the bear

when we arrived

every year the rotary club of La Crosse organise the rotary lights, its a lot of christmas light everywhere where we can walk and enjoy all of this beautifull lights...

Elliot at hansen's(first host brother)24

christmas was very amazing, we had a lot of food, a lot of people and a lot of presents for everyone!!!!

i will write what i get here then you dont have to ask me!!!

the 24 with my first host family i get: 2 T-shirt long leef, 1 top, 1 T-shirt short leef kangaroo, 1 neckless, 1 tree ornament (snowman with I love usa), 2 TOBLERONE, 2 lindt tablettes, usa flag fotoframe, more chocolate, candles, blanket with pics of my friend, host brother/sister...

the 25th: 1 book, really warm socks, 1 photo album, earings, a neckless from my friend zuza who live in Poland, 2 warming hands, a gift card for best buy, Mc do Arch card, DMV international, a mini bag, 1 sweater DKNY jeans, 1 christmas tree ornament, batteries, underwear, 2 pairs of socks, 1 pair of toes socks, a scarf, a badger sweater, and my host mum made me a OHS blanket purple and white!!!!!!

a rotarian who invited me for a dinner with his family gave me chocolat and $50 for the mall,  by the rotary i get $30 for the mall and an ONALASKA sweatshirt ans by my secret santa i get some burts and bees staff, a henna body art tatoos, corrona glass with the gane BEER, a purse, a christmas neckless and a snowman pins.

we cooked some very good staff ans then we had diner and after a break coz we were full we opended present starting with the youngest.and at 10.30 we leave to go to the church it was very funny coz Elliot and me don't really like church coz its boring and we were not paying a lot of attention!!!!!but it was fun and we had a great time together!

the 25 i was with my actual host family, we woke up at 7.30 to open our present and then we had to go at gran'ma and gran'pa's house were we met a lot of people , a lot of members of the family were there and i cant remember any name, it was crazy!!!!!and here we opend more present... then we came back home to take some food and we went to another house, it was my host mather aunt house i think but i'm not sure coz i met more people and we were a lot more than at gran'pa's house but it was funny. there we ate a lot again, we opended present and ate ate ate ate again . and at the end we played some game with the cousins and katie's boyfriend joyned us for few hours...after this long day we came home and talk a little about the day and it was time to go to bed coz everyone was tired of this amazing day...and now i'm here!

thank you very much to everyone , it was 2 very funny days and i reaaly enjoyed it!

dave and amanda (host father and sister)

tonight december 23th  with my second host family  we went to the girls badgers basketball game because Katie my host sister (20) is a cheerleader for them.... we lose but katie was awesome!!!!!