life

This is it. I am Sitting at Gate 33 at Boston Logan International Airport. I got free Wi-Fi access thanks to Google. Nathan and Jon Mark just dropped me off at the airport. I got some stuff done this morning. I went to the place where Deborah works just to realize that it was a Saturday afternoon. She mentioned that she doesnt work on the weekends :( So i didnt get to meet her again unfortunately. I brought back some Hollister clothes to the Providence place mall. I ordered sweatshirts and shirts in large and I looked like a german sausage in them… Just like Nathan said: ” I guess they want you to feel bad because you dont fit in their clothes.” I also had to exchange the rayban glasses which I ordered on the Internet because they were too small for me. Thats the problem with online orders.

Right now, i am freakishly nervous about going to Santa Barbara. The flight takes off in like 2 hours and I have the most uncertain future whatsoever. I just talked to Philip on StudiVZ and told him that I am about to go one of the biggest cities in the world. Rent a car at 12h at night. Drive up the west coast to Santa Barbara and meet the girls at motel 6. I did not make any reservations at all. We did not even find an apartment yet. I don’t know where I All I got is me, my ipod and my macbook ;) And my parents credit card of course ;) and some dirty underwear.

I think I have never been this nervous in my entire life !

Lets have a quick revision on my time here in RI visiting my buddies Nathan and Scott: I had a very nice christmas eve at Mrs. Lemlers house ( Nathan’s Mum ) They had a huge family get-together. A lot of people i recognised from my past visits, but also a lot of new faces. On Christmas day we went to Mrs. Lemlers house again because we still had to open the presents. In America the kids get to open their presents on the 25th, .. not like in Germany.

One day I went to visit the Perry’s. All of them were there. They even got a new dog! Sugar still recognised me when I walked in the door. She sat on my lap a long time. The boys got so tall, unbelievable! Steve is 1,90 or 1,95. Even Matthew, wo was 7 or 8 when i came here in 2002 was very tall. Steve told me about some crazy stories of Charly. ;)

On that same night our french class form 2002 was getting together downtown Newport to have a drink or two. They get together every year aroun that time and since I was there I was able to go too. Nobody knew though and only a few people recognised me right away. I met up with Tim Grimes and my studdy buddy! Was nice to see Mrs. Milone again. She did not change a single bit :)

 

One night Scott and Nate took me out to a little Pub near their house called “PJ’s”. I had like 5 Wodka-Redbulls and we all got a “little” drunk that night. Nathan was diggin one of the dancers in the pub and he bought a shot for her at the bar. Unfortunately she gave him a fake number… might take a while for him to get over that ;) Just kiddin.. It was a very funny night!

I have a new favorite restaurant in RI. Its called Smokey Bones and Nate took me there one night. I had the most expensive dinner for the time I was here. The Babey-Back-Ribs were so good though! And 30 bucks for that aint so bad either !

We also went to see Mike at the bowling alley at the navy base! I suck at bowling. Although I hit a strike when it counted. Nathan and Brandon were pretty good at it. They can do that whole spinning and stuff.

I bought some really nice leather chucks for only 65 bucks. In germany they would have cost over 120 dollars at least. I must admit I gained a couple of pounds already… well, how can you not gain wait with all those delicious fast food restaurants around ;)

New Years was pretty crazy this year. We started out at Brandons house. I was getting pretty sick at DJ Hero on the playstation3. When we left at 9 o clock to go to the club District. T I was already pretty intoxicated ;) The club had an open bar from 9 to 11. Well, … open bar actually meant beer and coke. And they said they were out of coke by 10 o clock. I ordered my wodka-redbulls anyways and thought of the 20 bucks as an entrance fee. Josh got pretty intoxicated after like 10 seconds after we entered the club ;) We were 22 people in total and without us, .. that club would have been pretty empty! Nates friend Duce was making out with a girl, or should I say she was making out with him? Anyways, he got in trouble with her brother. I stepped up to them and busted a pose on them. The guy starts pushing me like a little girl. Haha. I was on the dancefloor for the entire night. Although the music was not really my favorite I had a really good time. Got pretty drunk by the end.. I had a blast!

 

We also went snowboarding again yesterday. We had a pretty big group of about 10 people going. Watch the video further down!

Okay, … I better be leaving now. My flight to Los Angeles takes off in a couple of minutes. They start boarding already. I am sooooo nervous right now. Weird feeling when you go somewhere and you do not know where you a sleeping for the next 6 months :)

In the end I would like to say that I met some cool new people like Jon Mark or Duce and although I wasn’t hanging out with them alot I will miss them when I leave. But also my old buddies like Brandon, Mike and Josh and all those others who I forgot to mention right now I will miss alot. Thanks to Scott and Nathan, who hosted the “very destructive german” for the last 18 days. Thanks to Mrs. Lemler for the christmas presents and that I made it on the fridge! Thanks to all of you guys!

I would like to end this revision with some quotes I gathered throughout those 18 days:

“Get off the fucking couch” – Scott

“Max, Do you have american money”? – Scott (after I broke the couch)

“Smells like german in here” – Nate

“We beat you at world war II” – Nate (in front of his entire family)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1M9VGxJecU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5LtaQQuBRU