Dienstag, 15. Oktober 2019

Packing our stuff and saying Goodbye

It's Sunday, we all know that we'll already leave for Chicago tomorrow morning. It feels surreal, hadn't we just met our host families? Hadn't we just gotten used to the life here, the school,
hadn't we just met our new friends? Well, they're going to visit us too, we comforted ourselves. On this last day with them, we wanted to do something together, and spend as many happy
hours as possible with them before we had to pack our stuff for Chicago on finally get everything in our bus on Monday morning to leave for Chicago. It felt weird, the last time we left,
it was just for even less than a week and now it should be final. My Sunday morning began in the worst way possible, I overslept. So I texted my friends with whom I had planned to eat out breakfast.
Luckily, they hadn't gone for it yet. So they gave me a ride and we got breakfast pizza from Casey's. What's that you might ask yourself. Iowa is known for loving pizza from the gas station
"Casey's" and a speciality of this gas station is its renowned "breakfast pizza" topped with sauce, eggs, cheese and either bacon or sausages. It sounds strange, but actually tastes delicious.
So after tasting the typical Iowa cuisine, we tried to decide upon what to do, there was just a little problem. The car we wanted to use was broken. So we were more or less stuck at home.
We quickly changed plans and got to the conclusion that a relaxed Netflix day would be a perfect solution. At first it seemed like an impossible task to find a show everybody was willing
to watch. Mostly, because half of the audience was strongly convinced that horror movies would be a perfect fit, at last we settled on "Stranger Things".
Watching the show wasn't such an easy task though, because the house we were in was also inhabited by three very cute but also very active dogs, which couldn't resist jumping on us, running
around, trying to steal our snacks, trying to lick our faces or begging for attention. All in all, we spend a very relaxed but fun time. In the evening we went to the farewell potluck at
Charles City High School, where we got to meet the whole group: St. Ansgar and Charles City for the last time. Remarkable about the buffet was the wide sortiment of typical pumpkin pie on the dessert table.
At least 6 different families had brought some and we all tried it the classical way: with a lot of cream. After the dinner, we took group pictures and said farewell. In the evening we all went home and started packing our luggage, trying to find every last item that might be hidden in the room while thinking about the fun time we had here in our partner city.

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