everyday life 
4 Comments An american invention!
Sometimes when my mom has a really creative day, and she has those a lot, she has sometimes brilliant ideas. It is really hot this days, up to a 100° F and studying in my room isn’t really a pleasure without the good old ceiling fan. I just loved it. Even tho the one in my room in the USA was broken the whole year. But I mean we had one in every room, so I had the experience. At the moment I am missing the simple things from the US like the ceiling fan, the cutting thing in the sink garbage disposal or the ice cube maker (I miss the ice cubes a lot…).
So today I come home after school just thinking about how nice it would be to have a ceiling fan and then my mom sits in the living room with this awesome “ceiling fan lamp”! Awesome! Finally the american invention made it to Europe. It was about time. We installed it and now I am sitting in my room and the fan blows fresh air in my face, what a nice feeling. I feel more American now.
Else wise I am doing good. The jet lag is over. I am getting more and more used of Switzerland again and I started practicing basketball. But still I feel like half of my soul is still in the US. When I walked through the city I meet very familiar faces. On the first sight I think it is someone who I know from Chicago, but then I see it is someone else. Gladly I could find this out before I said: “dude what are you doing in Switzerland?” or something embarrassing like that. But I am glad that sometimes I really meet some faces which look familiar and I actually know them. And so I am meeting up with a lot of old friends at the moment.
So the trains are still rolling and I am working on getting back to Switzerland, but I think part of me will always be in Rolling Meadows.
Greetings to everybody back in the suburb of Chicago
hehe garbage disposal! good to know
I had to learn it the hard way that we don’t have one. It was mess!
And no, we are using steam engines at the moment not electricity. We just learned how the steam engine works. I even had to write a little essay in english about it.
Would be awesome if you guys would already come over in January. pretzels and Lift are ready!
Tomorrow I have my first test again. One year without any math class wasn’t a good idea. Let’s see how it goes.
Ok, so the fan never worked. I guess I was too lazy to fix it. Now that we are selling the house, I still have not fixed it. The thing in the sink is called a “garbage disposal”. They don’t have those in Switzerland? Do you have electricity over there yet or does everything still run on batteries?
You are missed very much. The only thing that doesn’t miss you is Izzy because she get’s all the left over food now and doesn’t have you to tease her with the ice cubes. Oh yea, the other thing that misses you is Costco. I got a phone call from them the other day wanting to know why I am spending so little money with them these days. Mom and I are talking about coming to Germany in January for the Willow leadership conference. It depends on if and when the house sells and stuff, but if we come, we will most definitly take the take to Basal and come see you guy’s. Besides, I will need to get my fill of pretzels and Lift from everywhere in Germany and Switzerland.
That is awesome, now you have a ceiling fan that actually works
Glad you’re getting used to the Swiss lifestyle again, Rolling Meadows misses you too. Take care and say hi to your family from me!
(P.S. the chopping thing in the sink is called a garbage disposal
haha love it!