hach..... things I miss

So after a long time I'm back to write in my blog. The internet here didn't work very well for a while. It's really annoying that when you want to look a picture up on Google, and it needs 20 minutes to be fully loaded :S  However I don't wanna complain about how things are not working. THis time I wanted to write of things I miss here, which I had in the USA. It's crazy that I needed like 5 months to miss Austria but not even 2 months to miss the USA. I often think about Grand Island, they have the Nebraska State Fair there right  now, I really would like to get there, what people tell me about it sounds so cool. It seem to me that in he 2nd halfyear more things are going on in Grand Island somehow. Hu. I really envy you guys who are in the USA right now that you get to celebrate all the awesome things like thanksgiving and stuff like that whit is coming up right now. Hahah I'm getting to my list in a minute, hold on. Oh ya since school holidays are almost over now I can say that all the people i got to see in the holidays, are really curious. You know like every person I meet that actually knows me asks me "Hey, you're back, how was it in the USA?" and I'M like "Awesome, duh?!" hahah I feel so wise when they ask questions about how it is living in the USA and if that and that rumor you hear is true. When I explain it, it always makes me feel like I wanna go back really bad. :(  AND I feel like I have to vindicate the whole American lifestyle. Even the things that aren't that great. Weird. But NOW I'm getting to the list :) :
 So I really miss:

• american school. Although the Austrian school didn't start yet i really wanna start school in GI, not here, and it's really hard to see everybody post normal stuff about school again :(
  
• ice cubes in literally every beverage. Loads and loads. Here you have to order it with ice in it and you only get a few. Not even at McDonalds.  It's funny that I miss it because when i was in the USA I was always complaining about it that it#s too much and makes your throat hurt. I guess I got used to it in the end :)

• That you get straws with every beverage. How are you supposed to drink it without them!?
  
• Free refills on your drinks. It's really annoying that they charge you here for a second or third one. I'm still thirsty!  
  
• the songs you hear on the radio. Even the ones that were really annoying. People once asked me what  kind of music there is on Austrian radio and I answered "Pretty much the same than in the USA". Wrong. It's only a couple songs you hear here as well as in the USA. And the ones they don't play are those, which I really miss. They weren't really my favorite songs  but now I think that I liked them! Fortunately we have Youtube theses days . Makes everything easier.

• Alright, I also miss my hostfamily. A LOT!
  
• The american lifestyle. It's that you just go out and do something spontaneously.
  
• American grocery stores. That you have a variety of things to choose from, every kind of everything. Also the checkouts where you can do it yourself, when you only have a couple of things.
  
• Oh gosh speaking ENGLISH! that's one of the main things I really miss. Meanwhile I got used to the German radio moderators again and Austrian TV and writing German or Austrian dialect in the facebook chat. And I can express myself  well again. Ready for school to start, I suppose.
  
  
• The friendliness of random people. I still think "Gah what kind of problem does this lady have?" , but then I realize that it's normal since nobody else seems to be bothered.
  
  
• The landscape with no mountains. The sunsets in Grand Island were so much prettier! And you had sun longer since there are no mountains that block the sun ages before it really sets.
  
•  Nobody smokes in the USA. I think one day I've seen as many people smoke as in the whole time in the USA. I can't stand it, Austria.
  
• The kind of cars they have in the USA. you know where you just have a brake and  the accelerator. Here it's so complicated.
  
• Also the american cars. They're so big and comfy. You can't really move in the cars here. Although I didn't like it at first that I always had to climb in hahah  

ok can't think of more for now. I'll be back though
bye bye!