Emotional hours.

Am 6. Juli bringen mich Dan und Jake morgens früh zum Flughafen. 

Mit der oberen Tasche bin ich angekommen.

Nun haben wir Schwierigkeiten all mein Gepäck in den Kofferraum zu verstauen.

 

You might wonder why we look all happy and cheerful.
This is not a Good-Bye. The story is going on.
Sure it was an emotional moment, but everybody knows that we will get together again.
And: There is just no way to have a bad time with Dan and Jake.
=)

 

 Next time I will just ride my Longboard to Topeka.

This guy is a cowboy. A cowboy with longboard. That's dam right.

It's not a Good-Bye. It's just a "see you later".
I promise.

 

Smile.

4th of July - Happy Birthday America.

What have you been doing last year on the 4th of July?
Nothing big? I guess you haven't been in the US then!

On the 4th of July americans show that they really know how to throw a party. 

It is legen - wait for it - dary! 

You need some stuff for a good party. 

Preparing the car for this great day.

It all started with the big Potwin Parade.

After that we had a great lunch in the neighbors garden.

Time to swing.

After that we prepare for the great dinner party in the Crows back yard.

Apple Pie contest.

First of all we had to find the best Apple Pie.

Don't laugh, this is serious stuff!

And in the night we went to Lake Shawnee to see some cool fireworks.

Das Spiel mit dem Feuer.

If you want to know how to throw a party, go to Potwin on the 4th of July - they will teach you!

Happy Birthday America!

See you later Nick and Leticia

The school year is over, and that means that some of my friends are going back to their countries.
Time went by so fast and I can't believe that 10 month are over already.
We hosted a good-bye dinner for Nick and his parents, who arrived from Norway to accompany him home (after stops in Florida, DC and New York).



Real parents, host parents, friends and adoptive host parents posed for this group photo.

And Leticia left to Panama.

You're missed already.
I am happy about every single memory, every picture and every story.
I am happy to call you my friends.

=)

Trying to catch up.

The last three months have been so short and I really did a bad job in blogging, I apologize for that!

Therefor here are some pictures to catch up. 

What happend since my last block post?


Here are some impressions: 

My Grandfather Harald was over for three weeks.

Airport
Jonas, Harald and Helen

St. Patrick's Day
Harald, Leticia, Helen, Jonas and Dan

He teached me how to drive a stick shift car. 

Honda Civic

I went to Seaman High School Prom with Debora.

Jonas & Debora

People started using my windshield as a new texting platform. Who is still using Twitter?

New Texting Platform

 We had important friends from all over the world in our house.

I went with Maggie to Topeka High Prom.

Best Prom group in the whole world.

William, Elisabeth, Jonas, Maggie, John and Jaylen.

I went to many many soccer games.

Watching soccer.

Nick and I went Skydiving.

 

Best feeling ever.

 I graduated from Topeka High School - my school year is over now.

Lane, Jonas and Jake

Lena (German), Jonas, Nickolai (Norway), Claudia (Italy), Leticia (Panama) and Juri (South Korea).

I went to many many many graduation partys.

Jonas, John and Martina.

And Lane, Jake, Nick and I went to a Royals Baseball game.

Nick and Jake

Do you still wonder why I couldn't find any time to blog about my adventures?

a milky week.

After some days in the Crow-household I found out that there are more than just one typ of milk.

In fact there are right now eight (8) different kinds of milk in our refrigerator.
I also figured out that milk is a very liquid item - because of that you should always have some liters of milk in save. 

17 times 1.89 liters of milk means that we have 32 liters of milk refrigerator. 32 liters! You could ask how all that milk fits in hour refrigerator, but you better don't ask. 

The biggest deal around the milk conspiracy is "white water vs. cream".

That is Helen and Dans milk. I named it "white water", because of the taste and texture.

That is my milk. Dan likes to call it "cream" - because of the taste and texture. 

You wanna have some fun?
You better join Crow-Jaenicke household for some days.

:)

Weihnachtstage | Christmas Days

"Außerdem fehlt mir mal wieder ein Blogeintrag." Well, here we go.

Die Weihnachtstage in den USA und gerade bei den Crows waren beeindruckend. 

Als erstes haben mich aber die Vorbereitungen erstaunt. All die Geschenke mussten gekauft werden, eingepackt werden und schließlich habe ich viele der Geschenke nach Deutschland versandt. 

 

Bei den Crows ist es Tradition die Geschenke kreativ zu gestalten - tolle Tradition. Gerade um der Masse der Geschenke doch noch einen persönlichen Tatsch zu verpassen. 

Qualität bei den Verpackungen.

 

30 cm im Durchmesser

 Christmas Eve (24.) haben wir zu hause verbracht und die ganze Familie ist abends vorbei gekommen. Geschenke gibt es in Amerika erst am Christmas Morning.

Den Weihnachtmorgen (25.) haben wir dann im Haus von Sam Crow (Dans Vater) verbracht. Nachdem wir etwas gegessen hatten, ging es mit dem Geschenke öffnen los. 

Zum Nachtisch gab es eine deutsche Spezialität.

 

Wir reden hier nicht über ein paar Geschenke wie unter dem deutschen Standart-Weihnachtsbaum. Auf dem Foto lassen sich die Ausmasse erahnen! Geschenkeauspkacken ist eine spassige Angelegenheit? 4 Stunden. Es war gigantisch, spaßig und die ganze Familie war dort. We had so much fun. 

Im Anschluss sind wir wieder nach hause gefahren und haben dort weiter gemacht. Auch unter dem Crow Weihnachtsbaum lagen ein paar Geschenke. 

 

Danke an alle, die Weihnachten an mich gedacht haben!

Die vielen Weihnachtsgrüße, Weihnachtsgeschenke und Telefonate haben mir mein Weihnachtsfest fröhlicher gemacht und Heimweh vertrieben. DANKE!