Krems,
Lower Austria,
Austria
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Well here i am sitting at my computer after my first two days of school! So ma woke me up at 5:50, very early, yesterday. I got up and looked out my window and i saw the most beautiful sunrise over Traismauer. I got ready and headed down the hill with Clara who took me to school/rode on the bus with me so i wouldnt get lost. So i went into school with Clara and she showed me around a little bit, we went to my classroom and the teacher was there and she called a bunch of the students over and was introducing them to me and calling over more people and it was really embarassing because she just kept talking and looking at me and i would look back at her and then at Clara because i didnt understand and it was just a big fat embarassing ten minutes. After that Clara took me into another room and i sat down and she said that she had to leave to go to Vienna for work. Soon i found out that this room was some type of church and i actaually was put in Mass and so i sat there for an hour and a half totally lost and bored. After this i went to my class where i met some really nice girls who i now sit next to. We only had class for two hours and then i went and got ice cream with Nina one of Mirjams good friends that befriended me and then she took me to the bus station. My bus ride to school is about 40 minutes so i will be watching the breakfast club and juno a lot this year! (those are the movies that i have on my ipod). So today i got up at 5:50 again ate breakfast and ran out the door. As i was walking to my bus station a bus passed me and i was like 'No! Please dont be my bus!!!' fortunatly it wasnt but because i didnt know where my bus says its going i had no way to know. But i did get on the bus and i had to stand for the 40 minutes because all the seats were full. During class i would randomly hear 'Die Holly' so that was a little annoying that i knew they were talking about me but i had know idea what about. Then the teacher said 'Die Holly' and i was like what? and i had to tell about myself and the teacher said i could in english but i did in german because how else am i supposed to get better?! but it was really embarassing because all 28 fluent german speakers were just staring at me and i said that i lived in Phoenix with my mom and dad and that i had three sisters who lived in Minnesota, NYC, and Bolivia. And thats it. It was bad but my nachbar said that it was very good, but i think she was lying to me so i would feel better :P oh well it worked : ) Then we had religion class and i had no idea what was going on so i was just translating some vocab when all the students stood up and stood at random parts in the room and i was just sitting in my seat! The only one still sitting but i had no idea where to go. Then the teacher asked if i was the foreign exchange student and i said yes and she said well my english isnt very good. and i said ok, and then they just played a game or something around me for like 15 minutes. Oh well just another awkward moment in my day. After school i went to the bus station and the bus was so packed like we were litterally more squished than sardines in a can. it was so gross and hot and sweaty so ive decided that im going to go on the bus that leaves a half hour later because there is no way im riding in that again. And i had to stand for the 40 minute bus ride again. Then today after eating lunch i went over to Olivias house and we rode into town with her mom on bikes. We went into a little book store and i was looking for the Harry Potter books in german because i wanted to get one and i found the 5th in hardback for 23,00 euro which is a little steep for me so i asked if they had any paperback HP books and she said that she could order it and it would be hear in 3 days and its like 8 euro so i ordered and ill have it soon so im excited for that because then ill be able to read again! Then we went to Die Spar and i got peanut butter! yummmy : ) its the really small skippy kind for 2 euro but i decided it was well worth it :P after that Olivia and i decided to go running so then we went on an hour run and now my knee really hurts so hopefully its not too sore in the morning. My friend Nina wants me to take ballroom dancing lessons with her, she said it was 88 euro for 10 lessons which are an hour and a half so i think im going to do it cause we have a ball in november with my school apparently so not much else has happened so far just having fun!
