Birthday, Thanksgiving and a full 2 weeks!

Hey,
it's finally time for an update, so here we go! :)

1 week

My first week here went by super fast.
We had family over from New York, Pennsylvania and San Francisco and it was so great to meet them all and to get to spend some time with them.

monday I got to pick up M. from "mdo" all by myself for the first time and it went pretty well. Since then I've been out by myself a lot of times and am starting to find my way arround a lot better.

Birthday!
On the 25th of November it was my birthday, which I got to celebrate with the family and also share it with one of my hostmoms friends! We had a nice dinner together and a lot of fun playing a game. I was super blessed with some awesome gifts!!! (Thank you!!)
Later in the evening I went out with my friend Anna.
We went to the Mall of America for the first time, and let me tell you, it is BIG!
Sadly the shops were about to close, so we ended up at the movie theatre and watched "2012".
It was ok, just a little overdone.. and it went on for 2 hours and something...so I got home way later than I had planed!

Thanksgiving
We had an early dinner with the family, which was soo good!
Afterwards we all played games together and just had a great time hanging out!!

I started taking the bus more often now. It is great that I actually have a bus going here. Most of my friends don't even have a bus in their area. It's a great way of getting around, although I felt a little lost the first time I took one, just like first grade when mom puts you on the school bus for the first time by yourself. ;)

Saturday I finally got to meet Sam at the MOA (Mall of America). We only had time for a quick coffee, but I was glad that I got to see her!
I stayed at the mall and bought a bunch of stuff to get started with my scrapbook! Spent way to much money on it, but hey, you need a hobby, right?! :)
Then I went to see "New Moon" later. I decided to get tickets to the VIP theatre. It's inside the normal theatre, but every friday and saturday they have VIP rooms. You have to be 21 to get in and the seats are bigger than normal and you have a small table next to your seat. But the coolest thing were the waiters. You didn't have to get your Popcorn or anything, the come and take your order!! :) So I got a beer and a lemonade and made myself a "Radler" :)

Sunday I went to church with my family and then Anna came over to my place and we took a bus downtown.
We walked arround a little bit and then decided to go to the MOA so Anna could look at Scrapbooking stuff too..

2 week

Since the last week had been pretty busy with having visitors, this was my first week of "normal" living here at the house.
And you know what, I still love it! :)

I didn't so to much this week, since I was tired after work or just sat down to Scrapbook a little. I got 4 pages done so far, and I really enjoy making them.

Wednesday my hostmom gave me a gift. Striped Pyjamas!! Everyone in our family has them, and they are only to wear during the month of december! :) fun! I look like an elf in them! :D

Yesterday I met some new girls and went out to dinner with them. We were six germans and I had a good time meeting them and finding out where they live arround here.

Tonight I hope I can go out with Sam and some other girls.


Well, that's it so far.
Work is going very well, I enjoy spending time with the kids and have a fun time with them. Of course there are things I have to get used to first and things I need to learn how to do, but that's all part of the fun!

Hope to hear from you!