Update #2

I didn't get to finish my update yesterday, so I will just continue where I left off:
I was still not done writing about my poem contest. I was so very exhausted during the whole time, even though the room was prepared in a very appreciative manner... there were couches everywhere to sit in, I had brought myself some blankets, because I like working on the floor. I tried to be as productive as possible and my final poem was something like that:

The Ray

Too many times I have been let down!

My only friends simply turn away from me or frown.
Learning about people gossipping behind my back
Evokes that smashing pain,
This feeling of delusion which will always remain.

My shield of protection was to seem unemotional and numb!

It broke apart once my darkness was overcome
By a bright ray of light:
Someone heartily reached out to me
Thus instilling hope and setting me free.

This delicate plant of hope now needs to flourish!
Affection and friendship will allow it to grow.
And then out of hope there will develop
Trust and belief again.

I think this was the final version I handed in :) I am not very happy with it, because there are so many things that I could have done better, but the time was just too short and on top of that, we had to choose a topic from the ones there were and we were also supposed to do it on a specific date, therefore my poem can not be called great. I think it is not horrible, but there are many things that I would still like to change. I will probably not make it into the final round, but that is ok. It was an experience and I think it was a good experience for me, even though, as a result of that contest, I was not able to prepare myself well for the history test the next day. I felt so strained at the end of Thursday, that I hardly managed to study any more for History, but Jan "forced" me to do so and therefore I did. The good thing was, that it didn't matter if you had studied or not, because most of the test consisted of interpreting the given sources :)

So on Friday I took my History test which made up basically half of my school day... I was actually surprised that it was "this easy" but today I found out why it was so easy... namely because I have left out several important statements. Oh well, I will see what my result will be.

This weekend I had two concerts. On Saturday we were in Neckarsulm, near Heilbronn (where my grandparents of my fathers side go to church). Our host church was a Catholic church and it doesn't get heated during winter time, therefore it was colder inside than outside. I don't have any exact degress, but I bet you it was less than 13°C which is extremely unhealthy for instruments and makes playing even harder. On top of that my concentration was very low which is why I made lots and lots of NOTICEABLE mistakes. Fortunately the concert on Sunday went even better and this was the time where I was sitting next to two professionals, so I was glad to not mess up that much. Oh yeah, on Saturday we were eating at church (as usual when having concerts) and I got the food out of the car. I didn't know that the top of the pot filled with tomato sauce didn't fit 100% and carried the box until I felt wet on my pants. I checked to see what it was and how much it was and my pants were full of tomato sauce from top to bottom. It had to be washed out immediately so I had no other option but to wear my concert dress for lunch. Luckily I didn't spill any tomato sauce on it.

My dads car had to be turned in last Monday and now we have a VW Passat. This car is a manual just like our A-Klasse and when I got to drive it, I noticed that it was going almost as fast as the E-Klasse which we had before. I went 218 km/h and my record was 220 km/h, which was with the E-Klasse. I am still a fast driver, but only when I drive my dads car, because we don't need to pay for gas :)

On Monday, I got my French test back and I was surprised to see that I got 13 points. This is very rare for me and the great thing is that it was the only test this semester. It was my last test in French in my life!!! The Abitur is now about 5 weeks off. I hope that I will manage to start studying freaquently now, so that I won't mess up my average but I experience a time of extreme aversion towards studying. This has been going on since the summer and it isn't getting better. Oh well, this is it for my update. I will find out tonight if I won at the poem contest. Winning would mean that I am one of ten or twelve people (or something like that) who will have to present their poems publicly on March 16 I think :) I will let you know what the result is...