Pictures!

So lovely people today is the big day where I post some pictures of the previous posts, I promised you ages ago. That's because I'm alone at home my hostparents are working and my siblings went to the waterpark but i didn't want to go because t's not really hot and I'm the kind of person who doesn't like to go swimming when it's just warm and you are freezing when you get out of the water :)

Class  of 2012! 

 Congratulations!

 Class of 2012 exiting :( 

Jeeea awesome laundry bag ;)

Hallway

and finally lockers!!

K guys that's all for today, probably there will be another post pretty soon just because I feel like it. ;)

And now some MUSIC again because I always want to do that now!
haha i don't really like this song but it's so American and I didn't even know it before. And it's kinda weird ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UePtoxDhJSw  :D

Bye bye guys!!

Last day of school DONE

Ok guys now follows the promised post about the last day of school. When i look back o actually have to say that the last week was the best week I had. There were no tests and quizzes left, I was done with finals and it was so good being at school with all your friends and everybody is so excited. We watched a movie the last week in Spanish, Religion and Chemistry. And then there was it. The last day of school. A short day in the middle of the week. noon release. I got up the last time at 7 o'clock. Turned the alarm of for one last time. Put my uniform on for the last time. Hang out in the little theater with my friends for the last time before school started. Everybody was so excited when the bell rang for the last time this year, ti make school start.
I went to my locker which was so empty, except  few books I had to turn in sometime this day. It broke my heart. So I went to Geometry for the last time. The desks were organized in a different way, so we were allowed to sit on the shelf on the back. I heard morning prayer for the last time with this teacher because she's quitting and then we have the flag salute stuff, which I never do because I feel awkward. But it goes like this: I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.". I'll miss that.
Then I took pictures to remember that all but didn't take a picture of the teacher. She's leaving too. We can see our grades, get a sucker, chat a little bit and then the short 25 minutes are already over. Geometry is over and I don't like it. The next mod is English. Only have to bring my my book. Nothing else left. We only have some presentations of what we learned this year and then we watched the video Eva and I made. They liked it and I like it too. we didn't finish it though. Then we were done with English. next mod P.E. we had open gym a last time and we played 4 square. A ball game. The boys played basketball.  I started feeling worse and worse after every mod.  Next mod American Government. One last time the teacher that loves my voice. That's so sad. We continued going over our final together and we could change answers to make it right Then we got a little IQ tests kind of with tricky logic questions. We had no lunch this day. So the next mod was Study hall which was soo chilly and  nice. We were in the library, the computer were unplugged, and nobody had anything to do, so we just chatted joked around and had a good last Study hall. The teachers were also really funny and nice I really love my study hall teachers. I'll miss it. Everybody was so relaxed. next class was Spanish. For one last time. I love my Spanish class. I'll miss them. We watched Pirates of the Caribbean, got our finals back (i did amazing got 70.5 out of 70) and then we did a group hug and  group jump. I liked it. Then, sadly, Spanish was done too ,hugged the teacher and then left. Went downstairs for one last time. Next mod Chemistry. Although I often didn't feel like going there, I'll probably miss it. It was so funny and chilled. We watched a movie in Chemistry. And took pictures. It kept getting worse. Then we had our last mod of this day. Everybody was so excited only me was, I don't like it to be over! Religion. We prayed and stuff (I won' miss  THAT!) And then we just watched old pictures, pictures of this year, i was in some, and then we were heading to the old gym to take a new picture for next year to watch. And suddenly I wasn't like that depressed anymore I was like "I'm so happy that I experienced that and I'll never forget it." It will always be a part of. me.When we were in the gym we took the picture I wanted the teacher to take a picture with my camera too but suddenly THERE WAS A BAT IN THE GYM! A few people were freaking out I thought that it was pretty cute :) We had to leave though, because they had to catch it. It can't live forever in the gym. Although the girl from Germany told me that in her previous American Highschool ,there was a bat living in the gym :)  
My classmates had a countdown in the last mod. Every minute counted. And then it was over. School. was. over. All the hours I spent here, sometimes happy sometimes depressed but most of the time fascinated, all the tears of laughter, the hours of testing, the hours of relaxing, chatting with the teacher and students, excitement and boredom and memories. All was over. But I always will keep the memories. :)
After school I went with my German exchange student friend to the Humane Society to walk dogs then we played with the baby cats at my house and had fun,since she's leaving so soon. Then in the evening I went to the goodbye party of the 2 other exchange students from Sweden and from Denmark. It was really nice, there were a lots of pictures, hugs, laughter, parents from the exchange students and siblings, Oreo, Swedish  fish, Daim, Danish gummibears, vegetables, cheese, sausage, games, basketball, teacher  and I got my hair curled. I hope that I'll see a few of them today at the other goodbye party but I won't see a few of them again. In. MY .LIFE!. I'm just happy that I know them and I have lots of memories. And pictures. And I'll miss each and every one of them. Because when it's over you kinda forget the bad memories and keep the good ones. <3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqKa942QtzQ

Well and right now the weather is cold, I'm waiting for my family to go on skype and the water in the house now is off. We have no water for a few hours, because they're working on it to fix that and I feel dirty. I . Need. Water. And my hostsister is in Phoenix/Arizona where the weather is probably fine. Nice.
k guys I think the next time I finally post some pictures. See ya :)

It's coming to an end :(

K people as the title already tells you, my exchange is slowly coming to an end. I'm in my last week of school now, already had my last Friday, today was my last Monday and while everybody else is really excited for summer and for school to end I get more and more anxious. All the other exchange students of my school are having their last week in Grand Island, because they're leaving right on the weekend after school. I would be so depressed if I would have to this week. I'll miss all of them when I remain here in grand Island for another 4 weeks. And I'm pretty  sure that I'll miss school.
You really can feel that this are the last days before summer. In the most classes we're already done with finals. In Geometry we have it tomorrow and on Wednesday but I don't have to take the finals because I have an A in both quarters. I'm glad I don#t have to :). In English we have not really a big final test, but everybody has to present 10 things they've learned this yea in English. I made a video with the exchange students from germany. I hope the teacher accepts it. In P.E. we don't have a test either. I have no idea how I should get a grade there, all we did this quarter was gamedays and open gym. Well who cares, maybe everybody gets an A then This week   we are cleaning and are not even doing something with sport. haha. In American Government we#re taking our finals, which is open book over the constitution. I'm really behind, but I'm pretty sure that  I'll catch up. In Spanish we took our final last week, which was super short I was done in 20 minutes. :P hahah and that should be the hardest test of all. ;) Chemistry we don't have a final either, we just have an Take home test . Oh wow what a hard test :D
Ja Religion we just had a chapter test, nothing too big with Multiple choice questions ALL THE WAY.. now we're pretty much done and we are watching "Narnia". Did you know that that is a religious/christian movie?? I didn't .
I'll miss school so much but I guess I will make an extra post for that when school's over. :(

But on the bright side now is my brightest hour!! I'm going greatly at school, with the people, I'm more outgoing, and I really enjoy the most being here now. I'll miss my exchange friends so badly, but i till have the Americans who won't move hopefully. Furthermore next weekend I go to Omaha with my hostfamily I'm so excited. And I finally made peace with Austria. I think I'm kinda curious to go back there. And My family is coming here anyways so i don't care about the school permission... just spent the evening sitting with my hostbrother in front of the TV, watching "A bug's life" (he's never seen it, I can't believe that) and i can speak with them and predict what will be happening in a few seconds. I just love it.

So I'm having a bittersweet time, and now it's time for some music:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fAZIQ-vpdw&feature=endscreen ENJOY! :)

See ya! <3

America: 347283472384728 Austria: -1

Ja you read right. Austria has -1, point and America is winning. ALL THE WAY RIGHT NOW!!

k may be a little bit confusing because in the last few posts I was talking about that I have no problem with going back and how I realized that Austria is not that bad and annoying and boring. But this weekend to now changed my attitude. Let me explain it and i'll begin with this weekend.

Friday.
We had school , but not real classes but mass and then a senior program. All the seniors were dressed up like at graduation. then we had an introduction of all the seniors. what they're doing after graduation, their favorite memory of HS and a few other nice things. I really liked it. After that we had school awards. That measn they gave awards and certifications away, when you  are good at something and that. I think almost everybody got one they give a lot away. Also for perfect attendance :P I got an award in American Government for "Most improved". I was so surprised but also very happy about it. The awards took forever and after that we watched the senior video, They always make it really nice it's a video with all the seniors and they show baby pictures of them, and you can guess who it is and show pictures of the senior trips.  Its so sad though, because I really will miss them. Seniors are the  friendliest people on earth :)
Saturday.  got up late, so late that I couldn't go to the graduation party of that dude that has the same last name than me. Well kinda sucks because I've been to a friends house the day before and we went to the mall and got presents. Os the one present was pretty much for nothing. So I can keep it! ;) I pretty much spent the saturday, skyping with my family, sitting at home and visiting several places. Pretty chilly.
Sunday. The big day of graduation. I'm not graduating but i was so excited, because this was my first and last graduation EVER! Everybody really wore that cool hats and clothing and our schoolband really played that song when the seniors came in! Like in the movies! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_doAV8bx0xg

Then a whole bunch of people spoke, teacher, random people and of course the senior class president and the senior speaker. And after THAT they called all the people out on the stage and they got they diploma. Like in the movies :) It was so cool, the whole thing lasted for about one hour and a half. then the seniors exited and then you could congratulate them and take pictures and stuff. It was pretty nice, but also sad becasue i wold never see most of them again. School without the seniors is kinda weird, quiet and  not that funny. Is just that something's missing. I also got to some graduation parties, which is not really a party usually you go in, get something to eat, congratulate the people chat a little bit with them, give them your gift and go to the next  one. I've been on 4 this afternoon and i was full after that. Full, but it was fun though. And something really american happened to me :)  

Today was the first day without the seniors at school. It's really weird. But it was a fun day though, I love americans. I can really notice that the school year is coming to an end. Teacher don#t really do anything. we watch movies, review for finals, talk to priests in Spanish, have study halls, or are supposed to work on a worksheet in chemistry which basically nobody does. And nobody cares. People get more relaxed to when the seniors are done for some reason. I had an early release today but I have to work on my 100 projects that are due pretty soon, and i honestly didn't make any good progress in any of them. After I wasted my time on trying to get something done, i went to finally send to package with my winter stuff and American candy and American stuff home. the package was really heavy, big and had a lot of drawings and differnt types of ducktape on it, because me and my hostsister got bored. At least it's pretty in the end :P But when i brought t to the ups store, the guy who did my package was a graduate from my school. I really expected a really high price for it and that it would take really long, but I was surprised about what they told me. It was a 26 pounds package to Europe and it costed 130 $ and is expected to arrive in 6-10 workdays. I'm positively surprised. The people in front of me had a smaller package also to Europe, and had to pay 200$,

I had a nice day, the weather is nice and sunny and hot, its supposed to stay like that for a while and I'm enjoying my exchange. today I got a parcel from EF (I think that is the last one in the USA) and it had a letter in it with instructions what i have to do before I'm going (pay when i owe somebody, give books back, bla bla bla) but the bigger surprise was the gift the brought with it. It was a laundry bag, with the EF motto and everything on it. i will upload some pictures, but right now I can't find my camera.

Ok and now I'll tell you why i decided to give Austria -1 points. You know that my family and my siblings want to visit me here, in the week before the last schoolweek in Austria. Nobody ever does something in thi week so in my opinion an awesome idea. But guess what. My stupid and crabby school doesn't wan to allow my siblings to go there!! i have no idea WHY they have to spend the most unproductive week in the whole year at school, but it's so stupid. My mum now has to ask the really big boss of the state for permission to go. And the really unbelievable thing is that when my mum and my siblings leave without the schools permission they will get sued or something, that you get in trouble. That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. That's why I dislike Austria (or at least the stupid Austrian school system) at the moment. Because it's not fair, doesn't make sense at all and because they should be as the schools here. I'm pretty sure nobody would say anything. They are more relaxed and not that crabby, strict and more understanding. Take that. :/

Ok guys I'll keep you up to date! Bye bye! <3
  P.S:: As I said before, picture will be coming so you can see it all, when I find my camera back ;)

heyyo!

Heyy guys, I haven't been blogging since forever ;)  i don't even know why,  as usual.  But I willl change that right NOW and I will start with a few things that i noticed in America.

• OK first of all: everybody has a middle name. Really. Everybody. Because a few days ago we got a new sit arrangement in religion and we had to stand in a line from A-Z after your middle name and then the 2 standing together came on a table (because in the religion room we have the rare pleasure to have a desk where 2 people are sitting at which is so good, I hate the small desks) and I was the only one in 25 students who didn't have a middle name!! I felt so foreign :) So everybody who has a middle name- that makes you already a bit american ;) 
• secondly a really cool fact in my opinion, When you attend a sports team, or any activity you get a T-shirt. Everytime. It's pretty cool because it's a good souvenir :D But I love it so you have a memory :) I even saw that the people who went to post prom got a tshirt from it (jaa I know it's a shame that I didn't go but I'M  sophomore and only juniors and seniors can go o..O I was quite upset for a while but it's over now) 
• today I found out that school is apparently not that easy for everybody who is from a foreign country! Because today the other exchange student from Austria was asked by somebody how he liked his year and he said pretty good BUT IT IS A LOT OF  WORK??! I was like really "Are you kiddding me, that's a joke right it's so easy" - he responded "well you're smarter than me then"- I almost wanted to answer well you don't have to be very smart for that- are you in kindergarten at home or what?- but I didn't do it then. I was too shocked that American schools are hard...  Ok but finals are coming up in the next 2 weeks and I don't think that I will study really hard. In American government we have the big end test as an open book test that means you can use the books for the test it's ridiculous, what's the TEST about that.. but nevermind.. 
• And at last is AGAIN the thing about going home. In 2 months I will already be outta here and I'm quite concerned about that. Just got my first packet home done today and I'm really not prepared for going home. I can't even fit all y stuff in my suitcase!! I have so much more stuff. I've heard people saying that they leave stuff here but I want to take everything home I have so many memories in that .:((( But on the other hand I'm so excited to be in my old environment again because it's just a difference. And so many things at home changed. I wonder if I changed.
  
  But let's not talk about going home I have s many things before I'm going home!! Doing stuff with my friends, going to the mall, going to Omaha and this weekend is graduation which I really have to see and then I have a ton of wedding parties/reception and I don't now how I should manage that all, but it will figure out in any way.
  Ok I don't feel like writing a long entry right now, I have to get ready for school tomorrow and I have to watch Hannah Montana the movie- in english (it's so much better) 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmKsCMgROCQ <--- that song was just in the movie, I like it btw ;)