Excursion to Prague!

Hey guys,

about a week ago me and my class came back from our trip to Prague. It was a pretty interesting expercience and also included some surprises, but I will tell you more about that in the text below!

So, we were going by bus and were staying for 3 days in the beautiful city called Prague. It took us about 4 houres to get to our hotel which was called "Hotel City Club". It was alright for a school class, but I wouldn't come back at this hotel again. The rooms were ok and clean but nothing more. After our check-in we were immediately going out to explore the city with our guide. He was showing us around to see all the old and beautiful buildings, he also told us a lot about the history of the city and their monuments.
It was a pretty long day, so everyone was very tired in the evening. We fell asleep very early.

On the second day we were going on a boat trip to see a lot more of the city for example the "Karlsbrücke", and we saw the castle of Prague. In the evening we were visting a shadow theater which was quite interesting, and afterwards we had dinner in a fine restaurant, later on we were also allowed to go in a small pub and drink a beer.

On the last day we saw the "Budweiser" brewery on our way home. We saw the entire area where the beer produce was and were allowed to try the beer.

All in all it was a really nice trip, but I would not go there again in winter because it was really cold and not even a jacket was keeping my body warm. We had a lot of fun and I hope you liked my text.

See you!

Austrian stereotypes!

A few weeks ago, we, in our school welcomed an exchange student from the UK. As you can guess, he had some serious stereotypes about the austrian people and I wanted to clarify some of those.

So let's start with the first stereotype:

He said he was really suprised that we didn't wear the traditional "Lederhose" or "Dirndl" at his arrival. So this is one thing that needs to be clear! Like all the other people on the world we like to dress traditionally, but not all the time. In austria we also have the normal stores like H&M or Zara where you can buy trendy clothes just like in the UK. We're only wearing traditional things, most of the time at festivals like the "Oktoberfest" and so on.

That brings us to the next stereotype, which is that austrian people really like to drink a lot of beer at these festivals. Well, that's not completely right because we austrians really like our beloved beer but as much as we love beer we also like vine or "Most", aswell as Non-alcoholic drinks.

The last stereotype was that austrians are always on time. This is mostly correct as we take an appointment very serious, but I think for the younger generation it's not the biggest priority anymore 'cause sometimes it happens that you sleep a lot longer than you wanted to, so it's not completely correct.

So these were pretty much the most important stereotypes according to austria, I hope you liked it!

Advertisement!

The last two lessons at school we were talking about all the different kindes of advertisements and especially we were hearing about some funny advertisements. So our teacher asked us to make a posting where we should show one funny advertisement of our choice.

So this is a advertisement for a mobile phone called "EPhone 900". On this ad it says that the phone has fast internet access everywhere on the world, even when a snake is trying to bite you, the internet is faster and can show you how to dodge it.

In my opinion this is a very funny and still very good advertisement, because almost every time stupid and funny ads are going to stick in people's heads.

Personal opinion about advertising:
But my personal opinion on advertisements is very different from what I was saying before. Nowadays ads are a part of our lives but that doesn't mean they are good for us. Some of them give us unrealistic expectations of what we should look like or how to act.
So I am saying that we should take a stand and don't let advertising change our live.

My favourite shop

Hi guys,
last lessons at school we were talking about shopping experience and about our favourtie shops.
So now I want to give you some information about mine.

My favourite shop is H&M. H&M is a brand aswell as a store which are located all over the world.
They offer a big range of products but mostly trendy clothes and accessoires.
It was founded 1946 by Erling Persson in Sweden.
The first store was opened one year later in Sweden.

H&M also has an online shop where they are selling a lot of their products.
Also they are advertising with a lot of popular people all over the world. The latest one is of course David Beckham.

So I hope you all liked my posting.
See you!

Election in the USA: Donald Trump

Last lesson at school we were talking about the elections in the USA and about the politician Donald Trump. He wants to be the president and was a guest at a talk show. Our teacher was showing us this video where he was talking about building a wall between Mexico and the US to stop the Immigration and drug transport. He also said that he hasn't to apologize for anything.

I think he is not very serious about what he does and makes fun of almost anything or anyone, also my opinion about building a wall is that it will cost a lot and I don't think it will stop the drugs and immigrants to come in the country.

I don't think he would be a good president, not even a good politician.

My shopping habits

The last lessons at school we were talking about shopping. So now let me introduce you to my shopping habits!

I really like buying clothes, electronic things such as computers or TVs and of course videogames. Most of the time I buy my clothes at H&M or New Yorker, but also sometimes at Zara or Hollister,
Electronic things and videogames most of the time at Media Market.

What I really don't like buying are shoes. I hate buying them for myself or going to buy with my parents or friends. I do also look out for all type of bargains, most of the time for clothes.
My favourite shopping days are on the weekend, the only problem is that on these days there many people in the shopping centres.
Another problem is that in my home town there is only a supermarket, so I need to go to Perg or Amstetten to do some shopping. It takes about half an hour to go to these shopping centres at these places.

Sometimes I really don't like to go shopping somewhere, so I also do a lot of online shopping, it's mor comfortable and sometimes it's cheaper than in stores.

So that are my shopping habits, I hope I could give some interesting information.

See you!

Christmas traditions

As you all know christmas is just around the corner, so I thougt it would be a good idea to compare a few christmas traditions in austria to a english speaking country like canada.

First of all you need to know that canadian christmas traditions are largely similar to those in the USA, but with some influences from the UK.

One of the biggest differences in christmas traditions is that austrian children believe in the "Christkind", which brings the presents and not in Santa Clause.
Another difference is that in Austria there are lots of Christmas markets, almost every small town has their own one.
But in Canada there are a lot of big light shows and light events were buildings are decorated with lights.
Another traditional canadian thing is the Royal Chistmas Message from the canadian monarch to all the other commonwealth countries on the world. In Austria the christmas tree which also stands in almost every small town, is a big tradition.

So I hope I could give you some interesting informations about these christmas traditions.

That's all for this posting, Bye!