As my uncle uses to say whenever he can... That's what we did last night when the Hurricane "Irene" came through here. Well, in fact not really, as it was a lot calmer than expexted, but anyway a lot of the people didn't have electricity this morning and some big trees fell on the streets. We had to close the porch so it wouldn't fly away but in the end Maine was quite lucky, other states such as Vermont got beaten up pretty badly with a lot of flooding and des...

After hours sitting in what felt like a bird cage, I finally arrived in Boston this afternoon! I got up far too early this morning and had to spend the first three hours on the plane to Iceland freezing, hungry and without any entertainment because I broke my earphones in the first 5 minutes of the flight (this is so typical me, I know)! Anyway, I don't want to comlaign, Boston welcomes me with free wifi everywhere (even on the bus where I am sitting right now,...

Hi everybody, welcome to my first blog entry! I promised, that I will try to write in English, sorry Mutti and Vati, but it makes you practice your English too :). I uploaded some photos of my goodbye-party this weekend. I had a lot of fun with you guys. It was a goodbye party like you want it to be: a lot of friends, nice costumes (Jaime, you definitely won), loud music, wild dancing, although I think a lot of you wished the next morning they hadn't drunken s...