Sorry.

It's been like a month since I last wrote..so I guess there's a lot to say..
First, Christmas. It was pretty cool but I missed home a lot for a couple of days which I expected..so it wasn't too bad. Not much happened over Christmas..We ate a lot, but thats about it haha.
After Chirstmas Betsey came to visit! We had so much fun she got to meet my friends over here and stuff, it was pretty cool. We traveled a little bit and just hung out..it was really cool having her here and getting to see one of my friends again! Rotary always told us not to have friends come visit because we would just get homesick again, but honestly I think it was a good thing she came. We had a lot of fun and it just reassured that my friends are all still the same back home. When Bets had to go home we had no way of getting to the airport by 4 am because my old host mom couldn't take me for some reason, no clue why and Megan's host dad said they had no room for us, and trains don't run that early, so we had to go to Stuttgart 10 hours before Betsey's departure lol. We were sooo bored and tired. Erika came with too, but anyways it was a lot of fun.
The day I got back from our airport adventure I had to change houses, so I got home and started packing but I was soo tired because I hadn't slept in about 30 hours or something like that. So I packed and had my last meal with the Veitingers it was nice. Then we packed up the car and and took me to my new host family's house. The Raasch family. They're really nice I have a host mom and dad and a host sister. My host dad Helmut is really cool and laid back and has a lot of cool stories. My host mom Sabine owns a dance studio that I go to a lot, I take her jazz class and step aerobics lol it's a lot of fun. She said sometime before I go home she wants to have a cheerleading day with a real American cheerleader lol so yeah she's also really nice. Then there's my host sister Franziska or Franzi is what most people call her she's going to America next year so it's really cool to live with her because we can relate a lot. She'll be 16 this Saturday.
So other than that, right now is Fasching/Fasnet/Karnival, and it's pretty exciting. I'm not exactly sure how everything works, but I was in Ulm the other day and there was a bit parade with all of the different groups that belong to Fasching lol and they were all dressed in their costumes it was so chaotic but so much fun. They would come up and rub all this confetti in your hair or just pick you up and throw you over their shoulder and take you with lol. It was so crazy they kept picking me and Megan up and swinging us around or one time they put us in this wagen thing that was round and then the started spinning it really fast lol it was so much fun.
That's about all that is new though. I'm still playing basketball...we're getting better lol but Yeah, not much else...Ask if you have questions!

I miss you all!

Love,
Courtney