Family Blog

Philip and his family is back from Walt Disney Land and Cap Canaveral. As you can read in his blog he was with his family at the Oktoberfest and on a mission to the Mars.

Manuel has finished cross country and started swimming.It's getting cold in Wisconsin (and also here in Germany).

Today we received a greeting card from Walt Disney World. Last Friday Philip and his family has gone to Florida to visit the biggest amusement park of the world.


Manuel has caught a cold and must lie in his bed. Unfortunately there is a photo shooting tomorrow at school for the year book where he can't participate. Get well soon, Manuel!

It is more and more business as usual. We get the news from America by email or read them in Philip's or Manuel's blog. Two weeks ago Manuel sent us a a mail about You know you are German when.... And as he told us (nearly) everything is true, or? ;-)

At school Manuel presented how he feels as an exchange student. As we heard from his host parents he is a good debater.
Philip´s 1st trimester comes to its end and this week he writes the first final tests and has to finish the program of his roboter. At the end of this week he will visit together with his family Florida and Disney Land. Enjoy it, Philip.

One of the biggest events last month was Halloween. It looks for us like carneval - everybody was dressed up and this took the whole week.

Don't be frightened - it is not Pumuckl, it is only Philip at Halloween! Read his Halloween blog if you want to know how he spent this day.
Or read Manuel's blog entry for halloween.

Today a postcard from Manuel was in our mailbox. It is dated from 18th of October.

Yesterday we were invited from friends. He works at a company who builds boiler for beerbrewer companies and he told us something about Wisconsin. Wisconsin is the land of "beer and bratwürste" and it has a German history - many people have German ancestors (ok, not all are called "Muffler" as on the picture from Thursday).

It gets cold here in Germany and the first snow has fallen (not here but in higher regions). But we heard that in Wisconsin it can be much colder than here in Gerlingen. We will see what Manuel will tell us in the next months...

You can find this photo on Manuel's gallery. It seems that grandfather Muffler or one of his ancesters was already there ;-)

Manuel wrote on his blog that he saw him. I don't know who Barrack Obama is, but I guess he is one of the candidates for the next presidential election. (ob)

Manuel writes that he will bake bread with his Dad. I hope you will be succesful. If not call it Halloween bread. Good luck!

This week the first Halloween post card reached us from Manuel. Halloween is a big event in the USA and there are special shops where you can buy everything for this event. Manuel wrote that he perhaps will go as a garden gnome at Halloween (how creepy).

Manuel has now started also an own blog under manuel-b.blogspot.com. As you can read in his blog he begins to like American football and gets more and more used to the school system.


Homecoming is also over now. He wrote that the dancing style is different from the European one but it seems that he nevertheless had a lot of fun at this event.

Two months ago Manuel and Philip left Germany. I think both boys have settled down in their new environment. Both are welcome at their new homes and have a lot of help from their new parents and siblings. In the meantime they wrote their emails in English and they get more and more used to speak it. Yesterday we phoned with them and we spoke German but some of the replies were English.

The life here at home is more quiet since two months and we watch our "little boys" from far away. We see that both are getting more and more independant now. Philip has created his own blog at philip-boehm.blogspot.com without any help from our side. Both have to survive at school and I have the feeling it is a little bit stressful for them but they have although much fun in America.