Thanksgiving and a bit more... :)

Last weekend 8 of my class mates and I went to Portland to do some cheap shopping (as there is not tax on material goods in Portland. The state tax is alternatively paid through the inhabitants income) and also watch a basket ball game.

The basketball game turned out to be just great, I liked that a lot more than American football. The atmosphere was a lot more intimate here, as it was inside and also people cheered a lot more than at the Sea-hawks game. Portland Blazers (the home team) won in the last minute so it was just great and in fact super-duper exciting. We had bought really cheap tickets so we were placed quite far away from the court. In fact we were sitting on the very last row… But that just signified that we were able to act up like crazy J

That night turned out to never end though… We had to go up the next morning at 5 in order to catch a bus back to Seattle, as we had to go to school. But as our course is almost over, we were going to have a math quiz the very same day + had an assignment in math due. Stupid as we were we had kept on postponing finishing the math assignment, so we ended up staying up to almost 4 and then we slept an hour before going to school… Living the American life is quite tough…!

After the quiz at school Laurids and I went to celebrate my host-sisters 19^th birthday. The rest of the week went with thanksgiving, Black Friday and the last trip to Seattle.

Yes, Thanksgiving and Black Friday have passed – and both have been great experiences!

We got off school Tuesday because of Thanksgiving coming up. Wedensday we had thanksgiving at my house, as my host-mom was going to her dad’s house on the real thanksgiving. So we celebrated Wednesday night with Laurids’ host-family. The food was actually great and we all got to “thank” for different aspects of our lives.

At Camillas on Thanksgiving :)

Thursday I went to Camilla’s house to celebrate Thanksgiving with her host-family. Here her host-mom’s relatives came over. As we were a lot more people and because it was the “real” thanksgiving there was a lot more food – in fact it resembled a Danish Christmas Eve quite a lot. J

Black Friday was crazy! Black Friday is always the Friday day after Thanksgiving and it is “Christmas sales” starting at midnight. Camilla and I had decided to go, so we took a cap with Laurids and Jeppe there and were met by a 500 meter long line in front of “Best buy” an electronic store. Some people had been waiting for hours and when we arrived they were just about to open the doors. I have really never seen anything like that.... Greedy people basically ran in and we could see how they started just pulling stuff down the shelves...!!!! 

So we were shopping all the way to 6 in the morning. And I tell you, there were just people everywhere! Families and even kids were running around like crazy screaming and pulling clothes and stuff from the shelves in the shops…! Camilla and I went back to her house with two dead Japanese girls (seriously her host sister was walking in her sleep!), slept a couple of hours before we went back to shopping in the afternoon. I have never been much of a shopper so I think I have shopped for the rest of my life…!

Anyway, now it is Sunday and we only have three days left here… Can’t believe it… Two months has passed already!