oh, so much pink!

The rain here is so slow, it could be snow. But its not. Its icy. Its cold. Its not sleet though, its rain. Or so I have been told.
Overnight, the rain freezes and forms a slippery, rock hard sheet of annoying.
There are so many kids here on crutches or with broken bones of some sort, it has become a bit of a game. Count the new injuries. Not a very fun game, especially for the ones being counted.

Talking of counting games, in my religion class, the teacher has a favorite word. It's 'praktiche'. Normally, it would mean practical (zips are more practical than buttons) but in his sense of the word, he uses it like an annoying young girl would say like.
Whenever he walks into the class, everybody gets out their books, sets up a chart and starts counting. Yesterday, the final tally after a 40 minute lesson was 86. The highest he has got in a 40 minute lesson was 212. Or so they all tell me. Its hard to keep a straight face as he uses the word four times in a sentence.

Last night, I went to see a movie with my host sister called Vorstadkrokodile 2. Last week I saw the start of the first one, so it was easy for me to understand what was happening.... or not. Luckily, everything was shown well, and so I followed the movie like a deaf person without subtitles, just watching the movements and colour on the screen. It seemed to work, as I was able to talk to her about the plot afterwards. It was actually an OK movie.

The teachers have finally started giving me homework. I never thought I'd say this, but I was so relieved to have someting to do! I hate sitting around doing nothing. So far, Ive read four pages of a german novel (it'll take me a while, but I will finish it!), written three letters in English, and studied German at triple speed, trying to cram as much in as I can - before people become frustrated that they have to speak English with me.

Today is carnival dress up day. I dont really understand what 'carnival' is, so far all I've worked out that its like a week long halloween, where you dress up whenever and no-one thinks that you are strange. I didnt dress up for school, I'm leaving that one 'till saturday when we are going to a masken-ball. But my host sister did.
Imagine this.
1 thirteen year old girl.
1 highlighter pink skin tight top
1 highlighter pink pair of tights
1 highlighter pink wig
1 baby pink tiny skirt
1 pair of long black socks
1 pair of white converse shoes
too much pink make-up
just too much pink.
oh, and I cant forget the pink fairy wings and mathcing butterfly feelers.
oh wow.