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Today was Mother’s Day. We slept in longer than we should’ve, but after a breakfast, we went on our way back. It was about 1 by the time we got home. Now, we had to get everything out of the trailer, help their friend build up a bed and bring the trailer back. By the time we were done it was 4. I talked to my parents for a bit and then we had a mother’s day dinner. It was fun and we had a lot of great food.

Today was an exciting but uneventful day. We got up early to drive to their beach house in Horseshoe. By the time we got up there and were done with all the work it was time for lunch. I had a really good burger for lunch. Afterwards we took a long nap. Then we had dinner, which was very good and hung out a little afterwards, before going to bed again.

Today started awful. My alarm didn’t go off, but luckily I woke up by myself but half an hour to late. So I had 10 min to get everything ready for school. School was pretty much boring. One thing that was sad is that today was probably one of the last days to work out in school. After school I had a really great back workout. During my cardio I watched a video on a new workout split that I might start. After my workout I had to help my host dad getting everything ready for our trip tomorrow. We had pulled pork for dinner.

Today was a good day. I got a good amount of sleep. But sadly we didn’t really do anything in school. After school I went to the Y a little earlier than usual, which was nice. I had a great shoulder workout and worked on my sticking point in benching. Afterwards I had a good dinner and watched some TV shows before going to bed.

Today was an ok day. I could sleep a little longer to go to my rotary meeting. I was kind a sad because it is my second to last meeting. School was very boring because the gym was closed and we only watched movies all day long. After school I worked on my legs and I greatly improved again in each exercise. It felt really good but for some reason the whole time working out I felt like I was about to puke. Luckily, I didn’t and once I got some protein and quality food in, I went back to normal. My host mom was on the phone for 4 hours today, which was very weird.

Today was a bad day. I didn’t go to school today, but I worked out early in the morning. I had a lot of energy, but I couldn’t hit my top set, which made me very sad. Afterwards Julie had me work on some yards for 4 hours, even though I wanted to go to the movies today. We had pork and fish for dinner. I also had a snack from dairy queen. I’m not really happy right now, because I feel like my diet and training just do not yield the results that I should get from putting in all this effort every day.

Today was an odd day. I had long pants on to not get stung by mosquitos, but then I was hot and sweating the whole day. We had testing, so we spent the first 3 hours of school in the gym playing cards. After that school was pretty much boring. Anna’s parents couldn’t drive and neither could my or any friends. So instead of waiting until 5 for someone to get us, we got an Uber and ubered to the Y. It was pretty cool and our driver was very nice, even though she had no clue about europe. She asked me if the german president was Putin. My workout today was messy and not as good as I expected. My form was off and I just felt weak, even though I was very hyped for my workout. At home I had pulled chicken for dinner and afterwards just hung around.

Today it rained very hard almost all day long. My mood was very affected by it. I got up fairly early but just hung around. My friend cancelled on me watching endgame together. We had a late breakfast, which was crab cakes with poached eggs. That was really good. So at around noon I decided I won’t go to the movies alone today but work out. I had a pretty good shoulder workout. After I got home my mood went back to not being too good. We had some chicken wings for dinner.

Today was my dad’s birthday. I’m grateful for everything he’s doing for me and my family and I hope he had a great birthday. As far as I heard it was pretty good. I had to get up early today for a carwash. It was ok and luckily my shift was only about 2 hours. Afterwards the fun began. We went airboat riding. First, we made our way to a restaurant with the boat, which was awesome. Jack took the boat over some flat surfaces, which I didn’t know you could do considering it is a boat. We saw dolphins, turtles and cool places today. We went swimming for a tiny bit on an „island“ big enough to fit all of us and the boat. Then we tried to land on another island but it went downhill, so I had to jump off and the boat got stuck on the land. We eventually made it back tho. I had a great time on the boat today. Afterwards we had pulled chicken for dinner and hung out a little, while listening to some music.

Today started out pretty weird. Our lovely Rotary coordinator kind of threatened us that if we don’t go to an event tomorrow that we haven’t heard of until just now, that he will deprive us of the right of going to Seacamp. So I started out my day pretty pissed. In culinary we made biscottis, which helped lifting my mood. School was pretty boring though. After school I tried out my new leg workout. It worked really well and it was an amazing workout. I had to start a little late though because all the equipment was used. I came home to my new package with a 5 lbs protein powder, which I’m very excited about. Now, I’m just hanging out a little and eating leftovers, because my host parents went out.