This is Laura!

Hello!!

My name is Laura, I'm an aupair in the USA and I'm gonna make a weekend class about amish people so this blog is to share things that will involve this.
To start I'm gonna tell about the meaning of my name. My mom gave me this name based on the bible and it means "Bay laurel", "victorious", "triumphant". In antiquity, the laurel tree symbolized victory and immortality and for the ancient Romans meant glory. In Greece, it was offered to the God Apollo and its leaves were elaborated crowns, used as prize given to the winners in the Olympics of Antiquity and, also, to heroes, geniuses and wise people.

I came to the USA in June 2018 and one of the things that surprised me about living here is how different it is from my culture and how it was easy for me to adapt to it, of course it took me a couple of months to get used to it but after I got it, it was really easy to understand and adapt to the life style. Things here are cheaper than in my country, not everything of course, but most of the things are. Other thing that surprised me was the Amish people and culture because before I came here I didn't even know that they exist! So it's really interesting to me to know more about their culture and how they do the things without many tools that we have nowadays and after these classes I know that my conception about them will change because I will have all the answers for my questions and curiosities like how do they work or live without electricity. So I'm really excited to do it. To finish this post I have three words to describe how I fell about the Amish culture: curiosity, learning and intrigued.

See u soon on the next post.