Hello, Awrite!
So now I´m home. It has been very interesting to experience USA. I found out that I have been lucky to have seen twa different American cities (New York and Washington), because they are so different. New York is a city that never sleeps and even when it´s night, it´s day - because of all the lights and screen. Besides, New York contains all nationalities and looks, and that is very exciting. Washington is much more clean than New York and also calmer.
And now I´m home again. It has been most interesting.
Stine
søndag den 21. oktober 2012
Georgetown Universidad
Hoy
visitábamos la universidad de Georgetown en la cercanía de Washington y la
universidad se parece a un castillo. Una estudianta británica, que estudia en
la universidad de Georgetown, nos exhibía en el campus. El campus es grande,
pero es muy íntimo. La mujer se llamaba y llama Aisha. Aisha le gustan la
universidad y Georgetown. Aisha vive en un apartemento con otros estudiantes.
La visita en el campus era muy interresante y ahora sabemos más de la vida de
universidad. Hay muchos carreras differentes en la universidad y Aisha estudia
estudio de extraños.
Nueva
York y Washington han sido muy interessantes, porque son differentes. Nueva
York es grande y tiene rascacielos, Times Sqaure, Empire State Building, El
Barrio y La diosa de libertad. Washington tiene la casa blanca, donde el
presidente vive. Vivimos en la cercanía de la casa blanca y de Obama. Los
estados unidos son interessantes, pero mañana volvemos a casa.
Olivia
cumple años hoy y mañana. ¡Feliz compleaños!
mandag den 8. oktober 2012
Mount Vernon
Yesterday the 7th of October we visited Mount Vernon, which is an American Estate that belonged to the former president of the United States, George Washington. Today Mount Vernon is an American reminder of the life and legacy of the father of the United States, which of course was George Washington. It is, too, the most popular estate in America, situated only 16 miles south of Washington DC. Some of the things you are able to see when visiting, many of then we of course did see, was the mansion, lots of original buildings, Washington’s tomb, his extensive plantation, the slaves’ quarters and a working blacksmith.
On the farm there is a museum and education center, which tells the detailed story of the life of George Washington.
Some parts of the farm have naturally been reconstructed through the years.
Back in the days it was the home of the first president of the United States,
George Washington and his wife Martha. He and his wife lived at the estate for
more than 40 years. The mansion they lived in was built in 1757 by George
Washington who himself was the architect of the project. Before George
Washington inherited the estate, which had been in the Washington’s family in
generations, was owned by his father Augustine Washington. Augustine Washington
sent for his son to come home so he could take over the place, but in the year
1752 he passed away, and left the estate to George, if he would provide for his
widow, and make sure she could stay at the farm with George and Martha. Mount Vernon was originally named Little Hunting Creek, but this changed when Lawrence took over the place, and gave it the name that it is known as today.
lørdag den 6. oktober 2012
First day in Washington
The sixth
of October 2012
This
morning, or it was almost dawn, when we left our lovely hostel at 41 Street in
New York, to take the bus to La Guardia, the airport, where we were going to
fly to Washington DC from. And ohh my, we had a lot of time to kill, more than
two hours, before we could board our flight. So we were definitely not in a
hurry, as imagined, when we couldn’t leave our hostel because of some problems
with a deposit. Finally we could board our plain, it was so small, we couldn’t
even see through the windows. The noise on board was so loud, we didn’t even
know if our ears had crashed. We had at great look over Manhattan, and the landing
was absolutely perfect, no stomachs were floating around in the plain, and we
landed so soft that Helena didn’t even notice that we did. The view over Dulles
and the surroundings were amazing in a really different way than New York; it
was a little like home; green parks, white and smaller house then in The Big
Apple, big fields, and a lot of trees. After landing we had some trouble finding our luggage, we had to take a train from gate to gate, it was all very confusing. In the end, though, we actually found it, and we could move on. Thank God our teachers had booked a couple of minibuses, to take us directly to the Hotel near The White House.
It is so nice at Harrington hotel, there is so much room for us, a better view, and two bathrooms for only the four of us, instead of being five for one small one with only one mirror. In fact we have five mirrors now, and we all think that is enough.
Stine and Olivia have now moved in together with to lovely girls, Anne and Camilla, who of course are thrilled to live with us until Wednesday morning. And Isse has moved in with Helena, Anna-Bell and Malou right across the hall.
Now to the
exciting part; we simply went for a walk at the Mall. We saw The Washington
Monument, a very enormous colossus, and actually the biggest one in the world,
and, too, the tallest construction in Washington. The Reflecting Pool that was
empty for water and is going to be refilled over the next three days; Lincoln
Memorial with a really large wide statue of Lincoln himself. At last we saw The
White House, which of course is white and has a lot of security observing the
curious tourist outside the massive fence securing the President from the
outside world.
The last thing we are going to write about is our breakfast, for at least the next couple of days, or for as long as it lasts. We have bought some nice white milk, cornflakes, and something to have it in and to eat it with.
fredag den 5. oktober 2012
El
Barrio
Ahoy hemos
visitado el barrio en Nueva York en el noreste de Manhattan con nuestra clase
para que ver este parte de la sociedad. En el barrio hay un museo, que tiene
pinturas de pintores latinos. Las pinturas son muy diferentes porque los pintores
usan ejecuciones diferentes y se expresan en formas personales. Hubo una mujer,
que trabaja en el museo en calidad de guía. Era simpática y intelligente. Ahora
sabemos más del barrio.
Luego dábamos
un paseo en Central Park que es un parque urbano público situado en Manhattan. El
parque tiene forma rectangular. El parque es 4 kilómetros. Hacía un calor
sufocante y la mayoría de las chica de nuestra clase llevaban pantalones cortos,
gafas de sol y camisetas cortas. Muchos niños visitan el parque y juegan de
pelota. Hay muchos estanques, árboles, bosques y céspedes. Nos gusta el parque.
Busy day
Thursday, 4th
of October 2012
Today we
went to MoMA, Museum of Modern Art which is a museum for art of the twentieth
century, where we saw Pablo Picasso’s cubistic painting Les demoiselle
d’Avignon, which was much bigger than we expected it to be. We were really
excited about seeing the exhibition of the paintings of the Mexican painter Frida
Kahlo, but they had taken the paintings down to replace them. Instead we saw
the American exhibition with artists as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and
Jackson Pollock. It was very American indeed. We saw the chair “The Ant” by
Arne Jacobsen, a Danish designer, and we found it to be very cool that a Danish
designer had made it in New York, and that New York wants his stuff on a
museum. Very prestigious. 
Some people took the art more serious than others and Helena and Isse were not two of them. This white painting with a bit colour down in the left corner is apparently very expensive art - don't Isse and Helena look more artistic?
We visited the City University – Center for Latin
American and Caribbean studies, where we heard of Latinos in New York, from a
professor who knows a lot about the Latin American immigrants’ history. It was
very enlightening and interesting, and it gave some positive and surprising
facts. Afterwards we had time to go shopping, and we found a couple of stores
that we visited at Fifth Avenue. 
Tonight is
our last night with our French studying classmates that are leaving us tomorrow
for Quebec in Canada. We will have a blast, when they are gone. Hopefully. :D
Tomorrow we
are going to see Spanish Harlem, which is a Spanish part of Manhattan, where we
will visit “El Museo del Barrio.” We are also thinking about visiting “The
Empire State Building” and “Broadway”, when we are finished with tomorrow’s
program and have some time off to do what we want. 
When we were shopping we saw these Lady Gaga shoes, and Isse just had to try such a pair. 1. It looks stupid
2. They cost almost 200 dollars
3. They are strange to walk in
4. The salesman said Isse looked like Lady Gaga - positive or negative? :D
We also went for a bustrip to Harlem where many black people live. We drove in this bus which we think was bulletproof (anyway sounds cool). In Harlem we could feel that people were more poor and living under worse conditions of life than most people in inner Manhattan. It was interesting to see the difference, but most of us were really really tired on that trip and sometimes it was really hard to hear, what they guide said in the mic. tirsdag den 2. oktober 2012
1st day in New York
And the toilets… well, if you look at Isse, you might notice that a dwarf would be able to limbo under the door – very relaxing, when you´re sitting there doing your stuff, right? It must be a prejudice that Americans like things bigger –because these doors are not covering it all, at all! Anyway, moments like this really make your day, when you need a laugh!..
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