Happy New Year!!!

So I will be going to Arkansas tomorrow morning with my Host Family, and so I probably won't be able to take my laptop in which case this is the last time I will be posting until the New Year!!! Wow. 2011. Everyone ready?

Happy New Year!!!

Hope it's a good one for everyone out there. 

It's cool though, because forever onwards I will always remember that 2011 is the year that I lived away from home in America! :D

Talk next year buddy!!

[Buddy is my term of endearment for the kids]

Things that are Backwards, and words we don't use so much.

And I shall be adding to this list whenever there is something that needs to be added.

THINGS THAT ARE BACKWARDS:

• The side of the road that you drive on.
• The side of the car that you sit on.
• The side of the steering wheel the flicker [blinker, indicator etc] is on.
• The Light Switches!
• Apparently the way the water in the toilet turns. Disproved by my brother :P
  
• The taps. [Like you turn it the other way to turn the water on... which can get confusing, like when you want to turn the water off quickly, and you turn it so it gets even stronger!!]
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WORDS THAT US AUSSIES DON'T USE SO MUCH:

• Neat [as in 'cool']
• Dinner [never tea]
• Candy
•  What we call chips - they call fries. So if I go to Maccas, if I ask for chips, they'll give me a bag of crispy chips... not the hot chips [fries].
• Same with combo and meal. 
• They don't [for cars] have Gas, and call Petrol 'Gas'.

To be continued.... 

Temp-home Sweet Temp-home

So yeah. Finally arrived in Virginia last night at 11pm. But I need to fill you in a bit for before then.

As most of you will know when I went on the trip to New York City, somehow I lost my wallet. I don't know whether it was stolen, or if I was just a clutz and dropped it. Very possibly the second. But other then that, and losing my glove, and losing my certificate and workbook from the school... It was a pretty good week!

When I got to the airport though... Me and my friend also going to Virginia [who I shall now call 'E']... missed our flight :( :( :(. We totally underestimated the size of JFK and got to the terminal 3 minutes late! We had to wait almost 6 hours for the next flight and had to pay $50.
When we arrived though, E's host dad was there to pick us up at 10pm and was able to drop me off home as planned. [he knows my host-family through Cultural Care].

More things to come. :)

New York!!

So I finally arrived in NY after about 24 hours of flying. It was a long flight with only about 6 or 7 hours of sleep. I arrived in NY at their time 11:00pm, so I was able to have a bit of food before getting a good night's sleep.
I was woken up in the morning by my new room mate who will be going to the same part of Virginia with me on Friday.

I am going to play a board game with a few of the girls now. So I will fill you in more later!! haha