Intro

I hadn't meant for this to take so long, so I feel kinda guilty. I feel this very often.
I didn't want to procrastinate, because it's one of the things I hate doing the most, but I just could not think of what I should write. I'm shy! I'm awkward! I don't know what to say!

Okay. Um, I have a mother, a father, two brothers, and a sister, but no pets.

I'm a freshman in high school, and I prefer not to be known there. I like anonymity.

The only places I feel I belong are in a classroom, in my house by myself, or with my friends. I feel out of place almost everywhere else.

Speaking of friends, I don't have a best one. At school I have three or four close (ish) ones. None of them are friends with each other, and all of them have other friends. As a result, during lunch break I either sit by one of them and their group and awkwardly stay mostly silent, or I sit by myself.
I know a couple kids in my classes a little, but we don't talk that much outside of class, so I don't really think we are friends.
The rest of my friends live in Germany. I think I may have more friends over there than here. I'm not sure.

Oh yeah, and if you didn't know, I come from Germany. I usually refer to it as Deutschland. So if I ever use that, now you know what it means.
I moved to California when I was two years old, though. On average, my family goes back (usually during the summer) about every two years. Since we moved here in 1994, I have been there in 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2005, and 2006. I think. Maybe not in '97. What useless info that you didn't want to know.
This summer my family is going back there again, for eight and a half weeks. We are mostly in the west and south of the country, and this time we're visiting friends that live in the east too. Like, way east. Their city is half German and half Polish. We're also going to France for almost two weeks this year. Yay!
The rest of my family will leave the end of August, but I will stay there. (!) I'm going to spend the first semester of my 10th grade year going to school in Deutschland. I'm reeeeeeeeally excited.
I'm assuming I'll still be allowed to post in here while I'm away, but if I'm not, let me know...

Okay, enough about me. I never talk about me. It feels weird!

I'd better go to bed or I will feel guilty about staying up too late.

Lena

P.S. I have a tendency for run-on sentences. I swear I try to fix most of them!