Keinohrhasen

After the farewell party, Narin, Alina, Inga, and Lucia wanted to do something with us but since we couldn't drink, it wasn't gonna be very fun if we went to a club or something in the city, so we went to Inga's house to chill and watch a movie called Keinohrhasen. I was kinda falling asleep cause the movie was a little boring... but it was fun! Also, my thug face just makes me look really stoned...

Farewell Party

Our official farewell party in Germany! Potlucked by all the families with the obligatory speeches and tears and the whole shebang. Tons of fun, but so sad to think that it was the last time I was seeing a lot of these people!

 

Below: Me with Mary Alex, Trey, and Maddy (three of the bad bitches).

Me with Kelsee, Connor, and Maddy!

Me with Cindy, Kelsee, and Deanna!

Me with Trey and Sidd!

Me with Frau Cakir! What a great teacher (especially when preparing for the AP!)

Me and Gabby! (My American companion for like everything in Cologne)

Me and Medha! (another bad bitch)

Me with Martin! He was Sidd's partner and was super motherly, though he knows how to get down and party. He's a pretty chill guy and made a point of always interacting with the Americans! (We struggled to break out of our comfort zone)

Me with Merve! (and Niklas on the side). Merve is like the sweetest person ever. There was one P.E. class where she hurt her ankle and I was wearing jeans and didn't wanna run so I literally spent the whole time talking with Merve. She's really easy to talk to and such a sweet person! Connor always called Merve his big sister, it's very easy to see why!

Me with Vincent and Conan!

Me with Janina! Her partner didn't come to Germany, but Janina was always there with us. She was always super excited to talk with us and show us around.

Jonas was a little goofy at times, but he could be a really fun guy too. He was Jonathan Chang's partner and that seemed to be a pretty good match!

Me with Frau Birker!

Me and Frau Frank!

Left to Right:
Inga & Medha, Mary Alex and Alina, Janina, Narin & I, Lucia & Gabby!

Silly faces picture... I'm not too sure what I'm doing here.

Family Pics!

My host father Herr Nosrati was flying out on Friday night cause he wanted to make sure everything was good with the house in Majorca. As a result, I wasn't going to see him again after we left for the farewell party so we had picture time! I didn't get to see Herr Nosrati much because he was always busy, but he was so sweet all the time! Frau Gohar spent more time together cause we'd go grocery shopping and all together. She was always very caring and very motherly. Plus, she was super nice about helping me improve my German! I don't even know what to say about Narin. I was apprehensive at first, but I think it turned out to be a great match. One of the things I love in a friend is just the ability to sit down and talk which Narin and I were able to do all the time! I absolutely loved my time being hosted by her and hope I can give her a similar experience in the US sometime in the future!

Tschuss!

Last day of German school also means having to say goodbye :'(

So, I asked Narin if it would be weird for me to ask to take a picture with people from school that I had met, and she's like, nope not at all! Then she called all of her friends into a circle and was like hey take a picture with Aditya! So, I don't actually know half of these girls. Also, I swear I heard someone make a harem comment *sigh* Left to Right: Sarah (Narin's best friend, they're like sisters), Lucia (Narin's reallly close friend and Gabby's partner), idk her, Isabelle, Me, idk her, idk her, idk her, and Narin!

This is me with Jolina, who is Justin's girlfriend (Justin is Conan's partner). Justin wasn't gonna be at the goodbye party so I wanted to take a pic with him since he's a funny and pretty cool guy but somehow I ended up getting a picture with his girlfriend who I don't really know instead... That's ok though cause Jolina's really nice! (Her mom lent me the German mohawk!)

And, this is Jama! The only real friend I can say I made in German who wasn't a part of GAPP and man do I miss him! He's apparently one of the few people in his school interested in math and science (you can see why we  had so many classes together and how we got along so easily). He's one of those people that you can have fun hanging out with, but I feel like he would also make a really good & trustworthy friend if I had time to get to know him better :/

Education Part 7

Friday, last day of school :(

Period 1&2: Art
I had physics first and second but I was a little bored of physics and he already did the cool experiment and the kids gave him the goodbye present already, so I figured I'd skip (turns out it was canceled anyways) and went to art class with Narin! I got to see those mice they had carved from the first day again and this time, they were ridiculously disgusting and covered with fungus. We casually climbed out of a window to see the mice outside since we didn't want the stench in the class. Then we just chilled and watched the Girl with the Pearl Earring for the rest of class.

Period 3&4: English
So, the first time I had this English class they had an exam and the second time the class got canceled, so I never actually went to this class. I went and chilled in the upperclassmen room and did math homework with Jama (it was actually pretty fun). We even compared answers and we had the same ones! (Or so I thought since I misread his handwriting...)

Period 5: Free Period
I just kinda kept chilling in the upper room... haha

Period 6: Math
Woot, math with Jama! So, the teacher asked if any of us did the homework and knew the answers. Jama raised his hand, gave the answers and well, just the last number was wrong. See, I wrote 5/14 and he wrote 3/14 but since neither of our handwritings are super nice, we didn't realize that our answers didn't match... When the teacher questioned the last number, Jama's like "Narin's exchange partner got the same thing" and I of course did not want to say anything as the exchange student so I kinda just awkwardly sat there while the teacher corrected "us." At least we did it, better than the rest of the class :P I spent the rest of the period playing the game: "Who's Faster? Aditya and his brain or the Germans and their calculators?" I think you guys can guess the results x)

Period 7: German
It kinda sucked to be ending my school time in Germany with this wretched class, but I passed notes with Kelsee. The class ended pretty great though cause Kelsee went up to Jama (she was seeing him for the first time) and told him that he was one of the most beautiful people she had seen, thinking that she would never see him again and five minutes later we run into him outside. Needless to say, I laughed at how awkward it was.

Clash of the Titans

Alright, so this is more a David v. Goliath in football but whatever. We struggled to find a place to watch the football game between USA and Germany (I got a lot of "yeah USA sucks" when we lost directed at me) but it was a lot of fun. Got to see this cool, smallish building right next to the school where public viewings were and we finished up the game in Isabelle's house (she had the most adorable fat cat ever)!

Phantasieland

So, Thursday was a day off from school, but this time cause it was a school holiday. So, the Germans got together (led by Narin) and organized a trip to this great German amusement park called Phantasieland which is kinda like Disneyworld but not based around anything as big and iconic as that. This place also had the best chocolate strawberries ever. They were like 80 cents each but sooo good.

Life in Köln

I forgot to mention in my last post that Narin took a day trip to Amsterdam with her art class, so I was left in Janina's (came to America but her partner didn't come here) and Lucia's charge. So, Gabby wanted to go shopping and I didn't wanna be alone at some barbecue Lucia and Janina had to go to so I went along. German stuff is hella expensive, but it was still a fun day in town :)

Education part 6

Wednesday, my favorite cause it's short. JK I actually enjoy German school overall, especially compared to Clements.

Periods 1&2 Physics: I think I've complained about the easiness of the physics class. Well, today was actually really cool because they recreated the experiment that Einstein explained and won a Nobel Prize for AKA photoelectric effect experiment. Pretty fun class period on top of a more active/fun discussion of the effects.

Period 3 Geschichte: finally got to have history with the famed Herr de Wign. The class was doing some kind of a project where they researched WWI and split into groups as the US, France, and England to discuss their own version of the treaty of Versailles. Then they compared it to the actual one, pretty interesting exercise. The student teacher (like college student) ran the class and then Herr de Wign talked to Trey and me the entire period about history and Texas (I think he was a previous GAPP sponsor). Really cool teacher and he was wearing an AC DC shirt xD.

Period 4 free: hung out with Trey at his partner, Niklas's, house. Got to see an adorable dog that loves to shed and the biggest mayonnaise squeezer ever. 

Period 5 Chem: my last period of chemistry :( I watched three other random students set up an orgo experiment but unfortunately, we didn't have enough time to run it by the time we were set up so they're running it next time when I'm not there :( Two of them were big on economics though one was like ultra capitalist and one was ultra socialist so it was funny to hear them argue about it and then they kept asking me questions about the US. Thank you Damon for making sure I knew enough to not seem like a dumbass for once in Germany :D

Period 6 Homeroom: same old, same old