Differences and Culture Shocks from an Exchange Student in Germany!!!🇩🇪🇺🇸

[@sonntagskindlein]

I think most Germans will be like „Wait, your name is Franziska Borneff? That‘s a german name“.

[@madrooky1398]

Well, somewhat around 30-40% of americans have german heritage for at least one parent. And the time where germans were the bad guys is long over, so people also start to appreciate their roots again.

[@zsoltpapp3363]

Borneff is a germanized russian(slavic) name from Bornev

[@Nils.Minimalist]

​@@zsoltpapp3363nonsense!

[@HH-hd7nd]

2:48 Jeans ARE casual. That's not like dressing up or something.

[@blablub2402]

Yes

[@ravanpee1325]

The restaurants make the money with the beeverages and not with the food

[@starseed8087]

I know in the usa they love to have cereals for breakfast. The problem with this is that there is way too much sugar in it, and too much sugar is the main reason people get fat

[@linajurgensen4698]

The breaks or holidays are always different depending on which area (Bundesland) in Germany you are.

[@robertzander9723]

Welcome to Germany!! Enjoy your time, fifteen years that's incredible for you to have the opportunity for an adventure like this. 👍

[@aa777flyer]

Wait for the Christmas Markets, so much great food! You will love them! I have been going to them every year from California for about 10 years!

[@georgesmith7988]

Thanks for this excellent summary of the differences you noticed. I think you are very brave to challenge yourself to this program. This will be a life changing experience.

[@thkempe]

I think, ordinary lawn mowers are most common here. However these robots (nicknamed electro-sheep) have gotten pretty trendy lately. Btw. Husqvarna (manufacturer of those automowers) is a Swedish brand.

[@carolineruby]

Aww love this so much!

[@T0MT0Mmmmy]

Not only school rooms must have daylight by law, also all office rooms. And it is not everything closed on Sundays. Restaurants, cafes, bars, cinemas, museums, leisure parks, zoos, public pools, etc. are open. So there are a lot of things you can do on Sundays, just not buy anything. And because almost everyone who is not working in the above named sectors, will have also a free Sunday (most of them also Saturday), you can do all that with your friends the whole weekend. Isn't this a good concept?

[@berndgaal7689]

Thank you so much for your video!!!! It is so positive that you can experience different lifestyles in your young age. Many americans don t even know that there was a wall between east and west, or where Germany is located.

[@mweh3936]

First: Welcome to Germany. Hopefully you are having a great time here. Well, failing on digitalization is one of the flaws from Merkel`s time as our chancelor. Hopefully this will become much better soon. You are here a good time, and maybe witness are major change in Germany. Well, it won`t be as big as Obama to Trump or Trump to Biden, but well, Germany is a very constant political base, so the successor will be only the 9th chancelor since 1949. School vacations are different also in dates from federal state to federal state and year to year in Germany - and that winter holidays don`t exist in all states, but others e.g. may have therefore longer easter holidays. But more vacation is also true for the working population. Normal is 30 days off (on a 5 workdays per week base, and sick days do not substract these) but can also be as much as 40 days a year.

[@007swamy]

Very Nicely told👌👌👌

[@arnodobler1096]

have a fun time here

[@christophm8021]

Welcome to Germany and enjoy your stay! 👍 Those robot lawn mowers may be convenient on the one hand. On the other hand they can severely harm smaller animals: often for example hedgehogs get legs cut off or frogs/toads get killed. 😥 That's why I'd never buy such a thing but instead mow my lawn by myself even if it takes me some time. Most people just aren't aware of those dangers and only see the advantages...

[@johannaeggert2068]

The thing is that vacation are different in each state (Bundesland). In which state/city are you staying? In Cologne (where I'm from) we got a vacation in February for Carneval.

[@alwaysdowhatyoulove8876]

Probably in the South as they have skiing holiday 😄

[@howierfs5471]

Hi Franzi(common german abbriviation for your name), first of all Welcome to Germany. Dont get to much "shocked" just enjoy the good differences from your point of view and may be you can transfer it back home also. Well, your first definitely demands you speak german, so expecting one of the next videos will be in german. :-D I am sure you face a hard tough time but once its over you will miss things and your mind, your views will be much much more open. Godd luck and crossing fingers for you while you are here.

[@Opa_Andre]

Hi Franziska - First, Welcome to Germany. You probably see many students driving motorcycles due to the fact that you can get your motorcycles driver license being in the age of 16. (in some German states you can even get such license in the age of 15). However depending on your actual age (15, 16, 18 up to 20) you are then still limited to performance (horsepower) and engine capacity (cubic centimeters) motorcycles which also results in different speed limits of those bikes. Driver licenses for cars you can get mostly in the age of 17 and you then can usually can drive while being under supervision of an adult driver like your parents being on the passenger seat) so driving alone in a car you usually (very few exceptions) is then from the age of 18 or above which is unlike to the US where you can get your DL and drive in the age of 16. As you were talking about differences in school - how does a day looks like in an US highschool in regards of breaks during the day? Don't you have that many short breaks in order to change class rooms, being able to get some fresh air, having a snack or going to the bathroom if needed?

[@kpusa1981uk]

Usually breaks during the day lunch which is 30 - 45 minutes. 3-5 minutes passing periods between the classes for the students.

[@maulwurf62]

These are not motorcycles as an American understands the term. Franziska just doesn’t know what else to call them.

[@kpusa1981uk]

More like small motorized bikes homemade ?

[@albin2232]

Nice video. Hope life is good for you :)

[@Dilara-qs1vs]

I thought in Germany if u wanted free water u could say like lietungswasser

[@margaretandrebecca4208]

Love this!

[@aperzinger]

nice videos :) greetings from Austria

[@mogon721]

Yep, chalkboards in schools and high-tech lawnmowers at home, so much for priorities... ;-) But on a serious note, its getting better... Welcome to good old Europe. Hope you CBYXers have a good time! :-)

[@ravanpee1325]

You use chalkboards in your mathematical university course about higher mathematics too..they guys even imported their chalk from Japan..

[@josuemendonca6941]

I think I saw you in Caroline's video 😁

[@travelingwithmikeandpam9074]

That's a better break system.

[@mohamedamr559]

Thanks 😊

[@cantthinkofausername9079]

Ok so I’m from germany, i’m in 10th grade, and I’d like to do an exchange year in the US in 11th grade, but the problem is that when I’d get back to germany i would have to repeat the year so that I have one more year of school, and I’m not sure if that’s worth it, because I want to finish school soon :| do you think it’d be worth it?

[@miame7874]

Love ur video

[@verycherryberry3752]

Me, a german who has been wearing leggings to school everyday for years : 🙆

[@ninodino444]

you should be ashamed of yourself

[@Anonymous-vl8ez]

You should be ashamed of yourself and you should Apologize

[@cheyenne2404]

@@ninodino444 ?

[@cheyenne2404]

@@Anonymous-vl8ez ?

[@jakeindeutschland2879]

your my favorite youtuber

[@adriantenelema2607]

can you use caps or beanies in school?

[@pinkhope84]

Where in Germany are you located?

[@niko4991]

1:22 I m German and we don t habe so Mann breaks.

[@liammchugh9439]

What us a gymnasium?

[@lanamack1558]

Do you get paid for the number of times you use the word "like"? You cannot get a full motorcycle licence at 15; that would be 18. You can get a licence for Mofa and Moped at 15; these have a legalmaximum speed of 25kmh.

[@davidfeuerherdt884]

Weihnachtskalender ???

[@siebensieben6992]

ski-holidays? wtf, where do u live in germany? only with rich people? hahahaha In these "Ski-Holidays" in february i always got drunk bc that's the "Faschings-Ferien" also depends on the bundesland

[@fastradical4933]

какая цыпочка

[@nithin7589]

She's 15 bruhhh....

[@guinessdraught2758]

You look very American with the two balloons behind your head…..sorry but that had to be done now.😉

[@Proudtobegerman]

Well you look german...your name is german...are you sure you aren't german ???😁😁😁

[@Luredreier]

Regarding bread. It's a even bigger deal in my country, Norway. A lot of people have bread for breakfast, lunch and evening meals, and only dinner is hot for them. As for the pen and paper thing. Germany has had some *really* bad experiences with surveillance (Nazi Germany and DDR). At one point almost 2% of the population of east Germany was spies, spying on people in their own homes. In part because of that the country has been *very* reluctant to allow any technology that may reduce peoples privacy in any way, shape or form. So I'm fairly sure that it's not just your school. And yes, Merkel was East German. You can imagine her reluctance towards a whole host of technologies... There's a political shift now that should begin to change things a bit.

[@lennarthansen9078]

No one has high-tech lawnmovers where I am from. I'm from germany Lol

[@joes7028]

My God your beautiful do you have a cute German boyfriend yet? Thank you for the video 😘

[@sandraneumann8621]

Mit Kommentaren wie diesem wirst du den Rest deines Lebens Jungfrau bleiben. Ist zwar einerseits ein Bisschen schade, aber andererseits absolut verdient...

[@ilkahellerling2345]

Hi sweety please check out your sound. Its really bad. There is a kinda strange sssssss sound when you talk. Can you fix that? Its really disturbing

[@sonntagskindlein]

Tone = Tönung, also eher was mit Farbe. Ich dachte zuerst, du meinst sie sähe blaß aus.

[@Sonnenanbeterin1991]

Dann höre sie einfach nicht

[@ilkahellerling2345]

@@starseed8087 Hahaha thanks bro. My bad english. Sorry, i corrected it.

[@starseed8087]

@@ilkahellerling2345 Hahaha, ok now it makes way more sense. I deleted my comment :-D

[@ilkahellerling2345]

@@starseed8087 😘