Since my recovery (thank you to everyone who sent me emails checking up on me - I'm all fine now :) ) I've actually done quite a bit. On Friday afternoon/evening we had my leaving party, with a few girls from school (only half of those girls invited could actually come, but I've seen them this week of course) and a few friends from outside school as well, who I won't see before I head off. It was a really nice little party. I had a moment near the beginning where a bunch of us were sitting around the table and I nearly started crying when I realised how much I like these people. At the end it was different though - I made quite the few 'bye! seeya later!'s, not really absorbing the fact that, in all likelihood, I'll never see these people again.
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| Some of my friends, from left: Joey, me, Simon, Jan, Lea, Felix, Lara, Sophie and Fabi. |
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| Jana (second from the right), a lovely girl in my class, made me this sign. Isn't it cute? :D |
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| A few hours in we noticed how hard it had been snowing - time for my first snow angels! At midnight too! |
On Saturday morning, the family plus Lea's boy Budi went out for a Weißwurstfrühstück, or white-sausage breakfast. It's a Bavarian tradition - and doesn't it look German, with the sausage, the Bretzel and Johnny's alcohol-free beer? The sausages were rich, incredibly filling and delicious.
That night Lea and I went bowling with a few friends. The bowling place was hilarious - a mix of Bavarian decor with an attempt to be a Californian beachhouse in the 80s or something. Quite peculiar, but it was the only bowling place that had room that night (apparently bowling is a BIG THING here). I was fine, coming second from seven in the first round and then being horrendously bad in the second, until... I went up for my turn, and the announcer yelled for everyone to stop. He was going to do a competition - everyone who's turn it was had to face him and roll the ball backwards through their legs. Whoever got the most pins down won a bottle of champagne. Everyone was having a good laugh, but I thought 'what the hell!' and had a go... managing to knock 9 pins over, my best roll in many turns. I won by a mile, and quickly became the most loved member of our bowling party.
I also decided it was time for me to make something Kiwi, so that's where making my first pavlova came in! The tin I used was a little too wide, so it was quite a skinny pavlova, but they didn't know the difference and it still tasted pretty good :)
Tomorrow is my very last day in Germany. I'll be spending the morning at school, having a few teary goodbyes I suspect, and then the afternoon will be finishing up packing etc. In the evening we're going out for a final dinner, and then at 7.45am on Thursday, I will be leaving Thalkirchnerstrasse 188 for, at the very least, a rather long time.
I truly can't believe I'm leaving. I'm so so so so looking forward to seeing everyone at home and being back in the sun (sort yourself out, Wellington), but these two months have seemed to go ridiculously fast and I'm going to miss everyone here so so much. It seems unreal that I may never see them again. Of course, with Facebook I'll be getting their every update which will help a bit, but it'll still be really hard.
Anyway. I can't wait to see you all!! Eeps. I'm home at 10.30am on Saturday, exactly 36 hours after my flight from Munich leaves. I'll make at least one more post from home, letting you all know how my last day, flight and settling in process went.
Liebe liebe liebe Grüße, und bis bald, Schätze!
Camille xxx
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