Packing my bag:
What you need:
- clothes. Many clothes. Pack as many as you can put in your bag. You need it because you don´t know when you have time to go shopping and to wear the same things every week again...no. I think nobody likes that.
- your own shampoo. As I said you don´t know when you have time to go shopping so it´s better to pack shampoo.
- if you have any Allergies -> bring your Medication that you use in Germany.
- presents for your host family. Make sure that you don´t buy to much. Remember: You have a weight limit for your bag. Buy some little and not so expensive things from your area. If your not sure what you can buy you can ask your host family what they like or buy something for there hobby (you can read the hobby´s in the documents that you get when you have your family).
- charger for your phone/Laptop/camera/etc.
- your phone/Laptop (first ask your host family if your allowed to bring your own laptop)/camera
- other Hygiene products like your toothbrush, Body lotion, any cremes that you use in Germany too (make sure that it´s not to much) and girls: Bring things for THIS week!!!
- Maybe some pictures from your family and your friends
- Credit Card (you can pay every smallest thing with a credit card. Shopping= Credit Card, Bakery= Credit Card. Bring money in cash too but at most you use your credit card. It´s really weird.)
What you NOT need:
- definitely not a hairdryer. If you think you really need one than you can bring one but I don´t use my hairdryer here in Amerika.
- towels. I´m allowed to use the towels from my Host family and i think you don´t have to bring it too.
- a case for your pillow/blanket. You get it from your host family.
My flight:
At the last evening in Germany my best friend and I made a sleepover because she wants to bring me to the airport. We packed my bag at the last day and we went to a restaurant with my grandma to say goodbye. After that we made a little ´goodbye-tour´. We went to my other grandma. My aunt,my uncle and my little cousin were there too. We said goodbye to them and talked a little bit about America. And then I went to my other best friend. That was so sad because she want to come to my house after her work but she was to tiered and her train has failed so she was home later than it already is. So I rang at her doorbell and run up the stairs into her arms and hug her. I didn´t tell her that I was coming. It was spontaneously and so I surprised her. If she realized that I was there to say goodbye to her she start crying. I tried to calm her down but she still cried and smiled because she was so happy. She gave me one of her pullover that she got in London and it smells like her. She said it´s that i don´t forget her. After that we visit my other aunt and than we went back home. My best friend and i watched a movie and than we slept on the sofa. We had to get up very early. My flight was at 8 a.m so we had to be at the airport one hour before the flight start. I was very nervous and I didn´t realized that I really go away from home for ten moths. I wouldn´t see my family and my friends during this month. I wouldn´t be able to hug them or to talk to them personally. But I didn´t realized that. After we checked in we went to Starbucks and drank Coffee (I drank something else. I don´t like coffee.) Than it was time to say goodbye and go to my plain. I didn´t cry. It didn´t feel like that I wouldn´t see them for ten months. When I sat in the plain i was so happy that i got a place on the window. Now it was time to say goodbye Dussledorf.
After the immigration (they just ask you a few questions and that´s it. You really don´t have to be scared. They ask you something like: ,,Why are you here?" ,,How long are you staying in the US?" ,,Where you gonna stay?" and something like this so it´s really not bad.) i met my family. I saw my younger host sister for the first time and she´s really cute. I really like her because she´s like my best friends and my sister together. I like that. They were waiting with a poster that says ´Welcome at home Anne´. That was so nice and cute.
Then we went home. We stopped to eat Pizza because I was really hungry (Thank you for the Pizza dad :) ). When we arrived at home i met my host mother. She stayed at home to cook. They showed me my room and I really like it. I mean i have a waterbed. Thats so cool. After dinner they gave me a birthday cake because I went to america three days after my 17th Birthday. On this day we didn´t ate the cake. I just blow out the candles and than I went to bed.
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Dusseldorf/Germany |
At 9 a.m i arrived in Frankfurt. I had to stay three hours. I bought food, listend to music, went to the bathroom. And than it was 12 o´clock and time to go to my next flight. From Frankfurt to Boston. Now I really had to say: ,,Goodbye Germany." The flight was very long and very boring. I listend to music, ate the plain food (it´s really disgusting), and I slept. It was very funny that it didn´t get dark. The sun was still shining when I arrived. And the wether started to get better and better. At two p.m (american time. In Germany was eight p.m so my flight was eight hours long) i arrived in Boston. I was so tiered but I couldn´t wait to see my host family again and to see there house. I could´t wait to see Boston too. I saw Boston during the Landing and the skyscrapers was so amazing. I just saw cities like Boston in movies or on pictures on Instagram. And now I saw it in real live. That was so awesome.
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Boston/MA |
Me arriving at the airport |
Then we went home. We stopped to eat Pizza because I was really hungry (Thank you for the Pizza dad :) ). When we arrived at home i met my host mother. She stayed at home to cook. They showed me my room and I really like it. I mean i have a waterbed. Thats so cool. After dinner they gave me a birthday cake because I went to america three days after my 17th Birthday. On this day we didn´t ate the cake. I just blow out the candles and than I went to bed.
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