OK, so Christmas here is really cool.
They have these things called Chriskindlmarkts all over Vienna. You can buy cool touristy items or cool novelty items, jewelry, scarves, hats, etc. At the one in Schönbrunn, you could buy little shots of different types of alcohol. I saw a table piled about a foot high with them to the entirety of its diameter, about 3 feet. And there were 4 totally wasted people around it. A policeman went and talked to them about the noise, not how much they were drinking. Very interesting place here, haha. You can also buy this stuff called punsch, which is a hot tea, sugar, and juice mixture with rum. I tried it, but I don't like it. Its too sweet, combined with too much alcohol.
Anyway, they celebrate the 4 Sundays before Christmas by lighting 4 candles, one per Sunday. Gabi threw cookie eating parties for two of the 4.
Then Christmas came, and I got my presents from home the day of. Unfortunately, I did not find out until I arrived, because we were banned from the house from the 23 until 5:00 on the 24, when the Christkind was finished decorating and laying out presents. Then we opened all the presents, and ate Christmas dinner.
It was really fun, and I almost cried when I got my presents from home. I have no idea why.
But anyways, belated Merry Christmas everyone!!!
Thursday, December 30, 2010
What's Up Lately.
Hey guys!
Don't kill me, I know its been about two months since my last post, and I'm sorry.
Anyway, the reasons I didn't post:
After Egypt, the fabled homesickness stage set in. That means that the only way to avoid missing home is to go out and get distracted. I spent most of my time out of the house. I cried 3 times in 2 weeks, those of you who know me know that I don't cry and the fact that I did says something. I also cried during school, and Tina (my host sister) and Yasi (her friend/our friend) tried to comfort me. That made me feel really good.
In an attempt to stop the homesickness, we threw a little Thanksgiving party, which was basically a ton of dessert and about 40 turkey sandwiches because my friend Amy (from LA, also on exchange) and I said that there was no way that we would EVER be able to cook a turkey.
Then I got roped in to this performance thingy at a ball. Which requires a white floor length gown. Which apparently costs about €300. Thankfully, Amy said that she has been wanting to sew, so we can make them. Hopefully that works out.
Until Christmas, the last month has basically been sitting through school without understanding anything and going out and window shopping. And maybe hitting a few discos along the way.
I'll do Christmas in another post, but for right now I will explain how I am doing right now.
This is going to sound really weird, but apparently its totally normal for exchange students. I am in the middle of a frustrated, angry stage that started on Monday. Basically I wake up mad and look for anything and everything to blame it on. I was mad at my friends here, my friends in the US, my host family, my college applications, myself, everything. So I punched a few pillows, played violin, but of course I didn't feel better. And it has been this way every day since Monday. I hate myself for it, because I am not the nicest person in the world when I am mad, but it will go away eventually.
I'll do my post about Christmas now.
Don't kill me, I know its been about two months since my last post, and I'm sorry.
Anyway, the reasons I didn't post:
After Egypt, the fabled homesickness stage set in. That means that the only way to avoid missing home is to go out and get distracted. I spent most of my time out of the house. I cried 3 times in 2 weeks, those of you who know me know that I don't cry and the fact that I did says something. I also cried during school, and Tina (my host sister) and Yasi (her friend/our friend) tried to comfort me. That made me feel really good.
In an attempt to stop the homesickness, we threw a little Thanksgiving party, which was basically a ton of dessert and about 40 turkey sandwiches because my friend Amy (from LA, also on exchange) and I said that there was no way that we would EVER be able to cook a turkey.
Then I got roped in to this performance thingy at a ball. Which requires a white floor length gown. Which apparently costs about €300. Thankfully, Amy said that she has been wanting to sew, so we can make them. Hopefully that works out.
Until Christmas, the last month has basically been sitting through school without understanding anything and going out and window shopping. And maybe hitting a few discos along the way.
I'll do Christmas in another post, but for right now I will explain how I am doing right now.
This is going to sound really weird, but apparently its totally normal for exchange students. I am in the middle of a frustrated, angry stage that started on Monday. Basically I wake up mad and look for anything and everything to blame it on. I was mad at my friends here, my friends in the US, my host family, my college applications, myself, everything. So I punched a few pillows, played violin, but of course I didn't feel better. And it has been this way every day since Monday. I hate myself for it, because I am not the nicest person in the world when I am mad, but it will go away eventually.
I'll do my post about Christmas now.
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