Conflicts with other students

Hey, 

this theme really bothers me for many school years now, so it's definitely a theme you could refer about living on campus. 

We are over 320 students at EF New York right now and of course there will occur conflicts some times, especially because we're all from different countries with different cultures and behaviors.

Relating to that and to the fear of blaming yourself, you first of all search people, who are in the same situation and who actually might understand you, so you gonna form groups with other people of your country.

The people of your country are actually those, who might help you to settle in and feel comfortable on campus. They are the ones who beware you of getting homesick, because there actually a part of your home or home country. 

So worst thing to happen is, when those people knife you, when they let you feel redundant and show off that they wish nothing else than you beeing thousand miles away. 

Actually this might happen to a lot of you, so I'll give you some tips how to handle that.

1) Don't give a shit on someone's opinion about you, 'cause you're awesome! 

2) Don't involve other students, it's a thing to handle between you and your hater. 

3) If you feel like talking with the hater do it, otherwise let it.

4) If you have the feeling that the conflict might escalate in front of other students, try to get out of the situation without running away. 

5) Don't be the haters hater! That would be an awkward situation ending in a fight. 

6) Keep calm and talk to your besties at home! 

See u. 

P.S. I wish you Never get into a bitch fight like that. 

P.P.S. I might blunder into a bitch fight right now 😒

Suitcase arrived ✌️

Hey, 

Im so happy that my suitcase finally arrived today. Even If it arrived around Lunch there was enough time to get ready for the welcome tour to New York City. 

The trip was quite nice - we visited the top of the Rock - but we were running around in a large group afterwards, so that I wasn't able to go shopping - hope to have enough time on the weekend! 

Instead of shopping we went out for dinner in NYC, but just to McDonalds, because some of us need to save money. 

We received our language levels in the evening and not everybody feels placed right, which caused confusion afterwards. Some students think to be better and others are scared to be the worst student in class. I myself am placed in B2.3, which is okay for some one who just had English at school. Another German girl is placed in C1.3, which is nearly the level of native speakers (C2). 

Tomorrow will be the first day with classes, so I'm really curios. 

A smidgen of hope

Hey, 

My suitcase landed at JFK in the morning, which is awesome, relating to my leck of frech clothes right now, but It hadn't reached me yet -.- 

I was told that it should have been delivered today and even If the day isn't over yet I'm a little concerned that the Airline just told me that to prevent me from buying clothes on their costs, which actually would be my right! 

I hope that It will be delivered tomorrow in the morning, because I gonna participate the welcome tour to NYC tomorrow and I don't want to be the disgusting one wearing the same stuff for 3 days...

If not, I'll go shopping on the costs of the airline in the city to feel more comfortable and to take a little revenge on them for loosing my suitcase! 

The rest of the Day wasn't that exciting, we just had the registration and a short welcoming drink before we went to the Center of Tarrytown to buy some water. Later in we just sat together outside and shared our first impressions. 

See u. 

Arrival

Hey,

I finally arrived happy and quite tired at JFK 5 hours ago - at first. 

I just jumped out of the plane when the first surprise hit me truly unexpected! 

Even If my suitcase was checked trough JFK and even If I asked the Ground-Stewardess to check If it's on the plane, It finally stayed in London :/ 

Referring to this I just got another Hoodie and a huge scarf for tomorrow and It's supposed to get quite hot in New York -.-

The next surprise hit me at the take off. We got promised to be caught up at JFK in between 30 minutes which went well, but then we needed to drive to LaGuardia to take of another student, which didn't seem to be a problem neither, If that didn't take up to an hour -.- 

The arrival in Tarrytown was unspectacular except we needed to take our Student Photos immediately without getting fresh, so my photo show me with oily hair and no make up on -.- 

Afterwards we were guided to our dorms, where we are supposed to live 6 months, but here comes the surprise which hit me the most - even more than the missing suitcase! 

I'm in an old dorm room with nearly broken, wooden beds - yep, as expected  I'm the only on in the loft bed - flicked walls, a strange kind of a dresser and the worst at last: The bath is shared by 7 people and looks like it! Disgusting! There are hairs and shampoo spots everywhere, and you can't lock it! 

And if this wouldn't be enough: The shower is broken! I had to rest in a knee bend to take a shower, because the shower head nearly dropped out of the wall! Referring to that the bathrooms turns out to be a pool after showering -.-

Can it get any worse? 

Greets 

Anni

Info meeting

Last Saturday I participated an info meeting of the EF Education First organisation.

The meeting took 3 hours and was supposed to solve the students last questions, but to be honest I didn't solve any of my questions at all.
The given answers where short and completly indepent of the location the student will travel through.
If someone asked a location specific question the answers where like " I'm not able to help you at that, because It's location specific " Ähhh, yeees...

The only part of the meeting, which might have been helpfull was supposed for the parents. They should have learned how to handle the fact that their kids are in the USA for up to 11 months.
My mother, who actually went crazy as we paid the bill, wasn't at the meeting, so the parents meeting wasn't even helpfull for her.

Preparation

From now on I've got 30 days to prepare my trip. 

And there is a lot to do! 

First of all I need new luggage, to carry my stuff to New York and of course I need to prepare myself for the class placement test! Hope that this test isn't to hard 😁

Then I need to buy some other stuff like shoes and clothes, because I don't own as much winter clothing due to the German winters. 

When I searched for new luggage I also searched for tips and videos how to pack clothes for sixx months, especially videos about packing much winter clothing are rare. 

I thought about filming a video when I pack my suitcase, but I'm not sure yet.

Design

As you might see: I redesigned this blog 😄 But I actually don't like it 😪 

Definitely need to work on my Blogdesign-Skills till my flight! 

Received my visa today and realised: It's nearly just a month 😍 Could I be happier?