Über mich

Mein Name ist Johanna Bodewing und ich bin 17 Jahre alt. Ich lebe zusammen mit meiner Mutter und meinem "kleinen" Bruder in einem kleinen Dorf in Rheinland-Pflaz in der Naehe von Frankfurt.

Mein Vater lebt momentan in Berlin, was mich auch immer wieder dorthin fuehrt. Ich mache gerne Sport, besonders Fussball speilen ist eines meiner groessten Hobbys. Ausserderdem spiele ich Theater, lese gerne und mag fast alles, was mit Musik zu tun hat. Meine Freunde und meine Familie sind mir sehr wichtig, besonders weil ich weiss dass ich mich immer und ueberall auf sie verlassen kann. Selbst als Austauschschuelerin hier in Amerka.

Die ersten 4 Monate habe ich in der Nähe von Salt Lake City, Utah gelebt, woraufhin ich im Dezember nach Boulder City, einer kleinen Stadt in der Nähe von Las Vegas, Nevada umgezogen bin und dort nun die restlichen Monate bis Juli verbringe.

Diese Homepage ist entstanden um besonders meine Familie und Freunde, aber auch jeden anderen, an meiner Erfahrung teilhaben zu lassen.

Ich führe einen Blog und stelle regelmäßig Bilder ein, die über alles informieren, was ich hier so treibe.

Hoffentlich bleibt diese Homepage auch noch nach meinem Austauschjahr bestehen und ich werde hier über viele weiter Reisen berichten! :)

Exchange is Learning

It is not as simple as learning whatever it is thats taught in school

It is about learning how to listen, how to speak, how to think.

learnin who you are, who your friends are, the type of people you want as friends.

Learning how to trust your innermost feelings, and how to find those feelings in the first place.

It is about learning what´s really important to you, and learning what you really don´t give a damn about.

Exchange is about how to tolerate, how to accept, how to like and how to love.

Learning how to give as well as receive, and howto trust that everything will even itself out on i´s own.

It is abou learning that your mom and dad do have the right annwers sometimes, and that your kid sister isn´t such a dumb kid anymore.

Exchange is about learning to treat people as people, not as stereotypes.

Learning that sometimes a kiss isn´t such a dum bkid anymore.

Exchange is about learning to treat people as people, nocht as steretypes.

Learning that sometimes a kiss isn´t just a kiss, sometimes it means more, and sometimes it means less.

Learning how to achieve, how to succeed, how to accomplish.

It is about learning ho o no come in the first lessonplace and still be proud, and about coming in last and learning how to admit that you could have done better.

Exchange is about learningthat large parties don´t necessariliy mean a good time.

Learning that loneliness doesn´t go away in a crowd, and that sometimes its ok to be by yourself on  a Friday or Saturday night.

It is about learning that your lunch time crowd doesn´t constitute you popularity and that popularity is all a matter of perspective.

It´s about learning that boredom is simply a laziness of the mind, and that watching three hours of TV every-night is not quality relaxation time.

Exchange is about learning how to pack a bag and how to pack a romm full of too much stuff.

It´s about learning hat people probably like you a whole lot more than hey will evertell you. And it´s your responsibility to make sure your friends know how much you appreciate them.

It is about learning that simply doing what youre suppposed to do isn´t enough, you need to put forth twice that effort in order to fully grasp whatever it is that´s sitting in front of you.

It´s about learning how to make people smile.

Exchange is about earning how to miss people enough to not stick from te Past and how to not miss them so much that it keeps you from moving into the future.

Learning how to motivate yourself and to motivate others.

Learning what the phrase "make do" means and how to use it to make it seem as if you´re not simply "making do".

It´s about learning 25 different ways of saying we made out and how to swear in all the different languages of the other exchange students.

Exchange is about learning.

Learning how to live!