I’m 5 weeks back in Germany but I want to travel. In German we have a word for that: fernweh. It means the feeling when you really, really want to travel. I know this feeling very well. Sometimes it is hard to live with but normally it is really great. You want to explore the… Read More #fernweh

I’m more than one week back in Germany. More than one week in a German High School. More than one week of speaking german. More than one week of new things. More than one week missing my French family and friends. It’s still strange for me to be here. I’m in a new school with… Read More Back in Germany

Yesterday I went back home. My last week was pretty cool but also very sad. I had to say goodbye to my badminton team on Saturday. On the same evening I went eating and bowling with my friends. We had much fun and it was very nice. The school week went by so fast and… Read More 148 days are over

First: I wish you all a happy new year! I went to a friend’s house in the evening. There were her family and a friend’s family. We ate and played games. It was very funny. One game was with questions and we had really fun to answer them. And then it was midnight, the time… Read More New year in France

Together with my host family I went to Lisbon. We stayed the whole weekend. But first we went to Marseille because our plane started there. We had time and so we visited the old port of Marseille before we went to the airport. In Lisbon we visited first the old township but we went also… Read More Lisbon

First I thought Christmas could be hard for me. I thought I will miss my family and the German traditions. But I didn’t. In Germany the time before Christmas is filled with decorations in the house and in the shops. In France there are decorations too. In the shops and on the Street lamps. But… Read More Christmas in France

I wish you all merry Christmas and good days with your family, friends…all the persons you love! And to those who don’t celebrate Christmas: wonderful relaxing days!

Mostly it isn’t a problem to be a vegetarian in France. At school I get something else and my host family keeps action that there is always something to eat for me on the table. But in the time before Christmas and when we eat somewhere else it isn’t easy. The French love food and… Read More Being vegetarian in France

Today, the 6 December I’m 100 days in France! Last weekend it has rained a lot and the city has been inundated. So the December didn’t start very good for the people here. The time before Christmas isn’t like in Germany. In the stores are decorations but nowhere else. The second trimester has started at… Read More 100 days in France

I’ve never realised what it means to have school until 5:20h pm. In Germany I had school till 1 pm or maybe 3 pm. I didn’t eat often at school, often we went to the supermarket to buy lunch. We also have semesters in Germany and the school notes 1 (best) to 6. Here in… Read More School in Germany and in France