11/27/2011
Thanksgiving weekend
A little summary of our 5free days intended for the Thanksgiving feast...
Wednesday was Thanksgiving Eve, and before meeting with all the American and French students at the theatre, my family took me for a ride on road 66 and I had the opportunity to visit the Pop's store which is a store basically selling sodas... It was crazy all the sodas that were : I wasn't bold enough to taste the bacon soda or the chicken wings one ! On the evening, we went to the Chikasha light festival which was an impressive demonstration of the electricity spending, but very nice to see, I have to say.
Thursday was Thanksgiving Day, the family of my hosting one is spread all around America so it was a little Thanksgiving feast but as good as the others, I believe so. I did a lot of food experimentation very interesting in watching the Macy's parade on television and in the evening we went to the theatre while the father invited a friend to watch American football.
Black Friday was exhausting, because nine hours of shopping after only three hours of sleep is quite unusual. Plus, the sleep over in the evening, we had a hard day but a very good one.
And today I went ice skating and foraging in a bookstore with my penpal, we had a wonderful and funny time !
Tomorrow is the returning to school, and the beginning of another unforgettable week !
What happened lately - Madalina G.
This week I've done for the first time a lot of american stuff, and the most memorable were definitely Thanksgiving and Black Friday.
For Thanksgiving, pupils have a break of 3 days + weekend in order to celebrate it. This gave us the opportunity to have an in depth experience of the family life in USA. On Thanksgiving morning, everybody met at Fahina's house. All the girls (including me and Adele) started cooking the Thanksgiving meal, which ended up on a huge table, beautifully decorated. I ate like never before, and I tried everything: Turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, Pumpkin cupcakes! The thing that surprised me was that we never held hands and prayed or said what we're thankful for; we just jumped on the food.
Just after Thanksgiving we hurried up to bed, and after a few hours of sleep we woke up and went to the mall, at 4 a.m.! This was still reasonable, there were some people who didn't sleep at all and came from 10 p.m.. Black Friday, the big, crazy shopping day of the year, turned out to be pretty calm. The mall wasn't as crowded as in the pictures on the internet, not even close! We went all morning in shops and there were some very good deals, but I didn't buy anything at all! I know, shocking! I think I was too tired... However we went the day after that to another mall where I bought many things, especially from Abercrombie&Fitch! Today we'll go again to an outlet mall, and I heard from Rizlene that it's the place where you have to spend all your money!
After Black Friday we went to Amanda's party, and the Americans were shocked when they saw that French (and Romanian) people are party animals!
I hope I can put some pictures soon, to show how amazing it is around here!
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