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I Cried My Eyes Out at Charlotte Brontë's Home

I’ve always loved Jane Eyre. I thought she was wonderful, kind, independent, smart, talented, and brave. I read the book and watched the BBC movie and thought about what it would be like to live on those moors, with all the open space and the huge, dimly lit stone house. When I went to Northern England, I saw the same things Charlotte Brontë did. I saw the same streets, the same trees, the same moss and I, Aliana Schaeffer, stood in that woman’s very home, where she walked and lived and ate and laughed and I stood in the same room where she sat down and wrote, by hand, (because there weren’t lovely things like laptops yet), my most favourite book in the world. How could I not cry? I may not love camping, but I love nature. I love finding caterpillars and worms and I love waterfalls more than most things. I love being in places I feel fairies would be and I collect rocks, not so much because I like or want to, but because I feel an irresistible urge to have them an...

Culture Gram

Culture Gram Reading through the culture gram, I learned that a lot of the UK traditions are similar to the United State’s, especially in the younger generation, but there are some differences as well. It says the British get embarrassed by loud or boisterous behaviour and are more reserved in public, while in the United States people are very loud. Families are also smaller there, and less people are getting married, or if they do get married, they wait until later to have children. I knew about flats, but I didn’t know how prevalent they were in cities, taking up whole streets. There is also bedsits, which has a communal kitchen. Housing is getting so expensive that people just need a place to stay. I liked that the ideal is to have a house and garden. In the United States, I don’t hear a lot of people talking about how they want a garden, and I think garden’s are cute. It seems like weddings are a pretty big deal over there. It says they are usuall...

Mozartkugeln sind köstlich

The first time I bought a Mozartkugel I paid 1.75 euros. It was our first night in Salzburg and we had successfully ate at Burgerista, where I had accidentally started crying from the stress of traveling and lack of food and water throughout the day. We were walking back to our hotel from the restaurant, admiring the shops lining the road and the mountains cloaked in twilight in the distance. We passed an ice cream shop, and we stopped because we wanted to get the novelty ice cream dish, Spaghetties. Spaghetties is vanilla ice cream shaped to look like noodles with strawberry jam on top to look like tomato sauce. Unfortunately it was too cold and they did not have the spaghetti ice cream, which was okay because we were still very full from our dinner. Instead of buying the ice cream, Olivia, Katie, Abbie and I each bought one of the small chocolate balls covered in blue and silver foil. We did not know specifically what the Mozartkugels were made of, but we knew they were chocolat...