Sprüche und Zitate

Da ihr alle wisst wie sehr ich Sprüche liebe werde ich hier ein paar Sprüche zum Auslandsjahr posten. Viel Spaß beim lesen!



Wie sieht der Himmel aus
der jetzt über dir steht
dort wo die Sonne im Sommer nicht untergeht
Wo fängt dein Himmel an
und wo hört er auf
wenn er weit genug reicht
macht dann das Meer zwischen uns nichts mehr aus


 What is exchange?

Exchange is change. Rapid, brutal, beautiful, hurtful, colourful, amazing, unexpected, overwhelming and most of all constant change. Change in lifestyle, country, language, friends, parents, houses, school, simply everything.

Exchange is realizing that everything they told you beforehand is wrong, but also right in a way.

Exchange is going from thinking you know who you are, to having no idea who you are anymore to being someone new. But not entirely new. You are still the person you were before but you jumped into that ice cold lake. You know how it feels like to be on your own. Away from home, with no one you really know. And you find out that you can actually do it.

Exchange is learning to trust. Trust people, who, at first, are only names on a piece of paper, trust that they want the best for you, that they care. Trust, that you have the strength to endure a year on your own, endure a year of being apart from everything that mattered to you before. Trust that you will have friends. Trust that everything’s going to be alright. And it is seeing this trust being justified.

Exchange is thinking. All the time. About everything. Thinking about those strange costumes, the strange food, the strange language. About why you’re here and not back home. About how it’s going to be like once you come back home. How that girl is going to react when you see her again. About who’s hanging out where this weekend. At first who’s inviting you at all. And in the end where you’re supposed to go, when you’re invited to ten different things. About how everybody at home is doing. About how stupid this whole time-zone thing is. Not only because of home, but also because the tv ads for shows keep confusing you.
Thinking about what’s right and what’s wrong. About how stupid or rude you just were to someone without meaning to be. About the point of all this. About the sense of life. About who you want to be, what you want to do. And about when that English essay is due, even though you’re marks don’t count. About whether you should go home after school, or hang out at someone’s place until midnight. Someone you didn’t even know a few months ago. And about what the hell that guy just said.

Exchange is people. Those incredibly strange people, who look at you like you’re an alien. Those people who are too afraid to talk to you. And those people who actually talk to you. Those people who know your name, even though you have never met them. Those people, who tell you who to stay away from. Those people who talk about you behind your back, those people who make fun of your country. All those people, who aren’t worth your giving a damn. Those people you ignore.
And those people who invite you to their homes. Who keep you sane. Who become your friends.

Exchange is music. New music, weird music, cool music, music you will remember all your life as the soundtrack of your exchange. Music that will make you cry because all those lyrics express exactly how you feel, so far away. Music that will make you feel like you could take on the whole world. And it is music you make. With the most amazing musicians you’ve ever met. It is site reading a thousand pages just to be part of the school band.
Exchange is uncomfortable. It’s feeling out of place, like a fifth wheel. It’s talking to people you don’t like. It’s trying to be nice all the time. It’s bugs.. and bears. It’s cold, freezing cold. It’s homesickness, it’s awkward silence and its feeling guilty because you didn’t talk to someone at home. Or feeling guilty because you missed something because you were talking on Skype.

Exchange is great. It’s feeling the connection between you and your host parents grow.. It’s knowing in which cupboard the peanut butter is. It’s meeting people from all over the world. It’s having a place to stay in almost every country of the world. It’s getting 1 new familie. One of them being a huge group of the most awesome teenagers in the world.
It’s cooking food from your home country and not messing up. It’s seeing beautiful landscapes that you never knew existed.

Exchange is exchange students. The most amazing people in the whole wide world. Those people from everywhere who know exactly how you feel and those people who become your absolute best friends even though you only see most of them 3 or 4 times during your year. The people, who take almost an hour to say their final goodbyes to each other. Those people with the jackets full of pins. All over the world.

Exchange is falling in love. With this amazing, wild, beautiful country. And with your home country.

Exchange is frustrating. Things you can’t do, things you don’t understand. Things you say, that mean the exact opposite of what you meant to say. Or even worse..

Exchange is understanding.

Exchange is unbelievable.

Exchange is not a year in your life. It’s a life in one year.

Exchange is nothing like you expected it to be, and everything you wanted it to be.

Exchange is the best year of your life so far. Without a doubt. And it’s also the worst. Without a doubt.

Exchange is something you will never forget, something that will always be a part of you. It is something no one back at home will ever truly understand.

Exchange is growing up, realizing that everybody is the same, no matter where they’re from. That there is great people and douche bags everywhere. And that it only depends on you how good or bad your day is going to be. Or the whole year.
And it is realizing that you can be on your own, that you are an independent person. Finally. And it’s trying to explain that to your parents.

Exchange is dancing in the rain for no reason, crying without a reason, laughing at the same time. It’s a turmoil of every emotion possible.

Exchange is everything. And exchange is something you can’t understand unless you’ve been through it.


  Ein Austauschjahr ist wie eine Fahrt mit der Achterbahn. Zuerst will man unbedingt damit fahren und ist sehr fasziniert von der Vorstellung, dann geht es schnell. Man muss einsteigen und dann kommen die ersten mulmigen Gefühle. Dann gibt es Hochs und Tiefs. Aber es wechselt dann sehr schnell. Am Ende ist man ein bisschen traurig, dass es schon vorbei ist, ein bisschen stolz, dass man es überlebt
hat, erfreut wieder festen Boden unter den Füßen zu haben und eigentlich würde man am liebten sitzen bleiben und noch mal fahren.

"Tu es, sonst wirst du dich ewig fragen, wie es anders hätte sein können."

Exchange student!
Most awesome person you will ever meet. Exchange students willingly decide to get off their butts, leave their homecountry, and fo to see the world. For that reason, they should be given a heck of a lot of credit. Usually, a foregin exchange student will have a funny accent and don't speak your language very well. This is all the more reason to hang out with them, because everything will suddenly become that much more hilarious. Also, they are generally young people, and have the tendency to be good looking.

"Wir werden dann nicht mehr die Gleichen sein und irgendwann die Welt mit anderen Augen sehen."

Someone asked me, why my exchange was the best time I've ever had, so I told him: "If you're not an exchange student, you won't understand. Just other students will. Exchange students don't care about your origin, because we're all human. They don't care about your language, because there's always a way to talk, even if you need your feet or hands. They don't care about your style of music because they're opendminded people. They don't care about your culture, because they're on exchange to learn about other cultures. They give a f*ck on everythin, the only important things are, that you have to accept the others that you have to party and don't care about what other people say about ehat you did, learn about other cultures and respect them as they respect your culture, learn new languages and just have fun. Because all exchange students felt a little bit lost the first days, were scared before leaving, but they feel with you. We go crazy together, we party, we talk, we laugh, we cry, we dance, we run and we jump - together. With people we met a few days or weeks ago, as wie would know each other for ages. You get into a new family, they accept you as your own son or daughter. You go to a newschool, you don't know the people, the language and rules there. You habe to make friends on your own, you have to learn to talk and in the end, when you have to leave, you realize, that you've created a new life on your own. And it's just yours. That's why I had the best time I've ever had."

"Manchmal kommt alles anders als man denkt - und es ist gut so."

Twenty years from now on you will be more disappointed by the things you did not do, than by the things you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade wind in your sails!

Exchange is about learning. Learning how to liv

 "When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable."

"Ein Austauschjahr ist der Augenblick, seine Flügel zu spannen und anzufangen zu fliegen. Aber gleichzeitig auch der Moment, die Wurzeln elastisch genug werden zu lassen!"

„Ich sag - Lebwohl -Auf Wiedersehen
Muss gehn um etwas neues zu sehen
Ein neuer Lebensabschnitt führt mich weg
mein Austauschjahr ist wohl der Zweck
so wünschet mir Erfolg und Glück
Mein Gedanke wenn ihr blickt zurück
wir freu'n uns der Erinnerung
und für die Zukunft der Erwartung
an all die gemeinsam schönen Tage
nur ein Jahr ist's das ich wage
so ohne euch die Welt zu sehn
dann freuen wir uns aufs Wiedersehen."

Home is behind
The world ahead
and there are many paths to treat
Through shadow
To the edge of night
Until the stars are all alight."

Austausch ist Lernen. Es ist nicht ein simples Lernen, was in der Schule unterrichtet wird. Es ist Lernen zu zuhören, zu reden und zu denken. Lernen wer man selbst ist, wer deine Freunde sind und welche Leute man als Freunde haben will. Es ist das Lernen deinen innersten Gefühlen zu vertrauen und dieses Gefühl erst einmal zu finden. Es ist Lernen was wirklich wichtig für dich ist und herausfinden welche Dinge die am Arsch vorbeigehen.
Austausch ist Toleranz, Akzeptanz, Freundschaft und Liebe. Lernen wie man gibt genauso wie man nimmt und das alels sich zum Guten werden wird, wenn man nur daran arbeitet und glaubt. Es ist Lernen, dass deine Mutti und dein Vati manchmal doch die richtigen Antworten haben. Austausch ist Lernen, Menschen wie Menschen zu behandeln und nicht als Massenprodukt. Lernen etwas zu erreichen, lernen erfolgreich zu sein, lernen zurückzustecken und trotzdem stolz auf sich selbst zu sein. Lernen nicht auf dem ersten Platz z usein und sich trotzdem wie ein Champion zu fühlen. Lernen, dass wenn man einen schlechten Platz erreicht hat, sich eingesteht, dass man hätte besser sein können. Es ist das Lernen, dass große Partys nicht unbedingt das Beste sind. Lernen, dass Einsamkeit nicht besser in einer Gruppe wird und das es manchmal okay ist an einem Samstagabend allein zu sein. Es ist Lernen, dass Langeweile einfach nur eine Faulheit der GEdanken ist. Austausch ist Lernen, wie man Koffer packt und wie man ein Zimmer mit viel zu viel Zeug füllen kann. Es ist Lernen, dass Leute dich mehr mögen, als sie dir je erzählen werden und dass es deine Verantwortung ist, dass deine Freunde und Familie weiß, wie sehr du sie schätzt. Es ist Lernen doppelte Dankbarkeit zu zeigen. Es ist lernen zu lachen und anderen Leuten das Lachen beizubringen und zu schenken. Austausch ist zu lernen Leute so zu vermissen und sie nicht in die Vergangenheut zu stecken, aber sie nicht so doll zu vermissen, dass es dich selbst davon abhält in die Zukunft zu motivieren. Lernen was der Satz "Wahr machen" bedeutet und es auch tut!

 Die Welt ist ein Buch. Wer nie reist, sieht nur eine Seite davon.  Von Augustinus Aurelius
Setze deine Ziele hoch, deine Erwartungen niedrig und sei positiv überrascht vom Ergebnis.

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