Milwaukee Bucks

Today I saw my first NBA-game: the Milwaukee Bucks against Charlotte bobcats, and to be honest, I did not feel like they played too much better than the school team here at Stritch. What was a lot better though was the stadium, all the audience and the music and cheering. It felt like being at a concert, where the atmosphere is so good that you get goosebumps all over your body, and a good feeling in your body. Before the game and between the rounds, there was a lot of entertaining things happening on the basketball field such as national hymne being sung, cheerleaders dancing, a live band playing, different competitions being held and free things being shot at the audience. When the game was over, me and a couple of friends decided to buy tickets for the basketball game between Milwaukee Bucks and Miami Heats on the 26th of March. I am already looking forward to it.

Basketball and church

If I had to pick one word to describe people at Stritch it would definately be friendly. Yesterday, I was watching the student basketballteam (The Stritch Wolves), and got to know one of the players who asked me if I wanted to come over to her aunt and uncle's place to go to church and have lunch afterwards. I saw this as an excelent oppurtunity to get out of campus and to see how church and family lunch is like in the US. To be honest, it was way more fun than I would have imagined. People were standing up while singing, some lifting their hands up, others saying "amen" when they agreed on something, or just singing or clapping along with the most of the audience. Speaches were interresting, and the music was more "catchy" than I am used to, with lyrics such as "God is awesome", which I cannot imagine being sung in a Norwegian church.
After church we had tacos for lunch at her uncle and aunt's place. Tacos here are pretty much the same as in Norway, but they had "beanstew" as a supplement, which was really good. When I came back to the campus, there were a lot of people moving in, who had flown for hours and wanted to eat Chineese, which sounds very tempting, so that is where I will be going now.