Erasmus blog Dayton
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SICSA animal shelter
Volunteering at SICSA animal shelter Stray animals are a particularly big problem in most of Europe. Basically everywhere you go, you will see stray animals. Well, not all of them are starving, because people feed them. An example of well fed stray animals are the...
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Beavercreek Popcorn Festival
Checking out the Beavercreek Popcorn Festival When I was a kid, I only knew one kind of popcorn – the regular salty one. And then I moved to the United States of America. Caramel popcorn, cinnamon popcorn, cheddar popcorn, chocolate drizzled popcorn, and so on. I am...
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My celebration of Thanksgiving
Celebrating Thanksgiving in the United states of America This year, I celebrated my second real Thanksgiving. Ever. Thanksgiving is only celebrated in the United states of America (and, of course, U. S. territories) and Canada. Thanksgiving always happens on the fourth...
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Celebrating Halloween in the United states
Celebrating Halloween in the United States of America is almost as important as celebrating Christmas. To be honest, some of my neighbours here pay more attention to Halloween that they do to Christmas or any other major holiday. When I was a kid, I always wished I...
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Differences between Europe and United States
Cultural shock is an actual thing. Luckily, I have never experienced it. At least not yet. Cultural shock can happen to you when you visit a place that has such a different culture from yours that you feel sick and you also feel like you do not belong to that place. But...
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Getting used to the American way of eating
Probably the most common stereotype of American people that we hear is that everyone in America is fat/obese/overweight and that American people eat fast food every single day. These stereotypes are not entirely true, and of course it depends on which state you live in...
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My American job
When I meet new people here, most of our initial conversations go like the one written below. Starring me and potential new friends/my employers’ acquaintances/mostly everybody else. Random person: ‘Hi, so what do you do for a living here? ’ Me: ‘I am a nanny....
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How to temporarily move to the USA
I love to travel and I cannot stay at one place for more than a few years (which has good and bad sides, but I will talk more about it in the future blog posts), and for the last two years or so, I was playing with a thought of working in the United States. My main...
0 0 , 7 years ago