1# Living like no limitation as limitation

I had already been here for 2 weeks now, but for me it was like I had been trough a whole life, because I had experienced and learned a lot. The first day of being an American was according to me a very nice experience. I had really achieved a lot just by being here. The first thing I really was in awe with, was the way American behave, like they were very open-minded about anything, this was something very unfamiliar and strange for me. Well, how can you be so much open-minded? Don’t you need any kind of privacy?

On the other hand, I soon found out that, by expressing yourself honestly to others you will really get ride off any trouble you had been trough your whole life. According to me or through my naked eyes I feel that all Americans live like no limitation as limitation and I think it is a nice way to express who you really are, because if you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. What I have learned is that, there are no limits. There are only plateaus, and we must not, stay there, we must go beyond them.  This is just a little appetizer on what I really have learned the first day of being an American. 

 

I have to say, that I am very glad to be here in America, because you really learn a lot, and especially I am glad to have nice host family, who actually are like my real family. In fact the first day, I get to know every thing about the family and I begin to study what kind of human beings they are. Besides them, I also have 3 exchange students, two of them are from Indonesia and one of they is from Hong Kong. I really enjoy talk with them about different cultures, and share our experiences and opinions and even sometimes we also play soccer. 

Stephanus and Louis

Yosef

Me and Lousi

The first Sunday of my journey, I go to the church where I suddenly find out that churches here in America are totally different and you really feel comfortable and it is great. Even if churches are public churches they don’t have ancient building structures, they are more like a private church in DK, which have very wonderful and new building structures. What I really love with this church is that, if you are a new one or a visitor they welcome you friendly and like to hang out with you. So, we just go to a candy shop, and I really have to say this, it was scrumptious. Mmmm….. You can just eat so much candy or ice cream you like.  This is really something we must do twice a week back in DK. 

The hall of the Church.. This is so big man!!

The music was also very different !

Youth organisation in the Church

God message to us!: I'll take you to the candy shop!!

Scrumptious

Luscious !!

Stretching out, after a delicious treat !

Anyway; I also went to see my role model’s grave. The one and only Bruce Lee, I remember, when I was younger I had a kind of desire, that one day I will like to visit Bruce Lee’s grave in Seattle, and finally I did it!! 

at the cemetry

Me, Oliver and Jonathan at Bruce Lee's grave.

 

 

I really love his way of acting and fighting, and I honestly also love his philosophical quotes like, this one:

“ Knowing is not enough we must apply.

Willing is not enough we must do.”

 

The same day I also went to the public market called the pike place market in Seattle with Oliver, Jonathan and Oliver’s host mom. The public market is nearby the Elliot Bay in Seattle. To be there in the pike place market, was really a different experience. For me it is like to be around the world, because this public market has anything you want and need. It is not only a market where you can buy any American products, foods and vegetables but it is a place where you can buy Asian products or European products or African products. 

Different Chillis and vegetables

  

In this market there is a specific area where they sell fish, craps, hummers and any other kind of seafood. Right there , they practise a kind of tradition, where the salesmen ask the customers, whether the want the fish to be thrown, and if the customer say “Yes!”, then they will do that, and while they are throwing they sing a kind of song.

Me in Pike place market !

 

Anyway, even if I really love America and I feel like this journey is going to be one of the most momentous one, I honestly also miss Denmark a lot, and it is just because of rye bread and chocolate-coasted marshmallow treats and etc. I just wrote a poem for how much I miss DK:

In the moment when Lynnwood city went to sleep, loneliness caught me..      

And snow spread all over..

Even the breeze got down from the ship and started walking on shores!

Inside the four glass walls, me and a candlelight

How lonely... how trecherous..

My pen wrote your name 100 times in my daily planner

Just as I wrote, ants came from all over, did your name turn into honey?

Even, you are not here to clear the confusions of my heart

I'm here & you are there, In this loneliness, minutes have become years!

Even in this chill weather why is this winter season like hot summer to me?

Oh beloved DK, I want to come to you.. if I am there even a burning charcoal will become a snowball !

What I really want is that the Danes try to admit some of the way Americans behave over for each other, like they must be a kind of open-minded and polite, and so by that we can get ride off Jante law.