Nov 28 2009

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmEBTUbaWjA&feature=related


Nov 20 2009

This side started to be pretty depressing! We need some changes!!!

Dear Everybody or Nobody…

First of all I have some really great people out there who are reading my blog!!! Thank you so much for that!
It is one of the best things to know that there are people out there who care….!

Yes I struggeled a bit, and yes I miss a lot of wonderful people and yes it is not like I expected it to be and yes it is not always easy.
But I forget sometimes the fact ….that I choose it to be like that. I could sit at home, studding whatever, or working …beeing with the people I love, who love me… and it would be pretty easy…
But do I want this NO! (don’t get me wrong i want to be with the people  i love….and of course i love this people even if i choose to go out in the world)
Fact is that I kind of wanted to live abroad and I kind of wanted to get to know all this- I just maybe didn’t know how it will “feel” to be that lonely sometimes.
Romania was for sure part of the best experiences ever- but it is also obvious that i was never alone. I had three wonderful sisters to be frustrated, angry and happy together.
Here I have other wonderful people, my host-family, Steven and Ava who always smile, I have Cory- who is (maybe without knowing it) a great support, i have the wired germans from the program ( 🙂 ) and i have a punsh of other people who support me…!

Finding a job is devastating- but it would be the same in germany… !

At the end of the day I go “home” to a family who decided that i can live with them.- I go to a family where they help me everytime i ask for it-…I think having you guys at home, and having all these guys here- is a part of “home”… and will be a part of me sooner or later…
So enough emotional talk….

I am packing to fly with carola to dom and chris in alberqurkey- new mexico…. !!!! YEY…!!! CAN’t WaIT


Nov 3 2009

 

Clueso


Nov 1 2009

JOB SEARCH

 

Frustration, Dissapointment, Exhaused….

How to start a job research in a foreign country…. It is not easy to find a job in a foreign country even if you try pretty hard… one more month to try…then is cristmas and it is getting much harder…


Nov 1 2009

Homesick?

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I guess this is part of the whole experience!

HOME, HOME, HOME

….to miss a piece of German bread….

…a miss my friends and family….
….to miss long walks with Gonzo…

…and to miss Paul bringing Birds and Mouse….
…to miss walking in the rain….

…and to miss “Maultaschen”….

 

..to be continued….

 

einen anderen Weg?

 

 

 

wall of tears


Nov 1 2009

Halloween!

Happy Halloween 

Halloween- a fun holiday….

Suddenly everywhere are Halloween Stores….
People dress in scary costumes- I find spiders in my bed- A pumpkin in front of my door- and sometime the doors open  by the wind…
The scariest movies come to the movie theaters and the hunted houses own the ground …
Trick or Treat… witches, ninjas, tiger…and other creatures knock on the door to jinx somebody!

Shocking moments, lots of candy, parties

and to fast over…


Nov 1 2009

Reflection of the last two month

Hi Everybody,

my blog felt asleep and i am ashamed…but there was so much to do.
This experience is quite different then the last- because it is the daily life what we experience.
Homework, studying and getting up early wouldn’t be fun in Germany either. I had to struggle a bit in the beginning and I am not sure that I am already over that.
Romania was in so many cases so different… people there have nothing but happiness, they enjoy life in a very fascinating way… here … people have everything.
They have fancy cars, nice houses and access to education.  
But they are also hard working to realize all this.

I think I should start from the “beginning”. As far as there is something like that. Every  journey starts with excitement.
There is a new world to discover, so go out and see it…
America the Land of the Freedom.  I think that is what I expected…. The reality was quite different. Sometime I feel that here are more rules than in Germany. Maybe in different fields…but under the line. The same as home.

Living with a Family is the best thing what happened to me.
When I see the other international students leaving school, going “home” I am glad, that I go to a place where I am with a family.  Even though, in the daily life there is just a little bit time to spend together.

I don’t really know where to start, then it is hard to describe a foreign country…
When I get in my car in the morning,- I see the other cars in the street, most of the time the motor is already running. A warm car in the morning is more comfortable. I cross MC Donalds and Burger King (and all the other fast food restaurants) and the lines are long already at half past 7am.
Still in the darkness I see the light signs of different shops, and the streets are crowded. The college parking space is already full, but the worst time is still around 9 am.
Everywhere are constructions and sometimes it takes a little longer to arrive. Then I come in the classroom. Most of my classes are English- it is a requirement from the College- Every international student has to succeed in three levels of English classes. Obviously, most of the students I am with are international. They come  from every part of the world, Poland, Africa, London, Russia, China, Korea, Jordan,  Thailand, Taiwan….
The diversity is incredible.
Unfortunately, it is difficult to find American friends. It is different to connect, and people in community colleges go usually straight home after school.  Maybe I just didn’t find the right approach yet. J
I am one of the lucky students in our program who is really busy. My classes are every day…even if I complain a lot- I know that I learn and learned already so much.
My English is improving daily….
It took me a while to “understand”  the way of thinking in America- but honestly- how can you understand the culture of hole Europe? USA is such a huge country. People are different in Chicago, than in the suburbs. There is no guideline how people are.  Anyway, there is a great value in this country.
There a wonderful places, like the Niagara falls….there are wonderful people- it just takes a while to find them….

 

Chicago…