Finally I could do it! hahaha ...

Hey everyone!
I just found out what I did wrong that made me couldn't write anything.
I forgot to log in ... that's so stupid. Anyway I can make it right now and I'm so
happy that finally I could share something with you guys.

We are all back to our hometown since about 5 months ago. That's seems to be
pretty fast. I feel like I just came back. Miss you guys a lot.

My life back in Thailand is great so far but it was great after the first 3 months
from the day I came back. It was kind of hell for me. I have already missed the
school for 2 months! Lots of thing to do at that time. Very busy. As soon as I could
finish some works from school there will be more and more to do. A lot of exams
also to be taken. I just couldn't beilive I passed through those crazy times. It came
to the end of hell when the first semester ended and I had a month break.

There was also a lot of great things happened to me even though it was during the period of hell.
First of all, Liverpool FC, which is my favorite soccer team from England as you know,
came to play against Thailand National Team in Bangkok. My aunt got me a VIP ticket
to go watching that game at the stadium close to my house. It was cool! even though
I never got to go on the field to meet with all the players like my aunt told me before but still.

Another great thing would be my friends. so, finally I met with all of them again after 11 months.
They were still pretty much the same but anyway, I feel so happy to meet with them.
A great thing is I don't have to repeat my year in the school so, I could still study in the same
class with all my freinds. We had a lot of parties. This is one thing they have changed.
A year ago they didn't have this many parties and I really like it this way so, we could have
more fun times.

oh yea, the best part is my senior year here is so chill! especially the second semester. I skip
classes like I don't have to study. I just go to the futsal indoor field and play futsal with my
friends. We often do that and the teachers don't care cuz it is the last 2 months in the high school.
We have finished most of the academic things which mean, there will be no more hard study like
the fist semester. The traditional senior's soccer league will start soon.
You guys know right that my school is all boys so, in my class (class of 2010) there are 420 students, devided into 10 rooms, so there are 10 teams in the league. It sounds fun for me!
I just can't wait.

What else you want to know? hmm..... oh, about my relationship, I still cannot really
end up with Jaa yet. I still working on it. It's so hard to make her feel that way. I don't know
It's hard to explain. We don't have much time to meet each other too and also Thai culture
and the parents make it harder. But I will keep trying anyway. She still want to hang out with
me sometimes, if she has time, if I'm not busy and we could do something like go to the movies.
don't know why but I really like her.

For the general stuff like... the weather here now is perfect. Not too hot not too cold.
average of 25 - 26C. and it's windy. The best time to visit Thailand is around this month
til February. After that it will get hotter.

And yea! I have a plan to go back to DC! sometimes between March to April next year.
You guys have to see the pictures of the new Walls! It's awesome! I really want to be at
that place when everyone we know still in the school. I want to go back as soon as I could
cuz I want to meet with all the people I know. If I go back later than this there will be no more people we know in the school. But if just want to go back visiting your host family and travel around it's not matter that you will go back there next year or the next 10 years. Damn!
miss DC a lot! don't you? First meal I would go eating must be at FIVE GUYS for sure! hahah...

Anyway, I have to go to bed. It's late now. Miss you guys a lot! I hope i could get to see all
of you again somewhere, sometimes, at some places. Tony! I wait for you to come to bangkok!

How r u guys doing back in your countries? Share everything man! I will wait to read all of it!

Hey Guys!

This is kinda sad that this blog looks deserted, so guys, lets start blogging!!!

Well, I'm not much of a writer, but here we go:
Ok, let me start way back in early July. Unlike you guys, I had to attend extra orientation, so after New York, I still have to go back to DC for extra three days, but was OK. I met LC and my host mom for a change. The long trip back home started soon afterward. I don't exactly remember, but it was like 24 hours flights plus like 14 hours transit.

So after the long flights, guess what!? I had to do another orientation in Jakarta. yea, awesome. One funny thing that I remember my friends and I played soccer during the pre-departure orientation a year ago, but contrarily we played football on our post-program orientation. Well, I thought that was quite funny. The bad news was that two of my friends was suspected to be infected by the H1N1 swine influenza. Thus, our whole batch had to undergo some quarantine process, but thankfully everybody was fine eventually.

What now? To be honest I already had forgotten quite a lot of things that happened since I got back. It really felt very quick; believe it or not we've been back for over 4 months. Well, mostly I spend my time in school or home with books and what not. For Indonesians, our senior year is crucial. College admissions are based on your test scores, so you really got to do work hard to get an optimum score.

How about you guys? Whats up?

Back in Germany

Hey guys!
So I´m going to make the beginning, since nobody else did so far.
Well, I´m back now for three and a half months now; but let me start from the beginning:
Well I got back to Germany on 01.July 2009, but before that I had a long trip home. I guess long is relative in this case, because I know some of the others had a much longer trip. So when I got to the airport in Frankfurt, my family and some of my friends were waiting there for me. I actually don´t really remember the drive back home, all I remember from this day was what crazy parents were at the airport, cuz when we got to the area in the airport, where the parents saw us the first time after such a long time, they all were so loud haha.
I didn´t like the days after coming what was now my "new and old home" again, but I somehow managed to get used to live here in Germany again. I went to school a few times, since my school here in Besigheim (that´s where I live) was not finished until the end of July. So I got to see what the teachers were like, because I didn´t know a few of them, they were new. Of course, I was alowed to make a presentation about my year in the US - the best year of my life. I can tell you, whenever I told anybody about this year, it was like a standard answer. "Oh it was really great. Well I stayed in Washington DC, I mean that´s a perfect location and I just loved it. You know, I really love my american family, they are just awesome. And my school, which was School Without Walls in Washington DC - yes, in the middle of DC - was great, too. Oh of course my English is much better now. Yes, thank you. See ya"
But I could not even tell my family all the things I wanted to tell them. Some of the things I remember, I can´t put in words, others are just too complex to explain.. So yeah, I got used to live here again, and guess what? People stopped asking "How was it?" and I didn´t have to tell them the same over and over. So eventually, life got normal. Life got normal, with the exception I really miss everything and everyone from DC and the US in general. Except that. It is funny how much I think of SWW or my friends from now all over the world (literally).
School here is alright. I don´t have major problems, and my English grade got much better as well. So I guess, if I had to make a conclusion: I got used to live here again, but I miss the US and all of my friends and everybody and everything so much, I would come back immediately to finish High School in the US. Since that´s not possible, my plans are to at least study for one semester in the US. My dream is, of course, to study there for much longer, but we´ll see.
So I hope everybody got an impression on how I am here. And of course, I hope, the other guys will put up a small report as well. That´s be really cool!!
See ya! :)
P.S.: Some random words which belong to my memories of the US:
SWW, Verizon Center, Dunkin Donuts, Five Guys, Nationals, Red line, union station, seven springs, tennis, soccer, futsal, Five Guys (once more, cuz it´s soo good hah), sponteanous barbecuing at Tony´s house, Guitar Hero, more spontaneous stay-overs at victor´s house (or that of his american family), Food Schedule (Victor, that was one of the funniest ideas ever man): all I remember is: Friday --> McDonalds hahah.
Miss you guys!
Tobias.

Greeting

Hello everybody, who decided to check this blog out!

We, the School Without Walls Exchange Students of 2008/2009 decided to create this blog to give you the opportunity to see, how life is being back in our countries. I think I speak for all of us when I tell you that we all miss the US, Walls and of course, our hostfamilies alot!
I hope you enjoy our blog and you are welcome to leave an entry in our external guestbook!
Thanks!
Tobias.