update #12 Thanksgiving/Sacramento Trip

days count: 130
On saturday morning of last week, our Thanksgiving break started. Actually for me it started earlier because I didn't feel good and missed school for a few days. I went to my host siblings soccer games in Bakersfield. In the evening I was invited at my IEC's house, so we had a really nice dinner there. On sunday, I decided to visit Selina, one of my friends from home, at her host family's house in Rancho Cordova, near Sacramento. On monday morning I took a really early train, which drove to Stockton. There I switched on a bus which took me to Valley Station, Sacramento. 


The trip took really long, about 9 hours and I was by myself, so there were some pretty scary moments. 
When I finally got to Sacramento, Selina's host dad picked me up and took me to his family's house. 

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Most of the time, Selina and I were just chillin' & talking or watching TV shows. We walked the dogs and she cut my hair and stuff. On wednesday, we went shopping because on friday was 'black friday' which means everything is on sale because of thanksgiving. We already went on wednesday because it was already a lot cheaper and we knew that the malls would be crowded on friday. We actually bought a lot, also like christmas presents and stuff.

On thursday, it was finally Thanksgiving. We got up pretty early to get ready for the party. We drove about an hour to Yuba City, first we went to Selina's host mums family's house where we stayed for about 2 hours. We did eyeshadow by ourselves and saw how they made turkey and just the typical Thanksgiving meal. After that, we went to her host dad's fame's house. Selina teached me how to play a song on the piano and I'm actually thinking about taking piano lessons at home because I love it. We
ate Thanksgiving dinner & honestly I was really full because there was a lot of food and I tried almost everything. Especially the desert was really nice,  there was pumpkin pie, apple pie, cheesecake, cherry cake, muffins, everything you could think of. After dinner we were playing a game called "Clue" or something, it was funny. We got home pretty late and I booked my train back to Tehachapi then because I realized that all the train connections on all the other days were horrible. 

So yesterday morning I left Sacramento, which by the way is a beautiful city, and I got to Tehachapi at about 8 PM. I got a ride to the Valley station up there at like 10:30 AM so I had to wait by myself at the train station for 2 hours and it scared the heck out of me because there were many weirdos.
When the bus finally left, I had to switch on the train to Bakersfield after 1 hour and after 5 hours in the train I had to wait for the bus to Downtown Tehachapi. My host brother picked me up there with his new car that he got yesterday and we were playing some fun games on his xbox when we got home.

Today we decorated the house for christmas and made some cookies. I'm really excited for christmas season.


Since Thanksgiving is all about giving thanks, I want to thank my family back home who makes all this possible for me. I want to thank my friends here & back home for supporting me through all this and I want to thank my IEC & my host family for helping me & giving me the oppertunity to be part of them. 


I am part of the EF High School Exchange Year Student Ambassador program, so for those who are interested to do a year abroad as a foreign Exchange student in the United States, England or Ireland, it's your turn to sign up for that now to become a part of the class of 2018. Get out of your comfort zone and visit an EF information meeting in your city.  https://www.efswiss.ch/de/highschool