Travelog for: Sterni

Good afternoon Mum.

Today is the famous Festival of Lights in Dortmund in the Westfahlenpark.
When we arrived in the park, we searched for the right place for our picnic and the firework in the evening. It was a great picnic and we had a lot of delicious foods.









After this great meal we had some time before the firework starts, so we were walking around the park. We saw a lot of cool lambs and pictures that were made out of lights.









This is the Florian television tower; he is the famous emblem of Dortmund.



Than at half past ten it was time for the firework. It was really amazing. Sometimes I had the feeling like the whole sky was full with lights.











We had a really great day in the Westfahlenpark today.

Hello Mum.

Today we were preparing the presents we brought with us from America. We bought some M&Ms in the great M&M world. We were sorting the colors of the M&Ms, so that everyone got the M&Ms in the right color. It was really funny and look how many I’ve got.

Hello Mum.

Today we had to say goodbye to Knöpfchen. He is starting the long time RR today and because of this he is traveling to nuriayasmin today. I wish him a save journey and that he will experience great adventures on the RR.
We became good friends in the time, that we were spending together and I will miss him. Hopefully we will meet again one day.
We all hugged him before he went into his envelope.

Goodbye Knöpfchen

Hi Mum.

Today Zeitgeist and Little Dragon were leaving. It was sad to say goodbye to my new friends. I hope they will experience a lot of cool adventures in the future.



Before they left we took a last group picture together.



We hugged them and wished them a save trip. I hope I get the chance to meet the two again one day, so we could spend more time together.











Then it was time to say goodbye. Little and Zeitgeist packed their presents for their parents and left.





Bye bye you two. I will miss you.

Good morning Mum.

Today was very cool, because we visited an amusement park called Phantasialand. We stood up very early this morning so we could enter the park right after the opening. Because of that we had a lot of time to have fun on the attractions.













I love this chairoplane. While I was riding on it I thought my feed could get wet because of the water fountains



Here I want to show you Talocan. I got very dizzy after this ride.





This is a part of the River Quest water ride. The scariest part of the ride is the giant fall into the deep ground.



Here you can see the Colorado rollercoaster







After a while we had a break and I shared these yummy strawberries with Snowball.



I really like this old car.



In addition to all the funny rides I saw a lot of interesting decorations.











Don’t you think this house is looking like a head?



Before we went home we watched this artistic show in Chinatown. It was a very cool show and the perfect end for a great day.

Hello Mum.

Today was a special day. We went to Mandrara for a group meeting with the other TVs who were staying with her Rosalind, Karlos, Drashuven and BineHH. We planned to surprise Bzzzzz and Suomi-girl who is also staying with Mandrara at the moment, because they had the same mum. 
There we also met the family from Little Dragon, his parents Imodra Dragon and Feru Dragon and Thorin Dragon his elder brother. It was cool and very interesting to meet so many TVs. We talked a lot about our adventures and dreams.







Then it was time to eat something. I had a typical German fast food, curry sausage with fries.



It was a great evening.
Love you mum
Your Sterni

Hello Mum.

This was a very special Weekend. We visited good friends from my host parents in the Saarland, because Shilos godson will be baptized this Sunday. It was very special for me to be here, because I saw so many different baptize traditions.
The Saarland is next to France and because of this they had a special baptize tradition which comes from France. The godmothers and godfathers of the child pack “Gutzien”, little backs with sweets. After the baptism they were a present for all the kids, the family and friends so they welcome the child as a part of their community.

Here we are shopping the sweets for the “Gutzien”. The sweets look so yummy.



After our shopping trip it was time to pack the backs. First all the sweets were mixed together in a big laundry basket. Who wants to swim in gold, swimming in sweets is much cooler.



Then we helped Shilo to fill the bags. At the end we had packed 50 “Gutzien” and the best is that we have our own “Gutzien”.







This is the christening robe. It is hands made and in family property since generations and a lot of kids were baptized in this robe.



Then we had some free time, so we took the chance and played around in the garden.









Another tradition for the baptism is that an apple tree was planted. So one of the godfathers brought one with him and we planted it in the garden. It wasn’t easy but it made a lot of fun. I wonder how the apples will taste one day.















After the baptism we were helping to decorate the tables for the coffee and cake.







Shilo gave the baby a baptism bracelet. It is another tradition here in Germany. Unfortunately we forgot to take a picture with it.
It was a special weekend for me and I had a lot of fun.

Love you mum
Your Sterni

Hello Mum.

Today arrived a new envelope. I was so pry to see who was inside. Bzzzzz opened the envelope.





Out of the envelope came a little Rat. His name is Mr. Stanley. We all hugged him to welcome him here in Bochum.







Stanley told us about his adventures. It was great to hear new stories.



Then he showed us the postcard he had brought with him.





In the evening we played some board games. The first game we played was “Heimlich & Co.”. In this game you should hide from the others which figure color is yours to win the game.









The next game we played was “DonPeperoni”. In this game you want to become the mayor of a small town. To become the mayor you could win votes by giving the people money. It was a very funny game.





The last game we played this evening was “Bezzerwizzer”. It is a quiz game, where you had to answer questions. Some questions were easy but others were extremely hard to answer.

Hello Mum.

Today Snowball took us into the cinema. We planned to watch “the expendables 2”. Look Mum I’ve got my own Ticket.



While we were waiting for the movie we were watching around the cinema.  On this big screen we could watch movie trailer.





Look we have found a giant movie display from the film.



Then it was time for the movie. We all charred a seat together, while we were watching the movie.





Oh it’s getting dark. I am so excited to see the movie.



The movie was really great and I had a lot of fun watching it. And mum I can tell you that I love the cinema.

Good morning Mum.

Today we drove to Hagen, were we are visiting the open-air museum. This museum is really cool because it is the only open-air museum in Europe which shows only the history of craft and technology. It shows moments of the history of the Westphalia craft and technology from the end of the 18. to the 20. Centaury.



















We saw a lot of different old smithies. They were really impressive especially this giant one.





















Mum have you ever seen the many different wigs? It was cool to see the work of the wigmaker.



When you stand here you’ve got the feeling like you were standing in the middle of an old German village.



Here you can see the room of the shoemaker.



In one of the houses we found a scale. We were playing and looking who weighs more. Purple Tentacle is heavier than I am.



Here we saw how clogs were made.



Then it was time for us to go home again. Goodbye open-air museum.





This was another funny day. I hope you have fun too mum.
Love you mum
your Sterni

Hello Mum.

Today was a lazy day, so we decided to go to the playground. On the way to the playground we walked through the garden plot which is behind the house from host mum. Behind this garage we could see the house.



Garden plots were typical German and also the garden gnomes which we could see in some gardens. It was really nice to walk this way.







At the end of the Garden plot we arrived at the playground. We had a lot of fun playing there.

Hello Mum.

Today Snowball showed us around the Bochumer City. It was cool to walk around there. We saw this old statue which is a memorial of Fritz Kortebusch the last cowherd in Bochum, who had done this job from 1850 till 1870.





Near the memorial we saw this interesting art sculptures. Unfortunately the battery of Shilos cam was empty so we couldn’t take more pictures of the city.





When we were back at home we had to say goodbye to Hase. She will travel to Berlin and visit Orangesunshine there.  Before she left we hugged her and wished her a save trip and a lot of great adventures on her way.
I will miss her because we became good friends the time we spend together.









Goodbye Hase.

Hello Mum.

Today was very funny because Snowball took us to a bowling Centre. She told us how to play. She said that we had to throw one of the bowling balls onto the pins, so that they fall down. I played with the pink ball from Shilo. The ball is so extremely huge and heavy that it wasn’t easy to roll it. But I made it and I had a lot of fun. I throw a strike but I forgot to take a picture of it because we were celebrating it.

Hello Mum.

Today we drove to Essen and visited the Phänomania. It’s an exhibition we could learn something about our senses and the law of nature.
Here I could see how pictures learn to move. It was funny to see this caterpillar moving.





Look mum I’ve found beautiful gongs together with Mr. Stanley.



When I was moving this kerchief the Styrofoam balls were moving too.



In this vase were different things which we could feel with our hands and guess what it is.



Here we were exploring a cool tactually pathway.





Mum I’ve learned a lot about light today. Can you see the different colors of the shadows behind us? We made them with different lights in green, blue, red and yellow.



This was the best thing in the exhibition. I liked this lightning’s that were moving under me.



Outside the exhibition we could play around before we went back home. It was a very funny and interesting day for me.



Love you Mum,
Your Sterni

Hello Mum.

Today we were visiting Mandrara a friend from host mum. We planned to play a game together with the TVs who were staying with Mandrara.
We decided to play Descent, in this game we had to defeat monsters in a dungeon.
At the start the dungeon was very small, but with every door we opened it got bigger and bigger and we found more monsters. We got special weapons or magical spells to attack the monsters. A while it looks very good and we seemed to win the game, but in the end the monsters were to strong and we lost. But this is ok because we had a lot of fun together.