I am starting a blog. (It sounds so fancy. It is not.)
It is kind of hard to start a blog about something that has been going on for 90 days, but I'll try my best.
For all my Austrian Friends, Relatives, or everyone else:
This is so different you guys. I personally didn't think it would be that different. It is the United States after all. We all have seen so many movies, TV Shows, etc., we all know it.
Well, we're all wrong. (Whaaaat? Such surprise)
Anyways, things are really different, and to be quite honest, the most common thing that I just can't get used to is how people here handle swearing.
I never realized it, but swearing is quite a common thing in Austria.
Here it is not. I mean don't get me wrong, young people do it all the time. But not in front of adults, and especially not in front of teachers. I am not quite used to this, and you might think after 90 days I got used to it, but you are wrong.
Asides from that, there are some other differences I notice the most in school.
Like this:
In Austria, if you want to go pee, you ask if you can go to the toilet. Not so much here. When I first asked if I could go to the toilet, I got weird looks and I thought it was because of my accent or something. Only a couple more weird looks later did I realize, you don't ask if you may go to the toilet here. You say "restroom" or "bathroom".
My US. History teacher even called me "a crazy european" when I asked if I could go to the toilet. (It was just a joke, don't freak out or anything people)
Well, about school:
The subjects I enrolled in are:
WebDesign, French 2.0, Pre-Calculus, Sociology, US. History, English Language Arts Grade 12 and Anatomy & Physiology.
I'm pretty happy with my choice! And while most of these are pretty self-explanatory, I will tell you what we are currently doing in Sociology:
Before, we talked about Society, and problems we see in our society (the american society of course), we talked about sexism and other problems associated with gender and now we're talking about the american class system and poverty in the US.
I love this class, we talk and discuss a lot and it is absolutely amazing.
I learn a lot here in Kansas City at Blue Valley High, and hoping none of my Austrian teachers will read this, I might even say, maybe, just maybe, I'm even learning a bit more than in Austria...
Apart from that, I live in an indian family with my Hostsister Menita, my hostmother Surya and my hostfather Srini.
We also have a dog called Max and two parrots called Pumpkin and Paco. Pumpkin can talk too! He can say "Hello", "Bye bye" and "How are you"
It's pretty impressive, I think.
I honestly don't feel like explaining what I've been doing the last 90 days because a lot has been going on, but I can tell you something that happens like at least once a week:
The indian dinner-party-things.
We are invited over to other houses regularly. There's usually at least 20 people (usually more I think) and most of the time I don't really know what's going on because they all talk all kind of indian languages, but there is amazing food and I love it.
The food I get here is pretty much the best ever. I get awesome indian food every day and I swear you should all be jealous it is sooo delicious!
And now a few pictures:
The first one is Pumpkin, the Parrot that can speak. Pretty cute, huh? (WRONG! no, jk. but he is actually super annoying whenever Paco and him just randomly start screaming like they are about to die. Lukas and Alex can confirm. It is hella annoying!)
Picture two is of the house I live in, Picture three is the view if you exit the main door, and the last picture is of my hostsister Menita and me before Homecoming. (Eine Art Schulball...)
Okay, that's it. The next post is going to come... soon. I guess. Hope you all enjoyed it! Hugs, Anna
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