It's Like The Fourth of July, But Three Days Long

Fridays are good days because I don't have school until 8:30. Kind of weird to think of it that way, since back home 8:20 always seemed waaaaay to early. It was also fairly odd, because in Math we did trigonometry, whereas we normally have been doing Physics (the same guy teaches Physics and Math, and since he had been taking Physics hours to teach math and prepare the class for their big standardized tests a month ago, he's recently been taking back Math hours to catch up in Physics). In Physics 11, we were doing some things about Gas Laws, which I guess could be Physics, but since we'd just been doing levers and rotation or something, it seemed a lot more like Chemistry. Physics and Chem tend to overlap quite a bit I find. I'm also seriously considering taking AP Chem (if I can manage it into my schedule) next year. I know John and Logan plan to... who else? Anyway. Physics 11 is a two hour block, but the second hour they took a test in Chemistry 11, a class I'm actually also a part of, but didn't take the test in largely because I didn't know the material, but also because Geli's Chem class ALSO had a Chem test that hour. So I took that one. It went okay, but he asked for 6 properties and chemical reasoning therefore of salts, and I was able to bust out two. Egal.
Friday night we were invited to a birthday party. I didn't really know the girl, and neither did Geli, but we went anyway and had a good time. We played a game like volleyball, but instead of a ball used a flat nerf disc with a tail like a Vortex football. The game was fun, the food was good, and the beer was from the tap, so it was an excellent time overall.

Saturday I had the option of going to Biedigheim to watch Geli play tennis, but opted to sleep in instead. At about 2:00, when she got back, we headed over to Andreas's house. He's in my photo gallery, and originally I had named him Julian, largely because I'd thought that was his real name. Nope. It's Andreas. My reasoning is fairly solid in that everyone calls him Kunz, so that's how I knew him. Enough said. Anyway, his party was quite unusual, but not in a bad way. He had it at his house with a little beer but not much, in the afternoon. He told me he wasn't a fan of the huge wild bashes where everyone gets plastered and so on, and I agreed. It was a fairly quiet affair, and we also got to see his expertise on the guitar. He's turning 16, and he's quite good at playing. And about the post title: tonight, at the Blühendes Barock (Residenzschloss) is a Musikfeuerwerk display, with the fireworks set to classical music. It kicks off a city festival that goes until Monday night, and is quite a celebration. I'll be heading there later on.

On the good side of things, it's cooling down. It had been sitting around 90 F, but now I'm wearing long pants. It's been raining a bit too, which is nice.

Here's what our readers had to say:
It's real cool that you guys were able to make that tape for Ms. Uppgaard. I'd really like to see a copy, if that would be possible.
I thought you were the German linguist here, John. Don't make me dig up the quote... But i think that one's better left auf Deutsch, do you agree Matt?
DEUTSCH MODE: ON
Ich weiß nicht genau wann wir Cristoff besuchen werden, aber ich glaub' dass es wird nach Schule sein, vielleicht am Ende Juli oder so. Wie lange bleibst du dann? Und warum hast du nicht angemeldet? Hast du deine Kennwort vergessen oder was - dein Blog hat auch nichts neues. Aber egal. Tja, ich freue mich auf heim natürlich, wegen der Leute, aber hier find' ich's besser; zwischen Bier und deutschen Mädels geht's mir gut. Ich will sicher nach Deutschland zurückkommen (wann weiß ich nitt), aber es gibt auch so viel gutes zu Hause... Zu mindestens ist's 'n gutes Problem zu haben. Wie ist die Sprache dir gegangen? Ich schätze dass ihr Deutsch reden, ja? War's mir zuerst leicht, aber nachher hatten sie so leicht zu sprechen gestoppt. Also, hab' ich viel zu viel schon geschrieben, und die, die Deutsch nicht reden können, sind total verloren. Viel Spaß.
DEUTSCH MODE: OFF
That was just intended to be a short aside to Anderson, if you were wondering, and it kind of turned into a lengthy discussion. Don't worry, it doesn't concern you. If you're really paranoid, I guess you could use one of those online translators and try to pick through the pile of grammar it dumps on you, but I've used enough slang to make your going tough (not that I've anything to hide, mind you).

I'm spent.