Finally switched to my last host family. I keep thinking I only have three more months left like with my other families, and I have a mini heart attack! But then I realize I still have almost five months and that calms me down, a bit.
So my new family, they're great!! I love my host sister, Verena. She is also sixteen, and I have so much fun talking and hanging out with her. She's also really musical, which is awesome. And she's been teaching me guitar, we practice almost everyday in the evenings, and we also learned how to do the cup song from the movie Pitch Perfect! My other host sister, Amilie, is so cute, and she plays the piano! Such a musical family, perfect for me!! We also talk about school and our friends and watch movies together, it's going to be so boring going home and being an only child after my year with, all together, six host sisters!!
My host parents are also really funny. I sometimes have a pretty hard time understanding my host dad, because he speaks with a dialect. Most places in Austria all have different dialects, which makes it really hard for me, who has only learned high German, to understand. Where I live, in the Steiermark, the people have an especially funky dialect. I was really lucky to end up in Graz, which seems to be like a black hole for dialects right in the center of the Steiermark. But you don't have to go far out from the city to find the 'Steirische dialekt,' and not that my family are 'country folk,' so to say, but of my host families have had yet, this one lives the farthest from the city and you can defiantly hear it in the way they talk. But hopefully I will get to learn some cool dialect from him!!
They have a really nice house too. I have a super, awesome, big room all to myself, and with my own bathroom and shower! Score!! compared to my last room which was like a big closet, the fact that I can sprawl out on the floor here, makes me so so happy.
It's a very exciting life here too. On my first weekend they had a birthday party for the grandma and everything was crazy with lots of people making tons of food and video taping everything. They also asked me to play happy birthday on the bassoon! and then next weekend we're going to Vienna for another family birthday party! Busy Busy Busy.
My one problem with them is my host mom wants me to one day a week only talk English. Which I don't want to talk English for a whole day. Anytime I spend talking English put my German back a step. And so now I have the uncomfortable decision of how I going to deal with this.
Besides that one problem I love this family so much!!
Well I'm entering the last big step of this adventure. Saying good bye to one family and Hallo to another. I'm so grateful to the last and everything they did for me. I will always remember my time with them. And I look forward to getting to know this new one and hanging out with my cool host sisters!!
