Just had my Grad, In Germany haha

                 WOW is all I can say. This week at Mathis's house has been a blast. Were to begin??? Firstly I will talk about the two Fire departments I have been able to go to here. On our way to visiting the town of Rhienbach (Mathis lives just outside of it) We ran into a fire platoon in training who stopped to take a picture with me! They were all excited to see me and it was great! Rhienbach also only had a volunteer department that I had to schedual an appointment for, however the results were amazing! After the tool they presented me with a standard issue German Fire helmet! It has seen over 15 years of service! I have it packed up at the moment so here is a picture off the internet of it! it is AWESOME!  (It is the newer model however, but close enough)

Two awesome Fire-Medics if I say so myself.

                   The department I went to in Bonn was a 30 minute walk away from the train station... Absolutely hectic to find I say it took me more like an hour. They gave me an amazing tour that lasted a couple of hours. This included their whole cities Dispatch room. You would be surprised on the information they can gather and place, they pretty much have the advanced version of google earth! You would not want a stalker to get ahold of that program! After my entire tour I found out I was running late and they actually took me back to the station in one of their ambulances. The crew was really funny and kept picking on me! Everyone wished me nest of luck getting into college! I cannot wait! I love this proffesion!

         Now about saying I just had my "grad". This whole week with Mathis has been at his school. The great thing about that is the fact I did not have to listen to any boring lectures. I had a week of dressing up in weird costumes (and sadly I do not have pictures yet :( I am still waiting for them to be uploaded on facebook so I can show you!) It was great! The first few days however weere a little hard as people did not know me. It was literally a development period for relationships. The first day I had to dress up as a hiphop artist (I went all out haha). The second day was ommited because we all got into about 13 cars and drove in line across the town to the neighbouring schools to stir up trouble. Then we joined in with several of the cities schools and went to the neighbouring town's school. All got out. Boycotted it with Beers and speakerphones and dancing then got chased away by the police. It was REALLY funnny to watch and participate. The other days were to dress up as poorly as possible! I will not give away what I wore and I promise a picture as soon as I can! But trust me it won the heart of the school!!!!

Dressed More-so like this Guy hahaha

       After that we had a huge party that lasted the entire night. It consisted of a barbacue, a Slapfest (slapping people as hard as ossible on the bum) and huge party in the school gym. Even the teachers attended. It was super fun and I was included in everything. People were great to me! We even had to defend the school from the other school at 3am! Fireworks, eggs and barricades were used!!! It was so much fun! In the morning they had school events and I was brought down to be with the grad class :) I cannot explain how awesome it was to be included!! Tomorrow I leave for Corfu Greece! I am very excited!!! I made a great impression on Mathis's family and they invited me on the trip :) It is going to be legendary!! I am very excited! I do not have any information about it other then no internet except at Cafes. So posting may be a bit difficult!

           I hope that everyone is having a great time! Until next time!



                                           Zak