Maybe I am overreacting...
Oh here we go...and rant.
Ever since I came here my host sisters have pretty much had run of the house and I sorta inject myself around them. Such things as the bathroom (you will NEVER get time between the hours of 7-8am to get in there to pee or anything), sitting on the couch (they stare and pout until I move so both can sit or if I want to sit down and there is no where else I end up sitting on the floor). What really really pisses me off the most is how they monopolize the tv.
We have two tvs in the house: One downstairs that the family watches (or just my host family) and the one upstairs that I always watch because its cozy up there. Anyway, I have to guess my way around them when they want to watch tv. I usually can only get a good ten or twenty minutes of watching a show in before one of them comes upstairs and asks if they can change the channel. Oh no, I'm not watching this at all...and if I say I want to see this then they get pouty.
Tonight has SERIOUSLY pissed me off. I was watching Friends upstairs and a little scared to 'abandon my post' because as soon as I do one of them would take the tv away. So I went to set the table because one of my host family's complaints is I haven't been setting the table for the last month (because I've started clearing it...god forbid I switch a routine that was never specifically said I had to do. I just started setting the table to be nice). Well, there is some Danish show on downstairs in the living room that they all get together and watch..it sorta reminds me of a Christmas Barney only with a bear and its in Danish so it really doesn't interest me.
I decide to keep the host family from complaining I'll quickly set the table and run back upstairs before one of them can jump on the tv. I have Friends paused in the middle of the episode. Annika and Katja are downstairs watching Bear-Barney.
Then I notice Annika is gone. I rush back upstairs to find she's turned off the DVD and is watching the SAME EXACT THING on the tv upstairs. And then when I get up there she just gives a little smile and goes back to watching the show.
There is a lot more things I have been meaning to bitch about, but as you've seen I've been trying to focus on the positive (which basically meant not bitching about the negatives in the family)..but its getting really hard.
Ever since I came here my host sisters have pretty much had run of the house and I sorta inject myself around them. Such things as the bathroom (you will NEVER get time between the hours of 7-8am to get in there to pee or anything), sitting on the couch (they stare and pout until I move so both can sit or if I want to sit down and there is no where else I end up sitting on the floor). What really really pisses me off the most is how they monopolize the tv.
We have two tvs in the house: One downstairs that the family watches (or just my host family) and the one upstairs that I always watch because its cozy up there. Anyway, I have to guess my way around them when they want to watch tv. I usually can only get a good ten or twenty minutes of watching a show in before one of them comes upstairs and asks if they can change the channel. Oh no, I'm not watching this at all...and if I say I want to see this then they get pouty.
Tonight has SERIOUSLY pissed me off. I was watching Friends upstairs and a little scared to 'abandon my post' because as soon as I do one of them would take the tv away. So I went to set the table because one of my host family's complaints is I haven't been setting the table for the last month (because I've started clearing it...god forbid I switch a routine that was never specifically said I had to do. I just started setting the table to be nice). Well, there is some Danish show on downstairs in the living room that they all get together and watch..it sorta reminds me of a Christmas Barney only with a bear and its in Danish so it really doesn't interest me.
I decide to keep the host family from complaining I'll quickly set the table and run back upstairs before one of them can jump on the tv. I have Friends paused in the middle of the episode. Annika and Katja are downstairs watching Bear-Barney.
Then I notice Annika is gone. I rush back upstairs to find she's turned off the DVD and is watching the SAME EXACT THING on the tv upstairs. And then when I get up there she just gives a little smile and goes back to watching the show.
There is a lot more things I have been meaning to bitch about, but as you've seen I've been trying to focus on the positive (which basically meant not bitching about the negatives in the family)..but its getting really hard.