A GrEaT wEekEnD~

I went to visit my host family last weekend. It is such a great experience as I learn more about the American culture. The first night, we went to Menomonie, which my host family have a cabin beside a lake. We went swimming on friday evening; although the weather was warm enough for us to go outside but the water was so cool. None of us can stay in this cool water for very long. However, this might be the last time for us to swim in the lake for this year, so we don't care about the cool water and swim for quite a while. In fact, I'm having so much fun with this kind of activities; ride on boat, swim in lake, having a soda drink in hand... It's so RELAX~
One of the reason I chose to visit my host family during last weekend is because my host sister is leaving soon. Her name is Jilly, who from Malaysia too. I'm so glad to be her host sister, because she's such a caring person and she share a lot of experience to me. She is even give me a lot of advices and teach me a lot of things. However, she was graduate in UWEC in summer, so she has to go back to Malaysia after all. She will be leaving in this week, so we chose to have a farewell for her.
We came back to Eau Claire on saturday noon. Jilly brough me and Mayumi (My another host sister, who came from Japan) to an Asian food shop, where we can get a lot of Asian food over there. Food was my biggest problem when I first arrived here, and she's the one that understood a lot about our(me and Mayumi) feeling. She even cook us some rice during the first weekend she's here. I love her so much~
After visiting the Asian food shop, we sent Mayumi back to her dorm because she need to catch up with some activities on saturday night. After went back to my host family's house, Jilly and I started to cook. We had make a special dinner for the family. That night, we went to Karaoke, I learn something new during that night...
When we're in the Karaoke, we meet two group of people that came for the "bridal shower" party. "Bridal shower"??? It's a new term for me... I had never heard of this in my entire life in Malaysia. It's actually an party for the people who are getting marry soon, usually happened a month before the wedding. The bridal and the "gang" usually have a theme on that night, they dress up with same color, or even the same shirt. Usually the bridal will have a "crazy" night, which according to them this might be the "last" night for her to meet and flirting around with the other guys. The first group of people that came, all dress in black. The first thing I saw when they came in was the big pexxxx that one of them carry on her hand. I was first wondering what she's carrying, but after a few second, I realised of it. The bridal always the one with something special either on her shirt or her head that people can easily recognize that she is the bridal. The first bridal was dress in black (I guess "black" is their dressing code on that night) but she have a crown on her head and a pink shirt that "specially" made, which they stick some candy on the shirt. According to them, they will walk around to grap some guy to "take" down the candy, mostly using their mouth; but you have to pay before you do so. This is one of the way they can gain some money for their wedding. Not only that, they also sell some lollipop.
The second group all dress up the same t-shirt. Of course, the bridal would look different from the other. She was wearing veils on her head, and she was carrying a "man"(plastic one which need to blow up with air), and the "man" was just wearing an underwear with pexxxx outside of the underwear. My host family keep asking me not to look at that, but my curiousity had overcome my host family's advice. I even took some picture with the "man" after some times. It was fun to watch how crazy these people are and learn the American culture.
My last day in my host family's house was quite fun also, because I can finally experience how's the American react when dealing with American football. They sat on a big screen tv, and scream when their supporting team won. They usually having a lot of family members together to watch the game, and they usually will have a lot of nice snacks while watching the game.
I love to join my host family and spend some quality times with them. They are such a great person. I learned a lot of American culture from them. I really feel lucky to have them to be my host family after all. I think UWEC is really my best choice...

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在美国的新生活

不知不觉来了美国已一个月了。这一个月以来，感觉一切都过得好快。除了刚开始的两个星期都还在适应这里的以外，接下来的日子都过得还好。从一开始不太适应这里的食物到如今的接受一切，甚至于开始学会享受这一切一切与我活了二十几年都没碰处过的东西，觉得自己真的很幸运。

嗯…现在才发现原来坐长途飞机真的不是好玩的，想起一个月前搭飞机的经验真的让我马上打起冷汗来了。尤其是飞长达十一小时的飞机…被夹在中间的我真的好难受噢，不但不能常常站起来走动，也非常的难入睡…真不敢想像我们是如何熬过来的…也让我一想起要回马来西亚的时候还要受同样的痛苦…唉…

其实我觉得自己还蛮幸运的啦。因为自己被分派到一个非常不错的host family…他们真的很热情，也很好人。是他们在凌晨一点多到我们到达的地方接我们。刚开始的那几天都是在他们的家里过。主人家还带我及另外一位从日本来的女生到他们的度假屋玩。由于男主人真的很多话说，所以都让我们没什么时间想家。一直到回到了宿舍，当一切都静了下来以后，顿时让我非常的想家。但这一切很快就过去了，因为我开始认识许多的新朋友。日子也过得非常的充实…
这几个礼拜都在忙于功课，这里的教授都好勤劳，每一天都有做不晚的功课。唉…让我想偷懒一下下都不行…
昨天下午我和朋友去了这个城市的一个盛会，真的非常不一样，也是一个非常新的体验。今天，我还去了学跳舞。今天学的是本地的一个舞蹈。觉得还蛮好玩的，我决定了每个日都要去学，也顺便可以减肥嘛…呵呵…

My first event in USA...

Today I went to the International Fall Festival, and its really suprise me with all the different cultures in United States of America(USA). The event was took place in the Barstow Street, downtown of Eau Claire. When I first walked in the Barstow Street I saw two people were "fighting" with sword in their hands. This two people was dress up like the war time soldier, which I usually only saw in the movies. This is the first time I see people playing fencing right in front of me, and this is also the first time I see it in real. It really suprise me. Then me and my other two friends keep "discovering". As we walked down the street, we saw a lot of stalls at two side of the street. Not only that, there is a stage where people are playing and singing the country music, and I love the music they play very much. We also saw the place where there are a lot of animals and people can feed the animals by paying some money to buy the food for the animals. After that, we saw a lot of native people selling their cultural stuff, such as cloth, and jewelry. Not only that, there are a lot of stalls selling foods, drinks, and etc. There was something that catch my attention while we on the way "hunt" for our lunch. It were two cars; two cars that I only saw in the animation. I can't remember whats the tittle of the animation but my friend and I took a picture of it. Not long after that, I meet my host family. I was so happy to see them around cos I got few weeks didn't meet them already, and I missed them so much. After some talked with my host fmily, we keep discovering, we each bought some foods, drinks, ice-creams, and Sushi. When we finished our meal, we found that it was almost the time for the parade. Once again we meet up with my host family, and we sat beside the street to wait for the parade. We were getting so excited when we saw our home country's flag, and we cheer so loud for it. The people in parade keep threwing some candies to the people that watching the parade. There were few kids around us, and they were getting so "crazy" while the people were threwing the candies, and this scenes make us laugh a lots. Finally, when the parade finished, we were get ready to come back to our university. After I say goodbye to my host family, my friends and I walked back to our dorm. We each bought something in this event. I bought myself some bookmarks, and a necklace. Although the whole event is quite similar to what we called "night market" in my country, but still I saw someting different in it. This was the first event after a month I'm here in USA and I enjoyed a lots for learning some of the culturals here.