I seriously just wrote a post about the whole last week and suddenly it was gone.
Sorry, I'm too tired.
I'm gonna rewrite it tomorrow night or on Sunday or so.
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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.
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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...
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