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Magical Monday: Secret Path

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Swannanoa Palace - Virginia

I was lucky enough to work on the set of a music video and to my surprise we got to film in this amazingly spooky mansion. I arrived early and drove up in the fog to find this beauty peeking out at me.

James Dooley built this 52- room marble palace as a token of love to his wife. It took over 300 artisans to complete. Today, they offer tours on certain dates. There is one resident who is also the caretaker.

Check out the music video to see some of the inside!

So yeah it's been like 2 months since my last picture update. Yeah I post on facebook and stuff so family reading this, you've already seen pictures recently. However I find that having little captions to explain them is really nice and just nice to have me actually saying everything that I have done or at least trying to. How am I supposed to remember/explain the things I experience here on a day to day basis? My life is craaaazy. Especially these last 2 months have been super duper busy. I'll make a seperate post about the holidays and finally make another seperate post about my previous fall holidays in France/Belgium and hope it doesn't delete on me again. Needless to say I'm gonna be saving this as a draft every five seconds so nothing gets deleted. Los Gehts!

We will start with mein Schatz <3 Ranti ist die beste Hund

A few selected photo's of Azul, Soph, and I. Bubba, Syria, and Soph forever <3 

Heidenheim to see my love Khartz :') <33

die Kinder mit ihren Laternen! (the kids with their lanterns!) for the Lantern night. There is a night in November (I forget if thats correct) where all the children in the kindergarten sing songs and hold their lanterns and walk in the night. We went up to the vineyards and sang. They are so stinkin cute and now I will always remember that song, "Ich gehe mit meine Laterne, und meine Laterne geht mit mir!" voll süß :)

meeting with some exchange students in Stuttgarttt. We went to this lookout point that is above the city which Joho and Caroline apparently found and basically HIKED for forever (it wasn't that bad but for real, we could've taken a bus I'm sure) to get there, but it was really pretty. Before that we got döner bc it's life

KRISTEN GOT STUCK IN THE BATHROOM THINGY HAHAHAHAHAHA

hehehehe :')

Soph and I went to Killesberg park and walked around and got eis and then went up der Killesbergturm (the Killesberg tower) which also looks over Stuttgart and is beautifullll. That was the day of my 3 months in Germany!

Playing darts at Oma and Opas house <3 I lost btw

Sandwiches in the city for like 3 euros bc were broke

Hot truckerlady rocking the socks and sandals style (we were lazy) (we were on our way to Rewe) (to get chocolate)

fav pics of Ranti being weird and cuddly

Esslingen Weihnachtsmarkt for a Rotary day which turned out to kind of be a failure but whateva. It's always worth it to see these weirdos

We went to the art museum in Stuttgart for international club. So that happened ^

Ice skating!

Sophie and I

me sneakin a selfie with Santa

WE DUN MADE THANKSGIVIN DINNER IN GERMANY. It was very successful und war so toll.

Before Sophie went to England :(

Crowded sweaty bus pic. Had to because it is an accurate representation of public transport in Germany at 7:00am.

<333

Lastly, on December 10th Azuli went back to Argentina. I know I have had bad days here, but that was easily one of the worst. I hadn't cried like that since the day I left California. Of course we are constantly still in contact, but it's not the same not having her here. She was the best oldie a newbie could ever ask for. That is something so AMAZING about exchange. You meet people who affect you and change your life in ways you never expected. I can only hope every newbie gets an oldie like that because it helps more than you could know. She taught me a lot, and I miss her so much. But I am so happy you are with your family and friends again poops <3 We wish you could come back bubba

Like I said, I'll write another post from the most recent photo's in the holidays and all that. It will mostly be Weihnachtsmarkts and all that. Christmas was really great and I am so thankful for my host family <3 They make me feel so accepted and loved and that's all I could really ask for. 

As for what I've been up to in a written form these past 8 or 9 weeks or more, I can't even remember, I don't even know where to begin! It's been filled with school and friends and christmas and everything in between! My German is getting better always, and I understand so much now. I do want to make another course though in January. I think it would really be helpful for me. I don't have a lot of time to write so much because I have already taken an hour to get these photos together and make this blog post, but everything is good as always with me. I'm learning so much and growing so much as a person. I LOVE EVERYONE BACK HOME AND HOPE YOUR HOLIDAYS ARE WONDERFUL!! <3 FROHE WEIHNACHTEN :) (Merry Christmas). Miss you all so much. Until next time, tschüss!