PLANNING A TRIP IS HARD!!!!!

                My friend and I were planning to go to Chicago during the Christmas break, this was a really good idea as some of our friends from Westmister college were going to join us and we were looking forward to a great Christmas. Planning this trip was not as easy as we thought it would be, we needed to find an affordable place to stay and transportation. This was not an easy task as we spent 3 hours trying to make ends meet but in the end we cancelled the trip.

                 This does not mean that we are going to spend our Christmas break doing nothing in Waverly. Instead of going to Chicago, my friend and I are going to our friends in Fulton, Missourri. We are looking forward to having a lot of fun there and a great Christmas away from home :-).

                          The only problem we have is getting to Fulton!!!

THE WEATHER MAKES ME LAUGH

                 On Saturday afternoon one of my friends said to me,"The weather forecast said that it was going to snow today but I'm surprized that it's raining" and I asked her,"Do you want it to snow?" Her response was a great "NO!!!"  Her response did not surprize me at all as I knew she was going to say that because like me, she also does not want it to snow.

              Then I go into my facebook and one of my friends' status said,"The advantages of global warming: the forecast had predicted snow but it's snowing." This statement made my day as it made realise how much my fellow Africans do not want it to snow :-) I am sure it is going to snow on one of these days and I hope they have prepared themselves for it.

       I think I'm well prepared for the SNOW!!!!!!!!

FATHER-DAUGTHER SONG

             My father happens to be one of those people who love Bakulutu which is a type of Congolese music, his favourite artists are Franco and Madilu Systeme. In the whole family he was the only person who loved listenin to this type of music, although my mother loved dancing to this type of music she did not like to listen to it.

              One day I was riding in his car and out of nowhere a started singing along to the song that was playing (I was only 5 years old). My father was so happy that I could sing along to a language I did not know (Lingala) and he was happier that there was someone in the family who actually liked listening to such music. From that day to today he would play the song Basambisa Yo? by Josky Kiambukuta whenever I was in his car.

              I am so glad that this song helped me bond with my dad :-)

LOOKING FORWARD TO BLACK FRIDAY!!

                Black Friday according to me is just a day on which shops put these big sales and people shop like crazy but the surprising part is that the shopping start at midnight to noon, really?! Couldn't they just hold the whole sale during the day, how hard is that? But then we always have to toil for the things we get in life, well nothing comes easy :-)

                Although I don't get this part of the American culture, I am greatly looking forward to experiencing it as it reminds me of the shopping festival in Tanzania called "sabasaba" which is pretty much similiar to black Friday but the only difference is that sabasaba lasts for about two weeks and does not open at midnight :-)

THANKSGIVING!!!

           "Thanksgiving...... What is it with this American culture?", is the question I asked myself on the first day I heard about it. I do know that thanksgiving is when one thanks God for all the blessing he showers upon one but where I'm from that is something we do personally at a church or mosque and not something that the whole nation celebrates at the same time. But now I understand that it has some historical background that seems very interesting and I would love to get to learn more about it.

              Well enough about that, I really enjoyed my thanksgiving dinner with my roommate's family and they made me feel very much at home and the fact that they more that six people at the dining table gave me the best homely atmosphere :-). This was the best first thanksgiving of my life and I hope the rest of them will this great.

BEAT LUTHER!!!

                 Beating Luther was the only thing I could think of throughout the whole of the BEAT LUTHER week. Iwas so excited because first of all, I have a friends who goes to Luther college so I wanted wanted my team to beat Luther so that he would not laugh at me as he always does when the Luther's women soccer team beats Wartburg's team.

                   Throughout the week I made plans of how I would go there and cheer for my football team but shame on me, it got to Saturday and I forgot that there was a football match between Wartburg and Luther. So I spent the whole day wondering where the most of the people went and checking my planner I realised that it was the day for the match, I was so sad that I missed it. Later during the day I heard Wartburg beat Luther and I was so happy again :-)........ But to bad my friend at Luther did not dare bring up the topic cause I was eagerly waiting for him to do so amd I would have laughed at him a lot.

SNOW!!!!!

               I knew it was going to snow today morning as my work supervisor had told me about it the day before. Tuesday was one of those long days as I was eagerly waiting for Wednesday to finally see and touch the snow. Although I knew it would be like the ice in my mother's refrigerator, I still wanted to know what the natural version of that ice was like.

               Today morning I woke up and the first thing I did was look out my window and there it was.... Snow, beautiful snow :-). As I was rushing off to work I felt so happy when the snow fell on my nose and with great satisfaction I told myself, "My first day of snow and I like it" 

               Its had to believe but I'm already thinking of my first snow fight and all the fun I can do in the snow with all my friends. Now I can tell my family that I've finally experienced snow, I'm so excited for that cause I'm sure my mom will be so happy to hear it and my dad will probably come up with a joke for it.

               And as the day comes to a close most of the snow has melted away and it's hard to believe that these same grounds where cover with snow in the morning. According to the weather forecast, tomorrow will be a sunny day, amazing!!!!