Monday, September 7, 2009

Getting Yankees' friends

After being a while in Mankato, I started to feel that I wanted to go out of the place. Labor day was coming, which meant a long weekend, especially for me because I do not have classes on Friday!!! So, I was making my mind in doing something. Lucky me, I started to be friend from one of my classmates. He asked me to go with him to his parent's home during the weekend. Despite that I wasn't sure because I just was getting to know him, I took the chance.

My experience was much better than I thought at first. Jimmy (my yankee friend) took me to a lot of different places. During the first day, his showed me the room where I would stay for the weekend. Such a beautiful room!!! The same day later, Jimmy took me to the skate park, the river and Lake Rebecca. Everything was so nice and natural :D At night I enjoyed of the best dinner ever!!! I was amazed of such a great and tasty food. Then, Jimmy and me hanged out in town and we got to know better each other.

The second day we went to Minneapolis to know the city and Mall of America. There we visited the Museum of Arts in UM where was the exposition "Somali Diaspora" was being showed. I learned about their immigration and stories. Then, we walked in the city and finally in the Mall. That Mall of America is huge!!! We had a lot of fun there, especially in the "mirror amazed park" (if that is the name of the place :P)

The third day we went into the woods to look for some old cars and later to the beach. I learned a lot about yankee's family. They are really nice and warm, although they spend a lot of money that can be save... I saw how bombard they are because of advertisements, and some weird night commercials. Also, I learned which was the influence of TV and movies in their lives... it is really interesting that these things have influence that much in teenager lives.

I hope to have more aventures like this to learn more about US


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