A day or two at Valerie's

My April Vacation started this week. *yeahs* My food teacher, Valerie invited me over to her house to spend a couple of days there. And so I did. She picked me up in the morning and we did some errands. Headed to the Bangor Mall and got some stuff, that we needed.

Got hungry and had lunch at Ruby's Tuesday. *yums*

typical thing to do when we are at the mall

something I got for her

We went back to her place and started to make our own album. We bought albums and fabrics to make our personal albums. *winks* That took wuite some time. While doing that, I was having Starbucks and choping down Doritos chips. How am I not to gain weigh. *sigh*
Tried on my prom dress and she got a pair of black heels that goes well with it. *jumps*

her cat which managed to bite and scratch me

Had a wonderful dinner of salmon and desert of angel food cake with whip cream and fresh strawberries. It's good. We then sat in the living room and watched the elections in Pennyslvia.

Woke up at around 7am the next day. Made muffins and scrambelled eggs together. Sat around lazily and talked.
Had lunch and then went bowling.

breakfast!

I didn't play well..

Track practice is still on during the holidays, so she brought me back to school after bowling. Track was hard. *sigh* Our first met will be this Saturday!

Track. More food.

I'm participating in track&field now. Which meant that I have practice every afternoon for the whole week. We hung out before track today and the weather was prefect. Felt like Malaysia a little but the sun was scorching and was burning our bare skin.

The guys played American football and we got a couple of picture.

I think I've gained weight.

Went out for dinner. Had a lobster roll which cost about $29. Not cheap at all. But Maine is known for their lobsters and I had to try it. It was good anyway. Dinner was at a higher class restaurant, so the price is definitely higher.

Pizza party. Snowy day.

Mike and myself

Elodie and Kat

healthy breakfast cooked during Beginning Food class

brrrr

Sleepover is an American thing?

It started to snow again. According to my foster mother, it's snowing a lot this year, so it's pretty lucky for us to experience it. But I have been feeling warm this few day. *wonders* It's either the weather or I'm getting a little used to it.

By the way, I do need to walk Cona the dog everyday. So I just took a couple of shots.

my house right behind

when it started to snow

about an hour later

Remember the AFS Winter weekend host family? They invited me and a few other girls to have a sleepover in their place. Since we are having our February vacations, we decided to do so. *grins* Called up Hana (Indonesia) and Ayano (Japan) to set the date and time with them. Asian click well? Nah, it was coincidence that Ayano stayed with me during the weekend and Cathy, my weekend host mother, knows Hana too. *laughs sheepishly*

Cathy came over to pick me up and then to Hana's. We went for dinner immediately after that. Wanted to go to Texas Road House for steak but ended up in Bugaboo Creek, another expensive restaurant for steak. *licks* I ordered steak with medium rare condition. It's kind of overcooked for me and somehow The Ship back in Malaysia did better. The Onion rings here are good though. My dish cost about $17. That would be around RM 60. How's that?

appetizer

steak and baked potato

Went to Hannaford super mart to get groceries with Cathy. We got tubs of ice creams, packets of M&M, chips and Starburst candies. We offered to pay but she didn't accept it. Sweet lady.

by the vegetable shelf mirror

We got back to her place. Rented a movie off the cables that cost $3.99 a movie. We watched Evan Almighty together while munching down unhealthy food. *grins* After that, we turned on the cable and continued to watch the movies shown there, which are Silver Hawk, RV, Harry Potter and a few others. Ended up sleeping only around 5am. *jumps*

Woke up at 11am the same morning. Wasn't really sleepy. Hana brought a plain t-shirt for us to draw on. She wrote our name and it became our 'sleepover-memory' t-shirt. *laughs* We scribbled on it and she's gonna put it on for the next AFS weekend in March.

Went down for breakfast and I decided to eat the ice cream we bought with bread. Gave Ayano a piece too and she liked it. So we had ice cream and left over steak for breakfast.

the sleepover t-shirt

the candies Cathy got us

me, Elise and Ayano

Cathy's puppy, Maddie

Played Monopoly and it was really fun. The company does matter. Ate handful of M&M while we payed rentals. *grins*

Around 3.30pm, we sent Hana home and headed to the University of Maine because Cathy's daughter, Emily was playing basketball there. *excited* It was the game between them and Oak Hill. We won by around 15points. *jumps*

Hana trying to look seductive holding Monopoly $100 bills?

basketball in UMaine