This is Ingrind !

Hello! 

My name is Ingrind, I'm 24 years old and I'm an au pair. First of all I'm gonna talk about the meaning of my name. Ingrid is an Old Norse name (Ingríðr) meaning “Ing is beautiful” made up of the elements “Ing” (referring to the Germanic mythological god) and “fríðr” meaning “beautiful”. Ing appears to have been an older rendering of the Nordic god Freyr, one of the most important gods among the ancient Norse. He was the “peace and prosperity” god who brought virility, fertility, sunny skies and warm weather. In other words, Freyr brought happy times to the mere mortals and was seen as an ancestor to the Swedish monarchy. In fact, the name Ing is probably derived from the Germanic “ingwaz” meaning “ancestor” and was also seen as an earlier ancestor to the Ingaevones tribe (North Sea Germanic peoples).

I've been here in the USA for five months and there are a lot of things that surprised me, things about culture that is really different from my country. Driving here was another thing that was kinda hard to adapt to it because there are some things that you can do and others that you can't. Of course the most different thing is the weather because here it's really cold and my city in Brazil it's always really hot.

When I arrived here I was fascinated about the Amish culture because they are totally different from us , they don't have much technology but they can handle it, so that's why I'm so curious to learn more about them.

Now I have three words that describe how I feel about the Amish culture : interested, curiosity and enthusiasm.