lørdag 17. januar 2009
It's cold, record cold
Friday January 16th was officially the coldest day in the ohio area in 16 years. With the air temperature stuck at -23 degrees farenheit (-32 grader celcius). That was NOT the windshield. There was no school due to abvious reasons. 60% of the schools students would likely freeze to death. It was so cold that you could take a glass of warm water, throw it up in the air, and it was ice when it hit the ground. Now thats cold. Too cold.
torsdag 15. januar 2009
MLB the Show
For de av dere som lurer paa hva jeg bruker den lille fritiden jeg har innimellom, saa kan jeg betrygge dere om at jeg ikke har glemt kunsten med tv spill og gaming konsoller. Jeg har nemmelig de siste 3 maanedene spilt MLB the Show 08 gaske saa hardt. Er forØvelig i sesongen 2011, som er min fjerde sesong. Det virker kansje ikke saa imponerende, men i en sesong er det 162 kamper. Skal ikke si at jeg har spilt alle kampene selv, men det har blitt en del av de.
Ellers vil jeg si at det er et helt fantastisk spill som kan minne veldig om en blanding mellom Fifa og fotball manager, bare baseball style. Helt overlegent!
Half way
I am now half way in my american life, and are therefore going to write about what I have seen and experienced so far when if comes to whats alike and whats very different from USA and Norway.
- There are fastfood chains everywhere, and they are not only there for the view, but people eat there. A lot!
- The beds only have a thin cotton sheet, nothing thick. If you are cold, you grab one more.
- There is no such thing that makes your clothes silky smooth when you wash them.
- Americans never eat healthy breakfast. Common choises are wafles with way too much sirup and a pile of pouder sugar on top, pop-tards (candy like thingy, very unhealthy), beagles, eggs & bacon, and if you are eating a sandwitch, you use white bread only.
- Every family have atleast 3 cars; one truck (which is very rarely used), one cheap car, and one family car. In addition my family have a golf car. Yeah, baby!
- Gas cost 1,75$ a gallon which equal to about 3 kr pr liter, and they conplain all the way.
- Sports and school go hand in hand. You play for your school, not a team.
- The school gets delayed if there are a little snow on the road, or it is too cold. So far we have had 8 delays and 1 canselation.
- The school system are quite poor. You learn very little stuff of significant meaning, and it is almost a free ride to good grades.
- In during the classperiod we take notes off the overhead, or we lisen to the teacher speak about anything. Often not school related at all.
- Even though americans are crazy about cars nobody changes into winter-tires, and as a result, there are cars in every ditch on a snowy day.
- America have Hooters! Gief!
- It is EXTREMELY inpoortant for a teenager to have clothes exclusively from Hollister or
American Eagle. Personally, I don't like eighter of them.
- It cost more money to make you'r own dinner that to eat out. A dubble cheeseburger at McDonald's cost 1$ (5,5 kr).
- About 80% of the people here first thought they spoke english as the main language in whole of europe, including in Norway.
- 15ish% didn't know Norway existed.
- If you are 1 second late for a class - you get a detention.
I'll write some more stuff later on, this was just the first things that came to my mind.
- There are fastfood chains everywhere, and they are not only there for the view, but people eat there. A lot!
- The beds only have a thin cotton sheet, nothing thick. If you are cold, you grab one more.
- There is no such thing that makes your clothes silky smooth when you wash them.
- Americans never eat healthy breakfast. Common choises are wafles with way too much sirup and a pile of pouder sugar on top, pop-tards (candy like thingy, very unhealthy), beagles, eggs & bacon, and if you are eating a sandwitch, you use white bread only.
- Every family have atleast 3 cars; one truck (which is very rarely used), one cheap car, and one family car. In addition my family have a golf car. Yeah, baby!
- Gas cost 1,75$ a gallon which equal to about 3 kr pr liter, and they conplain all the way.
- Sports and school go hand in hand. You play for your school, not a team.
- The school gets delayed if there are a little snow on the road, or it is too cold. So far we have had 8 delays and 1 canselation.
- The school system are quite poor. You learn very little stuff of significant meaning, and it is almost a free ride to good grades.
- In during the classperiod we take notes off the overhead, or we lisen to the teacher speak about anything. Often not school related at all.
- Even though americans are crazy about cars nobody changes into winter-tires, and as a result, there are cars in every ditch on a snowy day.
- America have Hooters! Gief!
- It is EXTREMELY inpoortant for a teenager to have clothes exclusively from Hollister or
American Eagle. Personally, I don't like eighter of them.
- It cost more money to make you'r own dinner that to eat out. A dubble cheeseburger at McDonald's cost 1$ (5,5 kr).
- About 80% of the people here first thought they spoke english as the main language in whole of europe, including in Norway.
- 15ish% didn't know Norway existed.
- If you are 1 second late for a class - you get a detention.
I'll write some more stuff later on, this was just the first things that came to my mind.
torsdag 1. januar 2009
Happy New Year!
I would like to wish everybody a happy new year! I hope you have a wonderfull year to come.
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