Week 1 in Seattle

This is a blog about my life in Seattle for 2 month together with my lovely class!

Week one in Seattle – 9/28/12 – 10/7/12 – and yes it is month/date/year

Now week one is over and it has been a fantastic week, almost.

The first thing is the weather, we have been so lucky – it is fantastic over here, it has not been raining one day, like it does in Denmark all the time. The sun is shining everyday on a cloudless sky and it is at least 20 degrees!

Last Friday we landed about 11:15am and we were al excited to meet our new families. Unfortunately it didn’t work out with mine, so after the weekend at Monday I had to move to a new family.

So now I’m living with 5 Filipino ladies and a girl from China. They are very kind and have been so good to me - I like it here! Even though I’m living with 5 Filipinos and in a house with a little different culture, I still got the American food at breakfast and lunch – thanks to my host mom Betty! But I only use a fork and a spoon when I’m eating at home, no knife!

This week we also started in school. We have 6 subjects – English, calculus, chemistry, history, biology and physics. Fortunately the teachers back in Denmark have been speaking English in their classes since summer, and then it is not so hard to understand what the teachers are talking about – because these subjects are some of the most difficult to learn in English! 

Edmonds Community College where I will go to school for the next to month – this is just a little part of the campus and as you can see is the weather fantastic!

But now to the fun part of this week!!

Shopping and “hygge”

This week, I think everybody has been spending a lot of hours in Alderwood Mall - including myself, it is a very big shopping center. Thursday a new H&M opened, so we were many that went to the Mall – again. I ended up buying two shirts, a pair of Nike free shoes and I got one more piercings in the ear together with Cecilia. It was really a good day, and we ended up at Red Robin for our dinner – a real American restaurant with big burgers and American Football on TV!

Victoria’s Secret in Alderwood Mall together with Athis and Simone

A lot of us ended up at Red Robin where we got a real American burger and refill soda

I specially love the shop Abercrombie and Fitch – their clothes is just so comfortable and looks good, specially to the men and of course I also ended up with a shirt from there – not the last thing!

Abercrombie & Fitch in Seattle Downtown together with Elise – there are some lovely pictures and clothes

Line, Simone, Cecilia and I have also been in Target – a huge American Supermarket where you can get everything you want! I think that the part with the healthy food was like at least ten times smaller than the part with candy and unhealthy food – Crazy!

Seattle Downtown

Saturday Elise, Athis and I went to Seattle Downtown – long awaited! We had an amazing day and we had a lot of fun as tourists!

We went on this “land and boat tour” where we started in Seattle driving to different places with high music and people were in such good mood, then we went in the water, still the same bus, so funny! But the tour was fantastic, very beautiful and I have never seen a such a crazy/childish person as our driver – he was so funny and it made the tour something I never will forget!

After the tour we went to dinner at the Hard Rock Café and of course we had to try their burgers! When we had finish our dinner we went home, but not without trouble finding the bus, but we found it – “thanks” to 5 different people that had given us 5 different places in Seattle, where we could take it – we got safely home, with tired legs!

This picture shows Seattle out from the water then we were on our tour

Seattle Downtown with very high and big, but still beautiful buildings

Ride the Ducks was the name at the tour Elise, Athis and I went on     

We met this guy when we walked around in Seattle – he was very funny!

We ended up at the Hard Rock Café tired and very hungry! 

Paragliding

Sunday was the funniest and the most exciting day – I went paragliding together with Line, Elise and Mia. It was really beautiful on the top of the mountain and the view was fantastic! We had an instructor behind us, so we could just enjoy the flight and the gorgeous view there was no matter where we looked. It was so weird just hanging in the air, just flying like a bird – no words can actually describe it, you have to try on your own!

The only negative part of it was the wind, because we could only be in the air for like 5-7 minutes and that felt like 30 seconds. But it was still worth the money and I would do it again, absolutely!
After the paragliding we went to the center of Issaquah to the salmon days festival, where we got some lunch and looked around.

The gorgeous view on the top of the mountain where we jumped/flight from

Mia was out paragliding as the first of the 4 of us

How it is to be from Denmark when you’re taking the bus in America

Every time us Danish students take the bus, everybody wants to know where we are from (they love small talking!) – but at first they always come with guess as France, German and sometimes the Netherlands, not one has said Denmark!

When they so hear we from Denmark they’re just like: Oh that’s amazing, fantastic and so on, but some of them still don’t know that Denmark is a country in Europe.

Often they also can ask us which language we speak and when we said Danish they are just like: so which country do you then come from? – Really funny!