Farewell US, Hellow Denmark

Done with the US, so now the journey home is waiting on us. I am kinda looking forward to go flying again, but this time I am planning to sleep the whole flight cross the atlantic. Sure, I am missing out on the beautiful view over Greenland, but I would much rather be sleeping on the plain, and then hopefully be fresh and filled with energy when I come to Denmark. That way there is a chance I would be able to play handball monday night with my buddies.
But I will for sure miss the good times we have had over here. Miss the fact that we eat out together so often, do things together all the time. Sure, we will have the oppertunity to do the same thing when we get home, but it will be much harder to get together, and most of us have used almost all our money on trip over here, so the financial side will probably be a problem.
Will I miss my hostfamily? hmm... Yearh I think I will miss their way of living and the way my hostmom cooks, but I think they will miss me more than I will miss them. I have another life to continue when I get home, but they will miss out on having me and Orson here (Orson will be remove from this hostfamily, because my hostmom and him and troubles getting along). Especially Sean will miss having a older brother to fight and tease him and maybe doing his homework with him. Me and Orson have been the only friends he have seen these 2 months, so I am afraid he will be quite lonely.

Health in the US

As I knew before I got to the US, there is a lot of big people and people with bad health over here. As espected most of this is because of the many fastfood restaurants and all the oily food served. What I didn't espect. was the way foodselling companies was advertising their products and filled it with healthy stuff to make people eat/drink more of it. I have seen examples of juice that covered 150% of your daily vitamin need. A honey covered cereal with almost 33% suger, that can help lowering your colesterol number. I mean thats just wrong. Juice stuffed with extra vitamins just to make it sell better, is more than I would think of as nice. Of course it is easyer to get all your vitamins as long as the juice has a trait of all kind of vitamins. It wouldn't be that big a deal if that would have been one of the few products stuffed with extra vitamins, but unfortunatly I've seen it on many packages. 

The advertising with lower cloesterol number is almost worse i thing. It encourrage people to buy the product if they have a bad health and then when the colesterol number might be normal, there is a big chance that they might have turned fat whilst, because of alle the sugar products, that could lower their number.

Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday

Thanksgiving day and Black Friday is probably the two day of which I have been expected, and the two days I knew would be awesome even before I got over here. Actually almost the only days were I knew what would happen before I got over here. I knew, that I on Thanksgiving day would spend the time with my hostfamily and friends of them, and afterwards go home and get ready for shopping all night. What I didn't knew before I got over here was that Kristian would keep me company during these two days, and that me and Kristian on Black Friday would join Pernille and her family for another hockeygame in Everett. 

As said, Kristian had no place to go because his family couldn't take him with them to their thansgivingdinner, so he joined me at noon at my place, where we played some wii and got ready for the Thanksgiving Dinner in Seattle at one of my hostmoms friends place. It was a filipino family we went to visit, so it was no traditional american dinner we had. Instead of turkey with mash potatoes and gravy, we had chicken with soup and rice. It was very well cooked and tasted great so the fact that it wasn't traditional didn't really matter, because we still got to see the Super Bowl. When we left their house after a lot of food chit-chat and football at 8:00 PM, Kristian and I decided to go home and watch a movie, and maybe get nap before we went out.

When we got to the mall around 2:30 AM we didn't really have anything to shop for so we just visited random store, whilst we were waiting to go to BestBuy around 5:00 AM. When we got there half a hour after we had planned, the store was filled with people, so when we finaly found everything we were looking for we stood in line for 30-60 minutes. At that point we thought this was the biggest line we would see today. So when we got to target, and found a line on almost 2 hours we were shocked. To our fortune we found a line that was closing, sneaked up in the rear end of that, and waited only 20 miutes to get to the cashier. 

At that point we were ready to go to sleep, but I still needed some stuff in the mall I couldn't find cheaper in some of the other stores. Then when we both finally were done shopping we went to his place to get some rest before we should head over to Pernilles place. At the point we fell to sleep the clock was something around 9 AM. Then at 12 AM Pernille had ended her shopping day, and decided to go wake us up, so we could keep her company at her place. Kristian decided we would rather stay and sleep, and I figured, that I could as well go over there and sleep there. When I got there, it turned out that I couldn't sleep any more, so we started to play Mario and her wii. So during these to days, I slept 30 minutes at my place before the shopping started, 3 hours at Kristians place, and almost 30 minutes on and of at Pernilles. 4 hours from thursday to friday, so I was rather surprised I had so much energy left when we got to the hockeygame, which we btw lost 4-1. 

Great to days even thou it wasnt't what i expected.

Everett Silvertips

The coolest and most exciting event I have been to over here in the US, was the friday I went with Steffen, Bertel, Sara, Emma, Pernille and Pernille's hostfamily to watch a hockey game in Everett. Even thou it was the junior league the niveau of skills during the match were incredible high. We saw a lot of fighting and good hockey playing, but the coolest experience at this game was the fans. Everybody was jelling and cheering for good and for bad. When a fight was on, words were said that I won't write in here, but trust me..., they didn't learn it from their mother! It was nice, but not as nice as all their timeout activities. Everytime there was some sort of break in the match, a contest of some kind would go on, and a random winner amongst the crowd would recieve a gift. That was kinda wierd, but not as wierd as the dancing contest. In the break between two periods the host lauched a contest were the cameras would film people dancing, and the crowd should cheer loud and insanely when they saw a dance they liked. It ended up with a approximetly 6 years old girl acting insane. She ended up with a cash award and a happy mother by her hand.

Harry Potter in the IMAX

Saturday, one day after the release date, me and several others from the class went to see the newest Harry Potter movie. We had booked ourselfs tickets to the big IMAX at the mall. On forhand I had been told that the IMAX was a big round screen, so automaticaly I thought of a dome like the one at the Planetariet in Copenhagen. So I was rather surprised to see the screen was nothing else that a screen with a tiny curve. But of course it was a huge screen with a tiny curve.
It was awesome to see the newest Harry Potter in there, especially because it was Harry Potter, which is one of the best stories ever. When the movie was over we all went to a Italian restaurant for late dinner. On the way over there we talked about the movie. Some said they were a bit disappointed because of the lack of minor details, but they had just finished the reading the book behind the movie so thats probably way. I read the book as soon as it got out, which is long ago and I was no way near disappointed, and btw it was a movie based on a book so not all details can get shown.

The daily life in Seattle

Considering the fact that I have been here for almost two months now, I think it would be appropriate if I told a little about my family and how we get along in the afternoons and evenings. 

Mostly when I get home from school my hostmom (Imelda) and Sean (my hostbrother) are at home too. Imelda is checking her e-mail, preparing dinner or watching Filipino television if Sean isn´t using it. If he isn´t watching gamingshows on the TV, Sean is to find in front of his gameboy or in their personal room doing his homework or whatsoever.

When the clock gets near 5:00 pm Orson (the other student in my house) come home. He often go straight to his room, ´cause he is busy studying. If I am the lucky guy of the day, and have the remote to the TV, and therefore watching it instead of being in my room, he stays down for a short while to talk. He´s a nice guy, but because of his eager to learning and speaking English he usually speak to fast with a weird accent, and it makes it hard to understand from time to time.

When the clock is almost 6:00 pm Orson and I go down to the kitchen, were Orson helps Imelda preparing the last food whilst I set the table. During the dinner there is a whole lot of different chit-chat and maybe none at all, it is very different from day to day. When we are done eating each person have to do their one dish, because Imelda believes in an exact same treatment of me and Orson. It is fair and doesn´t really bother me, as long as I don´t have to do it when I get back home to DK.

The rest of the night is mostly spend in front of the TV or the laptop, chatting and watching many different series. Around midnight I turn off all the electronics and go to bed.