Stardate 020071128: Halloween and barbeque

Halloween was already a long time ago but here the time seems to fly in a different speed than in Finland :P It seems that there's no time to do anything, always something to do, people visiting.. But it's really nice! I've made many nice friends here and it seems kind of sad to think that within only few weeks I won't be seeing them anymore daily.. One of the best friends I got here is Julia, my roommate. She's from Spain.

But about halloween! It's really important to dress up in this celebration here :P There are special stores dedicated only for halloween costumes. There are also many parties to attend. I got myself a greek goddess dress. Almost all the costumes for girls were something like: naughty police, nurse etc..

Me and apparently some known cartoon caracter here..?

The international ambassadors or "kummis" haven't really been actively organizing stuff for the exchange students.. Mostly we have only made trips by ourselves. But one weekend there was a barbeque in El Paso in one girl's house. There were lots of people and I think it has been the only occasion where I have seen so many of the other exchange students. Well, one reason might also be that I arrived late and they already had all the orientation and so on...

We had some really good meat in the barbeque. In fact the meat was so good that everybody wanted to try it :D Usually when Americans have barbeque they eat hamburgers and hot dogs. We instead had some "Mexican barbeque" which is according to Cecar: meat. Afterwards we went to a bar in El Paso and eventually stayed in one ambassador's house over night and enjoyed a nice Mexican breakfast there :D

Some meat we ate

Cheers, Kippis or Salute!

The internationals of NMSU

Julia and Cecar, one of my best friends in Las Cruces :)

Thomas wanted to stop on the way back to take pictures of the cotton fields...