long time no see =)

I´m in South Africa!!! Wohoo!!! But let´s start with my last days in Germany.

I had my exams on thursday (math- which I failed ) and English on friday (dunno the results yet). So I took the train home on friday at 11am! Couldn´t wait to finally be home and be ove with the stupid studying!

I didn´t do much on friday except talking to my mom and  grandma and watching Ghost Whisperer! =)

On Saturday my Mom and I went shopping because I still hadn´t any gifts for my hostfamily! But I found really nice things and also some things that I still needed! When we came home my grandma told us she wasn´t feeling well so we called a doctor (my grandma is 78 so we wanted to be on the safe site) They came and gave her a shot and then she was fine again!

Saturday night I went out with Anne and Birgit to a drum´n´bass party which was really lame and no one we knew was there! =(

Sunday I slept in and just enjoyed the day! Monday I finally started packing and got everything ready in time! My mom brought me to the train station at 2pm and my train to FRA left at 3pm! For some reason I wasn´t even sad when we said goodbye, maybe I´m used to all this by now =)

In FRA I met with my best friend Nicole who came from Wiesbaden! First I checked all my luggage in and I was fine. You´re allowed to take 20kg with you but I asked and they say nothing until 28kg! So I know that I can go shopping here! =)

Then Nicole and I had dinner at a mexican restaurant and at 8pm I went to the security check in´s! I called my mom to tell her that Nicole left and that I will be boarding soon when she told me that my grandma had a heart attack! Luckily my mom had called the ambulance before that because my grandmother still wasn´t feeling well so she had the heart attack on the way to the hospital and they took really good care of her. But of course I was really scared! I didn´t know if it was the right thing to get on the plane or just go back! But I thought that I couldn´t do anything for her and I know that she wants me to go see the world so I went on the plane! I was crying the whole time because I was soooo afraid that she might die. So when I was in Dubai I looked for the first phone that I could find and called home. Phew, she was fine or well as fine as someone can be after a heart attack. I was still worried though and couldn´t help starting to cry from time to time.  I had eight hours to kill in Dubai! So I went and had coffee at starbucks and dunkin donuts ( oh how I missed it) and then I just sat around and waited! I will get all my souvenirs on the way back to germany!

I couldn´t really enjoy my flight to Johannesburg because I was still worried if my mom had told me the truth or not...But I tried to relax and I had a double seat at the window in the last row all by myself! And Emirates shows tons of movies so I watched like 5 !!!They also have the best food ever!!!

We were on time and my suitcase made it, too! So I went out and saw my hostdad and Babsi (the austrian au pair) right away! It was already 9.30pm on tuesday (remember I left monday at 2pm!!!) and I was soooo tired. Of course I had called my mom the second we landed from my cell phone and my grandma was still fine even my dad who came all the way from the netherlands had already left again so I knew she must be ok because its his mom and he wouldnt leave her if she wasnt ok!

My hostdad took a little detour to show me Pretoria at night and its just gorgous!Then I just fell into bed and slept!

I couldn´t sleep to long because I had to get up at 6am the next day cause the girl had school and needed to get ready! At 7am came Estelle (the south african au pair) and we all got the girl ready! I´m so glad to have the other girls here cause we get along sooo well and its never boring!!!

After we drove her to school we went to the mall because the two other au pairs wanted to get piercings! Well stupid me watched and of course fainted!!! Oh well I was fine after a couple of minutes sitting down and a glass of water!

Then we picked her up from school and played in the backyard!

I don´t really remember what we did each and every day! But I know that I loooooooooove it here. I felt so welcome and happy the second I got here! Its an amazing country and the people are sooooo nice! I met so many south africans my age already and we all have fun!

It took me two days to get used to the driving on the left side of the road but now I´m fine and looove driving here! In September me and Babsi will go to Cape Town for a couple of days!!! I can´t wait! And tomorrow we will go on a Safari!!!! This is all soooo exciting!!!! Everyday we are going somewhere else and so great things because the little girl has winter vacation until september! Yup winter vacation! Right now the weather is fine its about 25C but the first days here it was about 10C and now I´m having a terrible cold!

Ok I will leave you with some pictures! Cause I need to get dressed!!!!Have a great week!!!

this is the outside of my room! I can see beautiful sunrises from there!!!!

that is Pretoria´s Union Building where the Government is!!!

One day we went to Rietvleidam its a nature reserve with a great lake and there were horses walking around on the road!!!!

Me, Babsi and the girl at the natural history museum!!!!