Geeeez I can't believe that it has been over 6 months that I wrote something in here so crazy! But at least i have a lot to tell now :)
Shortcut of the last 6 months: I have successfully made it through high school. Now I am so done and i just love the feeling that I will never ever have to study for school or you know sit in school! University yes, but not like high school! It's pretty bittersweet though since I got to know so many people there and i will definitely miss seeing everybody like daily, because that's what's kinda handy about school! Now i need a break from studying though, cause it has really worn me out and I am already doing it because I AM IN THE UNITED STATES ONCE MORE!
This is like the really big news I have to talk about: Getting back to my exchange destination after 2 years. It has been crazy. I was looking forward to the day that I'd arrive once more for 2 years, since the day i left probably and now that it arrived i couldn't stop smiling! Like on the last plane going to Nebraska I couldn't stop smiling like a retard, the old man next to my seat probably thought that he sat right next to a huge weirdo. But I just couldn't help it it was the only silent way to express my joy :D
Anyways when I got out of the plane the moment I've been excited about for so long finally arrived and i just couldn't help but cry! Getting off that lane to the exact same place I left so many weeks ago just felt like I had been using a time machine instead of a plane because it was so familiar! I had the feeling that nothing changed and still everything is weird and different, because so many little details changed and that makes me feel like it's not really the same situation I left. I mean I knew that one before, that when I leave it will never be the same again ever but now that i really see it, I think to myself that its not even that bad!
People changed in those 2 years, I probably changed too and what changed the most is my English! It's kinda bad. I though that it wasn't that bad actually but now being back i realize how wrong I was. IN the first couple of days I often didn't find words to express my thoughts on everything and having to answer so many questions didn't make it easier. I was angry about myself that I just couldn't find certain vocabulary or that my pronunciation was just horrible sometimes.
But guess what it got better and everyday I spent there was just wonderful because i can enjoy the presence of people I could only miss for the last 2 years.
And geeeeez it was a good time! And the end of those 3 weeks I spent in Nebraska I had exactly the same feeling than when I left 2 years ago. The days just kept getting more exciting and more fun and then there was the day that I had to leave! The evening before when I packed I was already very upset which didn't help getting my enormous amount of clothes and presents in a waaay too tiny suitcase. Even when somebody sat on the it it just wouldn't clothes despite my extraordinarily disciplined way of packing this time.
SO then the next day, when I really left ( after a night of watching scary movies with my hostsister, meaning not a lot of sleep) I thought to myself why goodbyes never get any easier! I had promised myself not to cry but when I had to hug my hostfamily goodbye for the last time before going through security I was transferred back to the day in June 2012 when I stood in the exact same place. And I was miserable going through security and I was miserable when the TSA guys had trouble getting my suitcase closed and called me to the front desk, I was miserable helping them close it even though I closed it perfectly fine on my own an hour earlier, I was miserable when I sat on the plane to Dallas reading the goodbye cards I got.
Now that I am back home for over a week already I'm not miserable anymore, because I know that I can always return to Nebraska and can have a good time once more and of course there's Internet and all that so I will always know what I'm missing out on. I had my hostsister visit me here and it was weird having her here in Austria, but really great too. But I got a bunch of memories which will make me feel good every day :)
So yeah I'm trying to be optimistic to have 2 families on 2 different continents and I already have something else to look forward to because I WILL BE GOING TO AUSTRALIA FOR A YEAR STARTING IN SEPTEMBER! 2014 will be MY year, because I will have lived on 3 different continents by the end of it. That's the thinking I'm fond of. Australia is my main goal to go since I left the USA as you might know and I'm excited for the next big thing in my life. I might keep you updated on here, but I'm not sure yet.
Anyways take care! xxxx
Freitag, 1. August 2014
Dienstag, 7. Januar 2014
Some little update thingy :P
Geeeeeeeeeez I can't believe that it's already been like 6 months that I last wrote something in here! That is crazy! Time is something that I will never fully understand :D
Whatever the last 6 months actually haven't been that exciting, so I guess not posting was legitimate. But now I' just gonna update you guys, of what I'm currently working on and what EXCITING NEWS I have! It's not gonna take long I promise.
Well yes as you might now it's now 2 years since I left for the USA. Which means that I spent a year and a half stuck in Austria already! I never intended to do that but now it is happening! WEIRD. Buuuuut I got like a huge silver lining on my horizon :) I will be going back to the USA in exactly 171 days from now! It's already booked and I was so excited when my mum told me about it on Christmas. Like the best surprise everrrr. I will be going to New York first and spend a couple of days there and then I will be taking a plane to Nebraska, which I am so excited about! Can't wait for it.
I really miss everything about the USA. My hostfamily sent me a package for Christmas which contained like so much stuff, I was overwhelmed! They are so cute! But the package took over a month to get over here. I wonder how long mine will take. I sent it around December 10th and it still didn't arrive, so i guess that delivery has become lazier :P
Well yeah until I can go back I have to work through a pile of work for school, successfully make it through this last year, and probably work. Like a lot. Still don't know what to do after i'm done though. But I still have time, right?
That'd be it for now I reckon, hope you all have a great time ( and more snow than here, it's so stupid I didn't see any serious snow around here this season, this is supposed to be winter and not some kind of joke).
See you!
Whatever the last 6 months actually haven't been that exciting, so I guess not posting was legitimate. But now I' just gonna update you guys, of what I'm currently working on and what EXCITING NEWS I have! It's not gonna take long I promise.
Well yes as you might now it's now 2 years since I left for the USA. Which means that I spent a year and a half stuck in Austria already! I never intended to do that but now it is happening! WEIRD. Buuuuut I got like a huge silver lining on my horizon :) I will be going back to the USA in exactly 171 days from now! It's already booked and I was so excited when my mum told me about it on Christmas. Like the best surprise everrrr. I will be going to New York first and spend a couple of days there and then I will be taking a plane to Nebraska, which I am so excited about! Can't wait for it.
I really miss everything about the USA. My hostfamily sent me a package for Christmas which contained like so much stuff, I was overwhelmed! They are so cute! But the package took over a month to get over here. I wonder how long mine will take. I sent it around December 10th and it still didn't arrive, so i guess that delivery has become lazier :P
Well yeah until I can go back I have to work through a pile of work for school, successfully make it through this last year, and probably work. Like a lot. Still don't know what to do after i'm done though. But I still have time, right?
That'd be it for now I reckon, hope you all have a great time ( and more snow than here, it's so stupid I didn't see any serious snow around here this season, this is supposed to be winter and not some kind of joke).
See you!
Montag, 1. Juli 2013
Unbelievable!! 1 YEAR at home.
Alrighty guys today, the 1st of July 2013,was anniversary of me arriving in Austria. This. Is. Just. Crazy, weird, incredible, unbelievable, fantastic, stupid, wonderful, awkward, marvelous, and just bloody unreal!
I mean c'mon it really doesn't seem to me that it's already been a year that the best time of my life was over. Like completely. Weird, that's all I have to say about that. It seems to me that I arrived here like 2 months or so. But not 12 months, 365 days ago!! And I refuse to accept that. That's that.
Yeah it's been a really long time since I last posted and how have i been doing since then? Just trying to figure stuff out I guess and oh yeah I've also been to IRELAND a couple weeks ago! It was a great trip, Ireland is such a cute country!! The Irish accent is simply adorable ( had difficulties understanding it sometimes though, but it's fine :P ) it was so nice and sweet that I finally met people who were FRIENDLY to strangers again! I'm not kidding, I now got used to the Austrian way of treating people again but it was just a pleasure to know that that's not the standard. Americans are a little bit nicer though. Only a little.
The landscape in Ireland is really special but a must see I'd say, I loved it! 3 rd time that I've been to the sea in my life.
But other than that I was glad that I went on Exchange to the USA because in Ireland you notice that peace is not like really safe. And also the people (especially the young dress like WEIRD, man!! I can't even describe it, it was overwhelming for me! Weather in Ireland was nice, sunny not hot though. Perfect weather for a trip.
What's probably the most interesting thing about my situation is how it feels being at home for like FOREVER! I must say I think I've fitted in as good as it can possibly get for me, people still tell me that I have something American in my language (proud!!), but that's about it. Meanwhile I'm craving for every little bit of talking English, I'm like desperate for it! But I notice it doesn't wither too much, what's what I feared all along, thank god!
I'm managing pretty good on the emotional base, I try not to get too upset with my current situation (that I'll be stuck In Austria for a while since the flights are so extremely expensive and I need to get my driving licence too, which is expensive as HELL). What didn't change at all is that I think about my experience on a daily basis. Sometimes more and sometimes less but generally every day. Crazy. I reckon that this will never ever really go away but I'm absolutely content with that.
The big problem I have is that I miss everybody I got to know during my exchange so badly!! Again it's more sometimes and sometimes it's less, but I never knew that missing somebody can actually hurt! But that's what it does sometimes. I'm so thankful that we have Internet with facebook and Skype. I'd probably go crazy if not. But more than 9000 km is a lot either way you turn it. My silver lining is that I'm going to go visit in the holidays 2014 which will be after I graduated in like a year! So excited, and then I really wanna go and see stuff, see the USA once more, see Australia, see EVERYBODY and EVERYTHING :D
Well whatever it's kinda late and I gotta get up tomorrow it's the last week of school and I still have to get up in the morning. How horrible, but in a year it'll be over, FOREVER! Spooks me.
Good morning Australia, good day America, buenas noches Spain and so on.
ugh I'm already writing too much, again. Bye bye, see you in a little bit! (:
I mean c'mon it really doesn't seem to me that it's already been a year that the best time of my life was over. Like completely. Weird, that's all I have to say about that. It seems to me that I arrived here like 2 months or so. But not 12 months, 365 days ago!! And I refuse to accept that. That's that.
Yeah it's been a really long time since I last posted and how have i been doing since then? Just trying to figure stuff out I guess and oh yeah I've also been to IRELAND a couple weeks ago! It was a great trip, Ireland is such a cute country!! The Irish accent is simply adorable ( had difficulties understanding it sometimes though, but it's fine :P ) it was so nice and sweet that I finally met people who were FRIENDLY to strangers again! I'm not kidding, I now got used to the Austrian way of treating people again but it was just a pleasure to know that that's not the standard. Americans are a little bit nicer though. Only a little.
The landscape in Ireland is really special but a must see I'd say, I loved it! 3 rd time that I've been to the sea in my life.
But other than that I was glad that I went on Exchange to the USA because in Ireland you notice that peace is not like really safe. And also the people (especially the young dress like WEIRD, man!! I can't even describe it, it was overwhelming for me! Weather in Ireland was nice, sunny not hot though. Perfect weather for a trip.
What's probably the most interesting thing about my situation is how it feels being at home for like FOREVER! I must say I think I've fitted in as good as it can possibly get for me, people still tell me that I have something American in my language (proud!!), but that's about it. Meanwhile I'm craving for every little bit of talking English, I'm like desperate for it! But I notice it doesn't wither too much, what's what I feared all along, thank god!
I'm managing pretty good on the emotional base, I try not to get too upset with my current situation (that I'll be stuck In Austria for a while since the flights are so extremely expensive and I need to get my driving licence too, which is expensive as HELL). What didn't change at all is that I think about my experience on a daily basis. Sometimes more and sometimes less but generally every day. Crazy. I reckon that this will never ever really go away but I'm absolutely content with that.
The big problem I have is that I miss everybody I got to know during my exchange so badly!! Again it's more sometimes and sometimes it's less, but I never knew that missing somebody can actually hurt! But that's what it does sometimes. I'm so thankful that we have Internet with facebook and Skype. I'd probably go crazy if not. But more than 9000 km is a lot either way you turn it. My silver lining is that I'm going to go visit in the holidays 2014 which will be after I graduated in like a year! So excited, and then I really wanna go and see stuff, see the USA once more, see Australia, see EVERYBODY and EVERYTHING :D
Well whatever it's kinda late and I gotta get up tomorrow it's the last week of school and I still have to get up in the morning. How horrible, but in a year it'll be over, FOREVER! Spooks me.
Good morning Australia, good day America, buenas noches Spain and so on.
ugh I'm already writing too much, again. Bye bye, see you in a little bit! (:
Sonntag, 10. Februar 2013
"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened" - things i miss 2
It's an old quote, but I like it. don't you do too? I think it really describes well, what I've been going through, like the last few months. Gosh i have too much time.
This weekend I literally did NOTHING on purpose, just to charge my batteries, now after I'm done with tests for this semester. And it was good for me!
Anyways I got a lot of time left to think about stuff since I spent a big time of yesterday in the car and I actually thought how much I miss the USA. I'm not sad though it makes me happy because that means that I really enjoyed it. I realized there are so many different things I miss and without further ado here there are!
This weekend I literally did NOTHING on purpose, just to charge my batteries, now after I'm done with tests for this semester. And it was good for me!
Anyways I got a lot of time left to think about stuff since I spent a big time of yesterday in the car and I actually thought how much I miss the USA. I'm not sad though it makes me happy because that means that I really enjoyed it. I realized there are so many different things I miss and without further ado here there are!
- my hostfamily
- the cats of my hostfamily
- my american friends
- Walmart
- the animal shelter
- Nebraska landscape
- that you re able to see buffaloes in the wild
- lots and lots snow in the winter (I mean we have a lot now too but it doesn't come as quickly here)
- drive thru's at every kind of store :D
- american cars
- the comfy couches
- Dairy queen! (gosh I almost went crazy the other day i was craving it like badly)
- Arizona ice tea for 99c (it's crazy, here the same amount is like 2,99€)
- American radio
- the radio in the morning where they always read all the people having birthday, it was useless but kinda cute
- Starbucks
- American music
- smores
- ENGLISH! (I have the feeling that my English is already getting worse o.O bout time that I skype more!)
- Nebraska English accent (although other people think it's annoying, I LOVE it!)
- Hy-Vee
- free refills
- Bath and body works
- American Eagle
- everybody having an iPhone and not showing off with it
- going to Starbucks or some drive thru at 10 in the evening
- American school
- Doritos
- Popcorn in every flavor possible
- Nebraska sun
- the fridge where you can get water and ice out of it- so awesome
- the smell (I don't even know of what, just of america i guess :P)
- how cheap everything is
- cheap, american Hollister
- Malls
- the high beds
- Nebraska birds
- Frozen yogurt- like BADLY
- teaching people German
- going to the store on sundays
- that you can pay everywhere with a credit card
- "Pink" stores
- Aeropostale
- Smoothies you can get everywhere
- straws with the beverage
- extremely supersized packages
- HUGE stores where you can get everything
- pizza delivery
- OREOS
- fourwheelers
- valentines day candy
- cheerleader
- my tennis team :(
- HUGE TV's
- the houses tat are just so modern, nice big and different
- a lid on every beverage- jeez how am i supposed to drink it without spilling??
- outgoing people every where you are not too busy to chat with you a little
- American spareribs
- country MUSIC
- willy wonka candy
- all different kinds of ice cream
- more than 3 different kinds of five gum
- jolly rancher
- kettle corn
- american streets without many curves
- yellow street marks
- lays chips
- weird things to buy
- going to get my nails done :)
- cupcakes
- Canada geese
- green street signs
- T- shirts you get to every occasion
- watching softball
- although I always wondered about it. sunflower seeds to eat
- Panera bread
- BBQ Sauce
- cinnamon in everything!!
- red mango
- my really annoying and stupid locker
- island oasis
- renting movies to watch, not BUYING (redbox)
- mexican restaurants that are so different (tortilla chips!)
- funny teacher
- current events in American government
- getting up at 7 not 6.30!
- not taking the bus to school
- study hall
- the police
- that there are teeny tiny airports everywhere
- the hype about like EVERY celebration
- muffins...... mhm.
- eileens cookies
- cheesecake factory
- my school uniform
- that you get a planner from school!
- water in many different flavors
- "gym" mods
- everybody wears sweatpants or sports clothing in public so you can actually go shopping orso without changing first
- American TV shows!! (American idol is on right now, Man it sucks that i can't watch it every week :( )
Wow i got more things than I thought I would get, yeah i miss a lot and I'm so sad that I can't go back this summer, i really would like to!! but After my graduation I'm going bac for SURE! :)
Yep if theres nothing really exciting goin on or a miracle happens you will have to wait for the next post for a while :(
Alright then see you next time hopefully!! :)
Yep if theres nothing really exciting goin on or a miracle happens you will have to wait for the next post for a while :(
Alright then see you next time hopefully!! :)
Freitag, 4. Januar 2013
Christmas, 2013, December, November and complaints
Hey guys! I just looked at my blog and at all the people I follow and then I realized that I actually didn't post or logged myself in for a long long time!! So weird, it really didn't seem that long to me. Anyway since I' m afraid that that post will be long I better hurry up a little bit.
Yesterday has been the 3rd of January 2013- duh ;) But that means that it's been exactly one year since I started my journey to the USA and it's been a year since i spent my first American day- holy crap, right? Oh gosh and I remember it like it's only been a few weeks, but I'm not going to go over it all again, pretty sure you all are familiar with it :)
I'd do it again immediately and it would probably be easier now that I know what I'm gonna get.
Right, my AWESOME hostfamily!! Since the last time i posted something a few things have been going on: First of all they sent me this HUGE package with candy and peanutbutter!! There were 2 kg of peanutbutter, a LOT of Reese's, Nerds, and a lot of cinnamon gum in it! I was super happy when i saw what they sent me and it made me feel loved. So awesome, my hostfamily is so sweet. It made me miss them more. But then at Christmas time ( my Austrian christmas has been great btw, my friends and family are just lovely :) ) I got another package which I hadn't expected at all! It was so exciting! It was kinda late though, which was weird because it was in Austria a week before I got it. Austria mailing service is so slow. I also sent my hostfamily a package for christmas because they sent me so much stuff! But mine arrived on December 31st I think I might have been wrong about when I should send it o that it arrives on time :D But anyway they've been excited and happy about they package, nevermind how late it was.
The package I got arrived on the 28th and I got a shirt and jeans from american eagle, perfumes from PINK, my yearbook, I ordered shortly before I left the USA a candy cane and a very sweet card with pictures of them! I miss my hostfamily so much!!! I'm glad we have facebook and so on, because I still have a pretty good idea what's going on in GI :)
Yeah I'm home now, for 6 months already. My German is almost back to normal by now but I STILL use English phrases or words sometimes and I just can't help it! Some people are really annoyed by it. They're weirdos, it's not that I just snap my fingers and my brain is on German mode again. I just think that German sounds inappropriate sometimes and really rude and weird and hard so I just use English. Get over it.
And what upsets me the most is that "normal" people, who didn't spend half a year in the USA and speaking English all the time use English all the time and nobody cares. Like what the hell? Why is it okay for them, but when I do it everybody is like "hm not again, we're in Austria it's German here!"
Ha it's just stupid!! I mean I'm really okay with being here in Austria again, seriously I really missed my friends and family around me and just the familiar atmosphere but there are a couple of things I find hard to get used to, though I didn't even notice them before. I'm gonna give you a few examples just because i feel that when i write them down and share them it makes it better for me. Sorry about that I'm being really egoistic right now :S
Good first of all the really really annoying rudeness of some Austrians! I'm pretty sure you can find that phenomena in the USA or anywhere in the world too but I feel like here it's really intense sometimes! Just random people who you don't even know and who you don't even bother tell you how to behave or not behave or how you have to look and what you have to do. Maybe just because they're having a bad day. People these are your stupid problems leave me alone with them I'm not bothering you.
Or when something is different you can assume that a lot of people don't want anything to do with it.Or like it. Rude.
What else is really bothering me is the lifestyle of especially younger people. They drink smoke and are rude. Altogether I liked it better in the USA, it's really not necessary to do all that! People who are drunk are just disgusting, creepy and there's no way that they are awesome in a way. It sucks, in that point Austria is like so primitive, seriously any other countries do not tolerate it the way it is tolerated here.
The last point I wanna tell you about here might be a little weird especially for Europeans maybe. But imagine you are in a dark room full of people. It stinks, the people around you are either really drunk or creepy anyways, it's hot, it's expensive as hell to get something to drink, you don't know anybody around you and there's music you really do not like, which is so loud you can't even hear your own words. . Now imagine that you pay money to get in there just to look forward when you get out again. Does that sound enjoyable or fun to you? Well for me it's not and i don't see why anybody would like to do that almost every day. And exactly THAT is what people my age like to do. I mean I like it when we're at somebody's house and when there are not many people and people I know but what I just described is just boring and annoying. That's why I think I've been born in the wrong country but since I'm here I might as well get used to it. That's what I've been trying to do since I'm back and i still continue to do so. Wish me luck :D But Austria has to do more to make me desperate, now I just find it bearable, but alright.
I'm gonna go to sleep now, gosh Christmas holidays are almost over and I really don't feel like school again, though it will be nice to see the whole class together again, I really enjoy their presence again and I've heard that we get some exchange students at my school in January, so I'm excited to meet them!
Life is good. I miss you USA. <3
Anyways night night my friends you now have to wait a while until I post something I suppose because that post is so long I don't think I'll feel like writing about something for a long time- just because I don't have a topic to write about :)
Yesterday has been the 3rd of January 2013- duh ;) But that means that it's been exactly one year since I started my journey to the USA and it's been a year since i spent my first American day- holy crap, right? Oh gosh and I remember it like it's only been a few weeks, but I'm not going to go over it all again, pretty sure you all are familiar with it :)
I'd do it again immediately and it would probably be easier now that I know what I'm gonna get.
Right, my AWESOME hostfamily!! Since the last time i posted something a few things have been going on: First of all they sent me this HUGE package with candy and peanutbutter!! There were 2 kg of peanutbutter, a LOT of Reese's, Nerds, and a lot of cinnamon gum in it! I was super happy when i saw what they sent me and it made me feel loved. So awesome, my hostfamily is so sweet. It made me miss them more. But then at Christmas time ( my Austrian christmas has been great btw, my friends and family are just lovely :) ) I got another package which I hadn't expected at all! It was so exciting! It was kinda late though, which was weird because it was in Austria a week before I got it. Austria mailing service is so slow. I also sent my hostfamily a package for christmas because they sent me so much stuff! But mine arrived on December 31st I think I might have been wrong about when I should send it o that it arrives on time :D But anyway they've been excited and happy about they package, nevermind how late it was.
The package I got arrived on the 28th and I got a shirt and jeans from american eagle, perfumes from PINK, my yearbook, I ordered shortly before I left the USA a candy cane and a very sweet card with pictures of them! I miss my hostfamily so much!!! I'm glad we have facebook and so on, because I still have a pretty good idea what's going on in GI :)
Yeah I'm home now, for 6 months already. My German is almost back to normal by now but I STILL use English phrases or words sometimes and I just can't help it! Some people are really annoyed by it. They're weirdos, it's not that I just snap my fingers and my brain is on German mode again. I just think that German sounds inappropriate sometimes and really rude and weird and hard so I just use English. Get over it.
And what upsets me the most is that "normal" people, who didn't spend half a year in the USA and speaking English all the time use English all the time and nobody cares. Like what the hell? Why is it okay for them, but when I do it everybody is like "hm not again, we're in Austria it's German here!"
Ha it's just stupid!! I mean I'm really okay with being here in Austria again, seriously I really missed my friends and family around me and just the familiar atmosphere but there are a couple of things I find hard to get used to, though I didn't even notice them before. I'm gonna give you a few examples just because i feel that when i write them down and share them it makes it better for me. Sorry about that I'm being really egoistic right now :S
Good first of all the really really annoying rudeness of some Austrians! I'm pretty sure you can find that phenomena in the USA or anywhere in the world too but I feel like here it's really intense sometimes! Just random people who you don't even know and who you don't even bother tell you how to behave or not behave or how you have to look and what you have to do. Maybe just because they're having a bad day. People these are your stupid problems leave me alone with them I'm not bothering you.
Or when something is different you can assume that a lot of people don't want anything to do with it.Or like it. Rude.
What else is really bothering me is the lifestyle of especially younger people. They drink smoke and are rude. Altogether I liked it better in the USA, it's really not necessary to do all that! People who are drunk are just disgusting, creepy and there's no way that they are awesome in a way. It sucks, in that point Austria is like so primitive, seriously any other countries do not tolerate it the way it is tolerated here.
The last point I wanna tell you about here might be a little weird especially for Europeans maybe. But imagine you are in a dark room full of people. It stinks, the people around you are either really drunk or creepy anyways, it's hot, it's expensive as hell to get something to drink, you don't know anybody around you and there's music you really do not like, which is so loud you can't even hear your own words. . Now imagine that you pay money to get in there just to look forward when you get out again. Does that sound enjoyable or fun to you? Well for me it's not and i don't see why anybody would like to do that almost every day. And exactly THAT is what people my age like to do. I mean I like it when we're at somebody's house and when there are not many people and people I know but what I just described is just boring and annoying. That's why I think I've been born in the wrong country but since I'm here I might as well get used to it. That's what I've been trying to do since I'm back and i still continue to do so. Wish me luck :D But Austria has to do more to make me desperate, now I just find it bearable, but alright.
I'm gonna go to sleep now, gosh Christmas holidays are almost over and I really don't feel like school again, though it will be nice to see the whole class together again, I really enjoy their presence again and I've heard that we get some exchange students at my school in January, so I'm excited to meet them!
Life is good. I miss you USA. <3
Anyways night night my friends you now have to wait a while until I post something I suppose because that post is so long I don't think I'll feel like writing about something for a long time- just because I don't have a topic to write about :)
Montag, 22. Oktober 2012
Oh I forgot!!!
ok ok ok this is going to be really short, but I forgot to write something yesterday, which is actually pretty interesting: You may know that EF offered several different countries to choose from in the past, like Hongkong, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Costa Rica, France, Denmark, and so on. BUT NOW after I found out a while ago that the EF offices in almost all countries except the USA, UK and Ireland closed you can't go anywhere else than those countries! It's os weird and pretty sad because especially Australia and France went pretty good, but when the offices in those countries close down nobody can go there either. That's it.
And also the prices for the remaining countries increased so badly! I mean when I went the USA was the cheapest option, even cheaper than Ireland and UK! And now it's he mpst expensive country you can book with EF! CRAZY!!
But since my exchange is already over I'm not too concerned about ll that anymore. It's sill really weird.
Good night!!
And also the prices for the remaining countries increased so badly! I mean when I went the USA was the cheapest option, even cheaper than Ireland and UK! And now it's he mpst expensive country you can book with EF! CRAZY!!
But since my exchange is already over I'm not too concerned about ll that anymore. It's sill really weird.
Good night!!
Sonntag, 21. Oktober 2012
Orientation Meeting- it gets better every time :)
Alright guys!!
Here i am back from my long writing break. It's not that i forgot it or something but it's simply that nothing really exciting (what actually matters, and what has something to do with my exchange) happened. Well but here i am again ready to tell you a new story.
A few weeks ago (not sure if I already told you guys, probably not) I wrote an E-mail to EF regarding the ways you can earn points (because when you have 7000 points you can get a flight back to your hostcountry! Unfortunately I only have like 100 or something cause I'm waaay too lazy to do presentations at schools, or stuff like that but i really wanna earn points. So the EF lady wrote back and asked me if I wanted to participate in the next EF Orientation meeting and i was like "Hey, yeah could be fun!" so I agreed. i was pretty excited about that, so many memories came back and it was so nice- before the journey is after the journey.
Alright today then (on a SUNDAY!!!!) I had to get up at half past 7 already, because I had to be in Linz at 9:15 (45 before it started I have no clue why i had to be there so early but anyways). In the end I ended up getting there half an hour too early so i had to wait. But not long the EF staff came and the other Returnees. We were 5 Returnees including myself, four had been in the USA and one in Ireland. Yeah the EF stuff told us what was going on, what our job would be in the whole thing but I actually knew it already from my last Orientation Meeting last year. WU I was so excited back then.
Anyways then we Returnees had time to chat for a little while and it was really great to talk to people who understand you and who experienced similar things and who never get tired of your stories and awkward situations. They're great guys. I already chatted with one of them on the Internet and it was nice to meet her in real life.
When the actual students came in it finally began with some delay and I remembered how felt the year before. Was so exciting!! We had almost the same procedure this year one of the EF ladies talked about some general things, about how the students were going to be placed and then about what they can expect. Where the Returnees were asked about their experience and from then on it was just us Returnees talking about our experience, to what school we went about our hostfamilies and so on. Wui I felt so wise, when parents asked stuff and we I could answer and knew more than them and WOW! And I can remember that I really envied the Returnees last year, because they had such an awesome experience I just had been sitting there getting really excited. Now I envy the students going in a few wees because their experience has not even started yet. That's weird.
Well the rest of the meeting was a workshop , which was new, and basically consisted of more talking of the Returnees, this time in smaller groups. It was pretty awesome it was like I lived through my exchange again remembering more and more details :)
Then the meeting was pretty much over, the Returnees stayed a little after talking about how we all miss our hostcountries, it was so good talking to people who feel the same!! We exchanged cellphone numbers and yeah, it was good, and i hope we gonna meet again. Just to talk :)
The Ef lady i also talked to said she had been in Australia once, for a few months and MAN what she told me sounded so cool. I really wanna go to Australia. Like badly. :D
Yeah now I'm spending my evening writing THIS, listening to music which reminds me of the USA and i really dont feel like school tomorrow. urgs.
Well anyways gotta go now it's getting pretty late for a school night already :/
Here i am back from my long writing break. It's not that i forgot it or something but it's simply that nothing really exciting (what actually matters, and what has something to do with my exchange) happened. Well but here i am again ready to tell you a new story.
A few weeks ago (not sure if I already told you guys, probably not) I wrote an E-mail to EF regarding the ways you can earn points (because when you have 7000 points you can get a flight back to your hostcountry! Unfortunately I only have like 100 or something cause I'm waaay too lazy to do presentations at schools, or stuff like that but i really wanna earn points. So the EF lady wrote back and asked me if I wanted to participate in the next EF Orientation meeting and i was like "Hey, yeah could be fun!" so I agreed. i was pretty excited about that, so many memories came back and it was so nice- before the journey is after the journey.
Alright today then (on a SUNDAY!!!!) I had to get up at half past 7 already, because I had to be in Linz at 9:15 (45 before it started I have no clue why i had to be there so early but anyways). In the end I ended up getting there half an hour too early so i had to wait. But not long the EF staff came and the other Returnees. We were 5 Returnees including myself, four had been in the USA and one in Ireland. Yeah the EF stuff told us what was going on, what our job would be in the whole thing but I actually knew it already from my last Orientation Meeting last year. WU I was so excited back then.
Anyways then we Returnees had time to chat for a little while and it was really great to talk to people who understand you and who experienced similar things and who never get tired of your stories and awkward situations. They're great guys. I already chatted with one of them on the Internet and it was nice to meet her in real life.
When the actual students came in it finally began with some delay and I remembered how felt the year before. Was so exciting!! We had almost the same procedure this year one of the EF ladies talked about some general things, about how the students were going to be placed and then about what they can expect. Where the Returnees were asked about their experience and from then on it was just us Returnees talking about our experience, to what school we went about our hostfamilies and so on. Wui I felt so wise, when parents asked stuff and we I could answer and knew more than them and WOW! And I can remember that I really envied the Returnees last year, because they had such an awesome experience I just had been sitting there getting really excited. Now I envy the students going in a few wees because their experience has not even started yet. That's weird.
Well the rest of the meeting was a workshop , which was new, and basically consisted of more talking of the Returnees, this time in smaller groups. It was pretty awesome it was like I lived through my exchange again remembering more and more details :)
Then the meeting was pretty much over, the Returnees stayed a little after talking about how we all miss our hostcountries, it was so good talking to people who feel the same!! We exchanged cellphone numbers and yeah, it was good, and i hope we gonna meet again. Just to talk :)
The Ef lady i also talked to said she had been in Australia once, for a few months and MAN what she told me sounded so cool. I really wanna go to Australia. Like badly. :D
Yeah now I'm spending my evening writing THIS, listening to music which reminds me of the USA and i really dont feel like school tomorrow. urgs.
Well anyways gotta go now it's getting pretty late for a school night already :/
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