The last thing which happened at my last post was our second trip to Seattle, now i've been there thrice, and personally i think the first time was best and this last time was almost as good. This time we saw the EMP museum on a thursday, since it was supposed to be free on thursdays, that museum is one of the best museums i've ever been to, it has a music creating area, where you can try some of the general instruments and even create your own song, which i did with some of the other guys from the class. beside that it was a lovely museum with a part of it only about Jimmy Hendrix and Nirvana, both is from the Seattle area, and you could see how the grunge from the 90's was created with nirvana, and how Hendrix got his fame, not only in the US but also in the UK where he was most famous (atleast in the start). you could hear songs like "smells like teen spirit" and "all apologies" through the aisles of famous guitars and alike. and you could hear Jimmy's famous guitar riffs and alike in his part, and still now i think that's fantastic music, even though it was 50 years ago he was really popular.
In the other parts of the museum was there fantasy, horror, more music and science fiction, you could see the daleks which was everywhere, they even had a lifesize version of the daleks, which is from the "doctor who" series, besides that in the science fiction part was both a green screen and many of the costumes from different tv series like "star trek" and film series like "the matrix", and a light saber from "star wars", it's generally one of the most amazing things i've seen about science fiction.
There was the fantasy part of the museum with all kinds of things from famous fantasy films like "narnia", "harry potter" and alike, they had the original versions of things like the wand of the ice witch from Narnia, the head from one of the minotaurs from the same series, and a lot of other things, which was all the originals, and a tv showns as through a flying bugs eyes, with interviews about the narnia films. Long story short, they liked narnia. and there was also pictures and alike of the general creatures and personas which you meet in fantasy films and books.
then finally there was the horror part of the museum, which had famous items from different films like "the shining" and "aliens", and had a lot of interview halls of what famous people in the horror industry talks about famous horror movies from 1960-now and how they've changed the horror scene, and which movies has been some of the best, like "the excorcist" or alike. They also had a big gift shop, which was just fantastic, they had t-shirts with nirvana, daleks, green day and a lot of other things, not everything related to the EMP, but much of it was related to either music or sci fy (which is the main parts of EMP). It was insane, there was stuff like the "Harry Potter" quidditch glasses, and special editions of "the hobbit" and simpler stuff like ofcourse t-shirts and cd's.
Last sunday i was at a football game, here we're not talking about the best sport in the world, european football, but the american "false" version. Even though it was the false football, it was still one of the most amazing things i've ever seen with any sport, this stadium was enormous, and the noise was incredible, we were ofcourse helping making more noise as the Seahawks took on the buccaneers, in what could easily be called an exciting game! The Seathawks had the worst start of all time (just about) and was 21-0 back in the second quarter (the second out of four quarters), and ended the half 21-7, this means that they still had a 14 point deficit to climb, at the point of 21-0 i felt like just walking away. seriously. Second half convinsed me why you should stay in these sports events, they turned it to 21-14 with a touchdown in the start of second half, then buccaneers got a field goal (3 points) and was 24-14 then, then in the last quarter seahawks got a touchdown and a fieldgoal to which they proceeded to overtime, where they won with a field goal, final score 27-24 to seahawks. I think this made the experience of the seahawks game so much better, since it was so close. they also had some fantastic caramelised popcorn, sounds horific, but was not bad at all. besides that i got a really bad headache which i carried on the next three days, it was a fantastic day, and was nice seeing so many people (just about 67000 people at the stadium), but very noisy (it's the most noisy stadium in the US!!).
One day we were at wallace falls, a hiking trip, where me and some of my friends were out climbing on rocks and alike just moments from death, oh that sounds a bit extreme, but was all fun and games, no problems aty all, and was fun seeing how many in the class knew how to climb those rocks, this was outside the hiking route, and not sure if we could do it really, but we got fantastic pictures of it and was regarded as some of the most fun we've had since we got over here since it was all running around and such and just talking with eachother during this trip. We were also at some sultns bakery that day, and i got probably the best chocolate cake i've ever had, but think it would've been better if i also had some ice to it.
Beside ll of these special experiences i've tried some lesser things, like bowling, pizza, buffets, food in general, i have some coconot juice beside me (taste quite bad to be honest) and just the american lifestyle really, it's so much different, but one thing is just about the same, school takes a lot of your time!
these last couple of weeks we've been quite presured and have not done as much as we'd like to do of fun stuff like going to downtown and alike, because we have a lot of homework, a lot of quizzes and some assignments too, it's not all fun and games, when you have a day like last tuesday with 4 assignments, 2 quizzes and some extra homework if you'd like it. it is hard when you on top of that eat out many days and often gets home after 7 or 8 in the evening, but it's fun, we experience so much and have a lot of abstract conversations in both danish and english which i think i've never had before, and some like abstract things in our subjects too, like the derirative and how lenses work, but that's all what we do at school. Oh yeah, we play the pool too!
