Here we go again

OK this post is because of several reasons:

1. I'm terribly bored. Like seriously. It's too early to skype with anybody from America, cause hardly anybody is up. The weather is awful, it's Sunday, so there's nothing to do. I really miss the Nebraska summer. Before I left I was kinda glad that I'm not here for the summer heat, but here the "summer" this year is So terrible and rainy and cold (today we really had 15°C in the afternoon!!!!! (59°F)). Gah this is considered to be summer. In Grand island we had hotter temperatures in MARCH! Oh well that the weather is so much worse makes it worse that I miss the USA. I really do and I still speak some parts in English. But my dreams got more German again which is so stupid. 
2. A few days ago I got a letter from EF because of the Returnee club. It really sounds interesting! There they have that you can earn points for doing something for them (for example going on a Orientation Meeting as a Returnee, get new students to sign up,....) and when you have enough points you can get a flight ticket, or an ipad or an ipod and stuff like that. But it kind of is a rip of because the flight ticket you get for 7000 points (which is the highest)  is only 700€ and that isn't enough to go back to Grand Island. But at least something. EF also organizes meetings with the Returnees where ouy can meet new people and so on. Sounds pretty interesting, but I don't even know when they are, so.... 
3. Next point is that I really wanna go somewhere again. I saw that you can't do an exchange year again (which would be too expensive anyways), but now I have another country on which I have my eye on, now.  Australia. i really wanna go there. I've already heard so many people saying that Australia is so great. So I'm going there, when I got the money for it :) 
4. I hate people. I seriously do. It's just that Europeans are sometimes pissing me off so badly because they are just not american and don't have the lifestyle and spirit like the Americans. They can't even help it it's just me, I guess. And furthermore I absolutely hate when people come up to me, I didn't speak to them in forever, they ignored me, didn't give a crap about me going to the USA and stuff and suddenly when I'm back, they start to talk to me again. Just because I gave away a lot of presents to people I know from the USA. That sucks. But I don't wanna write about that right now, it makes me mad.
   
   Oh well that's pretty much it for today. have a nice day everybody!! :) 

I know I'm kinda late.. 1 week at home

K guys I actually wanted to write that post earlier like when I had my first day at home or so but i didn't feel like writing about it at all, now I do so I'll now do that. It's not gonna be a happy sunshine post.

Well ok now I'm at home In Austria. For over a week already. And seriously it feels like waay longer. My feelings for coming home were so mixed. When I was at the airport in London, first entering Europe again I was so sad and pissed. Seriously. the people at the airport just weren't as nice, speaking BRITISH english and so reserved. Everybody's minding his/her own business. Before I never really noticed it but now I do. I didn't like being back and I thought that this one hour in Europe was already enough.  I wanted to go back to Grand Island.
Next Airport in Munich. My mod still wasn't he best but it got a little better and I actually was a little bit excited for home. With one little thing. I wasn't in an english speaking country anymore. It was Germany and that fact hit me right at the passport control. People around speaking Germany German, Austrian German and I had problems understanding them at first. Had to concentrate so hard. And the fact , I thought that could never be possible also applied: I had problems SPEAKING it! Everybody around was speaking German with me and I'm just confused and spoke English. It came naturally and German just FELT weird. The car ride home was so long and I felt asleep in the car. The day was just soo long. But we had to eat so we quickly stopped at McDonalds. I still didn't speak German of course so when we came there to order I naturally told her what i wanted in ENGLISH and expected that it was alright. It wasn't. What a weirdo. My mum translated it to her then and I was feeling so stupid. I just couldn't say it in German. The weird thing about that day was that at the McDonalds there were people in traditional Austrian clothing all over the place and I was like "Oh great,  as if I wouldn't get that we are in an German speaking country people."
Then the moment I had been excited of. Coming home. I noticed the landscape as we came closer and nothing changed. It was like I had been driving this street like las week or so but not 6 months ago!
When I then arrived home everybody was there. Even my brother who I don't see that often. I got a lot of hugs and German questions, which i still answered in English. I was totally thinking in English. But they forced me speaking German. It was pretty bad, but got better through speaking it. And home was weird too. It was incredibly normal but in my memory everything was bigger, but that's probably because, for some reason, the dimensions in the USA are generally bigger. Really weird seeing that everything was so normal- But my mood still was pretty...... annoyed. I swear if anything would have gone wrong I would have freaked out.

Well the next few days I just had to get used to the food again, which i really missed, get my sleeping pattern back somehow, getting used to German again and went to school the last day. It was a good decision. It felt so good seeing my class again. I got A LOT of hugs, I didn't even know that they've missed me that much. They were surprised that my German was that good though. ;)

Now I've been home for over a week already and my life in definitely NOT back to normal. I mean a little bit it is I'm doing some of the stuff I've done before too but it's not the same. I take a lot of things for NOT granted ( for example the home shower, the first shower here was amazing :D ) I do so much more English things, English is my second language now and I enjoy speaking it, I try to stay in touch with all the people, skype with them and compare EVERYTHING  here with the USA. MY family must get tired of hearing "Oh in the USA that would be better,...." and I appreciate the things people here do for me. And I get along better with my siblings. Also the people I hang out with are different. And I call our cats the wrong name.

The exchange may be over but I'm thinking and working everyday to go back to the USA. Already after 1 week I miss it so bad, miss the possibilities there and make plans what I can do to get back as fast as possible. But I wanna go to Australia first, where a lot of people, that became important to me, live. I seriously wanna go to Australia and the USA so bad, that it hurts. Not one day is passing so far, where I don't think about that. I hope it gets a little better soon because i don't know if i could stand the fact being stuck in Austria for a long while. Oh ja and it it so hard to hear from the people going for a whole year now that they're starting in 2 weeks to the USA. It makes me sad. (Nevertheless I wish you guys an awesome year, and that you will miss it as much as me when it's over, because that means that it was great. ;) )

K people how can that be that a person you didn't even know half a year ago, on the other side of the planet can be stuck in your mind, and be so important to you? HOW?! :/
Because he worst thing about distance is, that you don't know if the people miss you or forget you.
I will NEVER forget it.

I don't know when the next post will come now because I really don't wanna spam you with my personal life here. This won't be the last post ever, don't worry, but be prepared that you won't hear a lot in the next time.
I just post again when I have something concerning my exchange :) Maybe some returnee thing.
bye bye :')

P:S.: Now some music that it expresses  like what I feel sometimes... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntSBKPkk4m4  

I have to catch up: Here comes NEW YORK!!

K guys actually I'm 2 posts behind because just so many things happened the last week. I went to New York this week with my family, after they came to Grand Island. 

Right when we got out of the airport you KNEW that you are in New York because there were yellow taxis EVERYWHERE! We stood in line for a little bit to catch one but then we had  an hour ride to Manhattan to our hotel. It's crazy how far away the JFK airport is from the actual city!! We went to get the luggage to the airport checked the hotel out and then we got on the Subway already. It's so like in the movies. Really busy, pretty, people play music down there for money. The first tip in New York this day was only to get food actually. We ended up in a restaurant eating pizza and watching baseball but i had to explain the rules. I'm so proud that I understand this game. 
Second da we got up waaay to early! We went to Starbucks for breakfast and right after that we took the subway to catch the ferry to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. When we got on the Ferry there was a security check like on the airport as well as on all the other famous sightseeings. Weird.

This day pretty windy and I think there was a thunderstorm- or at least it rained. But the statue of liberty  is So huge and impressing when you see it. Unfortunately you couldn't go in, because they fixed something. That#s tooo bad but so you could take a lot of pictures. There were a lot of other people too but not too many. It was fine.   Ellis island, the Immigration museum was quite interesting we had an Audio Guide there. THis day we also visited Ground Zero, where there are 2 waterfalls instead of the towers. And you can see the new WTC towers right behind them. I also saw the 9/11 memorial. THis day we also went to Bodies- the exhibition, you know this body exhibtion with real human bodies you can see.... urgs. And after THAT we went to the Empire state building. Went to the 86 th floor with an elevator which was really fast. The view was amazing but you had a fence in front of you, which was a little bit annoying.
Next day we went to a cruise round Manhattan, we tried at least. When we took the subway it turned out that it was the wrong one, so we had to walk forever to get there. But we passes timesquare and I was so excited. The cruise around Manhattan was great i saw so much. New Jersey, Skyline of Manhattan, Brooklyn Bridge, apartments and the tour guide told us interesting stuff like that there are 11 000 taxis in NY, that an apartment in Manhattan is 3 000 $ per month and history stuff.
The other days I saw all the famous sightseeings, went ot Madame Tussauds, went to Times Square and went shopping. I really like it But you have to walk sooo much there, every day i was so tired in the end....

New York is a great city, you should have seen it once. :)


Oh well people I'm outta here I think the post would be longer if I would feel like writing right now. But I don't :D
Well see ya in a little bit because I have to write about my ACTUAL situation!

Times square

NY Skylie with the new WTC to be built