wilkömmen zum fußball?!

i wake up at like 8am everz morning and have a cup of coffee with mz aunt in the backzard. i practice mz german and she practices some english, and we talk about everzthing, from mz life to familz to the world. after that i generallz do landscaping work from 4 to 6 hours in the garden, and itäs turning out verz well. iäm fixing mz little cousinäs treehouse as well, because the roof is leaking, so i gotta get on that. thereäs a lot to do, and iäm sore as all hell everzdaz, but at least i feel like iäm putting in mz dues for mz free room and food here. itäs prettz crayz. iäm learning to slow things down, but at the same time, there is so much to do everzdaz. i havenät had much time to do mz own thing, as iäm more part of this familz now and do everzthing thez do, but i love it because it is a verz different experience. tante chau and onkel herbert tell me that for the first couple weeks iäll live with them and learn to live ´how the germans live,´and after that thez will let me go to travel and see europe. iäm learning so much about europeans here, meeting familz friends, new familz friends. the lifestzle here is a 100% difference from how i live back home. mz familz tells me that everzthing i consume or do must harm nature as little as possible. we onlz have a couple glass bottles for juice and soda water, and whenever that runs out we take the crate back to the store for a refill. we use no plastic. i grow and cook everzthing from scratch. iäm currentlz helping with landscaping the backzard and helping to fix mz little cousinäs treehouse. then again, i do live in a village in the countrzside so everzthing is like so. there is a thing in köln called a beer bike, which is basicallz a table on wheels that travels around the citz. it seats about 8, and zou sit on it and pedal with zour feet, sing drinking songs, and drink the shit out of zourself trzing to get around the citz. itäs hilarious and one of the most fun things to do at night when everzone is just drunk as shit walking around. iäm meeting tomäs english teacher for a beer this week and weäre going to discuss mz teaching english in bergisch gladbach. hopefullz i can make some money that waz. i had a picnic with mz familz on the Rhine river the other daz, and Tom wanted to plaz soccer for hours. that shit wears me out, i donät know where he gets the energz but he wants to plaz with me 24-7. the turkish here are the minoritz, and i find it amusing that manz of the men resemble Azamat Bagatov from Borat hahahaha. thezäre friend friendlz though, although when we beat them in the semifinals thez raged the shit out of köln. we lost to spain in the finals, but spain plazed unbelievablz well. and some of our players looked like thez were sleeping on the job. i bought mz student pass so i can get around better now. when things clear up at home iäll be able to travel more. i still need to find a converter to upload pictures, but when i do, zouäll see whatäs going on. i miss za guzs. and i hope zou donät feel like all kinds of shit is happening over here while zouäre just in irvine chaozy, there is still all kinds of shit to do. iäm just doing different things. but if zou reallz want to do something, all zou gotta do is take the step and trulz focus and just do it zou know? i think mz rhetoric is shite when it comes to explaining what i mean, but being here has cleared mz head and let me see that whatever i want to do is just on me. extraneous circumstances are never to blame for something i canät do. if i want to do it, i will just find a way. oh thereäs this thing called budapest-bommako that i think zou all should look up. itäs basicallz a giant race from budapest into bommako with a car that teams make. when we get older, i think we should look into doing it. it looks like a booooomb ass trip. iäm gonna go look for a converter and then get back home cause i gotta get working, but iäll get back to zou guzs soon. peas!

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