Host-sisters-night! (#1)

Hey you lovely people!

This weekend was absolutely one of my favorites, and you guys are the lucky ones, who are going to hear about it ;)

Well, it actually started pretty boring. Chemistry lab all afternoon, so I wasn’t home before 6:15 pm! Not my favorite part, I admit. But – and here comes the good part – I spend all Friday and the most of my Saturday with my host sisters from China, Yating and Janet!

Friday night, and the first I did when I came home was going down to my room. Yating, the one who lives in the basement with me, was on her way to the kitchen, and then she just asked me: “Can I hug you?” – Awww, isn’t that just sweet? And I really needed it, because I was so exhausted after chemistry lab!

Well, we cooked some food and then Janet, my other host sister, came and ate with us. It was so cozy, and they barely talked Chinese to each other, so in that way, I could also understand what they were talking about. And then… we went to QFC (local grocery) to buy HOT CHOKOLATE AND CUPCAKES! I think we used about one hour in QFC, trying to decide which cake we wanted to have (I’m a cake-lover, and I found out that day, that they were too!). We went for the chocolate cupcakes with M&M’s on top, with a lot of (surprise) chocolate-frosting. Through this trip I’ve tried not to eat all sugar – but Friday, I went crazy!

Janet (left) and Yating on our way to QFC.

We took the bus home – in order not to smash our lovely cupcakes – and then we just made it all ready and the rest of the night, we watched ‘America’s funniest home videos’, ‘Friends’, ‘Reba’ and ‘Two and a Half Men’. We laughed, talked and I really just felt like my host family was the right family for me.

Saturday we were all tired from watching television ‘till the break of dawn, but we got up. My host mother Evangeline, Yating and I went to this really strange Korean restaurant, and THAT was worth the experience. It was my first time with chopsticks and I can tell you – I SUCKED! My host mother is from the Philippines and as I had mention before, two of my four host sisters are from China, so of course they had no problems with the chopsticks. Me? Well, I learned how to handle them, but perhaps I’m more a fork-and-knife kind of person ;)
Acutally i also teached Yating danish! She now knows how to say "Hvordan har du det idag" (how are you doing today) and "Jeg elsker dig" (I love you) - and I love her chinese accent!

And for dinner that day, my host mother’s daughter and one of her sons were eating with us. They were really nice and Christina, my host mother’s daughter, looked like a 24-year old (and blond) version of my host mother! And then she gave us massages Sunday, you can’t complain about that!

I hope I will have more of these weekends, ‘cause even though I wasn’t with anyone from my class, I had an amazing time with my host family!