The Best of Both Worlds.

Hey!

So I was just watching the movie High School Musical, I'm sure all of you know it. It's this movie about a boy and a girl in High School who dare to do something new, end up proving everyone wrong, and changing the whole school. That's what it's about for normal people, for me, however (and I bet every exchange student in the US) it is the reason why we're here. Without movies like that I never would have gotten the idea of doing this year. Of course, High School is not like all the movies make it seem - no dancing and singing in the cafeteria,  no mean girls and no happy end at the end of every school year. But, nevertheless High School is awesome! We might not be dancing in the cafeteria, but what do we do at pep rallies? It's a huge party! We don't have mean girls, but there certainly is a lot of drama, and while not every school year ends movie worthy, it ends with a bang and the promise of an even better new school year ... Unless you're a Senior or an exchange student, then school ends with lots of tears, anxiety and even more tears.

Im not sure why I'm ranting like this, but I just feel like time is running. I can't believe school will be over in two weeks, which  means I have to say goodbye very soon. I'm not gonna lie, I'm very excited to see my parents again, go to the beach, and yes, even fly back to Germany and see my friends and family again, to sleep in my room, and do all the things you can only do in Germany (at least when you're under 21), but at the same time the thought of leaving, tears my heart apart. This has been my dream for roughly five years, and to think that it's gonna be over so soon is terrifying and even more terrifying is the thought of starting new again. I have made some of the greatest friends here in Texas, and part of me wishes I was born here, just so I could have spend a lifetime with them, but then I would have never met some of the greatest people in Germany which are as equally important to me. It seems like I just can't win.

My exchange year in Texas has been a blessing, but at the same time it has also been a curse. From now on, I will have two places to call home.  I turn 18 in September and I already know that I won't be able to spend it with some of my closest friends, and the same goes for every upcoming birthday or holiday. I live in two worlds now, and I will never be able to combine them, but I know that my friendship with the people I love the most is strong enough, on either side of the pond.

When I came to the US I had many goals, such as improving my English, getting to know a new culture, becoming more independent, and just leave my world for a little bit. I was more or less expecting to make "friends", but I never expected to find sisters. I'm not going to go much (more) into detail, don't worry I'll have a surprise for y'all, but I just needed to say how much these people mean to me. I love you guys so much! You've been there for me no matter what, and thanks to you I've become a better person. Thank you, I'll never forget you.

Now, before I get even more emotional I'm gonna add some pictures and go to bed.

Love y'all sooo much

- Georgia

corrected by Alisha Adams ^.^

Tick-Tock-Tick-Tock, time flies ....

Yes I am still alive! 

I am probably the worst blogger ever but the last four months were just  crazy busy! I literally spent all my time dancing, stretching or in school. The American way of life is awesome but also exhausting. 

I'm going to summarize everything that happened in the last months. That is, if I remember everything - so let's get started!

I think I stopped somewhere around January so that's where I'm going to start. Like in Germany we had two weeks of Christmas break before school started again on January 6th and that meant it was finally here: competition season! Looking back now that's what January mostly consisted of, oh, and exams luckily I was exempt in most of my classes, which meant I only had to take my Algebra 2 and English final - I made a 98 on both of them! 

The last weekend of January we left school early on friday to drive down to San Antonio, which is a beautiful city right by a river. We arrived in the evening and I had my first dinner at a Mexican restaurant. Unbelievable that it took me five months to eat Mexican food in Texas but hey, better late than never, right? I definitely enjoyed it, but even better was the atmosphere between all the dancers. Maybe it was the thrill of our first competition, but we all felt so close! After eating we took pictures and danced to a band/singer, who was singing almost exclusively for us. It was so much fun!

The next morning, however was extremely stressful. We had to get up early to get costume, make up and hair ready. Since it was our first competition no one really knew what we wanted and "high buns" were taken a little bit to seriously. It took us several hours but in the end we all were bathed in hairspray, bobby pins, lipstick and blush (ain't it fun to be a girl?) and we drove to the Spurs stadium. Before we had to perform we got to see some of the other teams perform, and holy cow! There were some routines that were absolutely amazing! Sadly we didn't get to see a whole bunch because we had to start stretch and then perform! 

I'm going to spare you with all the details and am just going to say that we did good, but were no where near the four winning teams, which was never our goal anyways. We got a sweepstakes which means we got 85 or more and most importantly we all had FUN! We spent the rest of the day going back to the hotel, changed, had dinner at Applebee's and then came back for the Spurs game. It was my first professional basketball game to watch and I enjoyed it a lot! The entertainment between the actual game is probably the best part, but it was pretty cool the see them win. The two teams who performed during half time (they both had kick routines) made me so jealous! Their kicks where high, pointed, straight and everything else a dancer wants them to be! 

Sunday, we had to leave earlier than we wanted to because bad weather was about to hit Whitney and Texans are very paranoid about their "bad weather". At least we got to stop at BJ's which is now my favorite restaurant!

Sista's Cydi & Yesi 

Ready for competition!

I'm going to write about February tomorrow!

Thanks for reading <3 

Emily's talking 'bout the Hudechek's

Hey guys!
This is Emily, Georgia's host sister, and I'm gonna tell y'all a little about my family.
First theres me, the youngest, and I share my room with Georgia. Im in 8th grade and am in all possible honors classes (math is algebra 1, honors science, and honors english/language arts), I'm really into sports such as cross country, basketball, track (100m hurdles, 100m dash, 400m relay, 2400, high jump, and possible pole vaulting this year), and lastly golf (which I'm not good at). Im also in UIL One Act Play as one of two female alternates. Band is last but not least. I play the trombone and I'm 1st chair.
My only other sibling is Sidney. She is a sophomore and in all available pre-AP classes possible. She also is in athletics but only does cross country and track. She is on the UIL Science team (which is where she is every day after school), and is the sound man for UIL One Act Play. She isn't really into doing homework an would rather just sit on her phone and text all the time. Sidney's not very social and doesn't have a lot of friends and the ones she does have are almost all guys.
As you already know I think, Georgia is the oldest child (junior in high school) so then its my dad, Brett. My dad works with his older brother at a fire and safety company in waco so thats kinda all he does. He's a good cook when he does cook and also does almost all the yard work and anything else thats manly outside (like putting up the christmas lights). He's pretty mellow except when sidney won't get off her phone, the most common result of that is her getting the phone taken away.
Last is my mother, Becky. She is a very good hair stylist and hands and feet person (like manis and pedis), so if you need a hair cut and you live near Hillsboro Texas, go to Salon 110 the Annex. Anyways, she is a good mother but she gets very stressed out very easily so we try not to do anything crazy around her. She does our laundry(thankfully) and most of the cooking.
Now that the people are taken care of, your gonna here about out zoo! Im gonna go smallest to largest so its not hard to remember. Sidney has three little baby red eared slider turtles in her room, there are two african clawed frogs that we've had forever and don't want but nobody will take them, I have a veiled chameleon in my room and is still a juvenile, and we just got a ball python named gregory from my aunt (temporary pet). Those are our reptiles and amphibians, now for the mammals. Outside in our barn i have four rabbits (two holland lops, one fat mini rex, and a californian), we have one chicken in the barn too, Apollo is our cat that lives outside and his some that is like his clones is Pan (everyone knows that apollo is a god but pan is also a god, look him up) they are annoying sometimes and crazy sometimes too, we have three dogs (Sunny is a fat yorkie/lhaso aspo mix that had puppies last fall) (Mercy is Sunny's daughter except she is part maltese too) (and Toby is a german shepard and maybe lab mix, he's really old and sweet but has bad hips) they are all inside/outside dogs, last and least is the horse Bluejeans (i don't like her and i want to get rid of her) she is a blue roan American Quarter Horse and she is for sale is anyone wants to buy her.
So thats our house of living things. I didn't take about Georgia because i was surpassed to talk about the Hudechek family only.

(P.S. Hudechek means carnivore so since Georgia's last name isn't Hudechek, I'm officially making the last name Jones mean carnivore too! eat more beef!)
PPS: Isn't she so sweet haha?!

Adiós!!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to all my lovely friends and of course my awesome family! 

It's been pretty much exactly one year since I applied for this exchange year and now it's already Christmas again, absolutely unbelievable! I hope y'all have had a nice December so far mine was quite interessting.

The last week of school for this year was pretty chill. We had our Blazers Christmas party on Tuesday which was one of the nicest evenings here so far. We all dressed up and went to Olive Garden (my new favorite restaurant), we ate and exchanged our gifts for secret santa and I got fluffy socks and Allegiant thanks again Liana! 

The Blazers, Choir and Band concert was Thursday evening and it was ... Embarrassing! Blazer's performed first and it all went pretty well until I tripped and almost fell!! I've never been so embarrassed in my life before! 

After that they sold some of the Christmas trees we decorated, then the choir sang, the band played a couple christmas songs and at the end everyone sang a couple Christmas songs together. Apart from me tripping it was a pretty good concert and my tree was sold for 45$! 

Friday we only had have a day of school and now we're off until the 6th yaaay!!

So what have we done so far? Sunday we drove up to Arlington to stay with my host aunt and uncle for a couple days and basically all we've done so far is going to Six Flags, play Yahtzee, watch Christmas-y movies and eat! Perfect weekend! 

Oh and of course I can't forget the package that my parents sent me and finally arrived on saturday! It's crazy how much you can miss food and how happy it can make you! 

No matter how many types of M&Ms they have here - German candy's the best candy!! 

That's it for now guys! I hope you have an amazing Christmas and a Happy New Year! 

Talk to y'all later xoxo

Ja, I'm still alive

Howdy Guys!

I am so sorry that I haven't posted anything in such a looong time! I'm just way to busy to sit down and take the time to write something. But let's look at the bright side - I got A LOT of stuff to talk about, so let's start with my one and only homecoming week!
It all started with red, white and blue monday which meant we had to dress like the US-Flag, sadly not a lot of kids did it but the ones who did it went all out and we had some pretty cool human-flags.
Tuesday was hobo day which was the perfect day to be super comfy!It's so weird and exhausting to have school until 3.35pm every day with only one break of 30 minutes ( well more like 15-20 for Blazers) plus practice until 5, so being able to wear sweatpants and all that stuff was pretty nice.
Wednesday was Disney Day, which was my favorite day of the week. I dressed as Kim Possible and got quite a few compliments mainly because I was one of the few girls who did not dress up as a Disney princess. Thursday was throwback to the 80's and all I can say is that I'm pretty happy that I was born in the 90s and missed the 80s they were just a little bit to crazy for me. Friday was perhaps one of the best day's in my life so far we had a special pep rally and everyone wore their "mums". I'll keep mine forever that's for sure!

Pumkin craving 

Aren't theirs amazing?

Disney Day 

Twinning with Kaylee

In the evening we had our homecoming football game and what can I say? Our football team smashed Maypearl plus we did a pretty good job performing the traditional Homecoming Routine.

Homecoming performance

The next couple weeks were probably the most normal ones I've had here so far but it was actually pretty nice - for the first time I actually felt like everything was normal and school actually started to be really annoying. Sorry to crush y'alls illusion but no matter how fun High School seems in the end it's school. However, it got really excited a couple weeks ago because against all expectation we made it to the playoffs. Yep - Whitney High School made it to the football playoffs 2013 for the first time since 2005!!
It was crazy how proud everyone was to be a wildcat and boy, I'll never forget that game! Guys, I gotta tell you something - our football team is good but it's not amazing, there are teams in the playoffs who have won 10 out of 10 games we only won 5 out of 10 so yeah ... no one really thought we could beat Teaque... However the game was probably the most exciting game I've ever been to  ... and well - WE WON!!! The final score was 45:42 which meant we made it to the second round of playoffs for the first time since the 1980's or something like that!
Sadly we lost the next game however we're Bi-District Champs and everyone is so enormously proud of our boys!

Playoff Shirt

Anna <3

We beat Teague lions!

Senior night

Black-light Pep Rally

Our cute pep rally tops

After that football seasoned ended, noooo! I miss it so much and it makes me so sad to think that I'll never dance at a halftime show again... Alright because I start to over think that thought, lets talk about something else...
How about Thanksgiving. I already had my first Thanksgiving and it was amazing even though it went by waaay too fast. Thursday we went to my host moms sister where we all had an amazing dinner together, talked and watched football. Then we spend friday and saturday and my host aunt and uncle's and we went to SIX FLAGS and the zoo. I love roller coasters you guys know that and Six Flags had some pretty good ones. Yes, usually everyone goes black friday shopping on that friday but me? I'd rather go to Six Flags than go shopping any given day. I loved it so much! The rest of the weekend I spend with sleeping, cleaning and a little bit of shopping. I'm sad that my first Thanksgiving went by so fast but I refuse to say that it's my last one...

Thanksgiving food - YUM

Desert

Shock wave

Superman

So let's talk about the present. It's December 16th 2013, wait DECEMBER? It feels like Halloween was yesterday but it also feels like it was years ago. My life here is so busy, it's crazy but I also love it!
So what's new?
School has been very normal the last couple days and with not after school dance practices I actually have time to do my homework ... or just sleep a little bit more, or get creative and surprise people. I actually surprised all the Blazers with a "Boot" and chocolate on December the 9th (due to a little bit of ice we had no school on the 6th) and I also filled the office staff's stockings. I think they all liked it a lot and it made me feel a little bit more like home.

Nikolaus-Boots

Our cute fire place in the Office

I have one last event to talk about because I have attempt to study and that is my very first speech meet, which I had this saturday. My type of exempt speaking is persuasive speaking which is basically like giving an informative speak with you're own opinion and you're trying to persuade the judge. We had about 60 topic's and per round we had to draw five and could choose one. My first topic was "What should German chancellor Angela Merkel do to find a compromise with the opposing party" or something like that. At first I thought this topic was perfect for me but then I noticed that without a note card it's really hard to give a good speech and well ... I placed 3rd out of 4. The second topic was a little bit better "Should China ban it's coal-fired power plants" I knew a lot more and my critique was way better, thought I forgot to quote almost all of my sources. I placed 3rd out of 5. My last topic was a shock at first "What should the US government do to lower the increasing debt" I knew absolutely nothing about that topic and we didn't have any files at all so guess what I did? I made the whole speech up, including making up articles in random newspapers. I don't know how it's possible but I placed 2nd out of 6! I'm so happy and since most of my critiques were pretty good I'm also a little bit proud of myself. Especially since no one wrote "weird accent" or "can't speak proper English".
So, that was basically the most exciting thing that has happened in the last couple days, as for this week I'm super busy again! Tomorrow we have the Blazers Christmas Party at OliveGarden (new favorite restaurant) and Thursday is the Winter concert where we actually going to be performing. I can't believe that Christmas is in a week and with that half time is getting closer ...
I miss home but I really don't want to leave. Whitney, with all my great friends here, has already become my second home and if that's how I feel about it now I really don't want to know what it'll be like in June ...
Before I start crying or something, I'm going to end this post.
I wish y'all a wonderful Christmas time!

A dream comes true

Heaven!

I might not have a soul but I do have the two cutest dogs

(excuse the billion mistakes, I'm tired!) 

Bye-bye little piglets