Since I only have 31 days left, I thought it would be time to do this post.. Wow, I can't believe I already reached this point in my exchange year. There are still no words to describe the feelings going on inside of me right now. I hope you have fun reading these and maybe (if you are an exchange student) you can identify with some of them.
#1 Shopping on Sundays
I think every exchange student in America knows what I'm talking about!!! Isn't it awesome if most stores are open on sundays? Right now I'm so used to go shopping with friends on a sunday and we all know it's not like this in Germany so I will really miss that option!
#2 Indiana Roads
Yes, I will miss these endless seeming, straight roads that are bumpy and full of holes. I'll miss seeing cornfields, cornfields and more cornfields when I look out the window. Indiana roads is something only people who have been to Indiana understand. And I love them!
#3 High School
I only have five days of High School left. And then I'll never return. Ever. Wow. That is what seniors have to deal with but at least they had 4 years of High School and most of them hate it anyways (they don't know how good they have it).. But yeah, even though my school here is, uhm.. let's say unique, I still love it! The friendly relations to the teachers or the easy classes, it's just so different than back in Germany! I will miss going on these (really, REALLY uncomfy) yellow school buses to go on field trips. I'll miss saying the pledge of allegiance before school starts and I'll miss having lunch that doesn't even suck that much. Who would have thought that I would ever say: I'll miss school?!#4 Country Life
When your house is in the middle of cornfields (not even kidding, cornfields on every side of your house!) and the next town is a five minute car ride away from you and all it has is a subway and a dollar general (but at least three churches) then you know you live in the country! Well, that probably doesn't count for everybody but that's how it is here. And I'll tell you, country life comes with its own side effects! For example are people showing up at your house randomly all the times. And I don't mean, they ring the bell (cause we don't even have one!) no they just enter because you don't lock your house anyways :D And you have at least one dog or one cat but mostly a bunch of each. Ever heard of 4-H? Of course, your children are part of it! You want milk for your cereal? Goat milk is available at all times... Want to hang out after church on sunday? Let's meet at your house and shoot some guns. That's how life works for most people here. Oh.. and if you ask: where do you go to school? You most likely get the answer: I'm home schooled!
That is how my life is here. That is what I love so much! The moment when all channels you get in the car are either country or christian music. The moment when you don't have to go to school because of fog. The moment you see road kills every two miles (ore more often). It's all part of it. Oh my, how I'll miss this!!
#5 Free Refills/Water
One thing that I really appreciate about American Restaurants or Fast Food places is that they offer free refills for your pop and you get water for free! In Germany we have to pay for the water, which is really annoying. Here, I always get water with my meal cause its free and I'm not a big fan of pop.
Besides that, pop is so much cheaper here! I don't know if that's a good thing or not, cause people also drink much much more pop here than we do in Germany!
#6 Panda Express, Taco Bell & Co
There are millions of different fast food places here and I'll miss some of them! Like Panda Express, the best fake chinese food I ever had! Or Dairy Queen with the delicious blizzard ice cream, and Taco Bell with, well.. Tacos :D In my ten months here I got to try many of the fast food places and I wished I could take some of them back to Germany!!!
#7 Youth Group
I definitely had the best friends times in Youth group. That is the church meeting for teens on wednesday. I found so many good friends there and every wednesday we have a blast!! I will miss that hang out time so much when I go back to Germany. Nobody understands how close you can grow to people in that one day a week. Also, the special thing is that everybody accepts you the way you are and you can be yourself!!!
#8 A house full of people
I lived in a house with 11 other people for then months. In 4 weeks I'll go back to living with 2 people and being alone a lot of times. It will be different and it will be so weird! Giving up all my amazing siblings for being alone again is probably the hardest thing to do. You guys probably think: 11?! That's just crazy!! And yes, it is crazy, but in the best way! You always have something going on, somebody to talk to and people to help you.
That's all for now. I'll update it if something else comes to my mind. Until that, enjoy your time wherever you are!!
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