onsdag den 25. marts 2009

California!!






I went to California during spring break. I was so excited to see what it was like there and it for sure is very, very different from New Mexico! People seem to care more about the environment, especially in San Francisco where there is a law saying the stores can only give away paperbags (that, however, did not seem to be the reality of all the stores I went to, but it is a start) and I was very impressed by that. All the people I talked to was so friendly! I did not see a lot of overweight people, and that is very different from Albuquerque. San Francisco is a really beautiful place and I love the victorian style of the houses. The houses are all in different colours - red, blue, green etc. and it just seems to fit the city so well!


In the middle of the week I went to Santa Monica with Marcelo and Juliana. We took the bus from San Francisco and it took aound 9 hours to get there... Actually, it was not that bad and it was cheap too; around 30 dollars. LA was sooo confusing! It is huge, around the same size as sjælland in Denmark (!!) and everything is spread out... We stayed at a hostel in Santa Monica (around 1 hours bus drive from downtown LA) and it was really great, more like a hotel actually and just a few minutes walk from the beach! -Perfect. There was a piano in the common room of the hostel, and two Argentinan guys we met taught me to play half a song... ;-)


Like all the other tourists going to LA, we naturally wanted to see what all the fuss about Hollywood is about:-), so we decided to take the bus there. It took about 1 hour to get there and it was fun to see The Walk of Fame, the Hollywood sign etc, but otherwise it wasn't really that amazing.


I sidste uge havde jeg spring break og sammen med to brasilianske venner herfra, Juliana og Marcelo, rejste jeg til Californien. Jeg var så spændt på at se Californien og det er helt sikkert meget, meget anderledes end New Mexico! Det virker som om, at folk er mere miljøbevidste; især i San Francisco hvor der er en lov som siger at butikkerne ikke må sælge/give plastikposer, men kun papirs (det blev godt nok ikke overholdt alle steder, men det er da i hvert fald en start), og jeg var positivt overrasket over det! Alle de folk jeg snakkede med var virkelig flinke og åbne! Faktisk så jeg ikke særligt mange overvægtige i Californien, og det er noget af en forskel fra Albuquerque...! San Francisco er bare så smuk en by og jeg elsker den victorianske byggestil; husene er alle malet i forskellige farver, rød, blå, grøn osv, og det passer bare så godt ind der...



I midten af ugen rejste vi videre til Los Angeles. Vi tog bussen (Greyhound) dertil og det tog ca. 9 timer. Det var slet ikke så slemt som vi havde frygtet og det var også rigtig billigt; ca 30 dollars. LA var virkelig forvirrende!! Det er en kæmpe by, på størrelse med Sjælland, og alting er fordelt hele dette kæmpe areal... Vi boede på et rigtig godt hostel i Santa Monica som er ca. en times buskørsel fra centrum af LA. Det mindede egentlig mere om et hotel og der var endda et klaver der! Vi mødte to rigtig flinke fyrer fra Argentina, og de lærte mig at spille en halv sang på klaver.. ;-)


Ligesom alle andre turister der rejser til LA, ville vi selvfølgelig se Hollywood for at finde ud af om der er noget om al den snak... ;-) Vi tog bussen dertil, det tog ca. en time. Det var skægt at se Walk of Fame, Hollywood skiltet osv, men udover det var det altså ikke SÅ fantastisk. :-)






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