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.

Some how its weird Christmas is so different and so much the same.

Because there can’t be a Christmas without going to church, at least in my opinion, I went to attend a service at the church of my host fathers parents, because my host parents aren’t going to any church. So I went to that church at 4PM to help setting out luminaries. And then messed around with some friends before attending three different services. And there it was 12:30. And I realized for the time how far away I am from my family. These so normal, so usual things are the once showing you how big the distance of an ocean really is. But Christmas day (just one in the
USA kinda sad) finally and with it joy and presents, wherefore the last one is more important. This Christmas day wasn’t just for me but also for my host family because they just moved to Albuquerque. So my celebrated Christmas with an open house meaning a lot of people dropped by, had some snacks and talked. This also had the nice effect of eating cookies, chocolate and similar things all day long. And as soon as it came Christmas was over again.

The next day I then went to help to take down the luminaries and after that we somehow made it to seriously spend 8:30h at a Mall. No idea how we made that but we did.

You won’t believe it but
Albuquerque really had snow a few days ago. We had about 4cm of it and it lasted for about 5 hours. But it was reason enough to cancel school. Which I personally can’t understand but I like it, who wouldn’t like to have a day of?

 
Yesterday I went to see the “River of lights” a event of the botanic garden of Albuquerque which is really need to see. It is a setup of all kind of lights formed into animals that move or into plants. I went there together with the other YFU students in Albuquerque. Or at least that was or plan. Unfortunately two of us four students didn’t have time do to sport events and Christmas celebrations. So it was just me my host father our Rep and Pop (hope I spelled that right) a girl from Thailand. What fore I have to say people from Asia tend to have a very hard time to pick up the English language. Assuming that Pop is kind of average.

Today I finally had time to go to one of Sandias Basketball games. Unfortunately we lost. The Matadors kind of suck at Basketball this season so far we have one win out of 5 games and that was a last second win. But who cares nobody is coming to see the game either way everybody is just there to socialize. And here I want to note that Cheerleaders and Basketball don’t go as good together as Cheerleaders and Football. They are just way more involved in the whole thing than they are into Basketball.

Hope everyone has great Holidays (This time even I have two week of and not just a day)

There is one thing that came to my mind during my lit final about which I would like to talk. And this thing is language. Because I noticed that my German is pretty bad on time. I started to forget words and I now have an American accent, or so I have been told. But I also adopted habits in English. For example saying like extremely often. I don’t know what American teenagers would do if the word like wouldn’t exist. It is used as everything, sometimes every second word is like. But the weirdest thing I ever heard was a girl describing a movie scene with the word “And then like he died”. Like he died??? Either he died or he survived or may he nearly died but he under guaranty didn’t “like died”. Hope you can see what I am saying

Hey guys so after two month I finally found some time to write again

(During study hall for my last two finals)

By now the football season is over. We didn’t won district but had a great time. Unfortunately I couldn’t see the last games because I was up in
Oregon. Which leads me to Thanksgiving the reason for me to be up in Oregon more exactly in Eugene where me and my host father stayed with his sister. Before Thanksgiving we made a trip to the west coast of the US. The Northern part, where we went to, is basically a big cliff. (I hope to upload a few pictures soon) At the Coast we visited a place called “Devils Churn” where I took a little video (further down). And than Thanksgiving was finally there. From my point of view a great tradition. But first let me tell you where we actually celebrated. We celebrated at a very nice place the house of one of the brothers of my host fathers sisters husband. His house stand nearly all by itself in a forest, the neighbors life all about half a mile away. And to get ourselves hungry we went on a hike trough the hundreds of years old forest. Which was quite an adventure because there are no trails, only plants, plants, plants. And then the was the food and oh my good it was quite some food. We gathered with about 30 people and I guess the food would have been enough for about 50 . So we ate and ate and ate and in the moment where we were so filled up that we couldn’t eat anymore the desert was presented and we just had to eat some more. Another, I would say nice thing was that this family tends to just have daughters. I wont complain

Right no we are in finals week that means everyday two hours of study hall than two hours one final, lunch and than two hours a second final. Which really is to much time especially for the finals because the final I until now spend the most time on took my about 70min. Ok so that is all you need to know about finals

And this is all I can think of right now and I need to start studying for my lit final so I will write more soon. (This time for real)

Hope you guys like the new look of my blog      I will put the vid here once I am home and can acces youtube    ok had time to do it thanks to GruBby

Ok just realized I really long didn’t wrote anything so lets ketch up ^^

On time it always is pretty cold here in Albuquerque, here fore I learned dessert doesn’t mean heat but nearly no rain


Sandia had two more Football games and two more victories

Last Friday I the first time had an event organized by my YFU rep. We had a pumpkin carving at her house. It was so fun   But the best part was that I finally got to know at least two of the other three exchange students in
Albuquerque with was great. And just to say it: “lol homecoming soccer game is honestly not really great” because one of the other exchange students had a homecoming soccer game.

Ok I didn’t wrote anything for week but I can’t think of more so I will write again tomorrow or so ^^

Oh and if you haven’t noticed: the comments are now moderated

Today I had a day of from school because nearly everyone else is taking the PSAT the preparation for the SAT which unfortunately is on a Saturday (so I have no day extra of).

But so I finally had time to go over to a friends house and watch DVDs were the funny thing is that we only could fined the cover of the DVD which we originally were about to watch but hey there are a loot of cool movies out there.

And I have to say it was quiet easy to understand them even though I had to concentrate a little bit more than I would have had to if it would have been in German.

And Yesterday fall finally came into
Albuquerque meaning we had 40F (10C) most of the day. So here we learn desert isn’t always hot and I may should have brought a jacked

About the 3^rd and final presidential debate.

First of all: lol the most important person of the evening was Joe the Plummer

But now seriously as the reporter sad before the debate McCain needed a 50ydt pass to be successful in this campaign. But in the beginning it looked like both would just get fouls instead of passes. Ok very soon McCain was really dominating; he presented himself better and was more self-confident than usual.

Here fore some quotes

Obama “Joe I would like to talk to you, if you are out there”

Greatly shows what an important role the middle class (Joe) played for both candidates.

One of the big themes during the discussion was taxes and how they should be done or not, what would help the most.

Obama ‘We are in the biggest financial crisis since the 1930’s”

            Totally true but pls. tell us how you will sole it!

McCain “Senator Government” (to Obama)

             My question here is: “may he knows something?”

Most important quote “We should not make each other look bad”

            ?LOL? Did both of them do something different during the whole campaign?

So finally I think this debate was won by McCain even though Obama’s body language was more relaxed which might brought him the victory.