17:57 22-01-2004 second part of my story!! :-)
hi!!
today i basically have no time, i should learn for a geography exam but i really don´t want to, so i sat down and translated the second part for you which is a little longer!!!
about my day i can tell you that i studied really hard yesterday for an exam in german which was going to be today and i really tried hard and today in the morning our teacher went in, saw our pages from which we were studying and said: "sorry i really forgot to write the test!" my first reaction was like: cool, i don´t have to do it but then it was like: what did i study for, i could have studied for geography because i need a good grade there, this woman is wasting my time!!
well ok, i´ll stop complaining about really nothing, there are more important things in life than some stupid tests, for example my birthday!!
today i´ll go to my training, working for the belt exam next tuesday and try to relax a little!!
so here´s the story, enjoy reading it!!
"The flights were rather cheap, because we used the czech airlines, but that was nothing to worry about, at least we didn´t and our parents were perfectly happy as well, because they had to pay the trip.
My dad and i were the first at the airport, so we looked for the meeting point and waited for the others. The airport of vienna´s not a big one but for me it was bigger than any other i had seen because i´ve been sitting in a plane only once and i couldn´t remember how the airport had looked back then.
One after the others, Hanni, Schuh, Nadine, Agnes, Gerald, Katharina and her mother arrived and our parents started to talk to each other and we started to wonder, where our teacher was. But finally she was on time and so it was time to say goodbye to our parents and for Nadine and Katharina also to their boyfriends and we went to check in.
We all hoped that our suitcases were not too heavy, otherwise we would have had to pay but noone went above the limit. Our teacher asked the lady at the check in to give us seats next to each other, because we were the first one at there, but somehow she didn´t understand what we wanted and when we looked at the boarding tickets we found out that we were scattered all over the place in the plane. we didn´t like it very much but it was not so much of a problem anyway because from vienna to prague it takes you not even an hour.
The next thing was to look for the right gate and how to get there but first we had to pass the safety check, also no problem and the passport control. After we had found our gate our teacher gave us some time to look at all the shop which were around. They were so expensive that we didn´t even go there, we just sat down together at the floor, after Agnes had bought a much too expensive sandwich we she didn´t even like and looked at the crowd of people which were around. Some looked like they have been waiting for their flight for like two or three days, some lay on the chairs and slept or did something else.
At the time on which we and our teacher had agreed we were back to where we should meet and got ready for the flight. We took our tickets and sat down in the waiting hall and discussed who will be with whom in the apartment in prague. We decided that i will share one with Agnes and Hanni, Katharina would be with her mother and out teacher and Schuh, Nadine and Gerald should get the third one.
Finally the stewardess came to call for the passengers to check in and we all got a little nervous, because here the adventure really began.
On after the other we went through the glass door and entered the bus which should bring us to the plane. We sat down, switched our mobiles off, Nadine´s was a little broken and she had to try hard to switch it off but it´d be much harder to switch it on again, waited for the other passengers and started to talk about unimportant stuff.
While the bus was driving through all the planes we looked for the czech ones and tried to figure out which one was ours. Suddenly Gerald saw a little one, with props and more as a joke that this was our plane. The more we were shocked when the bus finally stopped in front of this plane. (There´s a great german word to describe it it´s Fetzenbomber, but i can´t translate it, it´s slang). Katharina´s first comment was that we´ll all die and the comments of some of the others were not better. I didn´t care because at my first flight the plane was just the same size and i tried to calm them down, but somhow it didn´t work.
The plane inside was divided into business and economy class but there wasn´t really a difference. My seat was right next to the prop and i kind of liked that, the others did not. Nadine and Schuh were sitting in front of me, the rest of us was somewhere else in the plane. "
today i basically have no time, i should learn for a geography exam but i really don´t want to, so i sat down and translated the second part for you which is a little longer!!!
about my day i can tell you that i studied really hard yesterday for an exam in german which was going to be today and i really tried hard and today in the morning our teacher went in, saw our pages from which we were studying and said: "sorry i really forgot to write the test!" my first reaction was like: cool, i don´t have to do it but then it was like: what did i study for, i could have studied for geography because i need a good grade there, this woman is wasting my time!!
well ok, i´ll stop complaining about really nothing, there are more important things in life than some stupid tests, for example my birthday!!
today i´ll go to my training, working for the belt exam next tuesday and try to relax a little!!
so here´s the story, enjoy reading it!!
"The flights were rather cheap, because we used the czech airlines, but that was nothing to worry about, at least we didn´t and our parents were perfectly happy as well, because they had to pay the trip.
My dad and i were the first at the airport, so we looked for the meeting point and waited for the others. The airport of vienna´s not a big one but for me it was bigger than any other i had seen because i´ve been sitting in a plane only once and i couldn´t remember how the airport had looked back then.
One after the others, Hanni, Schuh, Nadine, Agnes, Gerald, Katharina and her mother arrived and our parents started to talk to each other and we started to wonder, where our teacher was. But finally she was on time and so it was time to say goodbye to our parents and for Nadine and Katharina also to their boyfriends and we went to check in.
We all hoped that our suitcases were not too heavy, otherwise we would have had to pay but noone went above the limit. Our teacher asked the lady at the check in to give us seats next to each other, because we were the first one at there, but somehow she didn´t understand what we wanted and when we looked at the boarding tickets we found out that we were scattered all over the place in the plane. we didn´t like it very much but it was not so much of a problem anyway because from vienna to prague it takes you not even an hour.
The next thing was to look for the right gate and how to get there but first we had to pass the safety check, also no problem and the passport control. After we had found our gate our teacher gave us some time to look at all the shop which were around. They were so expensive that we didn´t even go there, we just sat down together at the floor, after Agnes had bought a much too expensive sandwich we she didn´t even like and looked at the crowd of people which were around. Some looked like they have been waiting for their flight for like two or three days, some lay on the chairs and slept or did something else.
At the time on which we and our teacher had agreed we were back to where we should meet and got ready for the flight. We took our tickets and sat down in the waiting hall and discussed who will be with whom in the apartment in prague. We decided that i will share one with Agnes and Hanni, Katharina would be with her mother and out teacher and Schuh, Nadine and Gerald should get the third one.
Finally the stewardess came to call for the passengers to check in and we all got a little nervous, because here the adventure really began.
On after the other we went through the glass door and entered the bus which should bring us to the plane. We sat down, switched our mobiles off, Nadine´s was a little broken and she had to try hard to switch it off but it´d be much harder to switch it on again, waited for the other passengers and started to talk about unimportant stuff.
While the bus was driving through all the planes we looked for the czech ones and tried to figure out which one was ours. Suddenly Gerald saw a little one, with props and more as a joke that this was our plane. The more we were shocked when the bus finally stopped in front of this plane. (There´s a great german word to describe it it´s Fetzenbomber, but i can´t translate it, it´s slang). Katharina´s first comment was that we´ll all die and the comments of some of the others were not better. I didn´t care because at my first flight the plane was just the same size and i tried to calm them down, but somhow it didn´t work.
The plane inside was divided into business and economy class but there wasn´t really a difference. My seat was right next to the prop and i kind of liked that, the others did not. Nadine and Schuh were sitting in front of me, the rest of us was somewhere else in the plane. "
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00:51 23-01-2004
Thanx for the continuation of the story. I'll be waiting for the next part.
Good luck on your geography exam!
Good luck on your geography exam!
00:52 23-01-2004
Oh, by the way, where did you live before you went to Russia? It's kinda unclear to me.
09:06 24-01-2004
On little thing: let's talk here, not in my journal. On this site, in comments people ususally talk about the post above. And our conversation has nothing to do with my journal. So let's keep it here, ok?
I love Moscow, too. I've lived there for a long time. The thing is, I am from Russia. My parents brought me to the US when I was 15. Now I live here, so I know English.
I saw your journal on liverjournals.com - it says you are 10. Are you? You seem to be really mature. You don't have to answer that if you don't want to ^_^
Anyway, I'd like to know more about the time you spent in Moscow and about your life at home.
I love Moscow, too. I've lived there for a long time. The thing is, I am from Russia. My parents brought me to the US when I was 15. Now I live here, so I know English.
I saw your journal on liverjournals.com - it says you are 10. Are you? You seem to be really mature. You don't have to answer that if you don't want to ^_^
Anyway, I'd like to know more about the time you spent in Moscow and about your life at home.
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21:20 24-01-2004
Ноккиwow, that must have been a radical change at the age of 15, from russia to america!!! how old are u now?? there´s nothing about that in your profile!!
no, i´m not 10. i´m 17, probably i did something wrong at the registration, i don´t know, i had to use the dictionary to register, it was not so easy.
my time in moscow was really cool, you know. as you already know, we went there because of an exchange. our russian teacher organised that because she does these exchanges for a long time and she´s got friends in moscow. so she decided to do an exchange with us. we were not really happy because how can you talk to a person your age when you´ve had russian for 2 and a half years?? well basically i didn´t care, but i for myself decided to speak english with them if i didn´t understand enough to talk in russian but the others didn´t really want to.
however, she convinced us and the closer it came the more we were looking forward to it and because we were in russia we also went to st. petersburg for 2 days.
my first impression of russia was not so good, because the first thing we saw was that dark airport and the flooded toilets there and the strict woman at the passport control who looked at us as if we were criminals!! and the next thing was the highway, it was just a big grey thing and no marks on it, you could drive where you wanted and there was one broken car in the middle of that highway, but it seemed the driver just didn´t care.
you know there were really so many things that shocked us (i was sitting in the car with two other girls and the father of one of the guest families drove it), maybe because we were just not used to them and it went like that until we reached the school where we met the exchange students. everything was so new and unusual because we had never seen houses and streets like that in austria and at some points i was like:"please let´s go back home, i think i´m in the wrong movie" and the thing that really shocked us, were the toilets. the first thing was that we couldn´t find out whether it was for girls or for boys, so we all went in. we just wanted to have another 2 minutes before meeting the exchange students to concentrate and cool down, but that was not really possible, because the toilets had no doors and there was a big window, so everybody could see you and we all went like:" ok, it´s not so urgent, we won´t go to the toilet there"
the first meeting with them was also not really the thing, we had expected. some of them were not even there and at first after all the official talking of the teachers and the parents our group was sitting on the one side of the table and the russians sat on the other side and noone knew what to talk about, but in the end i found some things to talk about with nikolaij (he was my exchange partner) i didn´t even talk a single word in russian because he knew english very well and so it was easier anyway.
in the early evening we went home, thank god they only lived on the second floor, some others of my group lived on the 20th floor.
around 11 o´clock in the evening they asked me what i wanted to do and my first reaction was:" i want to go to bed, i´m tired" the funny thing was that it was not really dark so they offered me to go to the inner city to look at it by night and we came home around one o´clock in the morning and on the next morning we went there again.
the longer the week lasted the closer we got to them and on our free day, the 9th of may, we went like the rest of moscow, to a park in the south and had a little party with a lot of alcohol (we had to hide it from the police) and a lot of fun.
when we had to get back to austria it was not so horrible because we knew that we´d meet them,except one or two, again in a month but when they went back to russia it was probably the most horrible day in my whole life and we all cried a lot!!
but we´re all still in contact and two of them will come in february and my sister and i will go to the alps and have a great week!! i´m really looking forward to that very very much!!
my life at home is not so interesting. my sister and i still go to school, my fathers not vey often at home, because of his girlfriend, but anyway it got better in the last few weeks and my grandparents spend 3 days with us every week.
tell me a little bit about your life in new york!! it must be much more exciting than mine!!
ok, i think i´ll stop now!!
love
sunnygirl
no, i´m not 10. i´m 17, probably i did something wrong at the registration, i don´t know, i had to use the dictionary to register, it was not so easy.
my time in moscow was really cool, you know. as you already know, we went there because of an exchange. our russian teacher organised that because she does these exchanges for a long time and she´s got friends in moscow. so she decided to do an exchange with us. we were not really happy because how can you talk to a person your age when you´ve had russian for 2 and a half years?? well basically i didn´t care, but i for myself decided to speak english with them if i didn´t understand enough to talk in russian but the others didn´t really want to.
however, she convinced us and the closer it came the more we were looking forward to it and because we were in russia we also went to st. petersburg for 2 days.
my first impression of russia was not so good, because the first thing we saw was that dark airport and the flooded toilets there and the strict woman at the passport control who looked at us as if we were criminals!! and the next thing was the highway, it was just a big grey thing and no marks on it, you could drive where you wanted and there was one broken car in the middle of that highway, but it seemed the driver just didn´t care.
you know there were really so many things that shocked us (i was sitting in the car with two other girls and the father of one of the guest families drove it), maybe because we were just not used to them and it went like that until we reached the school where we met the exchange students. everything was so new and unusual because we had never seen houses and streets like that in austria and at some points i was like:"please let´s go back home, i think i´m in the wrong movie" and the thing that really shocked us, were the toilets. the first thing was that we couldn´t find out whether it was for girls or for boys, so we all went in. we just wanted to have another 2 minutes before meeting the exchange students to concentrate and cool down, but that was not really possible, because the toilets had no doors and there was a big window, so everybody could see you and we all went like:" ok, it´s not so urgent, we won´t go to the toilet there"
the first meeting with them was also not really the thing, we had expected. some of them were not even there and at first after all the official talking of the teachers and the parents our group was sitting on the one side of the table and the russians sat on the other side and noone knew what to talk about, but in the end i found some things to talk about with nikolaij (he was my exchange partner) i didn´t even talk a single word in russian because he knew english very well and so it was easier anyway.
in the early evening we went home, thank god they only lived on the second floor, some others of my group lived on the 20th floor.
around 11 o´clock in the evening they asked me what i wanted to do and my first reaction was:" i want to go to bed, i´m tired" the funny thing was that it was not really dark so they offered me to go to the inner city to look at it by night and we came home around one o´clock in the morning and on the next morning we went there again.
the longer the week lasted the closer we got to them and on our free day, the 9th of may, we went like the rest of moscow, to a park in the south and had a little party with a lot of alcohol (we had to hide it from the police) and a lot of fun.
when we had to get back to austria it was not so horrible because we knew that we´d meet them,except one or two, again in a month but when they went back to russia it was probably the most horrible day in my whole life and we all cried a lot!!
but we´re all still in contact and two of them will come in february and my sister and i will go to the alps and have a great week!! i´m really looking forward to that very very much!!
my life at home is not so interesting. my sister and i still go to school, my fathers not vey often at home, because of his girlfriend, but anyway it got better in the last few weeks and my grandparents spend 3 days with us every week.
tell me a little bit about your life in new york!! it must be much more exciting than mine!!
ok, i think i´ll stop now!!
love
sunnygirl
21:49 24-01-2004
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îòðåäàêòèðîâàíî: 24-01-2004 21:49 - mazuta
09:01 25-01-2004
Sunnygirl
Yeah, the change was pretty radical, I guess. I got used to America quickly cuz it's easy to get used to good things like smooth roads and clean toilets.
It doesn't really matter how old I am as long as we've got something to talk about. I'm older than 15 and younger than 25. I prefer not to disclose info about my real age cuz it's not important. It doesn't change who I am, right?
Your first impression of Russia is common. Moscow is not the cleanest city in the world but people are nice (most of them anyway ^_^) and there is always fun stuff to do.
My life is not that interesting since I have to live it every day. I don't want to discuss it here, but if you are interested we can talk through e-mail. Here is my adress.
Yeah, the change was pretty radical, I guess. I got used to America quickly cuz it's easy to get used to good things like smooth roads and clean toilets.
It doesn't really matter how old I am as long as we've got something to talk about. I'm older than 15 and younger than 25. I prefer not to disclose info about my real age cuz it's not important. It doesn't change who I am, right?
Your first impression of Russia is common. Moscow is not the cleanest city in the world but people are nice (most of them anyway ^_^) and there is always fun stuff to do.
My life is not that interesting since I have to live it every day. I don't want to discuss it here, but if you are interested we can talk through e-mail. Here is my adress.