I don't know what to call this

Hello. Finally, I'm going to update everyone, without pictures (they'll come later).

Tuesday, September 11th. Today I had a normal day at school, it's not really interesting enough to say much, except that I've met people. That's all. Seriously.

Wednesday, September 12th. Went to school. Came home. Went to scouts. It was fun. But I don't have much to say about it.

Thursday, September 13th. Went to school, then the Hauptbahnhof (train station), for train tickets for the weekend. Then home.

Friday, September 14th. Went to school. Bought new shoes, (Nike+) and the Nike+ iPod connector. Then I went to Bergheim for Rotary. The train ride was fun, but packed full of people. The bus ride, on the other hand, was just plain scary. I think the driver thought he was in a Porsche or something. Didn't do much on the first night, except stay up late, and realise that there are a lot of Mexicans here, like everyone was Mexican, or Brazilian, with a few Venezuelans and Argentinians to boot. There was one Taiwanese girl, a Japanese girl, a Thai girl, and an Indian girl, 10 Americans, and 5 Canadians. This is out of 50 students... and only one of the North Americans wasn't white.. so much for diversity, I guess. I'll post some pictures here later.
One of the Rotex (the people who run the meetings for the exchange students) girls was in Windsor two years ago for her exchange, so she knew a lot about the maritimes. We had a good chat.

Saturday, September 15th. We went to see a big open-pit mine, with the biggest equipment in the world. It was pretty cool, I'll add pictures later. Then we went to a part of the mine that had been reclaimed (they move the mine constantly, filling in the old hole with the extras from the new hole), which was well forested, and had a nice cabin from the company. You wouldn't have known that 20 years before, that was likely the most disgusting industrial wasteland on Earth! The food was good, and there were lots of alcohol-free beverages, to the dismay of some students.
After the mine tour, we went back to the school that we stayed at. We were told that we had to make a presentation about our country, in English, in six hours. It was to be a skit. One of the Canadian girls spent about three seconds deciding that she'd bail and join the Americans... (she calls herself a Liberal though. Don't they say it's the Tories who do that?) we were offended, but pressed on. We settled on performing the "I Am Canadian" routine, which took about 10 minutes to decide. With lots of time to kill, we went with the Americans to find a McDonalds (they claim they needed a bag for their skit). In true American style, we spent an hour or two finding this McDonalds, and had a snack (well, I had a snack. Can't speak for the others) Then we decided to find a faster way home. So I went online and got a map, and it looked like we were 2 towns over. Not believing the map, we asked for directions. The man pointed at a road, said go left, and then we it ends, take another left. Easy enough. So we walk out to this "road" and realise, it's a highway! We were two towns over! We went two towns for McDonalds! You could justify it by saying we burned a lot of calories getting there... So we got back, and had our presentation. It was good.

Sunday, September 16th. Today we got up, cleaned the place out, and left. We went to a town called Königswinter (Kings Winter), and were 15 minutes late for the meeting there. The Rotex people quickly blamed us, though we waited 20 minutes for the bus, ready to go, but they scheduled it for 9 am (when we should've left already). I wasn't impressed with the statement. The meeting was extremely boring, and it was just repeat #10 million of the Rotary rules and expectations. They didn't even have food there to make it better! After the meeting, Mr Popp (the councilor from Aachen's other Rotary club) and someone else came to pick us up. I went with Mr Popp, as he lives nearby. Madelyn, and Ana Patricia (one of the 4 Mexicans in Aachen) came with us as well. They slept, so I had a chat with Mr Popp, he's an Engineer who builds fancy ball bearings for the gearboxes of EVERY Formula 1 car! He also drove a Porsche Cayenne Turbo, and scoffed at its mileage, so I don't think he was poor. Once we hit the autobahn, he taught me a bit about it, and also showed me that in Germany, the car manufacturers have a "Gentleman's Agreement" limiting speeds at 250 kilometers per hour, though the Cayenne, as he demonstrated, topped out at 240 due to its size. (It still had LOTS of room left to go. It was weird, you put your foot down, and then it leaps from 150 to 240 in a few seconds, and then just stops accelerating!) So needless to say, the open stretches of the trip were, brisk. We stopped at his house for "cake" though it was really pie. Some damn good pie, actually. Afterwards, I went home.
It was also the one year anniversary of me dating Leah, so I called her and said hello.

Monday, September 17th. Went to school, went for a run. Das ist Alles.

Tuesday, September 18th. Went to school, then to Alfredo's (another Mexican) to watch a movie.

Wednesday, September 19th. Went to school, then for a run with the dog. Then Scouts. We made Pizza. That's seriously all that we did in the 1:30 that we were there!

Thursday, September 20th. Today I wished it was Friday so the weekend, and holidays, could start. Pretty boring day. Going to sleep early, as well.