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this new day.
2006-03-02 06:26:01
this new day.
so. as probably most of you know, i'm not in the country for the next half a year. i'm in the u.s. in winnemucca, nevada, on my exchange program.
i'm a junior in albert lowry high school. i'm a junior but most of my classes are with seniors. (i have to underline that i'm writing it actually to remember what was happening here during my stay, so don't even comment:P). i had spanish IV, u.s.government II, personal finance, precalculus, english IV, chemistry honors II, world geography.
spanish IV means the highest level, but, well, what can i say? let's put it in that way: we have it way more detailed. u.s.government - i actually have no idea what i need this class for, but whatever. i'm learning how a bill becomes law, about the presidency, elections and stuff like that. and it's very interesting. not.
personal fifnance is actually kind of nice, since i'm thinking about economy, finance, banking etc. today i was 1st and 2nd in ranking on our class competition:)
precalculus is of course my favourite subject:) but of course, what we do in poland and what we do here are two different things which means, well, we all know what it means. another subject to take final test on:/
but still. i like it.
english is interesting in its different way too. we're reading hamlet right now (i like it) and the teacher is nice. during the first 15 minutes we normally read a book (chosen by ourselves, i assume it's because here they don't really like to read books, so they have to do something to make 'em do it - and we kind of get grades for it too:P).
chwemistry is kind of a review of what've done during gymnasium and high school in poland, only more detailed, so...
world geography is the most boring subject ever. i just don't know what's wrong with this subject's teachers. everywhere it's boring boring boring (take dj gosciej!!!).but yeah. nice.
i arrived here on 20nd January, i suppose. in chicago. it's an amazing city by the way, but i think too big for me and too overwhelming. on 22nd January i arrived first in las vegas and then in reno and then i met my host family at the airport and they took me home in winnemucca (3 h driving). host mom is great - very funny, very loud, very american. i kind of talk to and with her the most of my time at home (weird, but whatever). my host father is nice too, but i only see him on weekends because he lives on their farm which is in orovada and we go there almost every weekend. my younger host sister is nice too but sometimes acts like if she was the most important person in the world and others are just her servants. my elder host sister is insoportable. i just don't get on well with her, we're not on the same tune. it's kind of humiliating, but i must say i sometimes feel like if i were something worse than the most awful spider or other kind of a bug when she's looking at me casting her despiseful looks.
i made a lot of effort to talk to her, to make her laugh, generally to do something to change the situation, but she seems unwilling. her 'i don't care''s're makin' me crazy. we like talked maybe twice for 3 minutes and once (the first night) for nearly an hour and it was nice, but now she's just mean. mean. and nothing more. so i decided to ignore her. actually some people at school told me she's bitchy and looks down on everybody. well, go on, i just don't pay attention anymore. it's kind of weir every morning when we're sitting at the table waiting for our friend to give us a ride to school and neither of us says anything. actually, everytime in the morning when i take yougurt or anything else to eat she is like 'i don't think you have time for that'. i'm sick and tired of all her commentaries. so i told her the other day 'stop telling me i don't have time if i do and even if she arrives and i'm not finished i'll leave it here and eat it later!'
in winnemucca i have my room and my younger host sister has her clothes here too. it's pretty comfortable, but i'm cold in here because they turn off the heating at about 7p.m. 'till 6a.m. actually my host mom gets up at 4-5a.m. but they all go to sleep at 7-8p.m. i even myself started going to bed at 10p.m. because i don't have anything to do - i mean i don't want to disturb them with the tv, no one is online and how many books can you read?
i hate it here that i have loads of homework. i don't even understand what is the purpose of copying the sentences from the book to your worksheet besides maybe supporting ink companies or something.
the books are horribly heavy. and because i get so much homework i have to take them home which means i can't leave them in my locker which means i don't like it. it's heavy. very heavy.
at school is kind of difficult to determine who your friends are because there is so many people and everyone is different in other classes. i don;t even recognize half of them. from the face. not to mention their names. i normally eat lunch with areli and eric and one more girl but still it's kind of weird. i prefer our long breaks:(
okay, i know i sound miserable and everything. it;s not that i don;t like i there, i;m just in the mood for throwing it all away from me. that's all. there is really a lot of positive aspects of me being here. i mean a really bunch of them.
:)
for example i met my host mother's parents who are very very nice. last weekend we went (me, my host mother, two sisters and my host mother's mom) to las vegas to see celine dion's show. i must say it was really awesome. she sings better live than on the cds. the show was amazing, they really know how to dance^^
i saw a lot of places, actually i have to say that las vegas is the most plastic and not real city i've ever seen. i mean. there is the eiffet tower, the empire state building, the venetian where you can take a ride in gondola, the madame touisand museum, the berlin's tower, and of course a lot of shopping malls. i kind of spent a lot of money, and better not tell my parents how much^^ i just told them to send some more^^ my camera doesn't work. ehh, ki asked a lot of people, including specialists and my parents, but it still does not work. i just do not know what to do. i still have some pictures from vegas because the girls had their cameras. and my host mom bought me a dispodable camera. for 0 - how is it possible it costs so much here?!
in vegas we were also on this berlin's tower where there are three exscream things. i went on the big shot that kind of fired you up very fast so that you couldn't see you were actually sitiing somewhere nd you could only see the whole las vegas. and nothing more. you didn't even feel like if you were sitting. it was exciting i must admit. and i was in a skirt. that must have been interesting as well i suppose. oh, i forgot to tell. it was extremely high. it is the highest this type of extreme thing in the world as long as it is on the top of this tower. 350 feet or something i don't really remeber. neither do i care. for me it was just VERY high and i kind of could feel my legs trembling as i was climbing the stairs to do this thingy. we also had a meal there and what is interesting about the restaurant is that it is in constant movement. it makes circles so that you can see the whole city. :)
we also went to the new york new york hotel/casion to tak a ride on the biggest rollercoater i've ever seen. as we got there (we walked pretty long way because my host mom wanted to show us hotels on the street we were walking on), chloe said she didn't feel like going on this rollercoaster. i thought i missunderstood something as it was the only reason we came here and she realized it only as we got there. geez. wahtever. i talked her into it (feeling very humiliating too) and actually we went twice because she liked it so much. i liked even more! i kind of loved when our first ride started and we started climbing the rail. for 30 second and you could actually feel like if you were lying on your back. after the first 20 seconds chloe just told me ' you see? i told you' with such a voice as if i just lost a bet or something. z wyrzutem too:P
as we climbed our way up, we only had a glance at the sign saying CAUTION and showing a man fallind down and the fun started and it was awesome, and fast, and dangerous and everything. and very very long.:)
today i just came back from reno where i was to see alejandra dandes dancer's club or something like that. it was nice, bt not as i expected. but i met several new people in the bus (6 hours makes a difference:P), we watched eurotrip:P:P:P
i guess i will go to sleep. it's only 9:30p.m. but...maybe i will read something.
i miss the world i left by.
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