Great things have happened since I last wrote. Paula moved to my town and into my old host family. She is going to school with me now so we get to hang out and chill all we want it is the best. Plus she is no longer sad and scared to go home or to school. Then in 2 weeks I go to London I can't wait. Luka and I have been talking with our teacher that is from London and we are making a list of the must do things. Next week I have a few half days of school and then on Wednesday I have no school so I will be able to go hang out with Mallory. I can't wait I miss her we have not chilled in a few weeks so this will be good. Lastly not such a great thing but still good last night my host brother Jonathan and I hosted a party for all the exchange students that I haven't seen in months. It would have been better except only 30 people were supposed to be there and about 60 or more showed up and it got crazy but my host father helped control it but yeah. I am working off of 30 minutes of sleep in the past 24 hours so if things are worded funny that is most likely the reason. Okay that is all for now I will write again soon.

The other day I heard about what happened in Boston and everyone that I know has been talking to me about it but that is really scary stuff. Here nothing big has happened a few months ago bombers were in the train stations but bombs never went off. On news from me last weekend Paula came to stay with me for the weekend she needed a get away from her Rotary club host mom and people like that she is in a bad place. We had the greatest time basically we just hung out she talked with my host counselor and my host dad that is a rotarian and they are trying to get her moved out of where she is and hopefully to my town. I really hope she does, she is in such a bad place that the other day when she called she was crying and I was not even able to help her until the weekend it was the worst. Then also on the weekend I made Mallory mad so Tuesday I went to be with her and apologize to her. We are better now and hopefully we can hang out tomorrow. This weekend though if the weather is good Luka, Jonathan, Florian, Paula, Mallory, and I will go swimming at the lake that should be good and fun. The weather here is getting better it rains almost everyday but it is about 70 degrees everyday so yeah really good I love it. That is really all for now talk to you later.

Okay so last week I went to France to a camp called Taizé. It is a meditational camp. I was there the entire week and had a lot free time to relax and yes even meditate. I talked with the Brothers there they helped me out with some questions and helped me with figuring out some of my future. It was great someday I hope to return. I stayed in a room with 4 swedish guy and 1 german so conversation at night was kind of weird but all in all I made a lot of good friends. At this camp there were about 4,000 people 2,500 were german but there were people from over 20 different countries. They preached in about 15 different languages and had songs from all the languages it was very cool. This week I had to start school after a 2 week break so that was tuff but I did get to see Mallory and Paula after a month so that was awesome. Except for the fact that Paula has some troubles with her host family and club so yeah that sucks. This weekend she will come sleep here though so she can get away and hopefully my club will accept her and then she will move to Xanten for the rest of her exchange and I hope she does. Other than that nothing really big is happening or has happened. Later this month I will be hosting a party but that is about it. So until next time have fun and stay safe.