I Found 'The Roses' in Plötzkau

I officially have one week left here with the Rose-Borsum Familie. Time here has flown by so quickly and I find myself not wanting to leave! The Family consists of my host mama and papa, Annette and Cord and their 3 daughters: Laura, age 14, Justina(Jussi), age 11, and Gesa, age 6. THey live in a small rural town in East German names, Plötkau. Plötzkau is a small village comprised of a church, a schloss(castle), a small market and some other small shops that fit the need of the 1400 inhabitants. Cord is a farmer and has several thousand hectares of field and grows wheat, sugar beets, raps and strawberries. Annette works in Halle at a school equivalent to an american junior college. She teaches home economics. Laura is a sweet, teenage girl who has just entered into the 9th grade and goes to school in Bernburg with Jussi, athletic and also very sweet, who has just entered into the 5th class. The youngest daughter, Gesa, who is a wonder to watch because she is always getting into something, has just began her first year in school and goes to school inPlötzkau about two blocks from their home. A funny thing note: Yesterday Annette, Gesa and I went to the market to pick pp some essential(milk, bread, etc.) and Gesa wanted to get a bag of popcorn. When we came home Gesa opened the and the popcorn spill all over the kitchen floor. Gesa was sad that all her popcorn was wasted but decded to gather all the popcorn, put it into a bowl, wash the popcorn in the sink, then proceed to blow dry the popcorn. Silly GESA!!!