Notre Dame - Great football!!!

Notre Dame - a college in the north of Indiana! There are about 8000 (not very much!!!) students in Notre Dame. It is rated 18th place in nationwide college ranking (Harvard and Princeton are first!!!) But Norte Dame is not only education...i is also great football. One of the nation´s best football teams has it´s home in Notre Dame!
And I had the great chance to go to one of their homegames. It is now already almost one month ago, but I did not have time to write about that earlier!
To go there in time, we had to leave home at about 5 a.m. and than travel about 5h north east to Norte Dame! When we (everybody except David, he did not want to come!!!), we met with Matt (my host brother!!!) his wife and their parents. This game was not an ordinary one, it was the Alumni Band game. That means all the old band members came back and performt on the field! It was really cool! All in all there were 1500 people playing in the biggest band I have ever seen!
But of course, the main purpose to come here is not the band, it is of course the football!
On that day, they played Standford (rated 7th or 8th place in nationwide ranking!!)
But they were only better on the educational view. On the field was Notre Dame winning!!!!
Finallly after a good game with 31 to 10!!!
After the game we went together to a good Itanlien restaurant and then our 5h home!!
That was a great they with overf 80.000 people in the stadium!!!!

Schlarman soccer!!!

Schlarman soccer - basicly the same as european soccer and so I don´t even know why I chose to write about that. But ok, alright I will write some lines and tell you about mysoccer experiences! The season is almost over and we started that whole competition in Ausgust with the school start.
We played a lot of games. 3 per week - on average! That´s a lot. But it was great fun. Tomorrow is our most important game so far. We play in the sectional semi finals. That means when we lose tomorrow the season is over but when we win we have at least one more. We also have to win that one and than we have a final game. If we win that game, we´ll make it to state. That means we have three more games and we can become the best team in whole Illinois. Last team Schlarman got 4th. Pretty god for a small school like that!
I think we can make it to state but it´s gona be a hard way!
That was my short describtion about soccer! I have a lot of soccer pics and I´ll post them under my pic blog!

Homecoming 2006 - best week of the year!

Homecoming week! The best week of the year! That was what everybody told me before this great and important event. Homecoming is a week full of fun, action and games. And of corse the name has a purpose! In this week and especially on the Friday night`s homecoming football game all the graduaters from the last years come back. So you can say it is a great family celebration!
We started our homecoming with costume pijama day on monday. That means that everybody came in their pijamas. That was a lot of fun. On tuesday was costume day and you could see a lot of pirates and dragons running through the building. Wednesday was twin day. Pretty simple. You look for somebody and try to dress the same as your partner! Very cool.
On thursday was blue and gold. That means Schlarman clothes. The whole school was blue and gold pretty amazing! The last day on friday was class shirt day. Every class had their own shirt and so everybody waered it on Friday.
During the week was a lot of stuff going on after the school! On Monday we had a speaker who talked about spirit and affort to do wel in school! the biggest game day was on Wednesday. In the evening we played Powder Puff (girls football - very funny!!!!), human pyramide, water ballon, eating competition and a lot of other games. Later that night there was a bone fire and the footballteam got fired up for their important game on friday!
The friday was a big game day! But our team lost against Hoopston! During half time it was my big hour. I was on court. That means that the Junior class voted for me to represent them during Homecoming! And I got to ride on a open corvette! That was very cool!!! Everybody got pictures and I also have some! I will post them under the picture blog!
On Saturday was the last day of Homecoming. The dance. All court members were anounct again and everybody took a lot of pictures!!!