What have you learned while taking this course? What did you like? What would you change?

First of all, I have to say goodbye this is my last post on this blog. I really enjoyed this course and I am happy that I get the chance to take this course.

During the last 10 weeks I can proudly say that I learned so many things about so many different cultures, more than I had ever learned in my entire life. I got in contact with so many different students from so many different nations, also I learned a lot things about the American culture. I spent 2 hours in the Elida elementary school and I really enjoy this time with this kids. I am sure that I will never forget this experiences.

I also liked the fact that everyone did a presentation about their own countries and especially for me it was my first presentation in the United States. I was happy that I could do it in this class, because this students have the same problem like me with the language.

Honestly , what I really disliked was the time when the class was scheduled. Every week I struggled to go to this class, but I did it every time. One time I felt the lesson was very monotone, it was when we were talking about the laws in the United States.

This small negative facts can't change anything about my view about the whole class. It was a really nice class. I would take this class any time again.
I also wanted so say that at first I didn't like to write a weekly post in my blog, but during my last blog I noticed how easy it is for me to write a blog. I can remember that I did over 1 hour for my blog. It is nice to see that I did such an improvement.

So I hope all of you were interested in reading my blog. 

Auf Wiedersehen!

My plans for the winter break

Honestly, I can not wait for the winter break this year. The first reason why I am so ready for winter break is that I finished my first quarter of college. The second and main point is that I will travel back to Germany and visit all of my friends and family.

I have so many plans during break. This is the first time in my life that I was gone for such a long time away from my family. I am so excited for the moment at the airport when my mom and my dad will pick me up. Furthermore, when I am in my hometown and I am able to hug my girlfriend and spend a lot of time with her. Also to do things with my best friend Niklas, and my brother Christoph.

During this time here I really noticed how much I miss them and how much they mean to me. I am also happy that I spend with my family and my girlfriends family. I am really excited about that. Moreover, I look forward to a big celebration at the end of the year.
I have so many plans, which I want to do with them all that I can not write them all down.

At the end of my winter break is another highlight, I will fly back to the United States on the 7th of January and 3 days before that I am able to celebrate the birthday with my brother and have a good time with all of them.

 I am also a little bit scared of the last day in Germany because I have to say goodbye to everyone. That will be really hard.

After that I will come back full of energy to the United States and I will be ready to start my second quarter. Also I know that I will be very happy to see all my new friends again which I met here from all over the world.

My family

Friends

 

my girlfriend

What is something that I have learned about myself since I arrived in the U.S. and began college?

My living experience here in America, has been different from what I am used to.
When I was at home I lived with my family my whole life and I never really had much responsibilities,  I never had to cook for myself and wash my clothes.

Since I´ve been living, many things have changed. I can proudly say, that I am a decent cooker. The first days were hard, but now I am used to it and I also have to say that  I like it, whenever I have more freetime I like to try out new things and do cooking experiments. Sometimes I get good results from these cooking experiments.

I have a lot of things that I want to do in the United States, but at the moment I don't have to much freetime, because I am currently playing a tournament with the soccer team. I think I will have more time in spring to do things.
One of my biggest wishes is to watch an NBA game. I am a huge supporter of the LA Clippers and my favorite player is Blake Graffin. Whenever I can, I watch the games. I know that Los Angelos is really far, so It doesn´t really matter if I cant go there, I simply want to watch a professional basketball game.

Another desire I have is to travel within the United States. Before I travel to the United States I though of  a few city's which I definitely want to visit during my time here. I am happy that I could visit one city with my team so far. At the start of our season we flew to New Orleans for 5 days, it was a really nice trip. Here are a few cities which I want to visit: New York, Miami , Washington D.C, Los Angelos, Las Vegas, San Fransisco, Chicago ,and many more.

So I hope that I can reach so many objectives as I can and I also hope that I can improve my cooking skills. I will look forward with optimism and I am very excited to experience my life here in America.

My team and my in New Orleans