Karaoke and Christmas parade

The weekend involved a lot of things, but I don’t need go into everything. But the main thing is belly dancing, karaoke and a Christmas parade.

Thursday I, Lauren, Cecily and Vaios went to a Moroccan restaurant to watch when Elyse and her dance group would perform with Arabic belly dance. It was a pleasant evening with good food, great entertainment and fun atmosphere. Most of the dancers danced well too. Unfortunately, there will be no pictures either here or on Facebook, because of Elyse veto :P

Lauren, Cecily and Elyse at the preparty Thursday!

Later in the evening, it was more party. Preparty at Vaios place, and then we went to a karaoke place in La Mesa. It was fun to play the songs (even if I wasn’t allowed to sing, damn karaoke Führer) but then there was a lot of fuss, argument and commotion outside as we could have done without.

Lauren, Elyse and Cecily is singing karaoke (more photos on fb)

On Friday I and Jocke went to the gym, but not for training. We spoiled ourselves with sauna and jacuzzi bath. Just because we could. Yeah.

At the gym, we were told by a man in the sauna that it would be Christmas parade on State Street. Jocke and I hurried home, picked up Andreas and took off to State. We stood there and watched the parade and it was very nice. Marching bands, Santas, decked cars, cheerleaders, flags, newly elected mayor Helen Schneider and then a large inflated balloon-Gingerbread man who hovered over everything. Very nice.

A lot of audience all along State Street

A big flying gingerbread man!

One of many marsching bands

Cheerleaders

Horses

Truck with kids and ugly painted Disney characters

(more photos on Facebook)

We went and ate good pizza at California Pizza Kitchen and then on to Victoria where we watched a movie (Semi-Pro with Will Ferrell, very funny) as an end of the Friday.

We have a lot of studying to do right now. Have finished my portfolio to Photo Journalism now. We could take 10 photos from the fall semester. Unfortunately, we had to take from various assignments, which is bad because some assignments I am very happy with but some not at all. We would also choose a song to be played while the images are presented. Guess what I chose. Yep, E-Type! On Tuesday evening, when we eat pizza in class and watch the pictures I will teach Americans what genuine Swedish fine culture is J

Tomorrow, Sunday, it will be studying and maybe a little gym time. Then begins the hard finals week, but will involve both studying, tests and some party as well. Then it will be Los Angeles before we go home. Shit, am I about to go home already? It will be great to meet all the people in Sweden, but I will miss the people here. But I’ll come back again soon America.