Liz...Germany and beyond...

2006-12-10T08:09:00.000-08:00

Here is the family from Benita (the exchange girl with my family in Alaska). They live in Weinheim.
Here is Kai. He lived in the US for 7 years and is in my sport class. We had to do a gymnastics performance. He is practicing his Standwagon. (He knows it looks rediculous).
Here is Alice's and my Thanksgiving dinner with our host families.
And behind us is the dirty kitchen.

2006-10-16T08:48:00.000-07:00

City Hall (where they give out the Nobel Peace Prize) is the building with the tower.
Tove and I at the second hand store. Just trying on some hats and scarfs.
All the socks you could ever want.

2006-10-16T08:30:00.000-07:00

Here is the beautiful sunset in Mariefred.
Here is what tea and cake time looks like.
Here is Tove at the cafeteria in her school.
Stockholm at night.

2006-10-03T06:28:00.000-07:00

2006-10-03T05:58:00.000-07:00

Here is a beautiful view of Hessen. Across the river is Rheinland-Pfalz (the area of Germany where I live).
Eva (left), my permanent host sister and I.

2006-10-03T02:54:00.000-07:00

When they are done harvesting, mashing and unpulp-i-fying (if it wasn't a word, it is now) the grapes, they dump the pulp in the fields as fertilizer.

2006-10-02T08:31:00.000-07:00

Here is me (far right) and the band in Heidesheim for the festival. Check out our cool vests. :)
Here is the spire of the church I went to last Sunday (30.09.2006).
Here is a row of grapes waiting to be harvested. Mmm..I love grapes.
Here is Saulheim, and the spire of the first church I went to.

2006-10-01T09:29:00.000-07:00

Here are some purple grapes that are being crushed into wine.
Here is what the wine looks like before it is wine.
Here is all the pulp.

2006-10-01T05:09:00.000-07:00

Here is a panaramic of my permanent room. I think they did a nice job of decorating. This is my closet.
My bed and night stand.
My desk, window and shelf.
My CD, tape player/radio, CD case, and another closet.

2006-10-01T05:03:00.000-07:00

Here is the living room of my first host family. Pretty nice I say.
Here is their backyard.
My bedroom...
...my computer... and TV...which I never used.

2006-10-01T04:57:00.000-07:00

Here is the beautiful Dome that we saw everyday on our way to our German class in Koeln.

Cost to the top of the Dome: 1 Euro, view from the top of the Dome: priceless!!

Some street art in front of the Dome.

2006-10-01T04:52:00.000-07:00

Here is the group of four that traveled to and from Koeln every day for three weeks (left to right: Alice, Sam, Svetlana, me).
Here is Sam on the train with one of my hats that I made. (He is streching it out for me).
Here are Svetlana and Alice trying to rush out the door of the train. :)

2006-10-01T04:30:00.000-07:00

Here is most of my first host family, Kristina (left), Morris (my host father), me, Katherina, and Hildrud (my host mother), the night that I cooked. (Konstansa is taking the picture.)

Katherina, Morris and me in front of the Gugenheim Collection Museum.
Here are two of my first host sisters, Katherina (left) and Konstansa (right), at a restaurant.

2006-10-01T04:16:00.000-07:00

Here is the first thing that I saw when I arrived in the Frankfurt Airport. :)

Here is Katie sitting in a cool futuristic chair in the Frankfurt Airport.

Here are Katie, Svetlana and Sam on our first train ride in Europe.

2006-09-30T14:28:00.000-07:00

Lincoln Monument with the reflection pool in front.

Abraham Lincoln.

The Capital

Washington Monument.

2006-09-30T14:23:00.000-07:00

George Washington in the American History Smithsonian.

My cousines Beverly and Hannah and I at a rollercoaster park.

A rollercoaster that we rode. It drops over 200 feet. WWWEEEEE!!!!!!