1) you order
everything in English
2) the shops are closed and it is only Sunday
3) the food doesn´t taste so salty
4) you´re irritated because you cannot watch TV anymore (hint: don´t
look at the lips!)
5) you miss the tax on your bill
6) You’re looking for Ben and Jerry’s at your shopping center but
can’t find it
- talk to other
Au Pairs about your time in the US and your time here
- try to make yourself busy, the same as coming to the US
- show pictures
- talk to people who visited you in the States
- give yourself time, it might take a month or two before you feel at home again
- it helps a lot if you know what you do after your arrival in Germany (start
studying or work,…)
- and if you miss it too much, call your family, watch a movie in English, get
the English books out and read