Things every exchange student knows ;)

Hey guys,

today’s post is gonna be about things (almost) every exchange student knows. Obviously I can’t speak for everyone out there but I talked to other exchange students as well and this is the list we created together. It is just for entertaining purposes and not to offend anyone. Enjoy lads!

1. Talking about your new teachers etc with other exchange students in your language. And you’ll always have a secret language also when you are talking to someone on the phone.
2. People ask you to teach them swearing words in your native language. Yup, this happens way too often.😂
3. People will always know someone who knows someone who has a friend who has a cousin who has a girlfriend who has a sister that has been to your home country.
4. This point is just about Ireland and Germany but so many people here actually know some german. Once I had a conversation with a friend in the supermarket and suddenly someone turned around to ask us what language we were speaking. When we told him we spoke german he said goodbye to us in German when he left.😂🤨
5. You will helplessly fall in love with something that you can only have in your host country. For example a certain restaurant, a sport, a dish whatever.
6. We all start randomly speaking to the wrong person in the wrong language and start texting your friends in english or whatever language by accident.
7. When talking to a person in one language we try to use idioms and sayings etc. from the other language.
8. Sometimes we just speak a weird mixture of languages. (Kurze Anekdote für die deutschsprachigen Leser: ich habe einmal mit einer Freundin geskypet und währenddessen gegessen. Irgendwann sagte ich ihr, dass ich kurz meine Platte wegbringen gehe. Jap, ich habe statt Teller Platte gesagt, da es im Englischen ja plate heißt...😂🤦🏼‍♀️)
9. The friendships made in the host country feel like yearlong friendships even though I know the people for just a couple months. Especially the friendships I developed with the other exchange students throughout the times are amazing and very deep.
       10. Last but not least: The time abroad feels like a few days only but on the other hand like years.

I hoped you liked this post. The german translation will follow in one or two days I am just too lazy.

See you
Nici