Ok that what has to happen tomorrow really wasn’t plant.

I will move in with a new host family. At least we found one in
Albuquerque which means I can at least go to the same church which will be a big help because so I will have something familiar. I also have to change school. Which really sucks because the semester is already running for 3 week and I will lose connection to many of my friends and I won’t be able to go my clubs any more (obviously).

So WHY on earth do I move to another family?

Whoever expects an easy answer, I have to disappoint you, it is because of multiple reasons and factors. First I, over the last few month, had problems with my host ma. Those remained, unfortunately, unsolved or not really solved and so they piled up and created a cold atmosphere in which living together under one roof got nearly impossible. I don’t wanna blame my host ma alone because I also did my part to create this situation but she wasn’t helping it either. Another factor is that my host family had issues with themselves. Especially my host ma with my host dad and brother, it actually brought her near to leaf the family for a few weeks. And now there is a list of issues or factors that weren’t bad but didn’t really help either. As of there were: the fact that they are living as vegetarians, which I except and with which I can live but which I don’t really like, further more there are several disagreements in believes that I have with members of the host family which we put aside but which kinda made it easier to say I’ll leave.

So you see life isn’t easy right now. And it won’t be for the next few weeks. But eventually I will move on, leave Sandia behind and shear for the Hornets and not the Matadors, I will still be able to see my friends because I will still be in town and so the best year of my life will continue.

Just even better.

Oh yeah one more thing, don’t make me explain, why I can’t stay at Sandia, it was horrible enough to go through this once.
But I have to go, pack my things, talk to you guys soonish

That was just such a funny random moment.

But let me explain:

During our Digital Art Club meeting Sunny said “hey you look different” and I answered “Yeah I didn’t have my hair cut for months” but she was like “no that’s not it!” “You look American”

OMG and I think may she is right. Putting aside the fact that my German sucks (I forget words, and I got an American accent) I think spending so much time in a different culture really makes you become part of it.

By now it is just normal for my to eat lunch at school, have drinks which to 2/3 are existing out of ice and sit wherever I want in cinemas. And the differences would continue for forever. So may I gonna make a little series out of it. One think that I recently discovered is, American wallets don’t have a coin pocket. They just don’t. I mean Americans have coins (here called change) but I don’t know they leaf it in a spot in there car or leaf it as tips. It is crazy the only time it is really worth to have change on you is when you ride the city bus but in most other situations you just use bills. (Geldscheine)

Oh yeah left to say the American knows 4 different coins: the penny or one cent, the five cent coin, the dime which is worth 10 cents and the quarter which obviously is 25 cents.

First of all  Happy New Year

All these traditional things like new year and Christmas show me how far away I really am from home and how different this culture is.

So what do Americans do on new years eve?   They surely have the drop of the ball in
New York running somewhere in the background. This is a old tradition a big ball is placed in front of the Rockefeller center in New York and on midnight it drops down. Wherefore the US has five time zones and in every time zone the local TV programs show the drop of the ball. Would be to funny if they would actually do it five times. Anyway we spend new years eve with a movie marathon so I finally got to see “The Dark Night” quid a good movie. The only thing that was missing was dinner for one which we use to watch every year. And it never gets any boring.

Otherwise my life is a little boring, watching “Valkyrie”, playing Guitar hero, reading a bock or just hanging out. Holidays are the best thing on earth.