Autor: Timo Ziereis

Today was a rather unpleasant day. I got up early and I was super tired. I was picked up by my host family and after putting my stuff in my room, we went straight to work. We drove to a friend’s house to do their yard. My job was basically picking up the stuff Julie trimmed down and bag it. I had to do that for 5 hours and it was pure horror. Afterwards I worked out at the Y. My legs still weren’t working too good, and the deadlifts definitely didn’t help. I tried my best but I missed the edge in my workout today. We had turkey for dinner, which was delicious. Afterwards I helped Jack pinning the Turkey feathers, which was kind of gross, because they still had flesh on them. Unfortunately, now I’m going to bed very late, so I’m going to be grumpy tomorrow.

Today was a very relaxed day. I was getting up late because I was up until 3 talking to a friend. I had breakfast and watched a movie, because my host parents were out getting their cat to the hospital. He will be fine though. I had a small lunch and talked to them. Also, I talked to my handball team back in germany. I helped them in the yard. We had a very good ham for dinner, and went for a walk afterwards. We had a blueberry desert for dinner. Overall it was a really relaxed but nice day.

Today was a really good day. I got up fairly early and had a little breakfast. We also had a little brunch before we went blueberry picking. It was a half hour drive to the farm but it was a beautiful farm. The picking was a lot of fun and I ate a lot of blueberries while picking. The three of us picked about 8 lbs of blueberries. Afterwards I went for a quick workout. Then I finally got my hair dyed grey and after applying it 2 times it looks great. I really love it. We had pizza for dinner and are now watching Apollo 13.

Today was a great day. I slept in and hung out for a while before going to the gym. I was super hyped so after I was done with my shoulder workout, I decided to do the leg workout as well. I took a second pre workout so I was super wired and actually it me a little too hard, so I wasn’t feeling too well. As I was already kind of tired of the first workout the second one really did a number on me. After I was done I could hardly walk. I took a quick shower and then we went out for dinner. It was a great dinner but I wasn’t very hungry. Afterwards we went out to the beach to watch the sunset. We also got some ice cream. At home we watched a really interesting and fun movie.

Today was my birthday. I woke up early and I had a headache the whole day, which was kind a sad. School was ok, a lot of people gratulated me and I‘m so happy and glad for every single one. It made today a really good day. After school Julie dropped me off at my temporary host family. I had to help them at an event, but we had good food there. They gave me the option to have a whole house to myself, which I took. But a guy recently died in it and the more I thought about that, the more I freaked out about it. So here I am now in their house. We had some amazing belgian ice cream. Thanks again for every single one who made my day better today.

Today was a pretty cool day. I was able to sleep in. In honor of Earth Day Julie’s Rotary Club invited Elementary school kids to a park to pick up trash and learn about the environment. I helped on the „bowling alley“ and it was a lot of fun even though it was very hot. Also, I got killed by the bugs. Then I went to school for the last 2 hours of it. We celebrated Mariah’s and my birthday in anime club. We played some uno and I gotta say I had a lot of fun. They drove me home so I didn’t have the opportunity to go to the Y, but I was super sore anyway. At home I packed my stuff for the weekend, played some basketball and made some dinner. Overall, I just relaxed the evening.

Today was a good day. It started out early as always. I asked my bus driver to please turn down the radio and he didn’t. School was ok. I cleaned and jerked and made some good progress. After school I had a great back workout even though my grip gave up on me. We went to a Mexican restaurant for dinner. I didn‘t have tacos but I had a really good burrito.

Today was an ok day. I was able to sleep on the bus, but I was still tired after I got there. I did abs in Weightlifting. I wrote a test in Algebra. After school I went to the Y and had an amazing chest workout. It‘s been a while and I really missed it, so I really appreciated today‘s workout. I cleaned my room. Jack‘s daughter is here for a visit and we had steaks for dinner.

Today started out great. We got up at a decent time, had a nice breakfast and then drove to the shooting range. We were shooting flying targets with shotguns. I missed my first 10-15 shots, before I got the hang of it. Once I did I was pretty decent for my first time shooting. We had a lot of fun at the shooting range. We had a great lunch at home and Volk and I hung around before we drove him home. Then I talked to my parents and had a little dinner. I started cleaning up my stuff and room and it made me really depressed. For one I didn’t want to clean, second I realized that the great time in New York was over, third I don‘t want to go back to school because I‘m almost done.

Today was our last day. We got up at 6:30 to say goodbye to some people. We were supposed to get breakfast, but it wasn’t ready so we went back to bed. At 8 we got up again to say goodbye again and have breakfast. We hung around until 1:50 and just had some fun before we left for the airport. The flight and security went by pretty smoothly. Now we‘re getting picked up by my host parents and having chick-fil-a for dinner. It was really hard to say goodbye and I met a lot of amazing people.