Thanksgiving...

It was thanksgiving on thursday. Actually I don't really know what that day is celebrating for, but it's a holiday here in America and the kids are out of school for 2 days.....so thurs, fri, then sat, sun...it's a super long weekend...

and here in america, the day after thanksgiving is like a sales day..big sales...and pple who wants cheap cheap things will rush to the stores early early to queue for the sales...haha...a bit like singaporeans hor? :P

Anyway...on thurs, I helped my host mum to prepare for the dinner. We started at 10am in the morning...and just kinda worked all thru the morning and afternoon...it really is time consuming to prepare everything ourselves...but it was fun...then we had a big dinner then dessert...pecan pie...this is the first time i'm having it...very nice... :)

then i was practically off for the 4 days...thurs n fri i didnt hv to wake up early...then today and tmr is my off day so...it was nice, but im feeling restless liao....want to start the week faster...haha....

can you guys imagine? It has been 4 mths....going into the 5th mth liao...how time flies...8 more mths and it will be time to go home...im feeling a bit sad too..missing home a little...then i went shopping..sigh...spend more $$ again...i bought a hat, long john and some slippers socks....i wonder why they are called slippers socks...but they are very cute and it's 2 for USD5 so i bought it..hehee...then bought another long sleeve shirt and 2 bags of twistie like snack (but they are in the car) haha...havent decide where i can put them...cannot let the kids see... :P

ohwell...i guess that's it for now..im going to change into my pajamas...bye...

My favourite watch

My Baby-G watch is broken....i'm so sad now... :( I really don't know what happened. It was still working on fri and sat and suddenly this morning when i wanted to wear it, i found that the LCD is broken and it's not working totally...

Now, i would have to wait until i go back sg to fix it...sob sob...

Friday at the movies...

It was friday yesterday and i was happy to be able to go to Sophie's house for the movie. Sophie's host parents and the kids were out for a vacation and there we go...yippe...i didnt know what to expect, but i was really looking forward to it. I finish work about 8pm and off i go...i was driving in the dark, looking at the streets name, hoping that i wouldnt miss the turn, and there we go, i missed it becos i was driving a little too fast to make the turn. heehee...it's ok, it happens a lot here, i've learnt to turn back as quickly as i can, so that i dont go on the wrong way, i make a turn and got to her plc finally.

There were 7 of us altogether, one singaporean(me), one turkish(betul), one korean(silvia), one german(isabell), one austrian(sophie), one canadian(erith) and one south african(salom). Nice...it's a good mix of pple...heehee..so then they started to make nachos and pizza....very interesting night i would say...and then we talked a little bit. Then it was movie time...heehee

the first show we watched was "Kicking and Screaming"...quite a funny show...then we had a break and the girls ate ice-cream...i was very tempted to but i'm having such a bad cough that i dont want to eat anything to make it worse...so i resisted and...ate chocolate instead! haha.. :P

after that, i left...the other girls spent the night there....silvia and me went back home...it's nice to be able to have a bed to sleep in...i think i'm too old to "dawn" all night liao...haha...they were saying to plan on going D.C tomorrow (which is actually today)....

so today (Saturday), i went to the planetarium with my host family.....it was in D.C, at the musuem of national history...it's 3D...quite nice, but isabelle was scared and Kelly had to stay outside with her, missing the whole show...i felt bad... :( anyhow, we finished the show and then i stayed on in D.C to wait for the girls....

i was waiting alone at this part of D.C where they have a lot of homeless pple...i must admit i was a bit scare...so i went into Starbucks, hoping to find a plc to sit n wait...just when i finished ordering, some pple took the seat i was eyeing....damn...so i have to go out into the streets again...oh....btw, Starbucks is everywhere here...literally everywhere....especially in the cities...you walk a bit, Starbucks, walk more, Starbucks....aiyo...it's really everywhere...anyway...
then they came, but only 3 of them..oh well...then we shopped and walked ard a little bit and went home becos i need to work tonight...so right now, the girls are sleeping and i'm waiting for my host parents to come back so that i can go to sleep too...heehee...tmr is the cultural fair...haha...seems like a lot of us are not too enthusiastic abt it!! :P

More updates

ok, the previous one was for Boston, then this one is just a little more..heehee...well, i just came back from a movie. Watched "In her shoes". Quite a nice movie, i like it, and it's nice to go to the movies after 3 months..heehee...

i met a few more au pairs today, they are really nice to hang out with, but sad to say, i'm the oldest among them....:P oh well...but i looked like their age though, so it's good... :)

well, maybe next fri, there will be a movie night at one of the girls' plc. I hope i'll be able to go. It's nice to be with other pple sometimes. For 3 months, i've only had this one friend becos i dont take classes, so i'm determined to make my life here more colourful :P heehee

Anyway, thanksgiving is coming soon. Think i'll just stay here with the family. And i discovered that Alexandria, another part of Virginia actually have scottish heritage. How nice. I went to Alexandria yesterday. It was a nice town. I like it and they are going to have a really big scottish parade in dec...guess i wouldn't miss it. It would be like in scotland again... :) nice...

Next sunday there will be a cultural fair and I'm going to represent singapore!! haha...i got the embassy to send me some brochures but dunno if it will be good enough. Maybe i'll just think of something more...anyone has any suggestions for me??!!! HELP!!

Boston

i was writing this blog last monday and somehow there was a server problem and then it wasnt posted and i lost the post ...arghh...i was too lazy to write everything again then, so i'm writing it now :P

well...i went boston on the 28th Oct to 30th Oct. It was such a long ride to boston....i actually only spent one full day there. I boarded the bus on Fri at 10:30am, then it was like almost 10pm when we reach Boston. We started out from Washington D.C, then went on to Maryland, Philadelphia, New Jersey, New York to pick up more pple along the way. To be exact, to pick up au pairs. Apparently, all those in this trip are au pairs....oh well...

i think i really have enough of all girls outing...it was scary to be with so many girls all the time actually. I think I'm not balanced :P hahahaha...

oh well...then sat morning, we had an included half day tour, then it started to get really cold and started snowing. And it was snowing really heavy and i didnt really go around much. So much for the one whole day. Then on sunday, we had a very good day. It was sunny and not too cold! If only sat was this good too...anyway, we left about 12pm, heading home. We went through the same places and finally, Washington D.C.

From there, i had to take a Metro back to the station near my plc and then this freaky guy sat in front of me, almost facing me! And i totally freak out!! he was like crazy or something....i was so scared...my heart was pumping so hard i feel like im going to explode anytime!!

But, thank God, i got to the station safely and my host dad came to pick me up. So much for the Boston trip...