[Narrew]

Originally posted by Taera:
i've been doing some things right, some not.

That the only thing we can do friend. And I am sure that it is hard to believe, but it gets easier as time goes on, and if not easier, then you realize (with age) what is important.

My senior year I was an exchange student to Sweden (ha Rutha). So here I am, an over weight kid that is not popular in school (rual Indiana) and go to Sweden, and guess what, I am popular because I am different, I loose weight, then while the U.S. is doing something in El Salvador there are protestors in downtown Boras against the U.S., well another american and I are walking by them and they try to pass us some propaganda and we told them in Swedish that we were Americans, though we made no threating gestures, they backed off fast So...I was the same person as 6 months earlier, just in a different setting.

I think the hardest thing will be language, more of the slang. I took English in Sweden and barely passed since American English is different from British English. I went to the movie Airplane, there is a spot where they say "its going to hit the fan now" and a pile of cow poo flies through the air and hits a fan, funny to me, but not so funny to my host parents.

I dont know how to help you there, watch movies at home to get the idea of the local humor.