Monthly Report 8: March
The first weekend on March (the last weekend of the break) my host family took me to Germany with them to go skiing. My whole host family went, including my host sister's boyfriends. That was especially nice because my eldest host sister's boyfriend is from Germany, so I got to see him in his element. He was, however, devastated to learn that we also have pretzels in the US, and that there were in no way special to me. He was also shocked to discover that we frequently eat them with cinnamon sugar in place of salt. I was surprised to learn that Germans will cut their soft pretzels in half in order to apply butter, almost like how you'd cut a bagel. So in the end we both learned things. We went to the closest possible ski spot, which was only a three hour drive. So we got there, headed to the rental hut, and began skiing right away (this was Friday). I was surprised to see that there was no skiing lodge, so we had to leave all our stuff in the car and carry our lunches ...