As promised, here is the blog about how it is to live in Germany. Please be aware of the fact that this bases alone on my opinion and experiences and that other people who are from Germany may have different opinions on things than I do. 

Okay, then let's start with the school system. To be honest, the German school system is very, very complex and way too complicated so the graphic below should make it a bit clearer:

I put the link to the wiki article and another picture here, if you guys want to read a bout it. At the moment I am in the last year of the Gymnasium which can be more compared to a mix of Highschool and College. 

Of course you can also make an apprenticeship after you finished either the Gymnasium or the Realschule but the chances of getting a spot as an apprentice is much higher when you have a Gymnasium degree. (That's what I will do after I finished school. Too lazy for studying more and I don't care about getting a high paid job. I rather have a job where I am myself and have fun, rather than sitting behind a desk and feel miserable. Luckily, in Germany you can do something like that^^)

About school is to say that in our final exams we have two take 2 written exams and 2 oral exams and one more, which can take as an oral or written exam, or we can make a presentation. In year 12 we have two advanced classes, which we chose before. We can also drop subjects after our 11th year and another one or two depending on the combination of our advanced classes and the classes we want to take as tests in the final exams, though it is obligation to take tests in math and German. You can replace English with either Latin or French but you have to let yourself test in another language besides German.

As for example:

In grade 5-11 I had the subjects German, Math, Politics&Economics, Biology, Physics, Chemestry, Sports, History, Arts, Music, Latin (from grade 7 onwards. You can chose between French or Latin), English, Religion and in grade 11 you can chose Spanish as your 3rd language and theater instead of Art or Music. (lol I hope I didn't forget a subject XD)

In grade 11 I had every subject except for music since I chose art over music. After grade 11 I kicked out chemestry and physics and had to take Latin classes for one more year. After grade 12 I kicked out Politics&Economics and Latin, so now I only have English and Arts as my advanced classes, Math, Sports, Biology, History, Religion and German.

For our final exams there are certain acquirements that needed to be fullfilled. The 12 and the 13 grade together are counted in for the "Abitur" and are divided in 4 half years.

So for my Abitur, I need to let myself test in English and Arts, Math and German and I can chose the last subject, which is Religion (note that you don't have to be religious to attend religion classes. We have religion classes for catholics, protestants and we have ethics. I chose catholic religion, not because I am much of a believer but because I am used to attend catholic classes. I visited a catholic school before, despite not being a catholic or christian myself. More to that later on).

We also have to bring in some of our courses for our Abitur. It is necessary for to bring in 4 half years of biology ( since I dropped chemestry and physics), 2 half years of latin and politics&economics and 4 half years of history (since I dropped P&E). I don't have to bring in sports but I still have to attend classes.

As for school in general: if you are ill and 18 and older you can excuse yourself (which I do quite often aka skipping classes.) If you are ill for more than 3 days you have to show an attest from your doctor.

(wiki article + picture)

All in all it is to say that Germany is quite a carefree countr, despite the many believes that we always work hard (which some of the Germans here do, some not so much). It's also not right to say that the Germans are an unfriendly folk; they may seem cold at the beginning but the most of them are really nice people. Some of them are hard to approach, some of them not and it always depends on the region and city, to be very honest.

There are surely a lot of things that interest you so let's start with this: You are at fullage with 18, like in many other countries, so you can do basically everything from driving a car, buying alcohol and cigarettes, getting into jail, the whole programm but of course there are always some backdoors and more.

With 16 it is allowed to buy beer and prosecco and every kind of wine. Believe me, you can get drunk from beer... and that in quite a fast time if you are not used to it, especially since Germany sometimes have a higher alcohol percentage in their beer than in some other countries.
You can even get your driver's license before you are 18 and can drive before that but only with parental accompany or someone who has his driver's license for over 3 (or five?) years already.

Now to the more interesting parts: Dating, teenager life and party ;)

To be honest, as teenagers we mostly give a crap about the no alcohol under 16/18. There are always people who are older than you and if you ask nicely they buy something for you. I for one was no exception there. My first heavy drink I had was with 14 (it was a Caipirinha) and from then on I drank pretty much everything from beer to Jägermeister, whiskey, vodka and so on. Drinking here starts very early, as well as smoking and dating. The first boyfriend I had was with 14 and my first cigarette I had with 15/16. That's pretty much the average age here in Germany so I always have to raise an eyebrow when someone tells me how shocked he is that his friends are drinking (with 17 or 18).

Well, different cultures.

It's also not surprising for me if someone looses his ity quite early because it's normal here, mostly because many people here don't have that old fashioned way of thinking of waiting for the "right person" or saving up. The most people here are not even religious and... well give a crap about religion. We are pretty much open minded to various religions though but really, the most Germans I know, or rather all Germans I know, don't believe in God.

So is pretty much a common and normal thing here in Germany.

Also, many students are not the diligents students like from Asia. The most are very lax about studying and don't stress themselves too much about grades and that whole thing about it (like me XDDDD) since we have the possibility to study other things which don't acquire a certain amount of degree or make an apprenticeship which is not so much looked down upon here. Even if you don't get your Abitur you can make the Fachabitur, which counts just as much.

So all in all, pretty relaxed compared to many other countries. 

There are a lot of events for people in every age class all over Germany. I live in the near of Frankfurt in quite a big city and there are a lot of events for under 18 teenagers: like U18 parties in discos and some other U18 events. They are mostly for the people who are 16 and older but we also have two big events here in my city and since we have a huge park you can see a lot of young teens and older teens sitting in the park drinking, smoking (cigarettes and pot) and well... sometimes take other drugs. I did exactly the same and since the events are in summer, the weather's great for something like that.

If there are no events like that for people who are under 18, they mostly go to house parties from friends or if the weather's warm enough they sit in the park, drink and smoke and chat. That's completely normal for the most German and is pretty common in nearly every German city.

For the people who are 18 and older there are enough discos, clubs and bars of course. My friends and I mostly go to a club dancing, which is not too far away from my home and since it is the biggest club here, there are always a lot of people^^

Just to make it clear because I have seen it here so many times: People who drink and smoke are not bad people nor do they deserve different treatment because of that. It is ridiculous how narrowminded some people are when it comes to that because of drinking =addicted to alcohol?! Who ever said that or believes this is... stupid -.- Hell I drink and smoke occasionally and I am a normal and not addicted person to neither of it.

As for dating, it is completely normal to date more than one or two people in your life. Heck, it is normal to make out with guys/girls if you are single. No one's going to judge you for that if they see you in club making out with someone, unless you have a boyfriend or the other party has a boyfriend/girlfriend. Making out is considered normal as well here.

Well, in the city where I live the guys seem to be a bit "cold" from times to times but mostly because they believe that they either have no chance if they find a girl attractive or that the girl already has a boyfriends... so the same problems like we girls have XD Sometimes I have to talk to the guys because they are too scared to talk to me. Again, a girl making the first step is not uncommon here.

Dating is pretty much like you can imagine dating but here you have to keep in mind that a lot of guys actually hate it if you start to cling and think that they have to put you before everything else.  A big NO GO! Try to be a bit more understanding for their hobbies and give in from time to time and stop being so selfish. Besides that, guys actually do like dominant girls but try not to be dominant the whole time. Give and take mostly describes the thing the most guys here (and mostly everywhere else in the world) want.

Sooo this is pretty much is, or rather I can't think of what to write anymore XD

All in all, living in Germany is pretty much easy. You don't have to pay for school and university, unless your school/uni is a private one. The state makes sure that you will  get money even if don't work, makes sure that you live with breadline. We have a health insurance and all in all we live pretty well.

To be honest, I am so happy to be able to live in Germany because the school here is - compared to schools in Asian countries - so easy and even if you bad in school that doesn't mean that you are worthless. In fact, you don't even have to be that good in school because you will get a jobe somehow and apprenticeships don't look at your grades at all. They look if you have a degree or not and that's it.

There are no strict restrictions about partying and everything else and you won't get strange gazes for dating one guy after another necessarily. (they do look strange at you when you dress differently from the rest XD Believe me, I always get the most amazed gazes but the guys like it and I don't care about women XD).

You can pretty much have an "I don't care, I do what I want" attitude here^^ Sure, I had my problems with racism as well, especially when I was smaller but times had changed and now the most people here are actually quite open to different cultures and different ual orientations.(unlike... Korea as an example. Believe me or not, sometimes I think that Korea is one of the most racist countries ever, especially towards other Asian countries).

There are many gay people here and some of them I consider as my close friends and they are so damn funny and are great at partying XD

I hope this blogpost gave you an insight of how it is to live in Germany (mostly from my perpesctive).If you guys have more questions, please write them down below :)