Being proud of where you're from.

It's June 2010 and the entire world's looking to South Africa and watches the 2010 Soccer World Cup. It's an event which is uniting the whole world for two months, which is a great feeling. Four years ago the Soccer World Cup has been in Germany. This event has united Germany to one country - not only on the map, also in every German's mind. We started to being proud of our country again. We used to hide our identity, because we were ashamed of what happened 65-70 years ago - were ashamed what our ancestors have done in an absolutely horrible way. There is no excuse for the holocaust! Now we try to look in the future instead of looking back in the past. To be able to wave the German flag at an big event like the Soccer World Cup. I'm glad I can say that I am so tolerant and open for new cultures, people and religions from all over the world. There is no reason for me anymore to be ashamed of where I am from. That feels good! 

Believing in God

Religion to me is more than just believing in God. My belief gives me strength and is definitely a reason that I am loving life this much. Every  time I get down on my knees and pray I feel new born, feel strong, feel loved, feel confident. It's a good feeling, that I don't want to miss. Same thing when I read in the holy book. The bible is also inspiring and although it's the oldest book on earth it's so current to the today's life. There are so many different religions in the world and everybody believes different. Some types of religion are strict, some are not. What would live be without religion? For some people would life still exist, if religion would not exist. Thinking about the victims of the 11th September in 2001 makes me think: Is believing always good? Without different beliefs there were less wars around the world. So more lives?! No, definitely not. Without religion there were no billions of living people all over the globe. In conclusion, religion is not always good, but definitely needed to go on in life! 

Music - The Soulkeeper

Is there anything more popular than music in the whole wide world? I guess not. Every human being loves a kind of music. There are so many genres and there is no way anybody has no genre that he or she doesn't like. Every genre fits on different people and it depends on the character of a person what kind of music the person is listening to. You don't find anything more versatile than music. But is music just a thing? I think it's much more than that. It's also a description of a person and the way the person thinks or feels. A magnet. A glue stick that connects people all over the world. Without music I wouldn't know a lot of these great people I know in these days. I need music to live like the air we breath. I don't make music, but music makes me. That's a fact. "Music is the only love."

Heading down the one way road.

Life offers you many options. But what happens if you don't have lots of options, you choose one option and you have to go down the one way road to achieve your goals? The answer seems to be pretty easy: Just push until you get to your goal. But is it as easy as said to make your dreams come true? Probably not! So it takes hard work and discipline to get what you want. I use to say: "My life is mine. I'm responsible for making it work the way I want." These two sentence give me a lot of strength. Strength that is needed to head down the long and hard one way road.

Next Stop: Life Long Dream

There are only about 50 days left to the beginning of the foreign exchange year and I'm really excited. This year's always been a life long dream for me and I worked hard to make it happen. But as closer the year gets my feelings are mixed. First and foremost just excitement but there's also fear and many questions I ask myself: 'Is it possible to leave my friends and family home for ten months? Will my friends still be there when I'm back after these long ten months? Does this much money we spend for it worth it?' The answers I get are always the same: 'Yes, I can do it! My friends are the best in the whole wide world, so they are waiting for me! I can make it worth it!' And those people who let me think like that are these awesome people I already got to know from Globe, AZ. The first time I was talking to my host mother I had good feelings, because she is an awesome woman and I'm glad to stay at her house for so long. After the E-Mailing with my host mother I got really curious and I was searching for students who are going to Globe High School. After awhile I was searching I found this one girl named "Ti". She was standing next to her boyfriend and both were closing their eyes and had a bright smile upon their faces in her picture. The smile upon their faces put a smile upon my face, so I decided to write her a message. She is simply awesome! We share many things in common. For example fashion. I pretty much enjoy to talk with her about this topic. This has been on 4th February. Today four months later I got to know plenty awesome people from Globe. About one week later I received a message from the daughter of my host mother - my host sister. I'm glad I got to know her! She is such a nice woman. After awhile on facebook I noticed how close she is to the friends of her children. Now, this is what you can call a perfect mother. Through her I got to know her Son. I've already been talking to him via 'skype'. I call him "J". He is such a funny person and I appreciate that he's talking to me via 'skype' and that he keeps being patient with my English. The next person I got to  know was "Ash". Each time I think about her I have to smile. She is such a cheerful person just like I am and she is sooo funny. I got to know more and more people from Globe and on one day I got to know a girl named "Becky". If there is a stronger girl on earth than her I probably wouldn't believe it. I'm so glad I got to know her. The way she's giving love to her son is the definition of a perfect mother! There are so many other great persons from Globe... 

Now after writing this long text, I feel so good. Can't this exchange year just begin...? Let's goooooo! : )