So they really do eat sausages...

I feel like I haven't posted in forever but then I realize that I've been here for less than a week. Weird. I feel at home now, not that I didn't earlier, since my family is so fantastic. So yeah. My German life... Today is an exciting day because I correctly spoke in the past tense for the first time! About five minutes ago I ate lunch with Oma and Luisa and I told my Oma that I talked to my friend Kat on Skype last night. I think I said it mostly correctly but most importantly I said "spoke" instead of, "Yesterday I speak to Kat." Oh the milestones of learning another language...
Anyways I realize now that I haven't introduced you all (whoever is actually reading the blog...) to my family. Hmm... I'll get on that and hopefully have a lovely little post with pictures of everyone and the pets in the next few days.

Look! My cute town! I took this picture from the top of the castle in Schleusingen. Fun fact of the day, that little green lump in the middle-ish background area where the mountains dip is called the Seven Trees (there are six but ok...) and it's where witches were burned once upon a time. You can kind of see my house in this picture... Here's a close up:

Mine is the fluorescent orange one in the middle. :)
Anyways, about that post title. I just wanted to let you all know that Germany is exactly how I pictured it, which is a good thing. There are definitely surprises everyday but before coming here I thought Germany was a distant place where everyone ate sausages and bread and loved beer. So true. Germany is a lot more than that but maybe once I leave I can make a little post about similarities/differences for future exchange students or anyone else who would like to know about that sort of thing.
I feel like this post is rather long now and I would like to add more but seriously no one wants to read a blog that has that many words so I'm going to throw in some pictures of my life now and call it a day. Tschüß!