Back for almost a month, and what do I have to show for it? Days full of sleeping and being yelled at by my parents for doing so; arguing over the television and computer with my oh-so-lovely brother. Arguments so far have included:
why he needs to watch hockey 24 hours a day for the next seven weeks
why he keeps deleting a file about taxes I want kept on the desktop (yeah, so I haven't done my taxes yet...I'm working on that)
But lest we be bogged down by familial troubles, here is what I have been doing the past month:
spending 8+ hours traversing the barren wasteland that is Iowa in early April
having a good ol' time of it at fast food restaurants in Illinois! Iowa! Wisconsin!
catching up with all of my childhood books
learning to love a slow, dial-up connection to the internet
spending hours driving from one strip mall to another in the traffic-mad strip mall heaven that is Rockford, punctuated by visits to real malls filled with teenyboppers and obese, sweatshirt-clad middle-aged Americans
Wondering if I'm enjoying life in the U.S? Here are the benefits, as I can see them:
being able to talk to American friends on the phone. Of course, that means I can't talk to my European friends
the ability to spend 9 hours a day watching satellite TV. Their motto: "500 channels yet nothing's on!"
being able to drop loads of cash on American goods (an actual benefit!)
able to rent as many crappy movies as I want--as long as I can stand up to the ridicule my brother heaps upon me and I want to watch them in the basement, because hockey is on for the next seven weeks, as stated above
trying to smuggle in anything with sugar in it, since my family is on a diet (that means I'm on it, too, apparently)
Life's on hold. When will I be alive again?
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