Kaelei and Kali having a BLAST!!!!!!

Well its just me (Kaelei) and Kali left. We were very happy to know that Lisha made it home safely.

Obviously we have been very busy because we haven't wrote on our blog for a while! Here is what we have done since Lisha left.



On Thursday we went to school we were supposed to have 8 classes but since their teacher wasn't there for class 8 we only had 7. By class number 3 we were dying because it was so hot!!!!!!!!! We were hopping that they would call a heat free day which is when they let you out of school because its so hot. After class 6 they called the heat free day we were so happy. When we got back to Quinns we ate Fettucine Alfredo again. We were so happy we LOVE that stuff. After that I sat down and did my online homework from about 2 until 6. It was really tireing sitting and working that long but it was very good because now i am so close to being done. While I did my homework Kali took a nap. After Quinn took us to the E center to shop for some food and other stuff. After we got home we ate Abendbrot (for dinner). We were supposed to go to swim to but it started pooring so we couldn't ride our bikes. It sucked! After that we sat down and peeled potatoes and watched 50 first dates. It was so much fun!!!!



YAY THE 4Th OF JULY!!!

Friday we got ready for the party that Quinn was throwing to celebrate the 4th of July, by finishing the potato salad; making brownies; making cake, making hamburger patties and cleaning. She said we could invite some friends that we had met at school and other places to come. We invited, Anna, Sina, Judith, Niles, Bennedict, and Karo (sorry those might be spelled wrong). We had so much fun we ate all American food and we played Pit, Latters, and Golf it was so much fun. After we stuffed ourselves full. We went to a Hannover 96 game against one of the city teams. Hannover won (6 to 1) because they are a profesional team. After the game we said bye to our friends and we went to Quinn's to pack for Anna's. Kali only packed for a few days and I packed everything because I will be staying with Anna from now until I go home.



Today (Saturday) we woke up and got ready to go to Jeffery's Fussball (Soccer) game. When we got there I felt exteamly sick. I ended up throwing up. Kali went and got me some sprite to help my stomach it worked for a few minutes. After all that we watched Jeffery played his game. He was so cute!! he ended up making a goal it was AWESOME! We were so happy for him. After I had to decide if I wanted to go to Hannover with Anna and Kali or if I wanted to stay home because I felt sick. I ended up going. Katharina took us and we went and met one of her friends and we had brunch. It was very good. (By this time I started feeling much better than I had yearlier.) We also met some of Anna's friends from Hannover their names were Lara and Lisa. We went shopping around Hannover it was fun! After we said by to her friends and we came home. Then we decided we wanted to watch a movie so we went to Anna's next door neighbor and asked him if we could borrow a movie. He was very nice and said yes! So we went down in his basement and his basement was set up as a small theater it was really cool. Then he offered us to stay and watch the movie there. We accepted! We watched "The Sixth Sense" You should've saw us we looked so scared we were holding eachothers hands and we would squeal and cover our faces it was so funny. After we left and went back to Anna's and we got ready to go to a birthday party for a man who was turning 50 that she knew. Anna, Kali, Dirk, and I decided to ride our bikes we rode for 15 miles to get to the party. The party was at glider airport. They had steaks and chicken and french fries and salads and ice cream. It was so yummy. We had lots of fun, we all decided we ate too much because we were stuffed. When we were done eating and visiting, we rode our bikes back to Anna's. We made a quick stop at Quinn's so we could grab a few things we forgot. So our total amount of bike riding today was about 30 miles. We are going to have some rock hard legs by the time we get home. YAY!! After we got back we gave the Rust family their gifts from us. They loved them!

Lisha Goes Home

I woke up at 4:30 AM and at 5 Quinn drove me to the Hannover airport. By 7:00 my plane was in the air and I was on my way to Paris. But I was out... I was asleep before the plane was off the ground and I didn't wake until 1 1/2 hours later when the plane touched down in Paris. It wasn't the best nap, but oh well. I got to my next gate and I found out that my plane would be delayed for an hour. So instead of having a two hour lay over, it was three hours. If have to say that it was a long wait. It was a long line in front of the gate when they announced that they would be boarding. Everyone was asked questions before they could board the plane. The questions were things like: Are you carrying any gifts for anyone? How much are all the goods worth in your bags? Has anyone else had your bags besides you? .... stuff like that.
On my flight from Paris to Salt Lake I watched 3 movies. The only problem is that my plug in for the headphones didn't work. So I got to watch 3 movies with out any sound. It was dumb. But I lived.
I landed in Salt Lake at 2 PM (Utah Time) and went through passport boarder control and that took about a half and hour. I got my bags and let the terminal where I met up with Mom, Dad, Ephraim and Pauline. It was great to see everyone again.
I'm glad to be back home and I had a great time in Germany. Thank you to everyone who made my stay so wonderful. I loved my time there. I will also miss all of my new friends.

-Lisha

Catch up day!

Hey guys, sorry it's been so long since we posted...we've been busy. Especially since Lisha is packing and shopping for leaving early tomorrow morning. Did you know she bought 45 EURO in CHOCOLATE?!?! Can you believe that? It takes up half of her suitcase! Just kidding. But she really did buy 45 Euros of chocolate. Kaelei and I (Kali) teased her all the way home lol. So, like, Lee, it's like, me again! Like, Kali!

Monday: We went to school with Anna for the first day. (Well, for Lisha and Kaelei, but I went on Friday too.) First we had Gym Class, they call it Sports. Then Lisha went with a girl on the swim team here named Maren, while me and Kaelei stayed with Anna. Lisha doesn't remember what she did...all she remembers is that she was very confused because she couldn't understand what they were saying and people were afraid to talk to her. She says English Class was good bcuz she could talk in that class. Not knowing what's going on can make class a bit boring. And ya know what? Anna doesn't even have guys in her class. And they have the same kids in EVERY class. Except Latin. That's my (and possibly Kaelei's) favorite class. Okay, so there is one guy in the class, but it's just not the same without boys. (Sorry guys, we still love going to school with you fun German Kids lol.) Kaelei and I don't really remember much either...we got a little bored too. We played cards in the back of the classrooms and entertained ourselves with our iPods. School can be very interesting though. English Class is fun because they ask questions and talk to us. School here is very different. We still don't quite understand what's going on a lot of the time, but it's fun anyways.

Tuesday: Today was pretty much the same as yesterday, we went to class with Anna, Lisha went with Maren again. She said the kids were less shy today and talked a little more. Maren and her talk a lot though. Kaelei and I use iPods, a deck of cards, LOTS OF FOOD and our cameras to entertain ourselves. It's pretty funny. We feel bad cuz it seems like all we do is eat. We don't get to swim much. (Sorry, Shawn) We had swim practice today, I didn't stay for swim practice today cuz I...ahem...got in a little...uh...bike crash...*clears throat loudly* and had to go home to clean up. Then I went to bed. It felt great! Well, going to bed did, not crashing. That was actually a bit painful. lol. It was a...new...experience. Kaelei and Lisha had fun at practice though. They sort of played water polo at the end. Their version of water polo was standing on the bottom, grabbing the ball with two hands, having six people gang up on you, and then chucking it across the pool as hard as they could. lol. But Kaelei and Lisha tried to play it right. Cuz Shawn taught us better than that lol. (be easy on us when we get home from Germany and have swim practice, it's just not the same here!) After practice they went to Anna's house. It took them a while to get there bcuz they got lost. They talked with Katharine (kat-uh-REE-nuh) and Lisha said goodbye to everyone in their family. Then they came home and Lisha diligently fulfilled her duty to Quinn by helping with math homework and Kaelei worked on her Fitness For Life homework. All this happened while Kali was having pleasant dreams of sexy guys. lol! Then they came down and accidentally woke me up right at the best part of my dream! But I forgive them. Morning came much too soon for our taste. We are exhausted.

Today, Wednesday: School. Again. Joy. lol we had fun today. We only had 4 classes and it was really hot so we met Anna and some friends at the pool. We had a ton of fun tanning and splashing each other in the water. We went with Anna, Sina, Judith, Vincent, Tim, and Sarah, but then two other girls showed up. I still don't really know what their names are. Sorry if I misspelled any names...or got them wrong. Kaelei and I were VERY hyper, and had way too much fun in the water. We jumped off the high dive and screamed our heads off. Well, at least Kaelei did, Kali was terrified so she closed her eyes, plugged her nose like a wimp, and kept her mouth firmly shut and dreaded the end of the fall when she would hit the water. Kaelei loves jumping off of high things and risking her life just for the thrill, but Kali has decided she likes life too much to lose it just to jump off high stuff into freezing cold water. She only jumped off (like ;-D) three times while Kaelei lost track of how many times she jumped. We had a ton of fun at the pool. We forgot sunscreen but Kaelei and Lisha tanned while Kali burned to a crisp. Now she has a permanent blush clouding her face from sunburns and has sensitive shoulders lol. And the mosquitoes apparently LOVE Kaelei cuz she's covered with mosquito bites and Lisha and I haven't really had any. For dinner tonight we had HUGE ice cream creations. They were so yummy! We went into Hannover cuz it's Lisha's last night and we pigged out on delicious ice cream. Oh, and for lunch, we had chicken fettuccine alfredo. It was delicious! Not quite as good as yours, Lee, but it was good!

Anyways, we had an exciting day, and Lisha has to wake up VERY early, so, good night! We miss you guys! Love ya!

Love, (like) Kali, Kaelei, and (for the last time) Lisha

The Wall, Swimming and The Final Game

This morning we slept in till about 11:30 AM. But Lisha said that she woke up at about 7:45 or so. Lisha was board of waiting for ever so she went and woke up Anna, Kaelei and Kali. After we ate breakfast we walked to "The Wall Museum". It was a small museum telling about the development of the wall and how people tried to flee from East Berlin to West Berlin. We got to see part of the wall and the "dead zone". The "dead zone" is the area where a lot of people were killed by the boarder. Many times people lost there lives to border patrol men and land mines by the wall. At first, there was no wall, it was just a barb wire fence. There used to be several houses next to the wall, and before they were torn down people would try to jump from the Windows and tried to land on the other side of the border.

After seeing the wall we went swimming. It was interesting because the pool that we went to was at a lake and the pool was inside the lake. It was different. But we had lots of fun. We were all trying to find cute guy but we didn't have any success.
After swimming we headed strait to the train station. We got on the train in Berlin at about 7 PM and got on our way to Hannover. At 9 PM we switched trains in Hannover and went on our way to Burgdorf. We were all very anxious to get home because the Final game for the European Cup started at 8:45. As soon as we got to the station in Burgdorf we got off the train and Anna's mom, Katharine, and we all ran to the car saying, "We are so glad to see you but hurry, we don't want to miss anymore of the game!" So Katharine drove us home and we got home just in time to watch the entire 2nd half. Well... Germany lost to Spain with a score of 0-1. Quinn's family was over and they all left kinda sad but I think we will live.

Touring Berlin and the GAY PARADE!!!!!

Today we woke up and we had bread with Nutella it was so good! Then we left for downtown Berlin first we went to the TV tower and we went to the very top which was 238.2 meters high it was really cool. After we met Kaelei's relative Jason and he spent the rest of the day with us. After we saw walked by the Gay parade it was a very VERY new experience! This parade is ONLY once a year and it just happened to be today. Lucky us! (sarcastically) Then we went to the Dom which was a church it was cool but we didn't get to go inside. Then we went and ate at conniecenter and we ate. After we went and saw the Hololcaust-Mahnmal there were big cement blocks there were 2,700 of them it was really cool! We also went to the Brandenburger Tor and Paris place this was the gate you could go from the east side to the west side. We got to see where some of the Berlin wall used to stand and we stood in both the east and west side at the same time. We saw a memory church called Gedaehtnickirche it was a church that got bombed a long time ago. Then we took a subway to Check point Charlie and Kaelei and Lisha got their passports stamped it was awesome! We also saw the Gendarmenmarkt, in like the 1800's the police used to put their horses there, on either side of it there were 2 doms, one of them was Germany's and the other was France's. After we said goodbye to Jason and we went back home and we got DONER'S they are SO GOOD!!!!! And then we watched "Music and lyrics" it was really good!

Going to Berlin and meeting Christiane

Today Kaelei, Kali, and Tori went swimming they taught Tori a few new swim things and swam. After they were done they went back to Quinn's and Kali decided she wanted to go to school so she went. She went to Max's class and said she didn't really do a whole lot but that it was fun. After school was over she went to Max's house and laughed and talked. While Kali was at school Kaelei and Lisha went with Quinn to help her teach her English class. It was so much fun to watch the little kids learn new words and sing and dance. Its funny to think that those cute little 2nd graders know better English than we do German. When they got home they were so tired so they took naps for a while and then Kali came home and we all packed for Berlin. At about 2:30 Anna and her mom came to get us to take us to the station. We got on a train to Hannover and then got on a train to Berlin. On the train to Berlin it was very packed full of people for a while we had to stand then we just sat on the floor until a seat opened. We got to Berlin at about 6 and Anna's aunt Christiane came to pick us up. She took us to her apartment, it is very nice and big. After we had taken our stuff in Christiane took Lisha, Anna, and Kaelei for a walk around the Kastanien Allee ( a big street with trees on both sides) we got to try some new pizza it was really good. Kali decided to stay home and sleep cuz she was tired so we brought her home pizza. While we were out we went and rented "Just my luck" and "Music and Lyrics" and then we went and got chips and candy. We came back to the house and we watched "Just my luck" it was so much fun!!!

Bergen-Belsen, Concentration Camp

Today we went to Bergen-Belsen. It is a Prisoners of War Camp, Concentration Camp and Memorial. We got to learn about the terrible things that people went through at this camp. It was awful. We walked through the grounds of the camp and there were these mounds every where. They were like these hills in the middle of a field. These hills were graves of 1,000's of people. And they weren't separate graves. It was one big hill with sometimes 5,000 people in one hill. There were several of these hills just at first site. There were tomb stones there, but they were just symbolic, they didn't mark the actual grave. Bergen-Belsen is the place where Anne Frank has her tombstone.
After we took a look at the grounds we went inside to a small museum to learn more about personal stories about people. We didn't stay long because it was hard to learn about so many horrible things at once, and we were tight on time. It was sad, but good to know.

After we got home from the museum Valentine's mom, Uschi, invited the three of us over for lunch. We had spaghetti. We go to know Valentine and Max better. They are some funny guys. We jumped on their trampoline, looked at some funny videos on youtube, and went into the city for ice cream. Kaelei had to go home do work on some homework stuff so she skipped out on the ice cream, but Karo came with us. The 5 of us went into the city for ice cream but Lisha left after 20 minutes so she could go to swim practice. Kali decided to stay with the others in the city. Lisha got back home and went with Kaelei to swim practice. We had lots of fun. Lisha might not see the swim team again while she is here so everyone wanted to get some pictures and email addresses. It was cool.
When Kaelei and Lisha got home from practice at 9:45, Kali was still out with friends and had arranged to sleep over at Anna's house.