Bea in the US: November 2011

since I wrote the last post on my blog. So it's time to write a little bit about what happened in the last few weeks. I started to go out more often, we have a meeting once in every month with the other au pairs, and I went to pubs, and bars with Nina. :) I started school too, I'm taking English classes on every Saturday, yesterday was my second class.

Maybe I could start to wirte about how was my first Halloween here. :)

It was last weekend (it seems it was more than a week ago) so Nina came over on Friday, and we went to the cinema, we watched Crazy, stupid love, it was just one of those girly movies with some jokes, I liked it. :) And after that we went to an Irish pub which is just like 2 minutes walk from the cinema, on the other side of the road. Nina's friend came too, Jamie. We were talking about where should we go for Halloween, Nina's neighbors had a house party but it didn't seem interesting, because she said it's a party with people in their middle age. The other option just came up in the bar. We saw a sign about 100 dollars prize for the best Halloween custom and the party's ig going to be in the bar on Saturday. Well I thought you could spend 100 dollars too, to get a really good custom so it's not worth it and that bar's like filled up with older (posh) people. But than, Jamie came up with an idea, that we could go to their house party too, so in the end

we decided to go there. We had so much thing to do next day, go to school in the morning, go shopping in the afternoon, get a custom for Halloween, and get a winter coat because it was snowing (!!!). We fortunately found a good place to buy our custom. I bought a devil horn with a red bow and tail which I didn't wear, and Nina got a bunny ears with a a white bow and a bunny tail (so cute). :) And we got winter coats too, I'm so glad about that, because now, it's so cold in the morning and in the evenings.

It was so much fun to go with bus and metro to Jamie's place, everybody was dress up in costumes, there was Elmo and some caracters from Sasame street super heroes, one of my best was Indiana Jones, he looked just like him! The people here are really excited about this holiday, you could never

see the same at home, because of course, we don't celebrate it. So we arrived to the house party, the people were already downstairs at the basement. We didn't know anybody and the party hasn't started yet at the time we arrived. But than after a half hour they turned off the lights and turned on the 'disco' lights and the party started and we started to drink...there was a mixed drink, everybody said it's just juice mixed with beer, and didn't understand, what's the point drinking the beer with juice, if I want to drink beer, I would never mix it. Next day, it turned out there was vodka in that mixed drink too... :) This makes more sense. :D

The party was good, the music was good too, it was a typical american house party, and a black guy showed up, whom nobody knew, just like in the movies. After we got ready we went to Ihop, it's a restaurant, typical american again, with pancakes, omelets, sandwiches, burgers, yummm, but because

I was hangover a little bit I couldn't eat really heavy food, so I choose omelet and we got free pancakes with it. Than it took more than 2 hours to get back with metro and bus.

Than it was monday already, everybody went to work, and at night was time for trick or treating. Kid's favorite part of Halloween. So I stayed home, while the kid's were out to get some treats. :) It was fun wait for kids, see their customs, and give some treats for them.

It was a good experience to see all these, I feel I want to be a part of more like these, just celebrate holidays, I can't wait for Thanksgiving and

I hope I can taste the real american turkey. :P

Bea in the US

Sunday, November 6, 2011

Zoo in DC

Last night

It's been a long time