Christmas

Christmas in America was different but also an expierence. That's the time when most of the exchange students get homesick and miss their familys and friends. For me it was kinda true, because we didn't have Lebkuchen (ginger bread cookies) or an Adventskranz (aaahm?!). But luckily I was around my host family most of the time, so it wasn't that bad. I also made my own Adventskranz. It looked pretty bad, but it was nice to have one. My family probably thought I was insane or something haha.

The decorations on the house can't be described, you just gotta see it. It's so amazing when you drive home and see all the lights and colors. Unfortunately I didn't take a lot of pictures. 

 That was our house:

 So many perople in school dressed up (that was mine though):

 Or we made decorations.

Before Christmas we met with our host grandma and some friends and made cookies.It was funny because my chinese host sister has never done it in her life, so she was all excited about it.

 That was our Christmas tree. It looked awesome with all the presents next to it. But, nobody has a real tree, they are all fake. We opened our presents on Christmas Eve and my host dad dressed up as Santa and we had to sit on his knees and tell him if we were good last year.It was sooo funny hahaha.

Since my boyfriend and I couldn't meet on Christmas Eve, he surprised me with a day in a park downtown. We took some pictures and had dinner afterwards.

Thanksgiving & Black Friday

I hope everybody knows what Thanksgiving is. My host family always celebrates with 3-4 turkeys and lots of lots of food. It's all about eating and I loved it :D I've never seen so much food and weeks after Thanksgiving we still had leftovers. In the first picture you can see pumpkin pie. It's a tradition to eat it on Thanksgiving.I haven't met a single person who doesn't like it, that's why you can find everything with pumpkin spice. Creamer, coffee, ice cream, oreos everything. At this point: I can't stand the taste of any of them. But maybe I'm just weird haha.

After dinner we waited until it was midnight and went shopping. Maybe you've heard about Black Friday, it starts at 12 and all the stores have biiiiiig sales. I'm not kidding, people end up in the hospital because they wanted the best deals. While others were shopping until 6 in the morning we went home at 3. I still bought a lot because after we woke up in the morning we went shopping again.

Halloween

Hi guys :) I know I'm the worst blogger you can possible imagine. Even though, I thought it might be a good idea to write in English, since it is faster and everything I experience is - of course - in English. So today is December 24th but I'll start with Halloween. Yes it's quite a while since October but who cares. Okay Americans and Halloween.. IT'S CRAZY! 3 weeks before, everybody ran to the stores and bought decoration, huge plastic ghosts and lots of candy. In some neighbourhoods it's like a competition what house is the scariest or the most decorated. Even in school we had dress up days and the teachers decorated their class rooms.

 On Friday I didn't go to school because we went to Montana.

My host grandma lives there by herself in a cabin deeeeeeep in the forest. There is absolutely nothing around but trees. She has no phone service, no warm water and no electricity. But I definitely have to say that Montana is so beautiful! I've never seen a landscape like that.

We went trick or treating with our little sister. In Germany it's different but here a lot of High School students go. And for good reason. You get so much candy!  Everybody was waiting behind their doors (or even in front of their doors to scare little kids) to hand out candy. Some people even made their own cookies or gave us hot cocoa. We stayed the whole weekend and played games and stuff. 

Bye guys :) Thanksgiving,Christmas and New Years follows ;)