Just America :P

Okidoki (ahaaa that's English, my maths teacher says that sometimes xD) here's another post about America and what life's like here. This episode: What experiences I made with the restaurants and other customize-stuff here.

Well, first of all I want to complete my previous post (you know that one about school on Friday): When I got home this day, i just got out of the car and my hostdad says that I will be alone at home for a while but my hostmum is coming soon- "Ok", I think " Quiet rooms for me and my homework, that's good" and I got in the house ate an apple and sat down to do my homework (of course I didn't only  do my homework i had to do some work on the inernet, so I ended up being on facebook and answering  my mails from curious people :P. But I DID MY HOMEWORK, or let's say a big part of it, and when i look out of the window it's dark outside. Looked at the clock already after 7o'clock and still no one except me at home. i start getting a bit worried but almost in this moment someone rang the doorbell- my hostbrother was here and not much later the other family members were here. The next thing we did is getting into the car and going to that restaurant/Bakery, with other family members. I looked at the menu and the first few moments i was simply overwhelmed with that variety of things to eat. In America you can't just get everything you want at the supermarket, you can also get everything you want at the restaurant! So i stared at the menu, completely fascinated what you can get here- from hamburger to pancakes- you can have almost everything in that restaurant. I finally took the omelett with ham and cheese. So i ordered t and thought that it would be everything to say  that I want that Cheese-Ham omelett. OMG how wrong I was. They asked me how I would like my potatoes to the Omelett (uff i didn't know that there are potatoes with the omelett, so I felt a bit overextendet, but i got it explained and so I made my choice and thought "Ok that was unexpected" but there were other questions!) What sort of bread to you want with your omelett? -Toast please. What sort of Toast? :) haha that  was funny but in the end i got my omelett pretty soon and it was delicious i ate EVERYTHING and I was the first one who was ready, which was remarkable because i normally eat very slowly. Yeah and then we got out- i was completely full and then we got that SUPER DELICIOUS American cookies when we left. They're so big but really, really good! My favourite sweet here so far.

hey you're nearly done i just wanted to tell you where i ate today and what was so special about THAT! Sooo today after church we got to that restaurant where you can see your lobster when he's alive and then you can eat it ( :O that's so disgusting i couldn't look at that poor animals :( ). But that doesn't matter we got in there and got seated after a while (hey that's another remarkable thing what is different from Austria because in Austria you usually reserve a table in a restaurant and then get there directly and you don't have that desks where you can read "Please wait here you will be seated soon" or something like that. Yeah we got a table in the corner, it was pretty comfy and i looked at the menu and i thought holy moly seafood. In the end I chose just a bowl of potato-bacon soup it was really good but so hot. But that's not the thing i wanted to share i wanted to say something about the beverages there! I had a coke and I just drank 1/2 of my glass, came the waiter and put another full glass of coke here! I thought "hey, I didn't order that!" but all the others got another  drink too, so it turned out that in this restaurant you have to buy for only 1 drink and then you get another whenever, the waiter thinks that you have too less to drink. When we left I got 3, 1/2 l glasses f coke (I can't remember that I ever drank so much coke for one meal before. But I mean that was soo awesome! When you're in Austria done with your drink you have to order another, they don't really see if you need something to drink and you always have to buy for the next drink, also when you always take the same, it doesn't matter.

O that's really the last paragraph now, and i try to make it as short as possible. It's generally just about how cheap everything here is, compare  with Europe. The clothes are so much cheaper, the shoes are so much cheaper EVERYTHING is so much cheaper! Here's a good example, which I found the last time i got to the mall : we were in this store for electronics and I looked for the iPods, just because I was curious how much they are here (and because i don't have aniPod yet, I KNOW that's a shame :D ) and when i saw the price i thought I'm dreaming, or that the price tag was kidding me BUT IT WASN'T; IT WAS ALL REAL!!  The iPod touch costed 199$ and it was NO sale or somethin that was the normal price. if you now think "what?that's still some money!" you have to consider 2 things: 1) the same model costs in Austria about 250 €  2) when you say 199$ you have to consider that you still have to convert this into € and that's what I did and I calculated that it would cost less than 150 €!! :O that's super awesome..

Good that's it for today! Sleep well (or have a nice monday, depends on where you live ;) )
byebye!