit it, then they turned the light off and we sang Silent Night! :) After church we ate dinner and then opened gifts! :) I got a necklace in heart-shape with Black Hills Gold, a bracelet, a Minnesota sweatshirt, boots, mittens, American measuring cups, United States ornament, warm socks, body lotion, and magnets from mom&dad, a blouse from Kelly and headbands from Kyle!! Thank you all sooooo much!!!!! <3<3<3 ♥♥♥  From my German family I got a necklace, a bracelet, a hat, candy, and money! Daaaaaankeschön für die schönen Sachen!! ♥♥ Then we played games and went to bed! :)

Our church :)

Christmas tree with gifts! :)

Appetizers *-*

Candy!!!

I love her!! She was probably the most excited one about the gifts!! :D

My gifts wrapped! *-*

My gifts opened! ♥

Thursday:
We left at bout 9 AM and headed down to Windom to grandma and grandpa! We went to dad´s parent´s first and head lunch with his sister, her husband, and her daughter, and dad´s uncle and his wife. We had turkey and ham, potatoes, homemade stuffing,...., and Snickers salad *-* We played games all afternoon and watched a movie at night! We satyed overnight there! :)

Love having you as my family! ♥♥

Friday:
After we all showered and ate breakfast we left at about 11:30 AM and went to a big Christmas party from mom´s side. Everybody brought food so we had a buffet for lunch! We played a game that´s called "White elephant": You look for something at home you don´t like or don´t need anymore - doesn´t matter what it is - and wrap it like a gift. Then you bring it to the party. Everyone draws a number and the one with number 1 can pick one of the gifts and opens it. Then number 2 opens the next one and then you have to decide if you want your gift or want to exchange it with number ones. Number 3 can decide between the first two and so on. So the last person can choose from all the gifts and at the end when all gifts are open number 1 can choose any of the gifts! And if you open something to wear, you have to put it on. It´s really fun to play! :D I got a box with old giftcards! ^^ We played a bunch of other games. I got to know a lot of people! :)) We left late-afternoon and went to the other grandparent´s house! We opened gifts again. I got a towel, a game called "Farkel" :),an ornament,

a lipstick, candy,..... :). We had pizza for supper and then played games till 1 AM at night! :D It was really fun! :D

Kyle, Uncle John (mom´s brother), and I :)

Uncle John and grandpa&grandma (mom´s parents) :)

Saturday:
It was great-grandma´s (mom´s grandma) 100th birthday party in the afternoon! We went there sometime between 1 and 2. We had cake :) I got to know a lot of people again! :) After that, we headed home and that was pretty much the end of Christmas celebration! :)

Great-grandma and I :)

I had a really nice time experiencing the American Christmas! It was one of the best Christmases I've ever had in my life! Thanks to my American family for everything you do for me! I'm so happy to have you as my new family!!! ♥♥♥♥♥

Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas, too!! :)
The next post will be about New Year´s Eve and I hope I´ll do it this week!! :)

See ya!
An-Ka ♥♥