The last 2
weeks have been, something special for me. My birthday, which I celebrated with
Ebru, was one of the special even which was held. It was very amazing, because
the whole class and my host brothers were invited. It was my 18 years old
birthday, and therefore it had been a very special day for me. First of all we
went to the Red Robin for dinner, where I get all my presents from everybody. I
really loved the presents. I got a Men’s health magazine and a toy, and a
birthday card, which was filled up, with sweet words. I really thank everybody
for those useful presents. Anyway, after eating the boys and me went for
bowling. Bowling was actually very funny and I found it very great. As I
already had told, this day was very special. What I am waiting for is just the
car license and a lot of presents from the family when come home, and may be I
will make birthday party when I come home.
One of the
other events, which were outstanding, was the Thanksgiving Day. It was very
nice to meet up with your host mom’s family and eat a lot of food. The food was
very good. We actually celebrate our Thanksgiving Day at my Host mom’s sister
house. A very big house, they had a Piano and guitar, and at the moment my host
brother’s and me saw the piano we just start playing. So one of Stevanus (host
brother) rocked on the guitar and while he was playing I played something on
the piano the other host brother Yosef just start singing. Actually, we use to
call Yosef Asian Bieber, because he really loved Justin Bieber. My third host
brother Louis could play a lot of songs on the piano. He was outstanding. There
were one time where he played a classical Japanese song, I was listening and my
mouth was just open for a while. It was so good. He really has talent.
Anyway, I
also play a Tamil song composed by A.R.Rahman who properly is one the most
talent composer in India. The main reason for why I love him is because he
doesn’t start copying other western songs. Usually many Tamil composers do
that, which very sad to hear about actually. I played the song named New York
Nagaram, which me New York city, and the songs is sung by himself and it’s about
a person who miss his wife while he is in New York. I love the chords, which is
used in this song. As I know many pop songs have that kind of chord
progression. For instant do “written in the stars” and “man in the mirror” have
the same chord progression as New York Nagaram.
After
playing, we were everybody gathered at the dinner table, for the most important
thing of the day. Food! As I already had told the food was very tasty and there
were different kind of meals. After eating, I played a game call anomia with
Bob, who is my host mom’s sister’s wife, Bob’s brother, Bob’s brother’s
mother-in-law and Louis. It was actually a very funny game, and I was almost
the winner of the game. The game was based on that you have to picked up a card
with a symbol for instant a circle and on the card there had been written a
word like, newspaper, so if one of the other guys take a card with your symbol
and the card says robot. Then you have to name a robot and the other guy has to
name a newspaper, you have to be very quick. So the quickest one will get the
opponents card. It was pretty hard for me, because there were some words, which
I didn’t know what meant, and there were also some words, which only Americans
know.
