And here are some pictures from today - it was snowing when I came home from school!!
Oh, and by the way... Tomorrow's gonna be my first day in Jazz Band :) I'm excited!
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This is my Blog about my High School Year in Michigan.
About Me
- Maria
- Michigan, United States
- My name is Maria, I'm 17 years old and I'm from Germany. I'm spending the school year 2007/2008 in Michigan as an exchange student.
Guestbook
Other exchange students' websites
Some Helpful Conversions
- amount: 1 cup=236.6 ml
- amount: 1 gallon=3.79 l
- food: 1 liter milk box in Germany, 1 gallon milk box in the U.S.
- length: 1 ft. (feet)=30.48 cm
- length: 1 in. (inch)=2.54 cm
- mass: 1 lb (pound)=0.45 kg
- mass: 1 oz (ounce)=28.35 g
- Mc Donald's "Einmaleins": Cheeseburger in Germany, DOUBLEcheeseburger in the US
- money: 1 $=0.6824 Euro (11/14/07)
- temperature: 60F (Fahrenheit)=15.56 degrees Celsius
How to be a Real American!
- answer all voicemails, emails, missed phone calls...
- be good and go to church
- don't walk - drive or be driven!
- girls: always have your toe nails painted
- girls: use lip stick, lip balm or lip gloss at least every 30 minutes
- girls: use make-up!!!
- girls: when you go to the bathroom at school, redo all your make-up
- have 2 or more cars if possible
- have a fridge/freezer combination in you kitchen with a thing that gives you cold water, ice and crushed ice at all times
- have air-condition in your house and car
- have millions of blankets on your bed
- have two huge pillows on your bed (even if you'll never use both)
- host house parties
- keep your house and garden nice and clean all times - the neighbors are watching you!
- leave voicemails whenever you can
- make compliments whenever and to whoever you can, even if you don't know the person
- Michigan: be used to seeing A LOT of squirrels - and be careful, they can be mean!
- mineral water with carbonic acid doesn't exist
- non-driving students: get dropped off by the school bus in front of your house
- non-driving students: get picked up by the school bus in front of your house
- own a cellphone
- own a computer and have internet access
- own a few TVs (at least one of them should be huge or at least big)
- say "Excuse me" when passing a person close, even if you don't touch them
- say "I'm sorry!" for everything you could ever say sorry for, and if you really did something wrong, apologize INTENSELY!
- some of your most important and often used words: darling, sweetheart, honey, hon, sweetie, ...
- volunteer
Some Little Things I've Been Missing So Far (not including people... you all know that I miss you!)
- just plain chocolate!
- Mark 4 nights
- my bike
- my DOGGIES :'( :-*
- my mom's comfortable beach chair
- the clock of the Vareler Schlosskirche (my "watch"... I sometimes think I can hear it when I'm doing my homework or so, that's weird...)
- the long train/ferry rides when going to Spiekeroog... don't ask me why I miss those, I was always so annoyed by them...
1 comment:
Hallo Maria,
wie es aussieht, geht Dein "Traum von einer weißen Weihnacht" ja wohl in Erfüllung. Hab Deiner Mom heut abend bei Oma von den neuesten Bildern berichtet.
Bis bald und viele liebe Grüße
Elvi
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